Biological self-organization is not as remarkable as one might think—and is (almost) inevitable.

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• Evolution and adaptation may be as inevitable as simple self-organization.claim0.840
  Speculation that descent onto a global random attractor implies evolutionary free energy minimization.
• Biological Self-Organizationconcept0.806
  Central phenomenon: emergence of life-like organization (boundaries, inference, homeostasis) from coupled random dynamics.
• Most biological systems consist of multiple nested selves, not oneclaim0.781
  Levin critiques Integrated Information Theory's implication of singular unified self, arguing Scale-Free Cognition requires recognition of nested agents at each organizational level.
• Such middle-range order appears, without fail, in biological structures of all sorts, again making it virtually certain that there must be a predictable process which can create such order, and which does create it reliably in biological cases.claim0.778
  Claims middle-range order is universal in biology and implies a reliable generative process exists
• We hypothesize that consciousness may be at the heart of a universal biological learning algorithm — one that runs on self-organizing groups of communicating cells sharing evolutionary incentives — and that it creates rather than results from organized mental architecture.hypothesis0.776
  The Genesis Hypothesis as explicit predictive conjecture
• Spontaneous ordering in networks of interacting systems can be viewed as a form of self-organization, modelling neural and basal forms of cognition.claim0.775
  Claim linking physical self-organization to cognition
• Self-organisation can be viewed as a form of autopoietic cognition navigating problem spaces toward target morphologies.claim0.770
  Linking self-organisation to cognition and navigation of configuration space
• Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.finding0.767
  Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.