Biology employs a multiscale competency architecture where each level solves problems with some degree of competency in its own problem space.

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• A multi-scale competency architecture facilitates evolution of robust problem-solving, living machines.claim0.852
  Key proposal linking multi-scale agency to evolutionary advantage.
• Multi-scale competency architecture smoothens the fitness landscape, reduces pleiotropy, enables exploitation of opportunities, and improves controllability, thereby potentiating evolution.claim0.822
  MCA provides evolvability advantages by buffering negative mutation effects and enabling independent selection of traits.
• The multiscale competency architecture (MCA) speeds evolutionary search by providing generalization, reliability, tractable search space, cryptic variation, and functional intermediates.claim0.821
  Main functional claim about MCA.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.817
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• Life exploits multi-scale competency architecture enabling adaptation to novel circumstances much faster than evolution alone.hypothesis0.813
  Authors hypothesize that plasticity observed in individual lifetimes suggests architecture providing greater efficiency than blind evolutionary search.
• A realization of our own multiscale, nested architecture naturally leads to the conclusion that care needs to be extended to all sentient beings.claim0.808
  Extends ethical concern based on the collective nature of selves.
• Multiscale systems like those prevalent in biology are capable of organizing into complex patterns, whereas rudimentary language models are challenged by long sequences of outputs.claim0.808
  Conclusion about why biology organizes complexity well and flat LLMs do not
• Multi-scale competency greatly accelerates evolution and enables generalization.claim0.807
  Central thesis about the role of agency in evolutionary dynamics.