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Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.

Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.

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Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates

(2024) · Patrick McMillen · Michael Levin

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Causal emergence in biological systems
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Examines how macro-scale causal power exceeds micro-scale in living and learning systems.
Agential evolution & biological individuality
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Frames evolution as producing goal-directed, problem-solving agents across nested scales of individuality.

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Biology commits to optimizing salience and meaning, not fidelity, via high-level, agent-based interpretation.claim0.846
Central claim that biological memory prioritizes gestalt over details.
Evolution makes problem-solving agents, not solutions; commitment to mutation and uncontrollable environments as ratchet for intelligenceclaim0.846
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Mechanistic claim connecting multi-scale competency architecture to evolutionary robustness
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The kind of relationships necessary to produce evolutionary individuality – the generation and heritability of fitness differences at the collective level – are the same as those required to produce organismic individuality – the information integration and collective action characteristic of a self.claim0.817
Core conjecture linking evolutionary and organismic individuality.
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