Complexity + emergence frameworks (mechanical parts that know nothing and have no goals) are a poor fit for the most interesting existing developmental biology data

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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.claim0.801
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• The proposed framework erases artificial distinctions between organisms and machines by framing all physical constructs as in-formed, to varying degrees, by patterns from the latent spaceclaim0.799
  Central thesis statement of the abstract.
• The complex nature of functional relationships between component parts begins to look less like the product of selection at the system level, and more like the source of evolutionary individuality.claim0.790
  Inverts the causal arrow: relationships produce individuality, not vice versa.
• "biological morphogenesis is not well-described by bottom-up, open-loop, mechanical models, but instead exhibits more complex policies as it navigates the space of possible anatomical shapes despite various perturbations"concept0.790
• Multiscale systems in biology can organize into complex patterns whereas flat autoregressive architectures cannot.hypothesis0.786
  Key hypothesis: topological/architectural properties determine capacity for long-range self-organization.
• It is essential now to develop frameworks that pick out what is deep and fundamental about sentient beings – not frozen accidents of evolution on the N=1 example of the phylogenetic path of life on Earth.claim0.781
  Core prescription for future sentience frameworks.
• The NIS and NIS+ frameworks provide effective solutions for causal emergence identification from data.claim0.780
  Central claim of the machine-learning section, summarizing the contribution.
• Evolution often produces general-purpose problem-solving machines whose capacities cannot be inferred from the default invariant course of development.claim0.779
  A claim about the outcome of the MCA-enhanced process.