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Developmental interactions required for evolutionary individuality must be able to coordinate solutions to non-decomposable functions (division of labour games)

Developmental process is identified as computing non-linearly separable collective phenotypes

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Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality

(2022) · Watson, Richard A. · Levin, Michael · Buckley, Christopher L.

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H1: Individuality requires a dynamical process (development), mediating the plastic expression of components in the context of one another, with the specific form of computing a collective character that is a non-linearly separable function of (embryonic) particle characters, with the effect of coordinating reproduction based on this collective character.
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Main hypothesis about the architecture of individuality

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For collectives to be meaningful evolutionary units, fitness interactions must be non-linearly separable, not merely non-aggregative.claim0.832
Strengthens distinction between monotonic non-linear interactions (explanatorily redundant) and non-decomposable interactions (causally significant).
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.claim0.827
Core conjecture linking evolutionary and organismic individuality.
Natural selection can evolve phenotypic plasticity that solves division of labour games in two-player collectives (Tudge et al. 2016)finding0.817
Shows plasticity as solution to HFHF in minimal models with homogeneous genotypes
The conditions necessary to evolve a new level of individuality are described by the conditions necessary to learn non-decomposable functions (deep model induction)claim0.815
Core interpretive claim of the paper connecting ETIs to connectionist learning
For a new level of individuality to have causal role as evolutionary unit, heritable fitness differences must be non-aggregative (not decomposable into lower-level differences).claim0.813
Core claim: monotonic non-linearities are insufficient; evolutionary outcomes must change depending on context.
Non-decomposability (non-linearly separable function) is a refinement of non-aggregative interactions, necessary for collective to be non-redundantclaim0.810
Sharpens previous concepts of emergence in ETIs
Functional relationships required for new individuality level encode non-linearly separable functions and are enacted via information integration and collective actionhypothesis0.805
Evolutionary transitions in individuality correspond to deep interaction structures or perhaps other mechanisms of multi-scale dynamics.hypothesis0.802
Concrete proposal about necessary architecture for ETIs.