Evolution discovered the usefulness of lazy theft long before we did, reusing molecular substructures extracted during digestion to assemble new useful structures.

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• Evolution was using developmental bioelectricity long before neurons and muscles appeared, to solve the problem of creating and repairing complex bodies.claim0.789
  Claim about the primacy of bioelectric morphogenesis.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.774
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• The evolutionary process contains an intelligence ratchet: as competency increases, selection struggles to see the structural genome, further driving selection for competency mechanisms.claim0.771
  Explains why planaria with messy genomes have robust morphologies.
• 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.claim0.770
  Core prescription for future sentience frameworks.
• The genome contains a latent wholeness — capable of generating the wholeness of the organism — which itself evolves through structure-preserving transformations analogous to direct wholeness unfolding.claim0.769
  Alexander's extension of unfolding wholeness to evolutionary processes where the evolving entity is the genetic structure rather than the organism's form directly
• Evolution learns to generalize beyond default morphologies, producing problem-solving machines.claim0.769
  Argues that evolutionary learning goes beyond specific adaptations.
• Evolution re-uses many of the same mechanisms and strategies across scales of organization and problem spaces.claim0.767
  Claims that scale-free dynamics, like bioelectric networks, are ancient and conserved.
• Evolution actually searches not only genotype space but a more tractable space of behavior-shaping signals that exploit cellular intelligence.claim0.763
  Central thesis of the paper.