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Evolution re-uses many of the same mechanisms and strategies across scales of organization and problem spaces.

Claims that scale-free dynamics, like bioelectric networks, are ancient and conserved.

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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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Bacterial biofilms exhibit bioelectrically-coordinated oscillatory growth patterns, with a negative feedback loop similar to the vertebrate segmentation clock (Liu et al. 2015, Chou et al. 2022)
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Shows that collective physiological oscillations in bacterial communities resemble mechanisms in animal development.

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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.
Evolutionary individuality and hierarchical agency
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Multi-level selection theory examining how non-aggregative fitness interactions enable higher-order units as genuine evolutionary agents, emphasizing problem-solving over predetermined mechanisms.

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Evolution makes problem-solving agents, not solutions; commitment to mutation and uncontrollable environments as ratchet for intelligenceclaim0.816
Evolution learns to generalize beyond default morphologies, producing problem-solving machines.claim0.814
Argues that evolutionary learning goes beyond specific adaptations.
Evolutionary transitions in individuality correspond to deep interaction structures or perhaps other mechanisms of multi-scale dynamics.hypothesis0.809
Concrete proposal about necessary architecture for ETIs.
Evolutionary transitions to new complex life forms mirror Alexander's levels of scale, each producing new nested centers with division of labor and interdependence.claim0.807
Evolution actually searches not only genotype space but a more tractable space of behavior-shaping signals that exploit cellular intelligence.claim0.804
Central thesis of the paper.
Evolution often produces general-purpose problem-solving machines whose capacities cannot be inferred from the default invariant course of development.claim0.803
A claim about the outcome of the MCA-enhanced process.
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.
Evolution and adaptation may be as inevitable as simple self-organization.claim0.797
Speculation that descent onto a global random attractor implies evolutionary free energy minimization.

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How can evolution learn and adapt across multiple levels of organization?questions/how-can-evolution-learn-and-adapt-across-multiple.md0.842
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How can evolutionary transitions create new levels of biological organization and individuality?questions/how-can-evolutionary-transitions-create-new-levels-of.md0.841
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What mechanisms enable major evolutionary transitions in individuality?questions/what-mechanisms-enable-major-evolutionary-transitions-in-individuality.md0.835
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How can evolution learn, and what mechanisms enable adaptive change across hierarchical levels?questions/how-can-evolution-learn-and-what-mechanisms-enable.md0.824
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What algorithmic principles underlie the evolution of biological organization?questions/what-algorithmic-principles-underlie-the-evolution-of-biological.md0.821
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How do evolution and learning interact, and can mechanisms be shared between them?questions/how-do-evolution-and-learning-interact-and-can.md0.819
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How can particles evolve to control and take advantage of collective benefits despite experiencing reversed selection pressure across contexts?questions/how-can-particles-evolve-to-control-and-take.md0.816
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How can bottom-up selection on lower-level units produce higher-level collective adaptation?questions/how-can-bottomup-selection-on-lowerlevel-units-produce.md0.810
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Can perception and polycomputation explain how evolution generates novel functions without structural change?questions/can-perception-and-polycomputation-explain-how-evolution-generates.md0.809
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How do biological systems at different scales generate and maintain individuality?questions/how-do-biological-systems-at-different-scales-generate.md0.809
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How does evolution search the space of behavior-shaping signals rather than low-level genetic implementations?questions/how-does-evolution-search-the-space-of-behaviorshaping.md0.806
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Can natural selection acting on individual-level traits create system-level optimization without system-level feedback?questions/can-natural-selection-acting-on-individuallevel-traits-create.md0.806