Evolved vs. designed origin is not a definitive guide to agency; rationally engineered systems can be true cognitive agents.

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• The increased use of evolutionary dynamics by engineers makes it impossible to use evolved vs. designed as a clear demarcation between two classes of beings.claim0.797
  Argument against origin story as basis for life/machine distinction
• Natural evolution is not the only acceptable origin story for a true Agent.claim0.787
  Rational engineering can also create minds; evolution is just a hill-climbing algorithm.
• Open-ended evolution of intelligence is possible because agents are collectives without fixed essencehypothesis0.781
  Follows from observation that intelligent systems lack context-transcendent core; their maxima are not contingent on permanent character.
• The boundary between evolved and designed agents is becoming blurred through biorobotics and synthetic morphology.claim0.779
• In evaluating creative or intellectual output, the question should be 'Does it elevate us?' rather than 'What made it?' — judging origin rather than quality emphasizes the worst parts of human nature.claim0.773
  Normative claim about how to evaluate AI-generated content, using Deutsche Physik as cautionary analogy
• 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 makes problem-solving agents, not solutions; commitment to mutation and uncontrollable environments as ratchet for intelligenceclaim0.767
• Human cognition evolved to detect agency in medium-sized objects at medium speeds in 3D space, limiting recognition of intelligence in unfamiliar substrates.claim0.766