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For collectives to be meaningful evolutionary units, fitness interactions must be non-linearly separable, not merely non-aggregative.

Strengthens distinction between monotonic non-linear interactions (explanatorily redundant) and non-decomposable interactions (causally significant).

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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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Emergence
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Creation of qualitatively new properties at higher organizational level; requires non-linear fitness interactions.

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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).claim0.879
Core claim: monotonic non-linearities are insufficient; evolutionary outcomes must change depending on context.
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.claim0.836
Core conjecture linking evolutionary and organismic individuality.
To be a bona fide evolutionary unit, a collective must exhibit heritable variation in reproductive success that belongs properly to the collective level – over and above the sum of that exhibited by its component parts.claim0.833
Formal requirement for evolutionary individuality.
Developmental interactions required for evolutionary individuality must be able to coordinate solutions to non-decomposable functions (division of labour games)claim0.832
Developmental process is identified as computing non-linearly separable collective phenotypes
Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.finding0.819
Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.
Natural selection can evolve phenotypic plasticity that solves division of labour games in two-player collectives (Tudge et al. 2016)finding0.804
Shows plasticity as solution to HFHF in minimal models with homogeneous genotypes
If collective characters are determined by aggregative sum of particle characters, collective is explanatorily redundant in selectionclaim0.800
Evolutionary transitions in individuality correspond to deep interaction structures or perhaps other mechanisms of multi-scale dynamics.hypothesis0.792
Concrete proposal about necessary architecture for ETIs.

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How can traits that increase non-aggregative components of collective heritability evolve through bottom-up selection when they may ultimately oppose particle-level fitness?questions/how-can-traits-that-increase-nonaggregative-components-of.md0.824
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How can non-decomposable collective characters produce particle fitness differences?questions/how-can-nondecomposable-collective-characters-produce-particle-fitness.md0.818
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What makes an entity a unit of selection beyond merely exhibiting heritable variation in fitness?questions/what-makes-an-entity-a-unit-of-selection.md0.818
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How can particles be functionally different yet have the same fitness in collective systems?questions/how-can-particles-be-functionally-different-yet-have.md0.817
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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.md0.803
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Inclusive Fitnessframeworks/inclusive-fitness.md0.803
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What constitutes the fundamental units of evolution?questions/what-constitutes-the-fundamental-units-of-evolution.md0.792
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Non-Linearly Separable Functionsconcepts/ai/non-linearly-separable-functions.md0.791
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Non-Aggregative Interactionsconcepts/biology/non-aggregative-interactions.md0.782