Most biological systems consist of multiple nested selves, not one

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• The aliveness structure appears in both biological and artificial systems in recognizable form.claim0.804
• Selves can be nested and overlapping, cooperating and competing both laterally and across levels.claim0.804
  Key TAME claim that biological systems are patchworks of agents, with higher Selves deforming option spaces for lower ones.
• Multiscale systems like those prevalent in biology are capable of organizing into complex patterns, whereas rudimentary language models are challenged by long sequences of outputs.claim0.802
  Conclusion about why biology organizes complexity well and flat LLMs do not
• How Can Single Cells And Nonneural Biological Systemsquestion0.802
• All organisms are collectives at multiple levels: from collections of active molecules in a cell, to collections of cells in a multicellular organism, to collections of tissues.claim0.799
  Extends the collective view to all biological individuals.
• The number of coherent selves in an embryonic blastoderm is not fixed by genetics but can range from zero to several, arising from the physiological process demarcating cooperating subsystems.claim0.797
  Supports the claim that selfhood boundaries are dynamically constructed rather than genetically predetermined.
• When a system of living processes acts in a human environment, two kinds of structures will appear within reach of every person: a unique private world and an attached public world.hypothesis0.791
  Predictive claim about the automatic spatial output of living process
• Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.finding0.789
  Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.