Natural evolution is not the only acceptable origin story for a true Agent.

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• Evolved vs. designed origin is not a definitive guide to agency; rationally engineered systems can be true cognitive agents.claim0.787
  Rejects the notion that only evolutionary history confers intrinsic motivation or 'true' cognition.
• Open-ended evolution of intelligence is possible because agents are collectives without fixed essencehypothesis0.773
  Follows from observation that intelligent systems lack context-transcendent core; their maxima are not contingent on permanent character.
• Evolution makes problem-solving agents, not solutions; commitment to mutation and uncontrollable environments as ratchet for intelligenceclaim0.768
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.762
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• 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.claim0.758
  Core prescription for future sentience frameworks.
• Verbal reports, homology, and phylogenetic provenance are insufficient to determine sentience in unconventional agents.claim0.755
  Core claim: Turing test and brain homology fail for synthetic, AI, and radically non-human agents; new frameworks required.
• The welfare good of nature fulfilment need not be realizable by a non-living autonomous agent like Artemis.claim0.754
  Alternative welfare goods may be inaccessible to Artemis.
• Biology commits to optimizing salience and meaning, not fidelity, via high-level, agent-based interpretation.claim0.751
  Central claim that biological memory prioritizes gestalt over details.