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claim:organised-structure-of-relationships-between-parts-sufficient-to-exhibit-information-integration-and-collective-action-can-be-produced-via-fully-distributed-unsupervised-learning

Organised structure of relationships between parts, sufficient to exhibit information integration and collective action, can be produced via fully-distributed unsupervised learning.

Central claim from connectionist models: complex coordination emerges without centralized control or external teacher.

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Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality

(2022) · Watson, Richard A. · Levin, Michael · Buckley, Christopher L.

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Design principles for care-centered systems
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Cross-scale frameworks linking spatial patterns, diagrams, and simplicity as expressions of care in design.
Holistic information structure and relational wholeness
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Framework treating wholes as primary with parts defined through relationships; emphasizes information preservation through structure-preserving transformations and distributed emergence of organized systems.
Christopher Alexander's 15 properties clustering
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Correspondence analysis reveals 4–5 structural clusters among Alexander's fifteen wholeness properties.

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Evolutionary Connectionism
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Proposed framework translating connectionist learning principles into natural selection domain to explain ETIs.

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