Self-similarity and multi-scale competency currently remain a real feature that distinguishes living systems from machines, though there is no deep reason preventing engineered artifacts from exploiting it.

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• A multi-scale competency architecture facilitates evolution of robust problem-solving, living machines.claim0.844
  Key proposal linking multi-scale agency to evolutionary advantage.
• Multi-scale competency likely explains the remarkable evolvability of living forms because it flattens the fitness landscape, allowing mutations' negative effects to be buffered while positive effects accumulate.claim0.832
  Mechanistic claim connecting multi-scale competency architecture to evolutionary robustness
• Evolved machines increasingly exhibit self-similar, hierarchical structure like living systems.claim0.812
  Artificially evolved neural networks and robots often lack modularity unless selected for, resembling life.
• Life exploits multi-scale competency architecture enabling adaptation to novel circumstances much faster than evolution alone.hypothesis0.811
  Authors hypothesize that plasticity observed in individual lifetimes suggests architecture providing greater efficiency than blind evolutionary search.
• Multi-scale competency increases the apparent IQ of the evolutionary process, enabling better generalization.hypothesis0.809
  Hypothesis linking competency to evolutionary learning efficiency.
• Multi-scale competency greatly accelerates evolution and enables generalization.claim0.808
  Central thesis about the role of agency in evolutionary dynamics.
• Multi-scale competency architecture smoothens the fitness landscape, reduces pleiotropy, enables exploitation of opportunities, and improves controllability, thereby potentiating evolution.claim0.802
  MCA provides evolvability advantages by buffering negative mutation effects and enabling independent selection of traits.
• Biology employs a multiscale competency architecture where each level solves problems with some degree of competency in its own problem space.claim0.790
  General structural claim about organization of life.