Small independent lumps of problem-solving information are more likely to survive and spread into the gene pool.

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

• MCA creates a more tractable search space by smoothing the fitness landscape, mitigating the inverse problem and enabling survival of mutations that would otherwise be deleterious.claim0.801
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• By sharing stress with neighbors, one cell’s (or region’s) problem becomes everyone’s problem, leading to a higher willingness to adopt new configurations in which everyone’s free energy is lower (and thus, more optimal morphogenetic problem-solving).quote0.781
  Encapsulates the core idea of stress sharing as collective cooperation.
• Scaling intelligence via expansion of cognitive boundaries through inclusion of others' stress-reduction in one's own homeostatic loops.claim0.773
  Central thesis: expanding an agent's sensors and goals outward to include others' states creates bidirectional feedback loop that scales intelligence and increases compassion.
• The evolutionary process contains an intelligence ratchet: as competency increases, selection struggles to see the structural genome, further driving selection for competency mechanisms.claim0.772
  Explains why planaria with messy genomes have robust morphologies.
• Successfully overcoming a given stress factor necessarily introduces new problem spaces, so stress, care, and intelligence run in unbroken loops.claim0.772
  Explains the cycling nature of SCI loops.
• Disruptions in cells' ability to join into a cohesive information-processing network via oncogenes and other factors correlate with cancer developmentfinding0.769
  Empirical support for the cancer-as-cognitive-defect / cognitive light cone shrinkage hypothesis
• Evolution makes problem-solving agents, not solutions; commitment to mutation and uncontrollable environments as ratchet for intelligenceclaim0.767
• The number of atoms involved in the responsible gene structure is likely to be very small, yet it displays a most regular and lawful activity with a durability that borders upon the miraculous, remaining unperturbed by the disordering tendency of heat motion for centuries.claim0.765
  Schrödinger's statement of the puzzle that quantum mechanics resolves.