Stress, as a systemic response to distance from setpoint states, serves as the glue of agency, binding subunits into higher Selves.

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• Systemic stress serves as the glue of agency, binding sub-agents into a larger Self by propagating unhappiness across modules.claim0.897
  Explains how local homeostatic loops scale up to whole-body goals via shared stress signals.
• Stress is a good candidate for a central invariant across active agents of diverse scale and composition.claim0.826
  Broad interdisciplinary claim from the work.
• Stress sharing works to increase cohesiveness of collectives by raising exploratory plasticity in neighboring cells, enabling long-distance cell influencehypothesis0.816
• Stress motivates care; care produces the alleviating structure. Visual and physical sense gates are different access points to the same care manifold.claim0.813
• Stress is a conserved, generic principle of biological organization scalable across levels (subcellular to multicellular).claim0.805
• Stress sharing is an easy way to achieve robustness in collectives made up of homeostatic subunits.claim0.805
  Generalization of the model's implications.
• Stress sharing works to increase cohesiveness of collectives.claim0.804
  Interpretation of why stress sharing improves morphogenesis.
• Goals and stressors are key invariants unifying morphogenesis, behavior, and physiological allostasis.hypothesis0.803