Stress is a good candidate for a central invariant across active agents of diverse scale and composition.

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• Stress, as a systemic response to distance from setpoint states, serves as the glue of agency, binding subunits into higher Selves.claim0.826
  Stress propagation through gap junctions recruits distant cells to act cooperatively.
• Goals and stressors are key invariants unifying morphogenesis, behavior, and physiological allostasis.hypothesis0.818
• Stress is a conserved, generic principle of biological organization scalable across levels (subcellular to multicellular).claim0.817
• Systemic stress serves as the glue of agency, binding sub-agents into a larger Self by propagating unhappiness across modules.claim0.810
  Explains how local homeostatic loops scale up to whole-body goals via shared stress signals.
• Stress is cumulative and fills a common reservoir; all forms of stress (money, physical, social) add to the same reservoir.claim0.808
  Summarizing Selye's model.
• Stress sharing reduces the functional inertia of low-stress cells, increasing their plasticity and exploratory behavior.claim0.806
  Shared stress raises the 'temperature' or exploratory activity of neighboring cells, enabling passage for stressed cells.
• 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, care, and intelligence manifest in continuous loops; successfully overcoming a stress factor through intelligence necessarily introduces new problem spaces.claim0.804
  Explaining the autogenerative nature of SCI loops.