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Teleonomic behavior in diverse problem spaces is a powerful invariant across possible beings regardless of composition or origin.

Central claim proposing teleonomy as a unifying parameter.

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Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms

(2023) · Clawson, Wesley P. · Levin, Michael

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Manifold-aware concept steering in neural representations
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Explores geometry of activation/behavior manifolds to enable selective, non-destructive concept interventions.
Geometric goal-alignment in multi-scale systems
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Framework treating teleonomic behavior and goal-directedness as geometric alignment problems across anatomical, physiological, and representational spaces; emphasizes intervention via internal geometry rather than external direction.
Teleonomy as universal behavioral invariant
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Goal-directedness as substrate-independent property enabling continuous, searchable fitness landscapes across diverse agents.

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Teleonomy
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Goal-directed behavior framework; referenced in plant cognition context.

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How Would We Recognize Novel Forms Of Life
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Teleonomy provides the ratchet that drives the great transitions of cognitive capacity along the continuum.hypothesis0.793
Hypothesis about the role of goal-directedness in major evolutionary transitions.
Teleonomy is at the core of reliability, which enables a searchable, continuous fitness space.claim0.784
Links goal-directedness to evolvability.
Xenobots’ behavior reveals baseline geodesics through option space that are normally masked by larger collectives.hypothesis0.768
Hypothesis about the origin of novel goals in synthetic organisms.
Understanding the dynamics that facilitate or limit navigation of problem spaces by aligned parts impacts many fields ranging across life sciences and engineering.claim0.766
Claim about broad impact of studying these dynamics
nothing in biology makes sense except in light of teleonomyquote0.760
Levin co-opts Dobzhansky's famous dictum to stress the primacy of goal-directedness.
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).quote0.759
Encapsulates the core idea of stress sharing as collective cooperation.
Ethics of novel beings should be based on teleonomic capacity (scale of goals they can pursue).claim0.758
Proposal for a new ethical framework.
The deep symmetry between problem-solving in anatomical, physiological, transcriptional, and 3D spaces drives specific hypotheses.claim0.755
Evolution pivoted the same problem-solving strategies across different domains.

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How do we recognize, quantify and compare teleonomic agents in radially diverse embodiments?questions/how-do-we-recognize-quantify-and-compare-teleonomic.md0.819
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Teleonomic Frameworkframeworks/teleonomic-framework.md0.812
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Competency In Navigating Arbitrary Spacesconcepts/cognitive/competency-in-navigating-arbitrary-spaces.md0.802
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What are the invariants that enable direct comparison of truly diverse agents regardless of origin or composition?questions/what-are-the-invariants-that-enable-direct-comparison.md0.802
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What would be the minimal axes for the space of all possible teleonomic agents?questions/what-would-be-the-minimal-axes-for-the.md0.798
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How does teleonomy potentiate the evolutionary search for yet larger teleonomic systems?questions/how-does-teleonomy-potentiate-the-evolutionary-search-for.md0.789
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How can we determine the optimal level of teleonomy in objects around us?questions/how-can-we-determine-the-optimal-level-of.md0.786
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What is an effective eigenspace for modeling agency, and what are the minimal axes for the space of all possible teleonomic agents?questions/what-is-an-effective-eigenspace-for-modeling-agency.md0.780