The competency of biological material hides the quality of genomes from selection, putting pressure on competency mechanisms.

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• The evolutionary process contains an intelligence ratchet: as competency increases, selection struggles to see the structural genome, further driving selection for competency mechanisms.claim0.808
  Explains why planaria with messy genomes have robust morphologies.
• 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.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.783
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• 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.claim0.781
  The one property the authors acknowledge still distinguishes life from machines, but frame as contingent not essential
• The genome does not merely specify chemical structures to be assembled but also specifies complex patterns of interaction between molecular structures required to produce controlled behaviours of the individual organism.claim0.773
  An extension of the genetic code concept: it encodes developmental and behavioural control, not just static form.
• What is the relationship between the genome and anatomy, and what mechanisms allow biology to exhibit robustness and plasticity simultaneously?question0.769
  Driving question for the research program.
• Darwin's agential materials: evolutionary implications of multiscale competency in developmental biology (Levin, Cell Mol Life Sci 2023)concept0.768
  Levin paper on agential materials and multiscale competency underlying diverse intelligence
• Genetic information must encode not only physical forms but also complex self-modifying control mechanisms for behavior and development.claim0.767