The complex nature of functional relationships between component parts begins to look less like the product of selection at the system level, and more like the source of evolutionary individuality.

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• Functional relationships necessary for evolutionary individuality are the same as those required for organismic individuality and constitute cognitive architectures.hypothesis0.840
• Organised structure of relationships between component parts causes them to work together, creating new organismic entity and evolutionary unitclaim0.839
• The kind of relationships necessary to produce evolutionary individuality – the generation and heritability of fitness differences at the collective level – are the same as those required to produce organismic individuality – the information integration and collective action characteristic of a self.claim0.826
  Core conjecture linking evolutionary and organismic individuality.
• Functional relationships required for new individuality level encode non-linearly separable functions and are enacted via information integration and collective actionhypothesis0.818
• What kinds of functional relationships and interaction structures are necessary to turn a collective into an intelligent system?question0.814
• H1: Individuality requires a dynamical process (development), mediating the plastic expression of components in the context of one another, with the specific form of computing a collective character that is a non-linearly separable function of (embryonic) particle characters, with the effect of coordinating reproduction based on this collective character.hypothesis0.811
  Main hypothesis about the architecture of individuality
• What Kinds Of Functional Relationships Between Components Arequestion0.810
• Close-knit adaptation of system elements arising over time is central observable in nature and human-formed ecological systems but eludes simple algorithmic formulation.claim0.800
  Alexander's core assertion that subtle adaptive processes are too simple and common-sense-based for conventional computation but profoundly important.