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claim: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

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.

Core conjecture linking evolutionary and organismic individuality.

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The collective intelligence of evolution and development

(2023) · Watson, Richard · Levin, Michael

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We hypothesize that evolutionary individuality, organismic individuality and cognition are coextensive.
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Strong unification proposal.

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Causal emergence in biological systems
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Examines how macro-scale causal power exceeds micro-scale in living and learning systems.
Agential evolution & biological individuality
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Frames evolution as producing goal-directed, problem-solving agents across nested scales of individuality.

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Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality (ETI)
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Theory explaining how new levels of biological organization and individuality emerge through transitions in collective intelligence and problem-solving rescaling.

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Connectionist models of cognition and learning identify conditions where collective intelligence can arise bottom-up, using only distributed learning mechanisms without system-level or global feedback.
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Central claim about the power of connectionism.

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What kinds of interaction structures are necessary for what kind of collective intelligence and how can these structures emerge?
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Key unresolved question; identifies critical knowledge gaps for understanding collective intelligence across scales.

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Functional relationships necessary for evolutionary individuality are the same as those required for organismic individuality and constitute cognitive architectures.hypothesis0.869
For a new level of individuality to have causal role as evolutionary unit, heritable fitness differences must be non-aggregative (not decomposable into lower-level differences).claim0.863
Core claim: monotonic non-linearities are insufficient; evolutionary outcomes must change depending on context.
Organismic individuality evolved through a bottom-up process of collective intelligence, resulting in information integration and coordinated action so well-organised that we observe a new level of organismic and evolutionary individuality.claim0.852
Historical narrative for the origin of individuals.
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.hypothesis0.848
Main hypothesis about the architecture of individuality
What Is The Relationship Between Evolutionary Individuality Andquestion0.846
Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.finding0.845
Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.
Distinction between Organismic and Evolutionary Individualityclaim0.842
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