The large-scale morphological goals of an organism override and harness the local competencies of individual cells to adaptively navigate morphospace.

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• When a subset of cells is given a morphogenetic goal (e.g., build an eye), they autonomously recruit unmodified neighbors to complete the structure, showing modular competency.claim0.849
  Principle of top-down control.
• Target morphology shifts occur despite the fact that all of the individual cells have unaltered normal genomes, showing that competent subunits can be pushed to implement diverse organism-scale goals by physiological signals.claim0.843
  Highlights the non-genetic control of large-scale anatomy.
• The larger task of making these processes genuinely morphogenetic so that they generate deeper and more coherent living structure—still lies on the horizon.claim0.821
• Major evolutionary transitions—from prokaryotes to eukaryotes to multicellular life—are structure-preserving transformations at the scale of life-organization itself.claim0.815
• Evolution learns to generalize beyond default morphologies, producing problem-solving machines.claim0.812
  Argues that evolutionary learning goes beyond specific adaptations.
• The remarkable ability of neurons to unify toward a centralized self is an evolutionary pivot of far earlier cell communication strategies that first solved problems in navigating anatomical morphospace.hypothesis0.811
  Proposes an evolutionary trajectory linking morphogenesis to neural cognition.
• Morphogenesis operates through multiscale autopoietic processes in which every cell is simultaneously an environment for others, enabling coherent organism formation without predetermined configuration.finding0.810
• Living processes are by nature morphogenetic; they are aimed at creating positive space and making form coherent.claim0.806
  Core definition of living process as intentionally form-creating, in contrast to fragmented modern processes.