The simple fact that intelligent agents are collectives and do not continue unchanged fulfills a necessary requirement for an open-ended evolution of intelligence.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Open-ended evolution of intelligence is possible because agents are collectives without fixed essencehypothesis0.886
  Follows from observation that intelligent systems lack context-transcendent core; their maxima are not contingent on permanent character.
• All intelligent agents, regardless of their substrate, can be understood as needing to respond to a perceived mismatch between what is and what should be.claim0.839
  Foundation for the SCI loop model.
• All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences, because we are all made of parts; biological agents in particular are not just structurally modular, but made of parts that are themselves agents in important ways.concept0.832
  Load-bearing opening statement establishing core TAME principle of nested, distributed agency.
• All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences, made of parts that are themselves agents in important ways.claim0.826
  Central thesis that no mind is truly monadic; all are composed of competent subunits.
• For an intelligence to belong properly to a collective, it must arise not from the cleverness of its members but from having the right kind of functional relationships between them.concept0.812
• What makes collectives individuals is their intelligence – their degree of competency in solving novel problems.claim0.809
  Equates individuality with problem-solving ability.
• Evolution makes problem-solving agents, not solutions; commitment to mutation and uncontrollable environments as ratchet for intelligenceclaim0.805
• All known cognitive agents are collective intelligenceshypothesis0.805