By sharing stress with neighbors, one cell's (or region's) problem becomes everyone's problem, leading to a higher willingness to adopt new configurations in which everyone's free energy is lower.

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• By sharing stress with neighbors, one cell’s (or region’s) problem becomes everyone’s problem, leading to a higher willingness to adopt new configurations in which everyone’s free energy is lower (and thus, more optimal morphogenetic problem-solving).quote0.949
  Encapsulates the core idea of stress sharing as collective cooperation.
• Stress sharing works to increase cohesiveness of collectives by raising exploratory plasticity in neighboring cells, enabling long-distance cell influencehypothesis0.850
• Stress sharing reduces the functional inertia of low-stress cells, increasing their plasticity and exploratory behavior.claim0.841
  Shared stress raises the 'temperature' or exploratory activity of neighboring cells, enabling passage for stressed cells.
• Stress sharing is an easy way to achieve robustness in collectives made up of homeostatic subunits.claim0.840
  Generalization of the model's implications.
• Stress molecules leak from source cells and diffuse to neighbors, making shared stress a conserved signal for cooperation.claim0.839
  Central hypothesis that stress sharing enables cooperation without explicit altruism by making individual problems collective.
• Stress sharing will be favored by evolutionary processes.hypothesis0.832
  Evolutionary fitness hypothesis tested in the GA.
• Stress-sharing advantage increases with problem complexityfinding0.822
• Cells and cellular networks have problem-solving capacities that allow them to navigate entirely novel stressors (e.g., barium) without prior selection, implying a general competency beyond hardwired responses.claim0.821
  Derived from the planarian barium adaptation finding.