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concept:emergent-agentsEmergent Agents
Higher-level individuals (e.g., embryo, swarm) that arise from cooperative subunits, possessing goals not assignable to any one component.
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- Collective Intelligenceassociated_withRecognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
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- Parallels the embryonic blastoderm question to the human brain, linking developmental and cognitive science.
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- Any autonomous system including living and non-living forms that embodies a perception-action cycle and tries to navigate and persist in an environment
- Synthetic agents (here RL-trained neural networks) whose causal emergence was previously largely unknown; the paper addresses this gap.
- Creation of qualitatively new properties at higher organizational level; requires non-linear fitness interactions.
- Natural living systems that have been shown to increase causal emergence after learning, motivating the cross-domain comparison.
- DeepMind's Transformer-based adaptive agent trained with meta-RL in a 3D virtual environment.
- Central research question driving the literature search; frames the exploration of whether machine consciousness emerges from inter-agent processes rather than individual systems.