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concept:paradox-of-robustnessparadox of robustness
Robust traits enable underlying degeneracy and drift, contributing to intelligence ratchet.
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- Steve Frankstudies
- Susan Lindquiststudies
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Ability to maintain function despite perturbations.
- The functional solidity and working character of natural systems, arising from the fifteen properties.
- Core logical paradox: if a species fails to change it dies; if it changes, it ceases to exist. Same applies to individuals.
- Core logical puzzle: if an agent does not change, it dies; if it changes, the self ceases to exist. Applies to all scales from organelles to evolutionary lineages.
- Freedom reconceived: agent's ability to resist lock-in and maintain multiple attractor basins; novelty and creativity emerge from stable far-from-equilibrium dynamics.
- Set of 50 paradoxical prompts used in Experiment 4 to test whether self-referential state transfers to an unrelated behavioral domain