The truly surprising thing about evolution is not how it makes individuals better adapted to their environment, but how it makes individuals.

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• Evolution is more intelligent than we realised.claim0.807
  Watson's reinterpretation of formal equivalence between evolution and learning, beyond random variation framework.
• Evolution places little emphasis on veridical perception.claim0.785
  Claim from Hoffman, endorsed by Levin.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.quote0.763
  Charles Darwin quote used to frame the importance of adaptability and plasticity.
• Evolution is more intelligent than we realised, equivalent to connectionist learningclaim0.762
  Interpretive stance that the formal equivalence implies cognitive capabilities in evolution
• Evolution makes problem-solving agents, not solutions; commitment to mutation and uncontrollable environments as ratchet for intelligenceclaim0.759
• Evolution was using developmental bioelectricity long before neurons and muscles appeared, to solve the problem of creating and repairing complex bodies.claim0.755
  Claim about the primacy of bioelectric morphogenesis.
• Evolution actually searches not only genotype space but a more tractable space of behavior-shaping signals that exploit cellular intelligence.claim0.754
  Central thesis of the paper.
• Can Evolution Be More Intelligent Than We Realizedquestion0.750