Artificial multicellular genetic chimeras can exhibit holistic behaviours and functions (Blackiston et al. 2021)

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• Chimerism and bioengineering work because biological components are primed to accommodate and exploit any materials in their vicinity.claim0.791
  Explanation for the success of combining divergent living and nonliving components.
• A realization of our own multiscale, nested architecture naturally leads to the conclusion that care needs to be extended to all sentient beings.claim0.771
  Extends ethical concern based on the collective nature of selves.
• Cybernetic perspectives on chimaeric morphogenesis erase artificial distinctions established by past limitations of technology and imagination.claim0.770
  Author argument for cybernetic framework.
• Multi-scale competency likely explains the remarkable evolvability of living forms because it flattens the fitness landscape, allowing mutations' negative effects to be buffered while positive effects accumulate.claim0.769
  Mechanistic claim connecting multi-scale competency architecture to evolutionary robustness
• Non-neural morphogenetic agents satisfy most sentience criteria via electrically active cells rather than neuronsfinding0.768
  Empirical basis for expanding sentience frameworks; shows Crump criteria adaptable beyond traditional neurocentric definitions.
• Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.finding0.765
  Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.765
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• Cognitive capacities evolve through continuity across natural, hybrid, and synthetic life forms using conserved bioelectric mechanismsclaim0.763