Stress sharing benefit scales with grid complexity (20x20, 30x30, 50x50) and becomes more pronounced in later evolutionary stages when mutations alone fail

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• For 20x20 grid, stress-sharing population reached max phenotypic fitness by generation 100; hardwired reached max at generation 1000; without-sharing never reached maxfinding0.844
  Demonstrates benefit of stress sharing across smaller grid complexity.
• Stress sharing will be favored by evolutionary processes.hypothesis0.839
  Evolutionary fitness hypothesis tested in the GA.
• Stress-sharing advantage increases with problem complexityfinding0.831
• Stress-sharing increases radius of cellular influence: ~30 units avg (step 1) vs ~5 units (non-sharing); lasts 85 steps vs 10 steps.finding0.831
• Stress-sharing embryos achieve perfect sequential target patterns; non-sharing limited to <1% improvement.finding0.818
  Stress-sharing embryos formed each sequential target with stress reducing to zero; non-sharing achieved only tiny improvements.
• Stress sharing works to increase cohesiveness of collectives by raising exploratory plasticity in neighboring cells, enabling long-distance cell influencehypothesis0.817
• 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).quote0.817
  Encapsulates the core idea of stress sharing as collective cooperation.
• Stress sharing reduces the functional inertia of low-stress cells, increasing their plasticity and exploratory behavior.claim0.817
  Shared stress raises the 'temperature' or exploratory activity of neighboring cells, enabling passage for stressed cells.