Multi-scale competency increases the apparent IQ of the evolutionary process, enabling better generalization.

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• Multi-scale competency greatly accelerates evolution and enables generalization.claim0.919
  Central thesis about the role of agency in evolutionary dynamics.
• Multi-scale competency architecture smoothens the fitness landscape, reduces pleiotropy, enables exploitation of opportunities, and improves controllability, thereby potentiating evolution.claim0.870
  MCA provides evolvability advantages by buffering negative mutation effects and enabling independent selection of traits.
• 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.claim0.865
  Mechanistic claim connecting multi-scale competency architecture to evolutionary robustness
• A multi-scale competency architecture facilitates evolution of robust problem-solving, living machines.claim0.851
  Key proposal linking multi-scale agency to evolutionary advantage.
• Multi-scale competency architecture improves credit assignment in evolutionary learning by linking diverse actions to rewards across temporal delays.claim0.844
  MCA provides patience in evolution, similar to hidden layers in neural networks.
• Multi-scale competency reduces the credit assignment problem in evolution, enabling faster adaptation by shielding negative pleiotropic effects.hypothesis0.842
  If correct, lineages with high modular competency should show accelerated evolvability and more complex body plans.
• The evolutionary process contains an intelligence ratchet: as competency increases, selection struggles to see the structural genome, further driving selection for competency mechanisms.claim0.833
  Explains why planaria with messy genomes have robust morphologies.
• The multiscale competency architecture (MCA) speeds evolutionary search by providing generalization, reliability, tractable search space, cryptic variation, and functional intermediates.claim0.817
  Main functional claim about MCA.