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Multi-scale competency reduces the credit assignment problem in evolution, enabling faster adaptation by shielding negative pleiotropic effects.

If correct, lineages with high modular competency should show accelerated evolvability and more complex body plans.

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Michael Levin

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