We hypothesise this explains why stigmergy and other forms of extracellular signalling arise in biological systems, which is known to enhance the ability for a collective system to order itself.

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• The evolving system of genetic material itself causes evolution to follow certain pathways not only because of selective pressure from outside but by virtue of its own internal dynamical ordering tendencies.hypothesis0.786
  Alexander's endorsement of a hypothesis that supplements Darwinian theory with internal geometric ordering
• If intercellular signalling (not genes) is the cognitive medium of a morphogenetic individual, it should be possible to exploit tools of neuroscience to read, interpret and re-write its information content for predictive control.claim0.784
  Strong prediction from basal cognition framework; validated in planaria and other species through bioelectric manipulation.
• Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.finding0.777
  Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.
• LLMs require hierarchical or embodied substrates; stigmergy via environment interaction is the biological solution.claim0.771
• The remarkable ability of neurons to unify toward a centralized self is an evolutionary pivot of far earlier cell communication strategies that first solved problems in navigating anatomical morphospace.hypothesis0.768
  Proposes an evolutionary trajectory linking morphogenesis to neural cognition.
• In axial patterning, collective decision-making enables large numbers of cells in a compartment to agree on an organ-scale anatomical fate despite stochastic influences upstream.claim0.765
  Generalization of the all-or-none and cryptic planaria phenomena to axis formation.
• Target morphology shifts occur despite the fact that all of the individual cells have unaltered normal genomes, showing that competent subunits can be pushed to implement diverse organism-scale goals by physiological signals.claim0.764
  Highlights the non-genetic control of large-scale anatomy.
• What Mechanisms Enable Groups Of Cells To Cooperatequestion0.764