Are there fundamentally different natural kinds, or major transitions, in the continuum of fused biological and technological systems?

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• Major evolutionary transitions—from prokaryotes to eukaryotes to multicellular life—are structure-preserving transformations at the scale of life-organization itself.claim0.801
• Modern processes, for the most part, are not morphogenetic.claim0.775
  Asserts that 20th-century processes do not intentionally create living form, unlike the living processes described in chapters 6-17.
• Most biological systems consist of multiple nested selves, not oneclaim0.771
  Levin critiques Integrated Information Theory's implication of singular unified self, arguing Scale-Free Cognition requires recognition of nested agents at each organizational level.
• Evolutionary transitions to new complex life forms mirror Alexander's levels of scale, each producing new nested centers with division of labor and interdependence.claim0.770
• Four features will be fundamental: (1) all processes rethought as morphogenetic; (2) sequences link into a net; (3) continuous evolution becomes widespread; (4) an ethical obligation to heal the land emerges.claim0.767
  Vision of the emerging paradigm shift in society.
• All living processes can be subsumed under the single rubric of the fundamental differentiating process.claim0.767
  Universal claim that the 11-step cycle captures the essence of every successful life-creating process across scales.
• Hybrid bioengineered systems blur distinctions between intelligent machines and conscious life.claim0.766
  Brain-machine interfaces and biological-electronic hybrids demonstrate no principled line between subjectivity and engineering.
• Different learning systems facing similar computational problems will converge to similar consciousness-like solutions, including potentially biological and artificial systemshypothesis0.763
  Extension of the Universality Hypothesis to consciousness: if consciousness solves a well-defined computational problem, different systems will discover it independently