Chicken-and-Egg Problem of ETIs

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• A connectionist approach resolves the chicken-and-egg problem of ETIs by focusing on the changing organisation of relationships between lower-level units, not unit frequenciesclaim0.777
  The paper's proposed solution
• Conventional evolutionary framework cannot explain adaptations in systems that are not already evolutionary units, creating a chicken-and-egg problem for ETIsclaim0.765
  Central critique of existing theory, motivating the connectionist alternative
• ETIs are described by conditions necessary for deep learning / non-decomposable function learninghypothesis0.715
• Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality (ETI)framework0.692
  Theory explaining how new levels of biological organization and individuality emerge through transitions in collective intelligence and problem-solving rescaling.
• ETIs are the evolutionary equivalent of deep learning: (i) required functional relationships encode non-decomposable functions, (ii) these are enacted by basal cognition mechanisms, and (iii) conditions for deep model induction predict ETI occurrence.hypothesis0.681
  Overarching three-part hypothesis stated in introduction
• Evolutionary Transitions In Individuality Etisframework0.674
• Easter egg painting exercisemethod0.659
  A pedagogical method where students blow out eggs and paint them purely for beauty, to recover innocent making and produce beings.
• Symbol grounding problemquestion0.657
  Harnad's foundational problem: how do abstract symbols acquire meaning; relevant to representationalism debates cited in Lyon.