How Can Nondecomposable Collective Characters Produce Particle Fitness

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• When direction of selection on particle character depends on context (other particles), particle character does not determine its own fitness; the collective is not redundantclaim0.834
  Formal condition for meaningful higher-level individual
• If collective characters are determined by aggregative sum of particle characters, collective is explanatorily redundant in selectionclaim0.796
• For collectives to be meaningful evolutionary units, fitness interactions must be non-linearly separable, not merely non-aggregative.claim0.787
  Strengthens distinction between monotonic non-linear interactions (explanatorily redundant) and non-decomposable interactions (causally significant).
• What Mechanisms Enable Natural Selection To Produce Nondecomposablequestion0.785
• H1: Individuality requires a dynamical process (development), mediating the plastic expression of components in the context of one another, with the specific form of computing a collective character that is a non-linearly separable function of (embryonic) particle characters, with the effect of coordinating reproduction based on this collective character.hypothesis0.772
  Main hypothesis about the architecture of individuality
• What Is The Relationship Between Nondecomposable Collective Phenotypesquestion0.772
• Non-decomposable Collective Characterconcept0.769
  A collective character that cannot be decomposed into independent contributions of particles; specifically one that is non-linearly separable
• How Do Nondecomposable Fitness Functions Get Solved Duringquestion0.765