What is unique about certain configurations of matter that enable them to exhibit intelligent behavior?

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• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.768
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• How can purely physical processes produce new structures that include not only new combinations of physical materials but also new information-based mechanisms for producing and controlling complex behaviours?question0.762
  Sloman's extension of Schrödinger's puzzle to the emergence of information-based control in development.
• The simple fact that intelligent agents are collectives and do not continue unchanged fulfills a necessary requirement for an open-ended evolution of intelligence.claim0.753
  Connects collective intelligence to evolutionary potential.
• How can we develop reliable sentience criteria for agents exhibiting intelligence in metabolic, transcriptional, and anatomical problem spaces humans do not recognize as intelligent?question0.750
• "All known minds reside in physical systems composed of components of various complexity and active behavior."concept0.749
• What makes collectives individuals is their intelligence – their degree of competency in solving novel problems.claim0.749
  Equates individuality with problem-solving ability.
• "There is no truly monadic, indivisible yet cognitive being: all known minds reside in physical systems composed of components of various complexity and active behavior."concept0.748
• What kinds of functional relationships and interaction structures are necessary to turn a collective into an intelligent system?question0.748