Will multi-scale competency machines exhibit 'robot cancer' — components defecting from the goals of the whole system?

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• A multi-scale competency architecture facilitates evolution of robust problem-solving, living machines.claim0.800
  Key proposal linking multi-scale agency to evolutionary advantage.
• Self-similarity and multi-scale competency currently remain a real feature that distinguishes living systems from machines, though there is no deep reason preventing engineered artifacts from exploiting it.claim0.785
  The one property the authors acknowledge still distinguishes life from machines, but frame as contingent not essential
• Can we make new autonomous robotics via a multi-scale competency architecture?question0.785
  Practical question about engineering robust robots.
• Multi-scale competency greatly accelerates evolution and enables generalization.claim0.776
  Central thesis about the role of agency in evolutionary dynamics.
• Multi-scale competency likely explains the remarkable evolvability of living forms because it flattens the fitness landscape, allowing mutations' negative effects to be buffered while positive effects accumulate.claim0.775
  Mechanistic claim connecting multi-scale competency architecture to evolutionary robustness
• Multi-scale competency increases the apparent IQ of the evolutionary process, enabling better generalization.hypothesis0.761
  Hypothesis linking competency to evolutionary learning efficiency.
• Near-future machines will be built on the principles of multi-scale competency in a fluid 'society' of components that communicate, trade, cooperate, compete, and barter information and energy resources as do living components of an organism.hypothesis0.749
  Predictive claim about future machine architectures mimicking biological multi-scale competency
• Cancer can be seen as a breakdown of the binding process that scales Selves, with cells reverting to unicellular goals.claim0.748
  Oncogene-induced gap junction closure shrinks the cognitive boundary of cells.