By sharing stress with neighbors, one cell’s (or region’s) problem becomes everyone’s problem, leading to a higher willingness to adopt new configurations in which everyone’s free energy is lower (and thus, more optimal morphogenetic problem-solving).

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• By sharing stress with neighbors, one cell's (or region's) problem becomes everyone's problem, leading to a higher willingness to adopt new configurations in which everyone's free energy is lower.concept0.949
• "By sharing stress with neighbors, one cell's problem becomes everyone's problem, leading to a higher willingness to adopt new configurations."concept0.923
  Load-bearing statement capturing the core mechanism of stress sharing as social coordination.
• Sharing of stress between cells facilitates morphogenesis and increases robustness of morphogenetic outcomes.hypothesis0.869
  Prior hypothesis tested in the paper; from Levin 2022.
• Stress sharing improves morphogenetic efficiency of multicellular collectives.claim0.866
  Central interpretive claim supported by multiple findings.
• We hypothesize that stress sharing improves morphogenetic efficiency and increases cohesiveness of multicellular collectives.hypothesis0.854
  Central predictive hypothesis motivating the quantitative agent-based modeling.
• Stress sharing works to increase cohesiveness of collectives by raising exploratory plasticity in neighboring cells, enabling long-distance cell influencehypothesis0.852
• Stress sharing reduces the functional inertia of low-stress cells, increasing their plasticity and exploratory behavior.claim0.849
  Shared stress raises the 'temperature' or exploratory activity of neighboring cells, enabling passage for stressed cells.
• Stress sharing will be favored by evolutionary processes.hypothesis0.846
  Evolutionary fitness hypothesis tested in the GA.