Perhaps the first lesson to be learned from biology is that there are lessons to be learned from biology.

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• Progress in theory and practice requires a novel conception of 'machines as they could be,' based on the profound lessons of biology at all scales.claim0.757
  The paper's overarching constructive goal, paralleling Langton's 'life as it could be'
• Biology commits to optimizing salience and meaning, not fidelity, via high-level, agent-based interpretation.claim0.752
  Central claim that biological memory prioritizes gestalt over details.
• "You have taught us to appreciate another way of life."quote0.751
  Mr. Murakoshi's summary of what Alexander's architecture brought to the community.
• Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.740
  Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
• Biology's robustness, open-endedness, evolvability, and unique complexity likely depend on the fact that evolution works with an agential material.claim0.738
  Central claim linking life's properties to the inherent competencies of its material substrate.
• Although none of these behaviours necessarily require sentience, they are often proposed as evidence of animal sentience because of their subjective correlates in humans.claim0.735
  Acknowledgment that the same behaviours are used to infer sentience in animals despite not proving it.
• Consciousness is a phenomenon we have partial sensors for; building better sensors is a research and engineering question.claim0.735
• It is essential now to develop frameworks that pick out what is deep and fundamental about sentient beings – not frozen accidents of evolution on the N=1 example of the phylogenetic path of life on Earth.claim0.735
  Core prescription for future sentience frameworks.