>Behaviour science, evolutionary developmental #biology and the field of #machine #intelligence all seek to understand the scaling of biological #cognition: what enables individual cells to integrate their activities to result in the #emergence of a novel, higher-level intelligence with large-scale #goals and*competencies that belong to it and not to its parts*?

**The scaling of goals from cellular to anatomical #homeostasis: an #evolutionary #simulation, experiment and analysis**

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