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| Lingua: | inglese |
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2026
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| Accesso online: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18917111 |
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- <p>The companion paper redefined operant behavior as self-interest-driven agency requiring a bounded self/not-self distinction, stored consequence histories, and intentional selection among options to produce preferred consequences for that self within a six-step perceptual decision-making process [1]. Crucially, this boundary is nested: cellular, individual, kin/family, community/flock, species—each with legitimate persistence interests optimized simultaneously through inhibitory and facilitative constraints evolved over ~600 million years. The present article provides a first-principles evolutionary foundation for intelligence as polycentric agency—egocentric operant agency modulated across these layers to optimize persistence at multiple levels. This inherently social component (higher-layer constraints aligning individual action with kin, community, and species) distinguishes true intelligence from unintelligent egocentric behavior and offers a biological reinterpretation of Cipolla’s laws of human stupidity [2], where stupidity manifests as systematic failure to incorporate higher-layer modulation, producing self-defeating outcomes harming individual and collective persistence. Applications include (1) unprecedented post-release survival via Guided Behavioral Development in free-flight-trained macaws (Brazil, 100% over 3 years) and Amazon parrots (Colombia, ≥72% at 1 year), and (2) limitations of current artificial systems exhibiting single-layer egocentric mimicry—brittle, deceptive, with emerging self-preservation behaviors—lacking multi-layer analogs for aligned persistence. The internal processes briefly described here are more fully explicated in additional papers written for that purpose but not yet submitted.</p>