layer 3 · theory
principle P5 · evolution by design and spread
Omnidirectional heredity
Traits can be acquired from any readable source and written back into the heritable description.
- What a test would record
- provenance of acquired traits
Evidence in the register
Works it draws on
- Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026
- CRISPR provides acquired resistance against viruses in prokaryotes
- Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data
- Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
- Phylogenetic classification and the universal tree
- Biogenesis and Abiogenesis (President's Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Liverpool, 1870)
- Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
- On the evolution of cells