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community:leiden_hybrid_concepts-run2-c10Collective intelligence as universal architecture
All intelligences emerge from aligned sub-components; individual/collective distinction dissolves.
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The papers/notes whose extracted claims & findings make up this cluster.
- Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds5 members
- The collective intelligence of evolution and development4 members
- Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates4 members
- AI: A Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence.md3 members
- Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence2 members
- Synthetic Article & Review2 members
- Toward an ethics of autopoietic technology: Stress, care, and intelligence1 member
- published: 28 March 20221 member
- Brains and where else? Mapping theories of consciousness to unconventional embodiments1 member
- Bioelectric networks: the cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind1 member
- Topological constraints on self-organisation in locally interacting systems1 member
- Topological constraints on self-organization in locally interacting systems1 member
- 2026-05-14_phil-trans-A-goodfire-aboutblank-impact.md1 member
- Endless forms most beautiful 2.0: teleonomy and the bioengineering of chimaeric and synthetic organisms1 member
- Understanding Christopher Alexander's Fifteen Properties via Visualization and Analysis1 member
Bridges (12)
Other communities that share members with this one — cross-cutting threads or papers that sit at the seam between two themes.
- Collective intelligence & distributed cognition20 shared
- Collective intelligence across biological scales12 shared
- Distributed cognition across biological scales2 shared
- Distributed consciousness and multiscale embodied ethics1 shared
- Gradualism and nested cognition frameworks1 shared
- Manifold-aware concept steering in neural representations1 shared
- Geometric goal-alignment in multi-scale systems1 shared
- Relational self, care & aliveness1 shared
- Agential evolution & biological individuality1 shared
- Emergent collective behavior in cell systems1 shared
- Design principles for care-centered systems1 shared
- Holistic information structure and relational wholeness1 shared
Claims (20)
- A whole makes its parts, rather than the idea that a whole consists of parts.Alexander's foundational assertion inverting conventional understanding of composition; central to understanding centers and the Fifteen Properties.
- All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts that must align with respect to system-level goals.Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.
- All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts which must align with respect to system-level goals.Opening axiom of the paper, a fundamental interpretive stance
- All intelligence is collective intelligence: each of us consists of a huge number of cells working together to generate a coherent cognitive being with goals, preferences, and memories that belong to the whole and not to its parts.Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
- All intelligences are collectives and all individuals are collectives; individual and collective intelligence are not categorically distinct but unified by connectionist principles.
- All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from interaction of many unintelligent components (neurons) arranged with right organization and connections.Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
- All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences, made of parts that are themselves agents in important ways.Central thesis that no mind is truly monadic; all are composed of competent subunits.
- Beings with brains are, in an important sense, also collective intelligences.Extends collective intelligence concept to conventional brains.
- Cognitive architectures are the same causal structures required to create fitness at collective level and integration/coordination characteristic of a self.Unifying hypothesis linking evolutionary and organismic individuality through shared informational integration requirements.
- Collective intelligence exists on a spectrum across biology from cells to organismsAuthors argue no sharp distinction exists between familiar animal cognition and collective behavior in cells/tissues; same principles apply across scales and substrates.
- Collective intelligence is not only the province of groups of animals; an important symmetry exists between the behavioral science of swarms and the competencies of cells and other biological systems at different scales.Foundational claim extending collective intelligence to all biological scales.
- Degree of intelligence is proportional to maximum spatiotemporal scale of goals an agent can represent
- Intelligence as Capacity for Goal-Directed Activity in Problem Space
- Intelligence is the degree of competency in navigating any problem space (not just 3D), including morphospace, transcriptional space, etc.Expands the definition of intelligence to include non-behavioral problem-solving, enabling comparison across diverse substrates.
- Intelligence resides not in individual parts but in the organisation of the relationships between them.Core claim of connectionism; foundation for unified theory of individual and collective intelligence.
- Minds may have preceded brains in evolutionary history.Interpretive claim grounded in evidence from evolutionary biology and developmental bioelectricity.
- The ability to recruit participants to complete tasks may be a central competency of collective intelligence that works across scales, from cells to swarms.Identifies recruitment as a cross-scale hallmark of collective intelligence.
- The collective often displays new behaviors or preferences that are not simply the sum of individual cell behaviors.Key property of collective intelligence: emergent behaviors at the group level.
- There is no truly monadic, indivisible yet cognitive being.All known minds reside in composite physical systems.
- Each human is a collective intelligence; the parenthetical 'of neurons' can be dropped as a conceptual commitment.
Findings (2)
- All intelligences are collective intelligences (higher-level selves composed of competent parts); implies distributed consciousnessEmpirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
- Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.