Each human is a collective intelligence; the parenthetical 'of neurons' can be dropped as a conceptual commitment.

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Collective intelligence as universal architecture
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All intelligences emerge from aligned sub-components; individual/collective distinction dissolves.

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All intelligences are collectives and all individuals are collectives; individual and collective intelligence are not categorically distinct but unified by connectionist principles.claim0.871
All intelligences are collective intelligences — individual humans are collections of parts, competencies, drives, and tools both internal and external to the body.claim0.867
Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from interaction of many unintelligent components (neurons) arranged with right organization and connections.claim0.858
Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
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.claim0.855
Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
Beings with brains are, in an important sense, also collective intelligences.claim0.852
Extends collective intelligence concept to conventional brains.
All intelligences are collective intelligences (higher-level selves composed of competent parts); implies distributed consciousnessfinding0.849
Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts that must align with respect to system-level goals.claim0.836
Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.
All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from the interaction of many unintelligent components arranged in the right organisation.claim0.823
Foundational claim positioning brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.

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How can the principles of individual cognition and learning be extended to understand collective intelligence?questions/how-can-the-principles-of-individual-cognition-and.md0.810
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What constitutes a single self or individual being in systems with variable boundaries like embryonic masses or dissociative identities?questions/what-constitutes-a-single-self-or-individual-being.md0.792
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What constitutes a unified biological individual, and how do individuals transition to higher levels of collective organization?questions/what-constitutes-a-unified-biological-individual-and-how.md0.792
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What does it mean to be human in a world with diverse forms of intelligence?questions/what-does-it-mean-to-be-human-in.md0.786
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Collective Characterconcepts/biology/collective-character.md0.785
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