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Second lesson drawn from embryogenesis, foundational to treating body-building and mind-building as symmetric processes.
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- Continuity of the Scaling of Mindassociated_withClaim that cognition emerges gradually across ontogeny and phylogeny with no sharp phase transition, undergirding the machine/organism symmetry argument.
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- Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
- Load-bearing statement capturing the core philosophical reorientation of the paper: recognition that human cognition is fundamentally collective.
- Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
- Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
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- Opening axiom of the paper, a fundamental interpretive stance
- Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
- Key maxim of the paper, emphasizing that even individual animals are collectives of cells.