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claim:all-intelligences-are-collective-intelligences-individual-humans-are-collections-of-parts-competencies-drives-and-tools-both-internal-and-external-to-the-bodyAll intelligences are collective intelligences — individual humans are collections of parts, competencies, drives, and tools both internal and external to the body.
Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
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extracted_from(2024) · Michael Levin
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- The source paper under extraction — a philosophical essay by Michael Levin arguing that AI debates neglect deeper questions about diverse intelligence, developmental biology, and humanity's future
- Deep EmergencesupportsThe property that through processes we do not understand, we can produce systems with capabilities we did not directly engineer — applies to both biological reproduction and AI
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- Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
- Foundational claim positioning brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
- Challenges the simple, unified persona model of human selfhood by drawing parallels with AI fragmentation
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- Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
- Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
- Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.
- Opening axiom of the paper, a fundamental interpretive stance
- Load-bearing statement capturing the core philosophical reorientation of the paper: recognition that human cognition is fundamentally collective.
- Extends collective intelligence concept to conventional brains.
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- claimAll intelligences are collectives and all individuals are collectives; individual and collective intelligence are not categorically distinct but unified by connectionist principles.
- claimAll intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from interaction of many unintelligent components (neurons) arranged with right organization and connections.
- claimAll intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from the interaction of many unintelligent components arranged in the right organisation.