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claim:all-intelligences-are-collectives-individual-intelligence-arises-from-interaction-of-many-unintelligent-components-neurons-arranged-with-right-organization-and-connectionsAll 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.
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- All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
- All intelligences emerge from aligned sub-components; individual/collective distinction dissolves.
- Framework unifying cellular, organismal, and group cognition through shared principles of multi-agent coordination and goal alignment, developed by Levin and colleagues circa 2020s.
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- Connectionist ModelssupportsNeural network models demonstrating how organized functional relationships emerge via unsupervised learning; basis for evolutionary connectionism analogy.
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- Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
- Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
- Foundational claim positioning brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
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- Load-bearing statement capturing the core philosophical reorientation of the paper: recognition that human cognition is fundamentally collective.
- Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.
- Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
- Opening axiom of the paper, a fundamental interpretive stance
- Second lesson drawn from embryogenesis, foundational to treating body-building and mind-building as symmetric processes.
- Key maxim of the paper, emphasizing that even individual animals are collectives of cells.
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- aboutblank_kbWhat is the relationship between individual learning, collective intelligence, and the emergence of organismic individuality?questions/what-is-the-relationship-between-individual-learning-collective.md0.840
- aboutblank_kbCollective Intelligenceconcepts/systems/collective-intelligence.md0.831
- aboutblank_kbHow can the principles of individual cognition and learning be extended to understand collective intelligence?questions/how-can-the-principles-of-individual-cognition-and.md0.809
- aboutblank_kbWhat exactly constitutes collective intelligence and what are the mechanisms that enable it?questions/what-exactly-constitutes-collective-intelligence-and-what-are.md0.808
- aboutblank_kbCan unsupervised learning mechanisms alone generate collective intelligence without system-level feedback or pre-existing evolutionary units?questions/can-unsupervised-learning-mechanisms-alone-generate-collective-intelligence.md0.806
- aboutblank_kbHow do single-level ecological networks achieve collective intelligence without system-level selection?questions/how-do-singlelevel-ecological-networks-achieve-collective-intelligence.md0.803
- aboutblank_kbWhat exactly constitutes collective intelligence, and what mechanisms enable it?questions/what-exactly-constitutes-collective-intelligence-and-what-mechanisms.md0.801
- aboutblank_kbCan distributed, decentralized components produce collective intelligence without centralized control?questions/can-distributed-decentralized-components-produce-collective-intelligence-without.md0.795
- aboutblank_kbConnectionist Models Of Cognitionconcepts/ai/connectionist-models-of-cognition.md0.783
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- claimAll 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.
- claimAll intelligences are collective intelligences — individual humans are collections of parts, competencies, drives, and tools both internal and external to the body.
- 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 the interaction of many unintelligent components arranged in the right organisation.