All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences, made of parts that are themselves agents in important ways.

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• All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences, because we are all made of parts; biological agents in particular are not just structurally modular, but made of parts that are themselves agents in important ways.concept0.950
  Load-bearing opening statement establishing core TAME principle of nested, distributed agency.
• All known cognitive agents are collective intelligenceshypothesis0.941
• 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.claim0.849
  Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
• All intelligences are collective intelligences — individual humans are collections of parts, competencies, drives, and tools both internal and external to the body.claim0.845
  Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
• All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts that must align with respect to system-level goals.claim0.844
  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.claim0.839
  Opening axiom of the paper, a fundamental interpretive stance
• All intelligences are collective intelligences (higher-level selves composed of competent parts); implies distributed consciousnessfinding0.833
  Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
• The simple fact that intelligent agents are collectives and do not continue unchanged fulfills a necessary requirement for an open-ended evolution of intelligence.claim0.826
  Connects collective intelligence to evolutionary potential.