All organisms are collectives at multiple levels: from collections of active molecules in a cell, to collections of cells in a multicellular organism, to collections of tissues.

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• 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.claim0.809
  Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
• Organisms contain elements of both cascading control and recurrent control architectures.claim0.804
  Real organisms mix feed-forward and recurrent motifs.
• Most biological systems consist of multiple nested selves, not oneclaim0.799
  Levin critiques Integrated Information Theory's implication of singular unified self, arguing Scale-Free Cognition requires recognition of nested agents at each organizational level.
• All intelligence is collective intelligence—not just termite mounds and beehives. We too are emergent beings supervening on a collection of cells which all were once independent unicellular organisms.concept0.797
  Load-bearing statement capturing the core philosophical reorientation of the paper: recognition that human cognition is fundamentally collective.
• The living organism seems to be a macroscopic system which in part of its behaviour approaches that purely mechanical (as contrasted with thermodynamical) conduct to which all systems tend as the temperature approaches absolute zero.claim0.796
  Schrödinger's analogy highlighting that life maintains order akin to a system at very low temperature.
• All intelligences are collectives and all individuals are collectives; individual and collective intelligence are not categorically distinct but unified by connectionist principles.claim0.795
• Collective intelligence exists on a spectrum across biology from cells to organismsclaim0.794
  Authors argue no sharp distinction exists between familiar animal cognition and collective behavior in cells/tissues; same principles apply across scales and substrates.
• The collective often displays new behaviors or preferences that are not simply the sum of individual cell behaviors.claim0.793
  Key property of collective intelligence: emergent behaviors at the group level.