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Cognitive capacities exist on a spectrum and tools from behavioral sciences can be productively applied to understand and control systems far beyond familiar animals with central nervous systems.

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Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates

(2024) · Patrick McMillen · Michael Levin

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Substrate-agnostic behavioral inference of cognition
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Cognition and sentience attributed solely via observable behavior, not neural substrate or species.
Substrate-neutral cognitive phenomenology
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Examines how cognitive and conscious capacities manifest across diverse physical substrates—biological, artificial, and unconventional—using behavioral science methods and information-theoretic frameworks.

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Cognitive functions, including sentience, can potentially be achieved by very different systems and their disparate substrates.claim0.827
Central multiple-realizability claim of the paper, from abstract and §2.
"Continuum of cognitive capacities—no binary categories, no bright line separating true cognition from 'just physics.'"quote0.825
Core tenet of TAME from Table 1; foundational to gradualist approach to cognition across all substrates.
Cognitive capacities evolve through continuity across natural, hybrid, and synthetic life forms using conserved bioelectric mechanismsclaim0.821
Cognitive capacities including sentience can be achieved by non-neural tissueshypothesis0.809
Central hypothesis: sentience is not exclusive to neural systems; other biological substrates may achieve felt states.
If different organizations of nervous tissue can achieve the same functions, the possibility that cognitive capacities, including sentience, can be achieved by other tissues should be considered.claim0.808
Conditional claim urging consideration of non-neural tissues for cognition.
Intelligence and cognition exist on a continuum; modern bioscience offers no support for clean bright-line distinctions between cognitive and non-cognitive beings.claim0.805
Anti-essentialism claim: questions like 'is it cognitive?' are scientifically unjustified; modern view must ask 'what kind' and 'how much'.
All cognitive systems have some degree of consciousness.hypothesis0.803
Gradualism implies that if brains are conscious, so are other tissues with similar mechanisms.
Scaling of Cognitive Capacity via Modularity and Feedback Loopshypothesis0.799
Processes scaling goals and stressors form positive feedback loop with modularity; both arise from and potentiate power of evolution, enabling specific predictions for cognitive capacity scaling.

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