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claim:collective-intelligence-is-not-only-the-province-of-groups-of-animals-an-important-symmetry-exists-between-the-behavioral-science-of-swarms-and-the-competencies-of-cells-and-other-biological-systems-at-different-scalesCollective intelligence is not only the province of groups of animals; an important symmetry exists between the behavioral science of swarms and the competencies of cells and other biological systems at different scales.
Foundational claim extending collective intelligence to all biological scales.
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extracted_from(2024) · Patrick McMillen · Michael Levin
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- The paper's guiding hypothesis, explicitly stated in the abstract and introduction.
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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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- Authors argue no sharp distinction exists between familiar animal cognition and collective behavior in cells/tissues; same principles apply across scales and substrates.
- Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
- Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
- Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
- Load-bearing opening statement establishing core TAME principle of nested, distributed agency.
- Load-bearing statement capturing the core philosophical reorientation of the paper: recognition that human cognition is fundamentally collective.
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- aboutblank_kbHow do large numbers of competent subunits (cells) work together to become intelligences that expand the scale of their possible goals?questions/how-do-large-numbers-of-competent-subunits-cells.md0.815
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