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claim:intelligence-resides-not-in-individual-parts-but-in-the-organisation-of-the-relationships-between-themIntelligence resides not in individual parts but in the organisation of the relationships between them.
Core claim of connectionism; foundation for unified theory of individual and collective intelligence.
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extracted_from(2023) · Watson, Richard · Levin, Michael
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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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- ConnectionismimplementsCentral framework proposing intelligence resides in organization of relationships between components, not in individual parts; used to unify individual and collective intelligence.
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- Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
- Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
- Foundational claim positioning brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
- Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.
- Core interpretive thesis of the paper.