Some visual illusions that plague vertebrate nervous systems are recapitulated in collective intelligences such as ants.

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• 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.claim0.774
  Conditional claim urging consideration of non-neural tissues for cognition.
• We explore the hypothesis that collective intelligence is not only the province of groups of animals, and that an important symmetry exists between the behavioral science of swarms and the competencies of cells and other biological systems at different scales.hypothesis0.773
  The paper's guiding hypothesis, explicitly stated in the abstract and introduction.
• 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 scales.claim0.771
  Foundational claim extending collective intelligence to all biological scales.
• It is highly implausible that all sentient life in the universe achieves felt states using the neural circuitry underlying human Consciousness on earth.claim0.768
  Reinforcement of substrate independence: Earth-like neural circuits are unlikely to be the sole substrate.
• AI systems which possess more of the indicator properties are more likely to be conscious.claim0.768
  Graded claim about the rubric.
• An artificial model replicating mechanisms of self-illusion can test hypotheses and reveal novel affordances for non-human intelligence.hypothesis0.765
  Methodological proposal to integrate knowledge from contemplative and cognitive science into AI/artificial life frameworks.
• Each human is a collective intelligence; the parenthetical 'of neurons' can be dropped as a conceptual commitment.claim0.764
• Collective intelligence exists on a spectrum across biology from cells to organismsclaim0.763
  Authors argue no sharp distinction exists between familiar animal cognition and collective behavior in cells/tissues; same principles apply across scales and substrates.