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The collective often displays new behaviors or preferences that are not simply the sum of individual cell behaviors.

Key property of collective intelligence: emergent behaviors at the group level.

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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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Keratocytes migrate to the cathode, but keratocyte fragments migrate to the anode (Sun et al. 2013)
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Shows that collective behavior of an intact cell differs fundamentally from the behavior of its parts.
Pre-somitic mesoderm cells do not oscillate independently but resume oscillating when cultured collectively (Webb et al. 2016)
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Collectivity is necessary for the oscillatory behavior of the segmentation clock; individual cells lack the competence.

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Relational self, care & aliveness
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Self as dynamic functional center defined by care, coherence, and substrate-neutral cognition
Collective intelligence as universal architecture
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All intelligences emerge from aligned sub-components; individual/collective distinction dissolves.
Emergent collective behavior in cell systems
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Cellular populations exhibit coordinated dynamics and novel properties absent in isolated cells, spanning bioelectric signaling, migration, and oscillatory synchronization.

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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.hypothesis0.821
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.claim0.821
Foundational claim extending collective intelligence to all biological scales.
How Do Collectives Acquire The Ability To Behavequestion0.810
Each human is a collective intelligence; the parenthetical 'of neurons' can be dropped as a conceptual commitment.claim0.810
Collective intelligence exists on a spectrum across biology from cells to organismsclaim0.808
Authors argue no sharp distinction exists between familiar animal cognition and collective behavior in cells/tissues; same principles apply across scales and substrates.
What makes collectives individuals is their intelligence – their degree of competency in solving novel problems.claim0.805
Equates individuality with problem-solving ability.
What kinds of functional relationships and specific organisation turn a collective that is not intelligent into a collective that is?question0.800
Central research question organizing the paper; addresses necessary and sufficient conditions for collective intelligence.
How Do Individual Cells Exhibit Associative Learning Andquestion0.798

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What enables the many-into-one transition where collective behavior emerges belonging to the whole rather than parts?questions/what-enables-the-manyintoone-transition-where-collective-behavior.md0.840
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How do cellular collectives achieve consensus on morphological targets during development and regeneration?questions/how-do-cellular-collectives-achieve-consensus-on-morphological.md0.837
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How do groups of cells remember and pursue shared goals?questions/how-do-groups-of-cells-remember-and-pursue.md0.823
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How do individual cells share information about errors and coordinate toward collective anatomical goals without centralized control?questions/how-do-individual-cells-share-information-about-errors.md0.819
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What computations, algorithms or dynamics enable cellular collectives to respond adaptively, reaching the same form and function despite radical induced changes of circumstances?questions/what-computations-algorithms-or-dynamics-enable-cellular-collectives.md0.816
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How do collectives acquire the ability to behave as unified individuals pursuing system-level goals when composed of self-interested components?questions/how-do-collectives-acquire-the-ability-to-behave.md0.815
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What determines the collective decision-making processes by which chimeric cells of different species establish shared morphology?questions/what-determines-the-collective-decisionmaking-processes-by-which.md0.815
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How do large numbers of competent cellular subunits work together to generate coherent cognitive beings with goals, preferences, and memories that belong to the whole?questions/how-do-large-numbers-of-competent-cellular-subunits.md0.813
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How do individual cells achieve individuation and unified agency within multicellular organisms?questions/how-do-individual-cells-achieve-individuation-and-unified.md0.811
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How do individual cells exhibit associative learning and adaptive behavior in chemical networks?questions/how-do-individual-cells-exhibit-associative-learning-and.md0.811
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How can collective behavior and intelligence emerge from decentralized local interactions without centralized control?questions/how-can-collective-behavior-and-intelligence-emerge-from.md0.805
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Collective Intelligence Of Cellsconcepts/cognitive/collective-intelligence-of-cells.md0.802