The credit assignment problems inherent in collective intelligence are fundamental in all cognition and learning, and in all biological individuality.

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• Problems of distributed credit assignment are a key aspect of intelligence, even in conventional organisms.claim0.867
  Asserts that credit assignment is not unique to collectives.
• Multi-scale competency reduces the credit assignment problem in evolution, enabling faster adaptation by shielding negative pleiotropic effects.hypothesis0.807
  If correct, lineages with high modular competency should show accelerated evolvability and more complex body plans.
• What makes collectives individuals is their intelligence – their degree of competency in solving novel problems.claim0.807
  Equates individuality with problem-solving ability.
• For an intelligence to belong properly to a collective, it must arise not from the cleverness of its members but from having the right kind of functional relationships between them.concept0.799
• Each human is a collective intelligence; the parenthetical 'of neurons' can be dropped as a conceptual commitment.claim0.795
• All intelligences are collective intelligences — individual humans are collections of parts, competencies, drives, and tools both internal and external to the body.claim0.792
  Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
• MCA facilitates credit assignment because error-correcting competencies of modules reduce the need to isolate individual gene contributions.claim0.791
  Claim about how MCA helps evolution deal with pleiotropy.
• All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from interaction of many unintelligent components (neurons) arranged with right organization and connections.claim0.790
  Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.