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claim:the-economy-is-a-collective-intelligence-with-autonomous-multi-scale-elements-exhibiting-adaptive-problem-solvingThe economy is a collective intelligence with autonomous multi-scale elements exhibiting adaptive problem-solving
Central thesis: economy exemplifies collective intelligence; justifies economic analysis via TAME framework
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extracted_from(2026) · Michael Levin · Benjamin Lyons
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- All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
- Framework unifying cellular, organismal, and group cognition through shared principles of multi-agent coordination and goal alignment, developed by Levin and colleagues circa 2020s.
- Economy as collective intelligencemembers_ofFrames market economies as adaptive, multi-scale problem-solving systems beyond central control
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- A conceptual framework for understanding cognition and intelligence across diverse substrates—including evolved biological systems, artificial systems, and bioengineered systems—using empirically-grounded, gradualist approaches. TTAME enables comparative analysis of mind-like phenomena regardless of the physical or biological substrate in which it emerges, facilitating cross-disciplinary study of unconventional intelligences.
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- Collective IntelligencesupportsRecognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
- Price systemsupportsIdentified as the cognitive glue of the economy; serves as generic template for all cognitive glues
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- Motivation for using economics to study collective intelligence.
- Identification of the price system as the coordinating mechanism for economic collective intelligence.
- The economy described as consisting of autonomous elements at multiple scales, exhibiting adaptive problem-solving.
- Foundational claim positioning brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
- Opening axiom of the paper, a fundamental interpretive stance
- Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.
- Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction