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claim:the-economy-offers-an-interesting-important-example-of-collective-intelligenceThe economy offers an interesting, important example of collective intelligence
Motivation for using economics to study collective intelligence.
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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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- The research paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, proposing a cognitive glue concept grounded in economic price systems.
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- Key property of collective intelligence: emergent behaviors at the group level.
- Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction