What makes collectives individuals is their intelligence – their degree of competency in solving novel problems.

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• The ability to recruit participants to complete tasks may be a central competency of collective intelligence that works across scales, from cells to swarms.claim0.840
  Identifies recruitment as a cross-scale hallmark of collective intelligence.
• All intelligences are collective intelligences — individual humans are collections of parts, competencies, drives, and tools both internal and external to the body.claim0.839
  Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
• All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from the interaction of many unintelligent components arranged in the right organisation.claim0.830
  Foundational claim positioning brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
• 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.concept0.829
• All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from interaction of many unintelligent components (neurons) arranged with right organization and connections.claim0.828
  Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
• 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.hypothesis0.825
  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.claim0.824
  Foundational claim extending collective intelligence to all biological scales.
• All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences, because we are all made of parts; biological agents in particular are not just structurally modular, but made of parts that are themselves agents in important ways.concept0.817
  Load-bearing opening statement establishing core TAME principle of nested, distributed agency.