A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells in the Neocortex (Hawkins et al., 2019)

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• 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.claim0.775
  Foundational claim extending collective intelligence to all biological scales.
• A cell's morphological role in Levin's framework mirrors Alexander's center-recursion: function arises from neighboring bioelectric field configuration.claim0.768
• Olah et al. (2020) found that automatically trained computer vision models, regardless of architecture and training procedure, all arrive at similar functional structures organizing similar features into similar compositional hierarchies, closely resembling the primate visual cortex.finding0.763
  Empirical finding supporting the Universality Hypothesis; extended by the paper to consciousness
• 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.hypothesis0.761
  The paper's guiding hypothesis, explicitly stated in the abstract and introduction.
• A unified theory for the origin of grid cells through the lens of pattern formation (Sorscher et al., 2019)concept0.759
  RNN model producing grid cells; cited as prior work recapitulating spatial representations.
• Performance-optimized hierarchical models predict neural responses in higher visual cortex (Yamins et al., 2014)concept0.754
  Demonstrated CNN representations predict neurons in visual cortex; background motivation for neural-network-brain correspondence.
• Intelligence is the degree of competency in navigating any problem space (not just 3D), including morphospace, transcriptional space, etc.claim0.753
  Expands the definition of intelligence to include non-behavioral problem-solving, enabling comparison across diverse substrates.
• The remarkable ability of neurons to unify toward a centralized self is an evolutionary pivot of far earlier cell communication strategies that first solved problems in navigating anatomical morphospace.hypothesis0.749
  Proposes an evolutionary trajectory linking morphogenesis to neural cognition.