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Load-bearing statement capturing the core philosophical reorientation of the paper: recognition that human cognition is fundamentally collective.
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- Recognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
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- Key maxim of the paper, emphasizing that even individual animals are collectives of cells.
- Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
- Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
- Foundational claim positioning brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
- Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
- Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.
- Second lesson drawn from embryogenesis, foundational to treating body-building and mind-building as symmetric processes.
- Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction