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Organismic individuality can be separated from genetics: integration and collective action occur in non-neural systems.

Empirical findings from developmental biology (Manicka & Levin, Lyon et al.) supporting mechanistic basis for individuality independent of genetic determination.

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Integration and collective action (basal cognition) mechanisms enact the functional relationships necessary for new individuality.
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Proposes biological mechanisms implementing non-decomposable functions in developmental individuality.

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Collective intelligence & distributed cognition
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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Collective intelligence as universal architecture
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All intelligences emerge from aligned sub-components; individual/collective distinction dissolves.

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Organismic individuality is appropriately ascribed to systems capable of information integration and collective action at some spatiotemporal scaleclaim0.860
Claim that organismic self is a cognitive notion not dependent on neurons; endorsed by the authors
Organismic individuality evolved through a bottom-up process of collective intelligence, resulting in information integration and coordinated action so well-organised that we observe a new level of organismic and evolutionary individuality.claim0.859
Historical narrative for the origin of individuals.
We hypothesize that evolutionary individuality, organismic individuality and cognition are coextensive.hypothesis0.848
Strong unification proposal.
The kind of relationships necessary to produce evolutionary individuality – the generation and heritability of fitness differences at the collective level – are the same as those required to produce organismic individuality – the information integration and collective action characteristic of a self.claim0.845
Core conjecture linking evolutionary and organismic individuality.
What Constitutes Organismic Individuality Independent Of Genetic Relatednessquestion0.842
All intelligences are collectives and all individuals are collectives; individual and collective intelligence are not categorically distinct but unified by connectionist principles.claim0.839
Genetic homogeneity is neither necessary nor sufficient for organismic individuality; functional integration is more importantclaim0.838
Interpretive claim supported by experimental findings on planaria, chimeras, and cancer
All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from interaction of many unintelligent components (neurons) arranged with right organization and connections.claim0.833
Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.

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How does genetic homogeneity or genetic relatedness compare with functional integration in determining organismic individuality?questions/how-does-genetic-homogeneity-or-genetic-relatedness-compare.md0.856
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What role do information integration and collective action play in establishing organismic individuality across different substrates?questions/what-role-do-information-integration-and-collective-action.md0.855
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What constitutes organismic individuality independent of genetic relatedness?questions/what-constitutes-organismic-individuality-independent-of-genetic-relatedness.md0.849
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Can electoral signals and information integration without genetic homogeneity maintain multicellular coordination and prevent cancer?questions/can-electoral-signals-and-information-integration-without-genetic.md0.839
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What is the relationship between individual learning, collective intelligence, and the emergence of organismic individuality?questions/what-is-the-relationship-between-individual-learning-collective.md0.834
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Organismic Individualityconcepts/philosophy/organismic-individuality.md0.827
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Is functional integration more important than genetic relatedness for organismic individuality, and what kind of functional integration is necessary and sufficient?questions/is-functional-integration-more-important-than-genetic-relatedness.md0.823
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Is organismic individuality intrinsic to or separable from Darwinian individuality?questions/is-organismic-individuality-intrinsic-to-or-separable-from.md0.822
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How do evolutionary transitions in individuality relate to bioelectric integration?questions/how-do-evolutionary-transitions-in-individuality-relate-to.md0.816
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How do individual cells share information about errors and coordinate toward collective anatomical goals without centralized control?questions/how-do-individual-cells-share-information-about-errors.md0.816
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What determines the boundary between individual organisms when cells can self-organize into multiple configurations?questions/what-determines-the-boundary-between-individual-organisms-when.md0.812
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Organismic Individualityconcepts/biology/organismic-individuality.md0.804