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hypothesis: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-scalesWe 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.
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extracted_from(2024) · Patrick McMillen · Michael Levin
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- Foundational claim extending collective intelligence to all biological scales.
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- Authors argue no sharp distinction exists between familiar animal cognition and collective behavior in cells/tissues; same principles apply across scales and substrates.
- Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
- Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
- Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
- Load-bearing statement capturing the core philosophical reorientation of the paper: recognition that human cognition is fundamentally collective.
- Load-bearing opening statement establishing core TAME principle of nested, distributed agency.
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- aboutblank_kbWhat are the mechanisms by which single-cell competencies scale up into collective intelligence at tissue and organismal levels?questions/what-are-the-mechanisms-by-which-singlecell-competencies.md0.833
- aboutblank_kbWhat constitutes the computational boundary defining which agents are unified selves versus swarms of independent agents?questions/what-constitutes-the-computational-boundary-defining-which-agents.md0.821
- aboutblank_kbWhat is the relationship between the physical substrate and cognitive capability across different scales of biological organization?questions/what-is-the-relationship-between-the-physical-substrate.md0.813
- aboutblank_kbWhich biological systems meet the conditions for distributed unsupervised learning, and to what extent does this explain their collective intelligence?questions/which-biological-systems-meet-the-conditions-for-distributed.md0.813
- aboutblank_kbWhat role do information integration and collective action play in establishing organismic individuality across different substrates?questions/what-role-do-information-integration-and-collective-action.md0.813
- aboutblank_kbHow does information coupling between subunits optimize collective intelligence and care in both biological and artificial systems?questions/how-does-information-coupling-between-subunits-optimize-collective.md0.811
- aboutblank_kbHow do large numbers of competent subunits (cells) work together to become intelligences that expand the scale of their possible goals?questions/how-do-large-numbers-of-competent-subunits-cells.md0.811
- aboutblank_kbWhat determines the collective decision-making processes by which chimeric cells of different species establish shared morphology?questions/what-determines-the-collective-decisionmaking-processes-by-which.md0.811
- aboutblank_kbWhat enables the many-into-one transition where collective behavior emerges belonging to the whole rather than parts?questions/what-enables-the-manyintoone-transition-where-collective-behavior.md0.808
- aboutblank_kbWhat is the computational boundary between a biological system and its environment that defines it as a unified cognitive agent?questions/what-is-the-computational-boundary-between-a-biological.md0.808
- aboutblank_kbHow do distributed systems of cells achieve coherent goal-directed behavior without hierarchical command structures?questions/how-do-distributed-systems-of-cells-achieve-coherent.md0.807