All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences

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Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds

(2022) · Levin, Michael

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There is no truly monadic, indivisible yet cognitive being.
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All known minds reside in composite physical systems.
Morphogenesis can be viewed as the result of the behavior of swarm intelligence of cells.
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Cells collectively solve anatomical problems, analogous to collective intelligence in social insects.

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How do the activities of competent lower-level agents give rise to a multiscale holobiont that is truly more than the sum of its parts?
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All known cognitive agents are collective intelligences, made of parts that are themselves agents in important ways.claim0.941
Central thesis that no mind is truly monadic; all are composed of competent subunits.
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.concept0.901
Load-bearing opening statement establishing core TAME principle of nested, distributed agency.
All intelligence is collective intelligence: each of us consists of a huge number of cells working together to generate a coherent cognitive being with goals, preferences, and memories that belong to the whole and not to its parts.claim0.842
Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
All intelligences are collective intelligences (higher-level selves composed of competent parts); implies distributed consciousnessfinding0.819
Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
All intelligences are collective intelligences — individual humans are collections of parts, competencies, drives, and tools both internal and external to the body.claim0.819
Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts that must align with respect to system-level goals.claim0.814
Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.
Collective Intelligenceconcept0.813
Recognition that selves are composite systems of competent parts; all intelligences are higher-level selves made of cells or components.
All intelligences are collectives and all individuals are collectives; individual and collective intelligence are not categorically distinct but unified by connectionist principles.claim0.809