How Do Collectives Acquire The Ability To Behave

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• How Can Collective Behavior And Intelligence Emerge Fromquestion0.822
• The collective often displays new behaviors or preferences that are not simply the sum of individual cell behaviors.claim0.810
  Key property of collective intelligence: emergent behaviors at the group level.
• What makes collectives individuals is their intelligence – their degree of competency in solving novel problems.claim0.784
  Equates individuality with problem-solving ability.
• For an intelligence to belong properly to a collective, it must arise not from the cleverness of its members but from having the right kind of functional relationships between them.concept0.772
• What kinds of functional relationships and specific organisation turn a collective that is not intelligent into a collective that is?question0.763
  Central research question organizing the paper; addresses necessary and sufficient conditions for collective intelligence.
• What kinds of functional relationships and interaction structures are necessary to turn a collective into an intelligent system?question0.762
• The ability to recruit participants to complete tasks may be a central competency of collective intelligence that works across scales, from cells to swarms.claim0.750
  Identifies recruitment as a cross-scale hallmark of collective intelligence.
• The simple fact that intelligent agents are collectives and do not continue unchanged fulfills a necessary requirement for an open-ended evolution of intelligence.claim0.749
  Connects collective intelligence to evolutionary potential.