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What kinds of functional relationships and specific organisation turn a collective that is not intelligent into a collective that is?

Central research question organizing the paper; addresses necessary and sufficient conditions for collective intelligence.

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The collective intelligence of evolution and development

(2023) · Watson, Richard · Levin, Michael

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All intelligences are collectives and all individuals are collectives; individual and collective intelligence are not categorically distinct but unified by connectionist principles.
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Connectionist Models
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Neural network models demonstrating how organized functional relationships emerge via unsupervised learning; basis for evolutionary connectionism analogy.

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