All intelligence is collective intelligence—not just termite mounds and beehives.

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• All intelligence is collective intelligence—not just termite mounds and beehives. We too are emergent beings supervening on a collection of cells which all were once independent unicellular organisms.concept0.946
  Load-bearing statement capturing the core philosophical reorientation of the paper: recognition that human cognition is fundamentally collective.
• All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts that must align with respect to system-level goals.claim0.888
  Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.
• All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts which must align with respect to system-level goals.claim0.885
  Opening axiom of the paper, a fundamental interpretive stance
• 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.claim0.885
  Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
• All intelligences are collective intelligences (higher-level selves composed of competent parts); implies distributed consciousnessfinding0.867
  Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
• All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from interaction of many unintelligent components (neurons) arranged with right organization and connections.claim0.850
  Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
• All intelligences are collective intelligences — individual humans are collections of parts, competencies, drives, and tools both internal and external to the body.claim0.845
  Undermines the Steinbeck-style notion of the lone creative individual and challenges the human-AI distinction
• All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from the interaction of many unintelligent components arranged in the right organisation.claim0.843
  Foundational claim positioning brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.