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quote:all-intelligence-is-collective-intelligence-not-just-termite-mounds-and-beehivesAll intelligence is collective intelligence—not just termite mounds and beehives.
Key maxim of the paper, emphasizing that even individual animals are collectives of cells.
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- Load-bearing statement capturing the core philosophical reorientation of the paper: recognition that human cognition is fundamentally collective.
- Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.
- Opening axiom of the paper, a fundamental interpretive stance
- Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
- Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.
- 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
- Foundational claim positioning brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.