The curious thing about collective intelligence is that the more intelligent something is, the less it looks like a collective.

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• All intelligences are collectives; individual intelligence arises from interaction of many unintelligent components (neurons) arranged with right organization and connections.claim0.838
  Foundational claim dissolving distinction between individual and collective intelligence by recognizing brains as archetypal intelligent collectives.
• 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.claim0.837
  Core interpretive thesis of the paper.
• 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.concept0.829
• All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts that must align with respect to system-level goals.claim0.825
  Central thesis operationalized via free-energy scaling; frames intelligence as alignment problem across multiple scales.
• 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.concept0.823
  Load-bearing statement capturing the core philosophical reorientation of the paper: recognition that human cognition is fundamentally collective.
• All intelligence is collective intelligence—not just termite mounds and beehives.quote0.817
  Key maxim of the paper, emphasizing that even individual animals are collectives of cells.
• All intelligence is collective intelligence, in the sense that it is made of parts which must align with respect to system-level goals.claim0.814
  Opening axiom of the paper, a fundamental interpretive stance
• All intelligences are collective intelligences (higher-level selves composed of competent parts); implies distributed consciousnessfinding0.814
  Empirical consequence of multiscale autopoiesis: bodies are multi-tissue assemblies with similar dynamics in organs as in brain.