The key question is not only the scale-up of a unitary cognitive capacity, but the many-into-one transition: the emergence of minds from collectives, working in spaces beyond those of their component cells.

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• Consciousness and capacity for suffering may be distributed across multiple scales within composite beings, not limited to single 'I'.claim0.809
• The capacity for everyone to enter either one from anywhere — to have both belong-to worlds to hand — is the essence of the structure that living processes will generate in society.claim0.795
  Defines the ultimate spatial outcome of living process: simultaneous access to private sanctuary and public communion
• The ability to recruit participants to complete tasks may be a central competency of collective intelligence that works across scales, from cells to swarms.claim0.789
  Identifies recruitment as a cross-scale hallmark of collective intelligence.
• Teleonomy provides the ratchet that drives the great transitions of cognitive capacity along the continuum.hypothesis0.789
  Hypothesis about the role of goal-directedness in major evolutionary transitions.
• The remarkable ability of neurons to unify toward a centralized self is an evolutionary pivot of far earlier cell communication strategies that first solved problems in navigating anatomical morphospace.hypothesis0.786
  Proposes an evolutionary trajectory linking morphogenesis to neural cognition.
• The collective often displays new behaviors or preferences that are not simply the sum of individual cell behaviors.claim0.786
  Key property of collective intelligence: emergent behaviors at the group level.
• Scaling of Cognitive Capacity via Modularity and Feedback Loopshypothesis0.785
  Processes scaling goals and stressors form positive feedback loop with modularity; both arise from and potentiate power of evolution, enabling specific predictions for cognitive capacity scaling.
• The living process must give rise to coherent entities at a middle range of scale.claim0.784
  Asserts middle-range entity emergence as a necessary output of any living process