Collective intelligence: A unifying concept for integrating biology across scales and substrates

P McMillen, M Levin - Communications Biology, 2024‏ - nature.com
A defining feature of biology is the use of a multiscale architecture, ranging from molecular
networks to cells, tissues, organs, whole bodies, and swarms. Crucially however, biology is …

Fundamental constraints to the logic of living systems

R Solé, CP Kempes, B Corominas-Murtra… - Interface …, 2024‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
It has been argued that the historical nature of evolution makes it a highly path-dependent
process. Under this view, the outcome of evolutionary dynamics could have resulted in …

[HTML][HTML] When and why did human brains decrease in size? A new change-point analysis and insights from brain evolution in ants

JM DeSilva, JFA Traniello, AG Claxton… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Human brain size nearly quadrupled in the six million years since Homo last shared a
common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have decreased in …

Liquid brains, solid brains

R Solé, M Moses, S Forrest - … Transactions of the Royal …, 2019‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Cognitive networks have evolved a broad range of solutions to the problem of gathering,
storing and responding to information. Some of these networks are describable as static sets …

Spatiotemporal organization of ant foraging from a complex systems perspective

J Cristín, P Fernández-López, R Lloret-Cabot… - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
We use complex systems science to explore the emergent behavioral patterns that typify
eusocial species, using collective ant foraging as a paradigmatic example. Our particular …

Superorganism immunity: a major transition in immune system evolution

CD Pull, DP McMahon - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Social insect colonies can express adaptive, organism-like design. In some cases, colonies
so resemble a unique, cohesive and integrated “individual” that they are termed …

Liquid cybernetic systems: the fourth‐order cybernetics

A Chiolerio - Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Technological development in robotics, computing architectures and devices, and
information storage systems, in one single word: cybernetic systems, has progressed …

Coherent collective behaviour emerging from decentralised balancing of social feedback and noise

I Rausch, A Reina, P Simoens, Y Khaluf - Swarm Intelligence, 2019‏ - Springer
Decentralised systems composed of a large number of locally interacting agents often rely
on coherent behaviour to execute coordinated tasks. Agents cooperate to reach a coherent …

Inhibitory signaling in collective social insect networks, is it indeed uncommon?

TS Goldberg, G Bloch - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Individual entities across levels of biological organization interact to reach collective
decisions. In centralized neuronal networks, competing neural populations commonly …

Effective theory of collective deep learning

L Arola-Fernández, L Lacasa - Physical Review Research, 2024‏ - APS
Unraveling the emergence of collective learning in systems of coupled artificial neural
networks points to broader implications for physics, machine learning, neuroscience, and …