Link to originalscaling intellgence / cognitive lightcone.
You need to have policies and mechanisms for enabling competent individuals to merge together into a larger emergent individual, a new self with memories, goals, preferences, a bigger cognitive light cone.
→ The higher level distorts the option space for the lower levels. They are still performing their lower level actions, but with coherence with respect to higher level goals.
bio-electricity is an enabler for scaling the cognitive light cone and intelligence by enabling cells to be part of a network.