Something like iterative/cliff, with fast and slow expressing time scales
Can you sort the poll options by popularity?
I can only describe the Product, not the tech. The idea would be to plug in a bigger working memory in the area of the brain currently holding working memory. This is the piece I think matters most
On reflection something like wolfram alpha should be enough for calculations, and a well indexed reservoir of knowledge with an LLM pulling up relevant links with summaries should be good enough for the rest
Inside the super organism you are correct, but the genome is influenced by outside forces as whole over the ages - and any place where this breaks down for long enough you eventually get two species instead of one.
Therefore outside groups can treat the species as a super organism in general, the individual members must be dealt with individually when there is previous loyalty to another member of the other species.
For example, an Englishman and his dog vs an eskimo and his dog. The two humans may be against each other, the dogs may be against each other, but the opposite human/dog interactions would be standard if they weren't already attached to other in-species members.
This gives the bones of a proper theoretical foundation on the moral duties between members of different species.
For example, this would back the intuition of eating dog to be worse than eating a bear or octupus, regardless of intelligence, and of killing rats out of hand
They'd not identical. First, they have a different status, much the same as citizens and aliens have different rights. Second, different species of animals have different relationships with humanity: Dogs are bred to be symbiotic companions Cats are parasites if allowed, pest control if tolerated Rats are disease vector scavengers Chickens are livestock - they lay infertile eggs for human consumption!
The first issue seems minor - even if true, a 40 year old man could have a new arm by 60