Two more questions, given by analogy.

First: One person with a rope cannot pull a mountain. Ten people also can't--it doesn't matter what they do, how they use their collective pulls, it's just too much to pull regardless of what they try.

Even collectively, their individual pulls are too weak.

However, you could imagine a scenario where this wasn't true. The collective pull of 10 people might be strong enough to move mountains because somehow when their pulls combine, they're able to do immensely more than individually.

Which way do you envision gravity working? If you have a "collective", is the collective still limited by the capability of its members?

Second: One person with a rope can pull, individually or collectively, roughly equally strongly at any distance (until the rope itself over that length is too heavy for them to move). However, one person will not sound like their shouts are equally loud at any distance--shouting gets quieter as you get farther away.

Is this true for the collective, too? Do the same rules apply--the rope rules, the loudness rules--for collective action as individual action? Or, if you have enough people, might they find a way to form a "shout laser" that makes their shouting equally loud anywhere around the world, let's say?