Re:The Thoughts the Civilized Keep
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @06:30PM
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Probably, yes. It's interesting how consciousness could be a matter of drawing boundaries.
A well-known example are the ants: individual ants are somewhat dumb, barely above simple chemical seekers. But the ant colony behaves as a single organism, and quite smart at that.
Other examples include cities, nations, corporations - it kind of feels like these organizations have minds of their own, with individual humans being cells, and the bureaucracy forming a computational substrate.
In the same vein, Facebook feed could be seen as a mind of its own. So could the entire human civilization.
A well-known example are the ants: individual ants are somewhat dumb, barely above simple chemical seekers. But the ant colony behaves as a single organism, and quite smart at that.
Other examples include cities, nations, corporations - it kind of feels like these organizations have minds of their own, with individual humans being cells, and the bureaucracy forming a computational substrate.
In the same vein, Facebook feed could be seen as a mind of its own. So could the entire human civilization.