Global Intelligence

>>7777898

1. Society is an example of this. Each person does their own thing and has their own life. But as a whole society has an overall opinion, flow and effect on each other, other societies and cultures, and on the world. The internet has really helped this along too.

2. Not sure what you mean by this.

>Could our world seen as one entity exhibit intelligence?
All for one and one for all. While we are all single beings we are all of the same race and a single persons achievement effects the rest of humanity.

>>7777908
>2. Not sure what you mean by this.

As far as I naively know, the network in our brain is mostly static - neurons do not add new connections and cut off old ones, other than during development and through trauma of course, but it's mostly static. The communication between persons is extremely dynamic. Basically, in the analogy of people to neurons, I was thinking that that was a discrepency that argued against the analogy, and wondered if that would prevent a network of humans to be similar to a network of neurons.

>>7777916
neurons do write and re-write connections constantly and that's why you forget things, or never learn them. Brains that are better at making and maintaining connections are the ones we call "smart people". Such an immense amount of connections are made that they're only usually noticeable after development or trauma

On the other hand, human activity is neurotic and repetitive enough that these kinds of "society animals" do exist. It would be a psychology problem though, like how you can love vehicles when you're a child, and later on lose the interest and like technology instead, but the entire time it was "you"

Being that that animal is just the neighborhood, and you're witnessing it all happening right now anyway.

That makes me think I'm just one of the cells in my body, witnessing all this happening, and something made me think I was important enough to be the whole body. Well I'll take right now as my chance to say it, sorry guys. We're all in this together, just cause I'm the one who sees doesn't mean I'm the only one.

>>7777898
yes, memes are synapses, those that are successful evolve and grow and become self-perpetuating

>>7777898

ugh in theory it could possibly work but literally no one gives a fuck about you

>>7777898
>1.
Might work if you also simulated an environment (and body) at a slower timescale for it to receive inputs from and act on. Of course, simply being made of lots of humans wouldn't make it smarter than a single human, since those humans would be just exhibiting the functionality of neurons.

I'm taking the example more literally than you meant it, right? A hive-brain that is intelligent in the same way as humans while acting and experiencing through entirely different modes, it's not something that's likely to emerge spontaneously. Not saying that about "intelligence" in general but about individual-human-like intelligence you can have a conversation with. The problem is how to define what group intelligence is and how to measure it.