One may also anthropomorphize people too much. The mind of an individual is probably not best understood as a single cohesive, unified entity.
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If these intelligences have substantially redundancy, then is summing them all really the same esp if they are ants?
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Even if basic principles of function approximation are all the same, the difference between human and elephant brains already suggests that architecture matters. Also, how is the intelligent system entangled with what environment, and what regulation function does it implement?
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Interesting observation of emergent phenomena in general. Complex rules interacting give rise to in some ways less complex rules.
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In some cases, the composition may far exceed the abilities of individual notes. In others, the contributions of the individuals may be outweighed by what is taken away by their interactions.
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Teamwork.
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Well put.
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It seems fairly clear in the case of society that you could pick out multiple intelligent systems understood to be computing different things, but comprised of the same underlying individuals' behaviors. That may (partly) account for apparent loss in any single system picked out
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Seems like in brain and society the choice of what to call intelligent collective behavior must be partly arbitrary: there are certain non-arbitrary structural relations in each that we can label computations, but we will only bother to do so with computations we find interesting
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