Most of the intelligent complexity of the individual neuron (~a single celled animal focusing on survival) will not to contribute to the intelligence of the brain. Likewise, the intelligence of a civilization is far less than the sum of the intelligences of all its humans.
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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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In a similar way as we can treat a person as cohesive because of the way its mental faculties are integrated, there is cohesion in a society via institutions, shared ideas and the praxis they inform.
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