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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Nono, the DNA/RNA Turing machine inside of the cell does not directly contribute very much to how the organism makes sense of its environment via its nervous system. And the capacities of the larger system happen to be more impressive, even if implementation complexity is lower.
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In the sense that intelligence is about making models, civilizations form and use models that individuals don't.
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