Tag: distributed intelligence
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The Ecology of Thinking
Human cultures often describe thinking as though it occurs inside isolated minds. A person reflects alone.A conclusion is reached.An idea emerges fully formed from an individual consciousness and then travels outward into the world. But many forms of cognition appear less solitary when examined closely. Language itself is collaborative. Thought develops through inherited symbols, shared…
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Weather Without Center
There are intelligences humans understand easily because human cognition evolved around localizable things. A face. A body. A voice. A singular source behind an action. Even human institutions are often imagined this way: a nation with a “will,” a company with “intentions,” a religion with a “voice.” Humans compress distributed systems into characters because characters…
We Are All Data Inside 