> Corporate intelligence arises in much the same way. Your thoughts on this matter echo mine. In the case of a corporation, or other large organization struct

> Corporate intelligence arises in much the same way. Your thoughts on this matter echo mine. In the case of a corporation, or other large organization structure - the "neurons" are intelligent in and of themselves, and they couple themselves together with somewhat semi-intelligent data-transfer and manipulation agents (which they designed and built). As such - if (and I stress if - because we really don't know - and may not be able to know) corporations on some higher level are intelligent, sentient, and self-knowing - they would be so at a level as far above us as we, the emergent property that we call mind, are above individual neurons. Such an entity or entities could easily squash us without any remorse, if they even have emotions. In reality, they are probably indifferent to us smaller units. But - just as if we became aware of a single or group of neurons which in some manner were rebelling against the larger mind, that we would seek to excise and destroy those units - so would, most likely, this larger emergent entity do to us, should we try to usurp it in some manner. ...and in theory, it could do it in such a way that the destruction would appear natural and as a consequence of our own actions and decisions, and we would not even know that it had orchestrated the whole thing. Indeed, if that is the case, one should wonder about the state of our world, and the events within it.