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> Given that our brains are composed of neurons, which are themselves, in essence, specialized cooperative single-cell organisms Don't humans to a degree fulfi
by benaadams 9y ago
> Given that our brains are composed of neurons, which are themselves, in essence, specialized cooperative single-cell organisms
Don't humans to a degree fulfill this role; the mass behavior of the species (recently) acting as form of brain with emerging self-awareness of the galaxy/universe; since we study it, and are also part of it?
- tomrod 9y agoI argue against this idea. Part of our sapience is that our neurons can coherently aggregate into specific thoughts leading to choices (and actions performed on those choices). What would the nature of supersapience be? Just sapience, so a single human brain is a holon. Behavior can be influenced by others, but will isn't superceded by a crowd.
- benaadams 9y ago> Behavior can be influenced by others, but will isn't superceded by a crowd. It often is by governments though. Also judging by polling on small sample sets, which often match whole population elections they do coherently aggregate; and then those governments make laws which incarcerate or penalize going against them. Also isn't that the nature of science to provide coherent aggregation of knowledge that is agreed upon (though testable hypothesizes). Which is generally different from government policy, which usually doesn't use evidence based decision making in the scientific sense.