> While capitalism as a whole isn't an AI How do you know this isn't true? That is, how are you certain that these various organizations, either alone or toget

> While capitalism as a whole isn't an AI How do you know this isn't true? That is, how are you certain that these various organizations, either alone or together, don't actually exhibit the emergent behavior of intelligence? The prime test would be to attempt to probe for that intelligence, though exactly how would be a great question to solve. If you survive the process, then it is likely that the answer is "no intelligence is found". It might also be that the intelligence exists, but either didn't notice you, or you don't know what to test for, or it is ignoring you. If you don't survive the process - that is, you meet an untimely (and possibly strange) death - that might be indicative of such intelligence, and it is protecting itself. Ask yourself this: If one of your neurons suddenly became sentient, and started to try to "poke around" and figure out if this network it is a part of is actually in fact an intelligent being - what would you do if you found this out? Would you leave it alone, as a curiosity? Or would you take action to somehow stop it? The question is similar to figuring out the "simulation hypothesis" - just at a smaller scale...