The funny thing is that we think of each human as a general intelligence, but really, the only interesting intelligence is humanity as a collective. An isolated

The funny thing is that we think of each human as a general intelligence, but really, the only interesting intelligence is humanity as a collective. An isolated human will never learn speech, reading, writing, or math. We are just neurons in a swarm that managed to figure out how to rapidly train new neurons as they are produced. On each generation, the swarm learns more about the universe and expands into it. I think computer AI makes as much sense as all our books and tweets and talking producing an aggregate intelligence "one level" above us. If our consciousness is formed from countless neurons propagating signals, for all we know, all our propagating signals to each other will form a consciousness above us. One that can't communicate with us any more than we can with our neurons. One that can't read or write English any more than we can read neuron propagation signals. For all we know, maybe our society is already conscious the same way we are, it just thinks slower.