For all the intelligence individual humans exhibit, humanity as a whole behaves indistinguishably from a slime mold [1]. If we treat humanity as an organism whe

For all the intelligence individual humans exhibit, humanity as a whole behaves indistinguishably from a slime mold [1]. If we treat humanity as an organism where individuals humans are cells, then the behavior of the organism is to just spread mindlessly across the planet and extract resources until they're exhausted and it dies off. It seems that there's a phase transition happening at scale where all the internal complexity of human society is reduced to a very simple behavior. [1] https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-like-tokyo-rail-system/ https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-...