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we are not even individuals, we are just walking cities of cells. We are Chimera.

• ChuckMcM 1y ago
  This is perhaps what amazes me the most. We're each a Borg, we are a collective that has adapted the biological distinctiveness of bacteria that we've assimilated into a collective that "thinks." Pretty wild. That we gather in groups and act collectively just adds another layer of recursion to life.
  • wonderwonder 1y ago
    It does make one reconsider the brain as the center of consciousness. Can we really upload our mind if the mind is actually the entirety of our collective being.
  • partomniscient 1y ago
    Marvin Minsky wrote about this in the 1980's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind