Dmitri wrote:Chris Fleming wrote:that does not mean that we have a collective intelligence
I see what you're saying but I'm talking about a "higher level" of intelligence... Maybe "intelligence" is a wrong word, I don't know. An ant hill (or similar colonies) is the best analogy I can think of. That "intelligence" is qualitatively different from what any single ant could possibly ever come up with, in its wildest dreams, etc. Even if he's completely, out-of-this-world delusional/insane. It's got nothing to do with how "smart" or "stupid" the actions are, because our very ability to judge them using logic as we know it simply doesn't (cannot) exist.
Just a theory of mine anyway... haven't read anything about it anywhere; just a gut feeling, seems that's one of the facets of how the Universe operates. Could be wrong, who knows.
I think you may be setting the bar too high. I was asked to support SETI (Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence.) But as a procedure-bound experiments type, I thought they needed deeper background. For example, I asked if they could define what they meant by intelligence and prove it exists in a narrow zone, for instance, inside the Washington Beltway. I never heard back from them.
