What is Collective Intelligence, and Advanced Cognition?
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Questions arise concerning intelligence or intellect.
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What is collective intelligence? Can society be seen as a higher intellectual being that cannot be predicted by human cognition?
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Why can only humans do high school, unlike other animals?
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Will machines eventually have the same intelligence as humans?
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Can it be said that an extremely well-equipped arbitrary system, such as the environment or the earth, also has intelligence? In other words, do they have a high degree of information processing power that is not explained by randomness?
In this regard, there is a noteworthy study. In the research titled “ _Landmann, S., Holmes, C. M., & Tikhonov, M. (2021). A simple regulatory architecture allows learning the statistical structure of a changing environment. Elife, 10, e67455.”, it’s discussed how a system can establish deep learning-like information circuits with just a simple control system and a non-linear activation function, and how it can learn information provided by the environment.
Figure 1. A simple control circuit that can learn environmental information
Through this, it can be said that species evolution, machine systems, and even systems like the Earth, when equipped with non-linearity, organic intermodularity (i.e., proximity between components) and other such features, possess intelligence, specifically a high level of information processing ability that cannot be explained by randomness alone. Moreover, the spatial arrangement of cells within living organisms could itself function as a conceptual unit of artificial intelligence, capable of learning information at a level beyond DNA, RNA, and proteins. For example, interpersonal interactions, when viewed from a broader perspective, can be seen as part of a vast neural network—what we call collective intelligence. Indeed, slime molds, which are unicellular organisms, are known to carry out sophisticated information processing by forming collectives despite lacking a brain. (ref) The book <Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection> likewise reports that the more similar people’s brain waves are, the better they communicate, and that social interactions involve a process of tuning those brain waves.
The universe is often referred to as the macrocosm, and humans as the microcosm. Perhaps it’s not just humans who think; the universe might also think. However, it’s not believed that such a system possesses self-awareness. This is because self-awareness is considered a unique phenomenon that naturally occurs when low entropy is densely concentrated.
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