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. Also, the spatial arrangement of cells within organisms can also be considered a conceptual unit of artificial intelligence, learning information at levels beyond DNA, RNA, and proteins. For instance, interactions between humans can be seen as part of a vast neural network known as collective intelligence when viewed from afar.
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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