What if we could zoom out past our own myopic point of view and see the planet Earth and all of its inhabitants as one giant global intelligence?
That’s the question a trio of researchers recently tackled in a paper titled “Intelligence as a planetary scale process.”
AKA: the “By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet” theory, as we like to call it here at Neural.
This one’s a bit of a doozy. The paper itself is intriguing, but my first instinct was to call it ironically boring and painfully optimistic.
Here’s a snippet from the abstract:
We consider the ways in which the appearance of technological intelligence may represent a kind of planetary scale transition, and thus might be seen not as something which happens on a planet but to a planet, much as some models propose the origin of life itself was a planetary phenomenon.
Anybody else getting “Dune” vibes?
Aliens
Oh you weren’t expecting this to be about aliens? Neither were we. Thank goodness for PR.
The better story on Neural that should have been highlighted is how c-19 is being used to strip us of our freedoms. But, of course since you are judge and jury of who should get the gene therapy non-sterilizing injection, that won’t happen. Your off the chart judging, de-humanizing and name calling of people who prefer not to have an experimental injection that has hurt and killed a lot of people really shows your character. And it is not a pretty sight. https://thenextweb.com/news/edward-snowden-was-right-pandemic-mass-surveillance-is-becoming-permanent