Comments by "TheDionysianFields" (@TheDionysianFields) on "Intelligence Without Brains" video.

  1. The book Underbug by Lisa Margonelli is a great primer for this subject.
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  2. It's a centralization-coordination issue. The less centralized an "organism" is, the more challenging it becomes to communicate and transfer information between the individual "cells." China lost only a few thousand people in the pandemic but the U.S. has lost 250,000. But such decentralized collaboration (i.e. swarm intelligence) can work for ants because they don't have politics, insecurity, betrayal issues, etc. Human collaboration requires trust, which is something very hard to come by in this world. (But note that we are certainly capable of such high-level coordination.) I really enjoyed Monica's thoughts on the interplay of collaboration and competition, with competition creating the underlying dynamism that drives the system. I didn't expect to hear something like that from this panel. Yin and yang.
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  3. Those last 20 minutes!
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  4. I think this group disproves that (although I mostly agree with you).
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  5. I'm impressed that they're so willing to admit their ignorance. And I believe one of them did throw out a couple ideas as to how the memories could be stored.
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