A human mind is a collection of cells.
A civilizational mind is a collection of human minds.
I had been assuming the big mind is just as cognitively capable, if not infinitely moreso than an individual human mind (in the same way you are infinitely more capable than a single neuron). But…I think this is NOT true?
I no longer believe the superorganism is conscious, at least not more conscious than the individual nodes. Not yet. The individual’s “cognitive lightcone” is still greater than the collective mind’s.
In this view, the notion that you might learn more about autism than your community by pursuing learning on your lonesome, is untenable. Absurd. After all—you’re talking about developing a better understanding of physical reality than science itself has attained.
Yes. That is a useful definition of superlearning. https://ogiogas.substack.com/p/introduction-to-superlearning