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If you zoom out, the market - or even further, our civilization - is such a being. Only couple thousand years old, and essentially developed its nervous systems only in the last few decades, but already its thoughts are incomprehensible.


Very true. That’s why I also think that you could easily classify an anthill as a single living being.


Yup. And the truth is, we might need to get comfortable with both. An ant is a living being, but it is also a self-propelled organelle of the anthill. Humans are living and thinking beings, but with near-lightspeed communication deployed worldwide, the whole humanity together becomes a superorganism that could be seen as thinking its own thoughts.


"the whole humanity together becomes a superorganism that could be seen as thinking its own thoughts."

And at this scale it's already impossible to comprehend the motives of this organism.




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