On Mar 23, 6:22 pm, casey <jgkjca...@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Mar 23, 2:17 pm, Don Stockbauer <donstockba...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 23, 10:41 am, gort <adweil...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > ...
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> > > The existence of a communications channel will
> > > lead to conflict due to the problem of translation.
> > > Humans will shout and start to fight because they
> > > can't understand what the other one is saying or
> > > because what they hear isn't the same as what the
> > > other one says. Like a bad game of telephone that
> > > leads to war.
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> > Oh, I don't know.  We're doing pretty good now. Sure,
> > we have a few squabbles around the globe but if you
> > compare them to the magnificence of a construct an
> > untold number of times more powerful than a single
> > human brain, they fade to insignificance.  But then
> > again, you may be right.  Nobody can prove anything
> > about such a complex system.  But just because we
> > can't prove it doesn't mean it couldn't create itself
> > via self-organization.  As the Universe did.
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> Perhaps we can learn something about this from the
> evolution "simpler" organizations of individuals such
> as found in an ant, termite or bee colony?
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> Clearly the ants, as individuals, were not responsible
> for the development of the colony. They just behaved
> in ways that resulted in reproductive success.
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> At a lower level all multicellular organisms are tight
> colonies of cells. One thing that is common to them
> all is specialization.
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> Interestingly perhaps is that in the more advanced
> societies, with the access to contraception and the
> desire for an individual "good life", the reproductive
> success decreases.

The thing about a global brain is that the more humans that are
produced the smarter it gets and being smarter enables it to supprot
more and more peole via recycling and using the H in H2O as fuel,
dissociated by sunlight, and the thing is nobody know where such a
system would top out on population.