Scientists say humans are part of a ‘planetary intelligence’

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…

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