[starlogo-users] philosophical inquiry

[Danielle Parsons]

I'd like to put this post out to the Starlogo community for discussion:

This moment in time is massively interesting, combining
the structuralities of the planet's most powerful centralized intelligence
with its most powerful decentralized intelligence. 

The human brain is exciting because it's the first capable of Thinking.
Forming associations, being aware of more than meets the eye, being rational,
making considered choices.  Now imagine linking all of these thinking brains
together in the way that ants are connected in a colony, in a system of distributed
intelligence.  The possibilities for intelligence are exponentially
increased.  

This linkage is already underway.  We are building decentralized, emergent systems into our
lives and participating in them on various levels: the world-wide-web, traffic flow, city sidewalks.
They inform our technology, computer programs, and our economies,
the stock market.  

There's no question that the results will be amazing - many will believe
they are metaphysical.  In reality, if we can understand how distributed
systems work then we'll know that the magic of the age of aquarius is partly
humanity expressing ant intelligence.  

Many people will simply participate.  Those with the pleasure of being aware have a mandate to direct the expression of this intelligence explosion toward peace generosity and cooperation.  
Look to the Ant!

Are any of you thinking about this convergence vis-a-vis human evolution?

Thank you,
Danielle