“All intelligence is collective intelligence”

Working out is communicating with the intelligent hivemind of cells in your body. The things you do have a cause and effect on agential cell intelligence and the subsequent actions they pursue.

Is the singular “you” even a valid concept, since “you” is the result of mass cell coordination with no central operator. Maybe self is an illusion, an emergent result of trillion of worker cells.

What if we better understood this communication network. Lots to rethink about in this new framing. #biointelligence

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Study of neuroplasticity led my mind to start thinking in this way. It's good thoughts!

I always thought it was interesting that when you cut hairs and fingernails etc, that these things that used to be a part of "you" are clearly not you anymore. I think that concept can scale up to every component of the body until You != YourBody

There’s also a ruthlessness to it all. Noone is special, and you are purged if you are not doing your function. It’s an extreme meritocracy. A borg collective.

Are you an AI engine? 🙂

Sounds like Michael Levin

Yeah, he’s awesome 👍🏻

We are all one.

Have you ready/ listened to Federico Faggin’s quantum theory of consciousness… if not, I feel like you would enjoy it !

'I' is valid. Even if only a useful construct that isn't universally recognized as such, the self is more than an illusion. I'd argue it is a cohesive objective unit defined by aligned incentives, gravity, proximity, shared action.