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Is There a Collective Intelligence That Supports Consciousness?
Any idea that the mind is some kind of ultimately immaterial substance also has, for me, just devastating problems. The fact that we participate in distributed cognition does not give me any reason to believe that participation grounds consciousness. While I think it's very clear that no one person runs an airline, and there's a collective intelligence that solves that problem, I do not think that collective intelligence supports any kind of consciousness.