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Sara Walker on The Physics of Life and Planet-Scale Intelligence

COMPLEXITY

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Is There a Difference Between Intelligence and Life?

The inherently global nature of the complex networked feedbacks which occur in the biosphere may itself imply the operation of an ancestral planetary intelligence. So i don't make a distinction between intelligence and life, because a lot of people think with intelligence is associate with creativity. In some ways, maybe it's the level of steering of that process,. ecause intelligence seems to have this ability, maybe this gets your free will. We dodn't talk about free will, but you dimention in passing, how determined is it by the fact that i'm an intelligent agent? And maybe free will comes into the fact that I can choose among that set of behaviors. That's sort of like my freedom

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