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Michael Levin: Consciousness, Cognition, Biology, Emergence

Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal

CHAPTER

Exploring Bioelectricity and Collective Intelligence

This chapter delves into the significance of bioelectricity in facilitating cognitive processes that allow individuals to form a larger emergent entity with shared memories and goals. It discusses how bioelectricity enables intelligence to scale and gives rise to higher level computation, playing a crucial role in collective intelligence dynamics. The conversation also touches on the challenges of defining intelligence, exploring the subjective nature of assessing cognitive abilities and the importance of empirical testing in evaluating intelligence.

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