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#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

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Exploring Distributed Cognition and Intelligence

This chapter challenges the conventional understanding of cognition by examining distributed intelligence in social animals like termites and ants. It suggests that human intelligence is a culmination of evolutionary traits shared across various life forms, emphasizing the importance of collective behavior.

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