This episode explores collective intelligence, distributed cognition, teams, institutions, and the strange boundary between many individuals acting together and something that begins to behave as a continuing whole. Along the way, a framework about relations and hosted structure offers another way to ask the question: perhaps the important transition is not when enough individuals gather, but when the relations among them become something that can itself participate.
So where does the individual end and the collective begin? And can something be completely real while still depending on other things to carry it?
If you want to follow the framework behind this Bit, you can start here. The Index maps the larger set of ideas and how they connect.
