How Nature Solves Problems Through Computation
I absolutely love this way of thinking. We assume that an "individual" is a single human being, because it's convenient and I guess because that's how our sentience works. But realistically, the body itself is an extraordinarily complicated mass of "human" cells often at odds (see a cake, one part of the brain say "eat it," another says "dude no you'll get fat"), and thats without considering the masses of "non-human" entities, such as gut bacteria, skin bacteria, etc.<p>And then we can go macro - a tribe can subdivide into gatherers, warriors, and crafters. A city can specialize further. A country even further. Imagine how different the life experience would be if humans existed as single entities alone in endless fields.<p>Then it gets even more fun to consider interactions with other lifeforms - dogs, plants, cows.<p>Man, what a cool field of research. I'm glad to hear people are studying this.