MacadamiaMarquess t1_itiiasb wrote
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That’s fair. We don’t know whether it is conscious/understanding, and may never know.
But my poor phrasing aside, swarm intelligence is used to describe scenarios where we are eventually able to explain the behavior without any need to resort to a hypothesis that has the group construct obtaining either understanding or a consciousness.
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