Well, if you’re correct and that is what lavalamp is asserting, I pretty much agree with you. Humans are definitely not “unified minds”, and the difference between separate agents running on one or multiple brains may be large, but it’s quantitative, not qualitative.
That is, even separate agents running on one brain will never have simultaneous access to the same information (unless you cheat by pausing time).
That is, even separate agents running on one brain will never have simultaneous access to the same information (unless you cheat by pausing time).
Even then it’s important to note that various agents operating on varying principles of how to transform / relate to information might only be “capable” of noting specific subsets of “the same information”, and that this is—I believe—contextually relevant to comparing brains to ant colonies. Just like how the parts of your brain that handle emotions will not be involved in processing the differences between two sounds; two ants each in different locations have access to separate subsets of information which is then relayed to other parts of the colony.
The emotion-parts react to the signals sent by the sound-parts, and vice versa; so to ant(1) reacts to the signals sent by ant(2), and vice versa.
Well, if you’re correct and that is what lavalamp is asserting, I pretty much agree with you. Humans are definitely not “unified minds”, and the difference between separate agents running on one or multiple brains may be large, but it’s quantitative, not qualitative.
That is, even separate agents running on one brain will never have simultaneous access to the same information (unless you cheat by pausing time).
Even then it’s important to note that various agents operating on varying principles of how to transform / relate to information might only be “capable” of noting specific subsets of “the same information”, and that this is—I believe—contextually relevant to comparing brains to ant colonies. Just like how the parts of your brain that handle emotions will not be involved in processing the differences between two sounds; two ants each in different locations have access to separate subsets of information which is then relayed to other parts of the colony.
The emotion-parts react to the signals sent by the sound-parts, and vice versa; so to ant(1) reacts to the signals sent by ant(2), and vice versa.