Don't Look Now - But Some Zombies Are Recognizing the Return On Coordination

Commentary by Roger Erickson

This is like a segment from "Night of the Living Duh" movie series, where a fraction of the zombies actually start to mutate, & develop rudimentary cognitive skills. That's right, undead thinking. Given enough time, who knows where this might lead to?

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You don't say? So the highest cost is the cost of coordination?

If we don't interrupt their train of thought, they might ... just MIGHT ... realize the obligate corollary. The highest investment return, by far, is the return-on-(investment in) coordination.

You can lead even a species of diverse molecules to be social, but you can't make 'em use their group intelligence? At least not at any impressive Adaptive Rate. 

How long has it been? 3.5 billion years? 

Guess we can wait a bit longer for our current species' train of thought to start loading at the station. There seems to be this National Semantic Debt clock that ISN'T ticking. No wonder our cultural train of thought is conflating "loading at the station" with "getting loaded at the station." Cognitive Prohibition, unwittingly (to say the least) imposed by Merchants?