What Might A Cross Section Through A Cultural-Synapse Look Like?

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

As we survey the army of Straw Men surrounding us .... and longingly ponder what it would be like if we only had a Group Brain ...

We might as well start imagining some of the specifics.

Reasoning by past analogies, and then going beyond that.

What might a cross section through a cultural-synapse that look like?

an EM cross section through a synapse

You do know what the concept of a cultural synapse is, don't you USA? You just put your diverse tendrils together and .... communicate.

What should they connect? How many should there be, to create cultural agility and mediate a high cultural adaptive rate? What information throughput should they support? What adaptive bandwidth of context signals should they be tuned to?

Instead of only more silly love songs, can we challenge budding musicians to ask a wider variety of questions in their songs? The ancient, stone-age desires & skills are getting a bit boring, and unhelpful as we face emerging challenges.