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If you zoom in far enough on a biological decision, all you see is "dumb mechanism" and "just physics," yet the collective system achieves complex, intelligent goals. Your SOC is not a rigid hierarchy; it is a holobiont of overlapping, nested agents that must be coordinated through "cognitive glue" rather than micromanaged
By John MenerickIf you zoom in far enough on a biological decision, all you see is "dumb mechanism" and "just physics," yet the collective system achieves complex, intelligent goals. Your SOC is not a rigid hierarchy; it is a holobiont of overlapping, nested agents that must be coordinated through "cognitive glue" rather than micromanaged