humanity as a parallel process

[doubleyou]

So lately, the more I learn about the history of science, the more I'm coming around to thinking of humanity as the embodiment of some massively distributed computational process.  Individuals often solve a certain problem at approximately the same time in history.  And this happens a lot.  It's almost as though those discoveries "needed" to happen

Comments

[jungianslip]

You have some good thoughts here; I was thinking about this in terms of psychological evolution earlier this morning.

[redbouncytigger]

i think my parents would agree to that. like, if you go back in time and kill somebody important, somebody else will take their place.

i think there is something to it... but i also think that individuals still matter a whole lot.

[rawdogue]

Do you think we'll eventually come up with the question to the ultimate answer then?