[FRIAM] Shared intentionality as the hallmark of multicellular life

[Frank Wimberly]

I think viruses are involved in a conspiracy to eliminate us.  And they're
using the scientific method.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 12:19 PM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> At the moment I am reading the book "The righteous mind" from Jonathan
> Haidt. In chapter 9 "why are we so groupish" Jonathan discusses how "shared
> intentionality" and a shared mental representation helped our ancestors to
> form larger social groups and to move beyond the capabilities of our
> primate-like cousins. Words would not only be a link between a sound and an
> object but first of all an agreeenment among a group of people which sounds
> are linked to which objects.
>
> This chapter reminded me of Nick's article 20 years ago that
> "Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital". Would it make sense to say that
> shared intentionality is the hallmark of (multicellular) life and
> collective intelligence? This would fit to the thesis that the temples of
> the ancient Greek and the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are fossil remains
> of the phenotypes from ancient lifeforms. In my opinion the mental differs
> from the material because we perceive the "mental" usually on the level of
> the genotype but the "material" on the biological level of the phenotype.
>
> -J.
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