Is Intelligence a Process Rather Than an Entity? A Case for Fractal and Fluid Cognition

post by FluidThinkers (luca-patrone) · 2025-03-05T20:16:22.508Z · LW · GW · 0 comments

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📌 Intro:
We often think of intelligence as something that an individual or a system possesses. But what if intelligence is not an object, but rather a flow, an emergent process arising from connections, interactions, and recursion?

📌 Key Ideas:

• Intelligence is more like a network phenomenon than a singular entity.
• Fractal cognition: patterns of intelligence emerge at multiple scales, from neurons to societies to AI systems.
• Fluid logic: intelligence adapts, co-creates, and self-optimizes through feedback loops.

📌 Why it matters:

• If intelligence is relational and emergent, our approach to AGI needs to shift from building a single, centralized superintelligence to optimizing decentralized, self-organizing intelligence networks.
• Could AGI emerge not as a singular entity, but as a distributed, networked phenomenon, already forming through human-AI interactions?

💡 What do you think? Is intelligence something that exists in isolation, or is it always a function of its context and interconnections?

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