From Slime Molds to Orgregores

Slime molds are amazing, particularly when these single-celled organisms congregate and start moving as a single body. The analogy with groups of humans is tempting. I suspect that human organizations are distinct entities separate from their constituent people just as a fruiting slime mold is more than its constituent cells.

Corporate entities

This post tries to pull together some of the threads of a conversation with Gabor Molnar and Ramiro Montealegre about orgregores, my term for putatively sentient agents that emerge when large numbers of people are very well connected and have a common purpose. Our discussion focused on corporations.