The society of intelligent veillance

The Society of Mind is the theory, emerging in the 1970s, that natural intelligence arises from the interactions of numerous simple agents, each of which, taken individually, is “mindless”, but, collectively, give rise to intelligence: “What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.” [Minsky 1988]