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Posted on August 11 at 9:06 a.m.
I disagree with your metaphor of the billiard balls. Consider the property of "emergence". Ants, who individually are incapable of complex architecture or multi-front war campaigns, are incredible as a group at decision-making and accomplishing vast structures. Mind could still be an emergent property of sufficiently complex networks. This discussion is, for me, insufficiently skeptical.
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