Musing: Quotes

Is it just me, or are the most inspirational quotes not the ones that say "you can do anything you put your heart into" but rather the ones that present cool new things you can see yourself excited about doing?

Musing: Network Intelligence

This was rejected by Facebook for being over the character limit. Just a fleeting thought I had studying networks in two different classes. Nothing spectacular, more probably later, but in brief:

So if the function of a committee is to take a given situation and resolve an output; and the internal workings of that committee are unknown to the system that interfaces with it (it seems to me that high-level organizations are but object-oriented businesses); and furthermore that a benefit of the committee existing is that it can reach a conclusion on a given issue even if no single party understands every facet of that issue - can not then any such organized group (large corporation, voting body, the Internet, etc.) be said to be a new intelligent existence? Unlike the classic hivemind, no individual has to give up their identity. I mean, I don't know the workings of my brain, and I feel it safe to say that each piece of my brain doesn't know everything about my brain as a whole, but I am still a conscious, thinking person. Is a network of nodes in which each is a composite of intelligent materials itself not but a more apt candidate for the term "intelligence?"

Hope all is well!