{"id":240001,"date":"2026-06-30T10:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/distributed-cognition-the-new-science-of-non-biological-intelligence"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:04:55","slug":"distributed-cognition-the-new-science-of-non-biological-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/distributed-cognition-the-new-science-of-non-biological-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Distributed Cognition: The New Science of Non-Biological Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DsfxdwZdNf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: \/ whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads)<br \/> Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: <a href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/whatdamath\">http:\/\/paypal.me\/whatdamath<\/a>.<br \/> Get a Wonderful Person Tee: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/whatdamath\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/whatdamath<\/a>.<br \/> More cool designs are on Amazon: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QFIrFX\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QFIrFX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about distributed intelligence and experiments on slime mold and ants.<br \/> Links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prxlife\/pdf\/.\">https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prxlife\/pdf\/.<\/a>\u2026<br \/> ANT Lab \u2022 The odorous house ant trail pheromone depo\u2026<br \/> Audrey Dussutour \u2022 Blob crawling around.<br \/> #inteligence #artificialintelligence #biology.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Intelligence \u2014 what is it?<br \/> 1:10 Mechanical intelligence in the slime mold.<br \/> 3:30 How it seems to work.<br \/> 5:55 Ants and swarm intelligence.<br \/> 6:45 What is the queen for?<br \/> 8:35 Other swarm animals.<br \/> 9:45 Ants vs humans.<br \/> 11:10 Collective intelligence.<br \/> 12:00 Implications for AI<br \/> 13:20 Implications for the existence of alien intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy and please subscribe.<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin\/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow!<br \/> bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4<br \/> or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF<\/p>\n<p>The hardware used to record these videos:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/distributed-cognition-the-new-science-of-non-biological-intelligence\">Continue reading \u201cDistributed Cognition: The New Science of Non-Biological Intelligence\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: \/ whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http:\/\/paypal.me\/whatdamath. Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/whatdamath. More cool designs are on Amazon: https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1318,1761,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}