Marxists can point to ant colonies to argue for human collectivism, while Hayekians can point to natural selection to argue for limited government.
Pick up a book on the brain and you might find arguments for framing intelligence as decentralized or you might find arguments for framing it as tightly coordinated.
But should it matter whether cells are co…
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