Sun of Suns

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In his book Sun of Suns, Karl Schroeder discusses an entity who is neither a physical person nor an AI; he's the product of a "game church", where people join up and take shifts beating out a heartbeat, or sending nerve signals to other people in response to signals they receive, and an intelligent entity emerges from that, despite the fact that none of the people are making decisions for that entity. Sort of a Chinese room thing. I thought you might find that interesting.