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There's and episode of Making Sense with Sam Harris called "from cells to cities" with Geoffrey West where they discuss the non-linear scaling of biological functions of organisms as their size and complexity increases. It's really interesting on its own but as they go on they get into the concept of consciousness at scale and how families to communities to neighborhoods to cities to countries and so on, all act much like individual organisms on their own. The idea is that if you, a person comp…