[lachlan_gray]

Oh dude this is so cool. I think you’re dead right.

If you’ll pardon some woo, another argument I see in favour of message passing/consensus, is that it “fits” the self similar nature of life patterns.

Valid behaviours that replicate and persist, for only the reason that they do.

Culture, religion, politics, pop songs, memes… “Egregore” comes to mind. In some ways “recombination” could be seen as “cooperation”, even at the level of minicolumns.

(Edit: what I mean to say is that it kinda makes sense that the group dynamics between constituent units of one brain would be similar in some way to the group dynamics you get from a bunch of brains)