Asuperorganism is an ensemble of living and non-living matter, which acts as a single self-regulating system.[…] Gaia is the largest and most complexsuperorganism we know.
1993,Gregory Stock,Metaman: the Merging of Humans and Machines Into a Global Superorganism, New York: Simon & Schuster,→ISBN,→OCLC,page43:
To grasp why Metaman—our strange amalgam of concrete, humans, computer chips, and various plants and animals—is asuperorganism rather than merely an elaborate “social grouping” of humans, look at another, far simpler grouping of organisms—a termite colony.
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