{"id":1890,"date":"2014-06-29T21:33:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T21:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2014-07-14T20:48:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T20:48:56","slug":"more-thoughts-on-the-collective-human-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/06\/more-thoughts-on-the-collective-human-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"More Thoughts on the Collective Human Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any football match between China any Uruguay is bound to have Uruguay as favourites to win, in spite of the massive collective superiority of Chinese brainpower over Uruguayan.<br \/>\nThe Chinese have set up a football academy to improve their national team but I doubt it will have much effect. A football brain is qualitatively different from a brain that designs electronics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any football match between China any Uruguay is bound to have Uruguay as favourites to win, in spite of the massive collective superiority of Chinese brainpower over Uruguayan. 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