{"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. The Chinese have set up a football academy to improve their national &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/06\/more-thoughts-on-the-collective-human-mind\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-uu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1873,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/06\/decline\/","url_meta":{"origin":1890,"position":0},"title":"Decline","author":"taxicle","date":"June 23, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"At the moment the collective human mind is in an expansive mood because things are generally getting better and wealth is increasing. 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