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Intelligent Sub-Systems

You may think that intelligent-system is just another term to describe classic life-forms but that is not quite the case. There are intelligent-systems that are sub-systems of classic life-forms and there are life-forms that are sub-systems of intelligent-systems. If you go to work for a corporation you become a sub-system of the larger intelligent-system that is the corporation. Intelligent-systems cover all systems that contain both knowledge and understanding, where the word understanding implies that the system does use energy.

You should understand that you are an intelligent-system made up of billions of sub-systems and you yourself are a sub-system of numerous larger systems that make up our society. As we move beyond the Information Age it will be increasingly important for people to know their place in the hierarchy of intelligent-systems.




Last Update: 2006-Dec-23