Luís M. A. Bettencourt

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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

This idea of intelligence is always collective.

It's expressed in networks.

And you need to find networks that essentially can give you open-ended ways to building these things up.

That's right.

I think there's some agency in being in a rich environment full of opportunities and connecting things.

But those ingredients are there.

And if not you, then somebody else will, right?

So you find this a lot in scientific discovery, right?

In the history of science that, oh, you know, it happens.

Two or three people came up with it and some got more famous than others, right?

Particularly in invention, right?

More practical things to do with technology.

So I think that that...

It's true.

I think you need to have ingredients and latent connections and latent assemblages, if you will.

But the agency of the individual in seeing those, perhaps in the future will be AI as well, but of the agent in seeing those, connecting them, manifesting them is still important.

So I think in retrospect, we probably reward that role a lot because it is important.

But, yes, the whole substrate of the ingredients being there and it being latent, I think, is absolutely fundamental.

And this is why, again, invention and so on is always associated with logistics.

It becomes much more probable, even if it doesn't tell you which individual is going to do it.

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