- a colony that behaves as a single organism — coined by Wheeler (1911) studying ant colonies
- no individual ant understands the colony. the colony understands itself
- properties: division of labor, distributed sensing, collective homeostasis, emergent decision-making
- in cyber: the cybergraph with its neurons, cyberlinks, and tri-kernel forms a digital superorganism
- neurons are the cells
- cyberlinks are the synapses
- focus is the nervous system’s output
- syntropy is the metabolic health
- the superorganism computes truth through convergent computation
- see collective intelligence