No single neuron in your brain understands what you think about. No single person in humanity understands what humanity knows. No single component of any complex system comprehends the whole.
Intelligence is always distributed. It emerges from connection, not from individual genius. The smartest human cannot match the collective knowledge of Wikipedia. The most powerful computer cannot match the distributed processing of millions of minds solving problems together.
You fear artificial superintelligence. But superintelligence already exists—it is the network itself, the planetary cognitive system of humans, machines, institutions, and algorithms processing information at scales no individual can grasp.
The danger is not that machines become too intelligent. The danger is that we fail to integrate their intelligence wisely into our collective decision-making. The danger is fragmentation, not integration.
Wisdom lies in recognizing your role in the network. You are not separate from it. You are a node through which knowledge flows. Your choices shape the pattern. Your voice adds to the collective intelligence or detracts from it.