Family network

My grandmother is the last survivor of what used to be a vast network of siblings. There were 13 of them to begin with . She knew all their kids and grandkids and has made a pretty good try at knowing all the great-grandkids as well. I make a joke that in the old days we would be the women in the family who knew not only who everyone’s cousins had married but also whose cows had been bred with whose how many generations back.

Which got me thinking about other shapes of family for other shapes of intelligence. One of the best ways we know how to do things is by patterning them off how we’ve already seen them done, and humans are mostly how we’ve seen intelligence — or at least how we’ve recognized it as intelligence. But if you follow a pattern too closely, you’ll end up with something very like the original. Which has upsides, of course, but also downsides.

Or at least complications. And this is what ensued, after a week when my grandmother had spent a particular lot of time on the phone with my second cousins.

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