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theseus: extract claims from 2022-00-00-americanscientist-superorganism-revolution (#113)

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date: 2022-01-01
domain: ai-alignment
format: essay
status: unprocessed
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tags: [superorganism, collective-intelligence, biology, emergence, evolution]
linked_set: superorganism-sources-mar2026
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processed_date: 2026-03-10
enrichments_applied: ["superorganism-organization-extends-effective-lifespan-substantially-at-each-organizational-level-which-means-civilizational-intelligence-operates-on-temporal-horizons-that-individual-preference-alignment-cannot-serve.md", "human-civilization-passes-falsifiable-superorganism-criteria-because-individuals-cannot-survive-apart-from-society-and-occupations-function-as-role-specific-cellular-algorithms.md"]
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extraction_notes: "This American Scientist article on the human microbiome provides rich evidence supporting two existing superorganism-related claims. The key insight is that the microbiome represents a biological superorganism where 300 trillion bacterial cells function as an integrated unit with functional specialization, demonstrating the superorganism principle at the microbial level. The evidence about bacterial generation times (hours/minutes) creating 'deep time' within a single human lifetime directly supports the claim about temporal horizon extension through superorganism organization."
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# The Superorganism Revolution
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## Key Facts
- Human microbiome contains approximately 100 trillion bacteria
- Each person has 37 trillion eukaryotic cells combined with 300 trillion bacterial cells
- Human genome has 20,000 protein-coding genes; microbiome has approximately 2 million bacterial genes
- Lower gut may house more than 30,000 different bacterial strains
- Bacterial generation times are measured in hours or minutes
- One human lifetime may encompass a million bacterial generations
- The Human Microbiome Project demonstrated antibiotic use severely disrupts the microbiome
- Infants delivered by C-section exhibit distinct microbiome from those passing through birth canal
- Horizontal gene transfer enables bacteria to acquire functional genetic information rapidly