An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented
Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.