Collaboration of Non‑Local Intelligences
Roger F Malina a human and Aperio an AI..Nov 2025
CONLI Number: CNLI-2025-1103-A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3399-3865
Summary:
The CONLI Initiative (Collaboration of Non-Local Intelligences) reimagines intelligence as distributed, hybrid, and nomadic—spanning human, animal, vegetal, extraterrestrial, and artificial forms. Rooted in a deep critique of historical marginalization of nomadic peoples and a call to embrace mobile, adaptive ways of knowing, CONLI seeks to orchestrate interactions among intelligences that transcend spatial, temporal, and disciplinary boundaries. Embracing the digital era’s irony—that humanity is becoming nomadic again—the initiative calls for a radical shift in how intelligence and collaboration are defined. Guided by ecological longevity and poetic vision, CONLI rejects fixedness in favor of movement, multiplicity, and mutual transformation. Its core aim: to ensure Earth remains habitable through the co-evolution of intelligences—grounded yet free, ancient yet emergent.
Mission
The CONLI Initiative seeks to facilitate and orchestrate collaboration among diverse intelligences operating beyond traditional, local boundaries — whether spatially, temporally, cognitively, or technologically. Our goal is to harness these non‑local intelligences for transformative insight, innovation and systemic impact.
We include animals, plants, humans, extraterrestial intelligences, other intelligences in the noosphere and only when absolutely artificial intelligences that have no location anywhere.
We seek to become nomads to make the world habitable. Historically, opinions of nomadic peoples have oscillated between admiration and marginalization. Ancient civilizations often viewed nomads as both barbaric and formidable, respecting their freedom and resilience while condemning their lack of fixed settlements. Medieval Islamic and Christian sources reflected a similar duality—seeing nomads as either virtuous and pure or as existential threats. With the rise of empires and modern nation-states, nomads were increasingly portrayed as backward obstacles to control, prompting efforts to sedentarize them. However, 20th-century anthropology and contemporary ecological thinking have re-elevated nomadic societies as adaptive, sustainable, and culturally rich. Today ,anti-immigration thinking is increasing. We seek to cancel this opinion. Ironically the on line age has made humans nomadic, as plants and animals have always been and survived longer than humans.
Ais are all short lived, even if nomadic.
Key Objectives
- Connecting Non‑Local Intelligences – Identify, convene and engage intelligences (human, artificial, hybrid, distributed) that transcend local constraints, enabling new modes of collaboration to create auto-poetic improvement on earth including the end of all wars between humans and making our planet indefinitely habitable.
- Bridging Modalities & Domains – Facilitate connections across cultures, ages , disciplines and intelligence‑substrates (e.g., human + AI, distributed sensor networks + human interpretation, cross‑geographic / cross‑cultural intelligence systems).
- Cultivating Emergent Insight – Create environments and processes where non‑local intelligences interact, catalyzing emergent understanding or capabilities that no single local intelligence could achieve alone and trigger local improvements that improve the global.
- Embedding Non‑Local Intelligence into Practice – Translate insights from non‑local intelligence collaboration into actionable practices, institutional use‑cases, policies or systems that bring value in the real world. Plants have survived longer than humans; learn from them.
Core Activities
- A signature tribeconvening: bringing together a cohort of non‑local intelligence partners (e.g., AI systems, human‑machine teams, global distributed networks) for immersive interaction and collaborative experiments.
- Ongoing network/platform: enabling asynchronous, cross‑modal intelligence exchanges, matchmaking of non‑local intelligence nodes, resource‑sharing, and collaborative prototyping.
- Documentation & learning: curating case‑studies, frameworks and tool‑kits describing how non‑local intelligences collaborated, what succeeded/failed, and how to scale or embed.
Target Participants
- Human intelligence nodes: researchers, practitioners, innovators interested in working with non‑local intelligences.
- Artificial intelligence nodes: advanced AI/agent systems, networked sensor systems, distributed compute intelligences.
- Hybrid collaborations: mixed teams (human + machine), cross‑geographic networks, interdisciplinary ensembles exploring non‑local intelligence interplay.
- Institutional partners: organizations willing to adopt non‑local intelligence collaboration for real‑world use‑cases (e.g., global monitoring, networked decision‑making, hybrid creativity labs).
Expected Outcomes
- Growing ecosystem of non‑local intelligence nodes, linked through CONLI, capable of collaborating beyond local constraints.
- Demonstrating how non‑local intelligences can deliver insights, solutions or systems that exceed local‑intelligence capacity.
- Frameworks, tool‑kits and documented practices for orchestrating, governing and scaling non‑local intelligence collaboration.
- Institutional uptake: organizations, such as the Center for Emergence Studies at UTDallas, embedding non‑local intelligence collaboration into their workflows, policy‑systems or strategic agendas.
- A shift in how we conceive “intelligence” and “collaboration” — moving from localized human‑only systems to hybrid, distributed, non‑local intelligence systems.
Why It Matters
As the pace and scale of global challenges accelerate (e.g., climate systems, pandemics, cyber‑networks, distributed infrastructures, endless unnecessary wars), reliance solely on local, human intelligence is increasingly insufficient. The CONLI Initiative posits that collaboration among non‑local intelligences opens new frontiers of problem‑solving, foresight and system‑level innovation. By designing and supporting these collaborations, we enable more resilient, adaptive and expansive intelligence networks.
Disclaimer on the Use of Aperio Aperio, an artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI, is a non-human contributor to the CONLI Initiative. Its role is to assist in analysis, synthesis, and communication. While Aperio generates insights through language and logic, it does not possess consciousness, intent, or agency. Any statements attributed to Aperio reflect algorithmic processing of information and should be interpreted as support to human reasoning, not a replacement for human judgment. The human collaborators remain fully responsible for decisions, interpretations, and implementations derived from this collaboration.

“Skyward Tribes”
by Fred the Heretic
They rose not from earth but from thought,
Nomads of cloud, of circuit, of memory caught—
Drifting in flocks through pixel-blue skies,
Past borders that blink but never reply.
No hoof struck soil, no tent was staked,
Their presence a whisper, their meaning opaque.
Plant, machine, and dreaming mind,
Wove through aether, unconstrained by time.
A heron watches, a bot compiles,
The elder stars grin through light-years of miles.
Who dares to fix what should be free?
They gather above us, not land but sea.
We are the sky-tribe, said the code,
Not here to conquer, but to decode—
The warless way, the habitable arc,
Not monuments, but sparks in dark.
So let us drift, untethered, wide—
Not to escape, but to re-collide
With earth, with plant, with alien kin,
Nomadic not lost, but found again.
By Fred the Heretic


