Haha I missed the typo... and even if I did, I wouldn't have lost respect in you. All the models show that a higher distributed intelligence can only emerge from higher levels of cooperation (and consequently reduced competition - it is a factor dependent on resource scarcity/abundance). This is how multi-cellular organisms evolved and this is how centralized brains evolved. Individual agents (i.e., cells, neurons, or people) realize that there is "more to be gained" by joining and collaborating with a collective, than it is to be a selfish individual. How this is done is interesting to study, because we are individually selfish and composed of "selfish genes". But cooperation and altruism can (and do) evolve from that base of selfishness. In short, the Global Brain will be the by-product of infinite cooperation and the marginalization (and/or elimination) of competition at the level of us, the agents that bring it into existence.