> Some level of randomness in our thought process is almost evolutionarily required to avoid becoming part of the larger super structure, similar to an ant colony.

Not really. Ants are superorganisms, they share more than half of their DNA with each other. You could think of each ant as being like a cell in a human.

software businesses are not like watches (recently saw a youtube video about fakes being made virtually identical at 10% of the price).

If you can make a facebook clone it doesn't mean you can steal facebook's lunch. there are exceptions of course.