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Here's a link to a lab that does some original and amazing interesting work. You can find links to some of their recent work and the images are absolutely fun to contemplate.
My reference to human social behavior and swarm intelligence refers to my notion that most people and in fact just about every system of social organization delegates authority and decision making, be it logical, rational, or not. We typically follow our friends, community, and local custom. Those "schools" of thought may or may not have a rational basis, but they all exhibit the same behavioral requirements to varying degrees. This behavior rests deeply in the very biological basis of our social structures, or so I've come to believe, to put some irony in it all
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On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:47 PM, Jennie Dusheck wrote:
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> I would love to see you elaborate on this.
> Jennie Dusheck
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> At 7:47 PM -0800 3/2/11, Charlie Carlson wrote:
>> This argument is a stand in for consistency of belief and whether or not it's essential. I call your attention to a talk at the recent AAAS. A school of fish depends more upon blind acceptance rather than individual decision making based upon a broad degree of sensory input and independent behavior. Not that the match is perfect, but we may discovering our inner fish in both cases.
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