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These ideas, and I'm including Stephen's article about color 
detection by schools of fish, are just fascinating. Thank you!
Jennie

At 6:42 PM -0800 3/3/11, Charlie Carlson wrote:
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>http://icouzin.princeton.edu/collective-motion-and-decision-making-in-animal-groups/
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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.
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>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
>
>C.
>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.
>>>  C
>>>
>>>  Sent from my iPhone
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