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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
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>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
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>>> Sent from my iPhone
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