[FRIAM] Swarms vs. herds

[Ron Newman]

Interesting take on swarms vs. herds:

"So in nature it’s interesting to see these different behaviors appear in
other organisms. You know, in a prey organism where a herd could make bad
decisions but what’s more important is it can make a kneejerk reaction and
escape because they’re prey, you could end up with a mob mentality
emerging. In a swarm, like bee swarms, where what’s more important is
thoughtful deliberation, the process is parallel rather than serial and you
end up with a group that can make, I would say, an enlightened decision
that’s better than the individuals would have made because they have the
luxury of time to make that decision...

 And because elections are done by polls rather than swarms, what an
election will do is it will have the most popular choice emerge that’s not
necessarily the choice that would maximize the satisfaction of a
population...
And so this idea of we/us humans make decisions through polling, and it’s
in a lot of ways far less evolved than the way that birds and bees and fish
make decisions, which is through swarming. And a swarm will actually find
that decision that really is the thing that reflects the combined sentiment
of the population, whereas a poll is such an over-simplification, it’s
really just what happens to be the largest plurality, but very often that’s
very far from the answer that actually is the combined sentiment of a
population."

full article:
https://voicesinai.com/episode/episode-61-a-conversation-with-dr-louis-rosenberg/

My take on it:  https://blog.ideatreelive.com/on-the-importance-of-idiots/

Ron Newman, M.S., M.M.E.
Founder, IdeaTreeLive.com <https://www.Ideatreelive.com> Knowledge Modeling
www.RonPiano.com
Blog <https://blog.ideatreelive.com>
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