Re: [FRIAM] collective sheepishness

2022-11-22 Thread Steve Smith
Not Sheep, but human societies, have done similar things in our collective past. David Graeber's book, the Origin of Everything, details the multiplicity of organizational and governmental forms and poses the question of how did we get stuck in the one we have now. davew It does seem no

Re: [FRIAM] collective sheepishness

2022-11-22 Thread Prof David West
Not Sheep, but human societies, have done similar things in our collective past. David Graeber's book, the Origin of Everything, details the multiplicity of organizational and governmental forms and poses the question of how did we get stuck in the one we have now. davew On Mon, Nov 21, 2022,

Re: [FRIAM] collective sheepishness

2022-11-21 Thread David Eric Smith
I wonder if there are ADHD sheep, who always want to move because after a few seconds they are bored where they are. In a random assignment of leadership (leadersheep?), the ADHD ones might show up to take the lead role much more often, since they want to move much more often. Come to think of

Re: [FRIAM] collective sheepishness

2022-11-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
message From: Roger Critchlow Date: 11/21/22 3:51 PM (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] collective sheepishness From hackernews https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01769-8corrected link from comments to "Sheep flocks alternate

Re: [FRIAM] collective sheepishness

2022-11-21 Thread Roger Critchlow
Hmm, not apparently users of arxiv.org either. Here are the raw videos of sheep in pastures, might be good bedtime watching? https://zenodo.org/record/6905807 In my experience, swarms are following the mouse, or chasing a randomly fleeing agent, or just wandering around randomly, or following so

Re: [FRIAM] collective sheepishness

2022-11-21 Thread Steve Smith
Roger - From hackernews https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01769-8 corrected link from comments to "Sheep flocks alternate their leader and achieve collective intelligence" The secret sauce of american democracy. -- rec -- I wasn't able to read the (paywall) article, but was intrigued

[FRIAM] collective sheepishness

2022-11-21 Thread Roger Critchlow
>From hackernews https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01769-8 corrected link from comments to "Sheep flocks alternate their leader and achieve collective intelligence" The secret sauce of american democracy. -- rec -- -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM A