The Wisdom of the Crowd: How the Average Estimate of a Collective Is Much More Accurate than Individual Estimates
The accuracy of the group is far greater than the individuals. We call this ‘the wisdom of the crowd.’ Image: "soma dispenser" by Troy...Now You Can Exercise the Science of How to be Happy through Connecting to Other People
...
Slime Mold Exemplifies How Social Networks Exhibit a Collective Intelligence Not Available to Each Individual Member
Social networks exhibit a collective intelligence not available to each individual member. –Dr. Nicholas...What Is the Most Astounding Fact about the Universe? – Neil deGrasse Tyson
The most astounding fact [about the universe] is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on Earth, the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them, went unstable in their later years. They collapsed and then exploded, scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy—guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems, stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself, so that when I look up at the night sky and I know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up, many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity. That’s really what you want in life. You want to feel connected. You want to feel relevant. You want to feel like you are a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you. That’s precisely what we are just by being alive. — Dr. Neil DeGrasse...