The Wisdom Of The Crowd – How We Are Smarter & Stronger Together
In an election year, people might disagree about who makes the best candidate. But you don’t hear much argument on the merits of democracy: that millions of average people can together make a wise decision.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist. What Is The Wisdom Of The Crowd? According to Wikipedia, [which is itself an excellent example of the wisdom of the crowd]: The wisdom of the crowd is the process of taking into account the collective opinion of a group of individuals rather than a single expert to answer a question. A large group’s aggregated answers to questions involving quantity estimation, general world knowledge, and spatial reasoning has generally been found to be as good as, and often better than, the answer given by any of the individuals within the group. An intuitive and often-cited explanation for this phenomenon is that there is idiosyncratic noise associated with each individual judgment, and taking the average over a large number of responses will go some way toward canceling the effect of this noise.” The following video shows how the wisdom of the crowds has been implemented: Can The Wisdom Of The Crowds Be Extended Past The Definition Provided Above? I’ve been studying nature recently… starlings in the area around Edinburgh, in the moors of England… at night they come together and they create one of the most spectacular things in all of nature, and it’s called a murmuration… this thing has a function; it protects the birds. You can see on the right here, there is a predator being chased away by the collective power of the birds. Apparently this is a...
What Causes Corruption In Today’s Society? A Few Powerful Men, Or The Self-Interest Of All?
Since the beginning of civilization those in power have successfully restricted the interests of the majority by regulating their values, by controlling resources through money, not to mention controlling the very processes that exist to challenge them. Is it a conspiracy? Do such powerful men meet in dark rooms and work to figure out how to keep their power? Actually, no not as much as you might think. You see the hilarious thing about all of this is that such a process of manipulation is actually self-generating, justified in a step-by-step manner with basic self-interest guiding the whole way. The real corruption is not occurring in back room meetings or at the docks. The real power resides in how you, the public, actually perpetuate, condone and support the very systems that suppress you.” Change Will Come By Rewarding & Reinforcing Values Of Mutual Responsibility Until the social premise itself, and hence the fundamental psychological drivers of our economy – balance, scarcity, narrow self-interest, exploitation and competition – until those are altered to the extent that the system begins to reward and reinforce collaboration, human and ecological balance, efficiency and sustainability, nothing is going to really change. In a sociological condition where everything is based on advantage over others, what we call ‘corruption’ today isn’t actually corruption at all. It’s just ‘business as usual.’ I mean, seriously, what did you people expect? In an economy where everything is for sale by the very ethic inherent underscored by the false notion that we possibly can’t work together intelligently to benefit all, no level of supposed ‘corruption’ should surprise any of us.”...Connecting The Patterns In 105 Seconds
To understand is to perceve patterns. Now of course what this means is that true comprehension comes when the dots are revealed… and you see the big picture.” TO UNDERSTAND IS TO PERCEIVE PATTERNS from Jason Silva on...![Connected, But Alone [Ted Talk]](http://www.mutualresponsibility.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Untitled1.png)