Collective Intelligence | Conversation | Edge

Collective Intelligence | Conversation | Edge
"It's also possible for groups of people to work together in ways that seem pretty stupid, and I think collective stupidity is just as possible as collective intelligence. Part of what I want to understand and part of what the people I'm working with want to understand is what are the conditions that lead to collective intelligence rather than collective stupidity. But in whatever form, either intelligence or stupidity, this collective behavior has existed for a long time. "

BBC - Future - Technology - Will the internet become conscious?

BBC - Future - Technology - Will the internet become conscious?

Time's quantum arrow has a preferred direction: BaBar experiment confirms time asymmetry

Time's quantum arrow has a preferred direction: BaBar experiment confirms time asymmetry

a violation of time reversal symmetry and confirmation that some subatomic processes have a preferred direction of time.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-quantum-arrow-babar-asymmetry.html#jCp

Human brain, internet, and cosmology: Similar laws at work?

Human brain, internet, and cosmology: Similar laws at work?: "Having the ability to predict – let alone trying to control – the dynamics of complex networks remains a central challenge throughout network science. Structural and dynamical similarities among different real networks suggest that some universal laws might be in action, although the nature and common origin of such laws remain elusive."

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