Monday, September 28, 2009

Ryan Bercaw - Emergence

This article was interesting in that it discussed the behavioral specifics of a species that works on the most primitive level of thought. It brought to light the similarities between our animalistic interaction behaviors and the way ants live. Despite having advanced speech, humans take subtle cues from other humans they interact with. Like ants, sometimes the way we act depends simply on how many other humans we notice in our vicinity.

The article brings up another interesting point in that as a population increases, individual errors become less noticeable and important. I think this relates to people becoming a tighter worldwide population with the help of the Internet. We come into contact with so many people than we would have years ago, and it almost makes us desensitized to lots of human error.

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