"Swarm Intelligence" is also called collective intelligence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence
Collective intelligence consists of three types of manifest intelligence from biology, neurology and the social sciences. It involves cooperation, coordination, and related social and individual cognition. "The best-known collective intelligence projects are political parties, which mobilize large numbers of people to form policy, select candidates and to finance and run election campaigns."
Scholarpedia explains that "Swarm intelligence is the discipline that deals with natural and artificial systems composed of many individuals that coordinate using decentralized control and self-organization." Belgium researchers, Marco Dorigo and Mauro Birattari, also note "In particular, the discipline focuses on the collective behaviors that result from the local interactions of the individuals with each other and with their environment. Examples of systems studied by swarm intelligence are colonies of ants and termites, schools of fish, flocks of birds, herds of land animals."
The WELT KOPMAKT article, written by Axel Tiedemann, was entitled "Die Schwarmintelligenz" and had the subtitle: "Humans behave like Schools of Fish--Only a few Control the Many".
http://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article5057937/Menschen-verhalten-sich-in-Gruppen-wie-Fische.html
Tiedemann describes sociological experiments whereby many participating volunteers are asked to stand in a large auditorium or to walk around. No one amongst the greatest share of volunteers was given any direction as to how to move about.
However, 5 percent of those participating had, in fact, been given clear indication that they were to act in coordination. In short, soon the great mass of students began to act and travel about the auditorium as a coordinated school of fish--without even knowing that they were being led to do so by no more than 5 percent of the population.
In short, what revolutionary, anarchists, and secret agents, such as those in the CIA, observed a long time ago, a small group of coordinated leaders can get the great masses of others in a society to follow them simply by working the masses like the few leaders in a school of fish do.
Why am I sharing this particular fish story about "swarm intelligence" after talking about Walls in East Germany and Israel?
Well, you see, the editors of the WELT KOMPAKT on Monday had decided to put a photo of hundreds of people sitting on the Wall in front of the Brandenburg gate in November 2009 under the photo of the fish and under the title of the "Swarm Intelligence" article.
In short, the editors of WELT KOMPAKT insinuate that besides telling robots how to think and how science might create other artificial designs, swarm intelligence might better explain how a small minority of educated and convicted pacifists and religious leaders in East Germany in 1989 were able to pull off the first peaceful revolution in Central European history.
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Any comments? i.e before the Wall falls down?
NOTES
Bush Senior to meet Kohl and Gorby in Berlin,
