theorywatch

Thinking about so-called collective intelligence earlier has now reminded me of Cornell scientist Thomas Seeley’s work on decision-making by bees and his terrific book The Wisdom of the Hive. Which in turn, reminds me that there are multiple theories, but no good news anywhere, about colony collapse disorder, not even here in Oklahoma.

If this were a science fiction film, some of us would no doubt be catching on to the metaphor right about now, wouldn’t we? Let’s just hope that someone in our swarm is clever enough to make the right decisions here.

biology, theory