Collective
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As much as we know, there is so much more that we don't know, and so I invite all of you to be able to help us think about how to do this better, to use as a community our
collective
wisdom to be able to make a difference, and in particular, for the individuals in families with autism, I invite you to join the interactive autism network, to be part of the solution to this, because it's going to take really a lot of us to think about what's important, what's going to be a meaningful difference.
(Music: "La Di Da Di" by Slick Rick & Doug E. Fresh) (Music: "We Can't Stop" by Miley Cyrus) So Miley Cyrus, who wasn't even born yet when "La Di Da Di" was made, and neither were any of the co-writers on the song, has found this song that somehow etched its way into the
collective
consciousness of pop music, and now, with its timeless playfulness of the original, has kind of translated to a whole new generation who will probably co-opt it as their own.
To my knowledge, this is the first time that we've been able to track the ongoing evolution of
collective
behavior in a natural population of animals and find out what's actually working best.
And to do this, ants solve the problem of
collective
search, and this is a problem that's of great interest right now in robotics, because we've understood that, rather than sending a single, sophisticated, expensive robot out to explore another planet or to search a burning building, that instead, it may be more effective to get a group of cheaper robots exchanging only minimal information, and that's the way that ants do it.
They're good at dealing with the main problem of
collective
search, which is the trade-off between searching very thoroughly and covering a lot of ground.
Different ant species must use different algorithms, because they've evolved to deal with different resources, and it could be really useful to know about this, and so we recently asked ants to solve the
collective
search problem in the extreme environment of microgravity in the International Space Station.
And that way, we could make a global map of ant
collective
search algorithms.
We're all unwitting victims of a
collective
blind spot.
So today I'd like to share with you just a couple of tales that we've brought back from our
collective
adventures into this hidden world.
So finally that brings us to one more idea: If scientists judge evidence collectively, this has led historians to focus on the question of consensus, and to say that at the end of the day, what science is, what scientific knowledge is, is the consensus of the scientific experts who through this process of organized scrutiny,
collective
scrutiny, have judged the evidence and come to a conclusion about it, either yea or nay.
It's the authority of the
collective
community.
It's based on the
collective
wisdom, the
collective
knowledge, the
collective
work, of all of the scientists who have worked on a particular problem.
Scientists have a kind of culture of
collective
distrust, this "show me" culture, illustrated by this nice woman here showing her colleagues her evidence.
We benefit not just from the genius of Benz and Ford and Musk but from the
collective
intelligence and hard work of all of the people who have worked on the modern car.
Or at a more local level, does an integrated group like the audience at a TED conference, are we right now having a
collective
TED consciousness, an inner movie for this
collective
TED group which is distinct from the inner movies of each of our parts?
People have found the
collective
as the slime mold finds the oats.
And the
collective
has enabled me to form collaborations with a whole array of interesting people.
It's biologically fascinating, it's computationally interesting, but it's also a symbol, a way of engaging with ideas of community,
collective
behavior, cooperation.
I would like to share with you a new model of higher education, a model that, once expanded, can enhance the
collective
intelligence of millions of creative and motivated individuals that otherwise would be left behind.
And what I'd like to do is to invite all of you to help create this curriculum with the stories and the experiences and the challenges that each of you lives and faces, to create something powerfully
collective.
Together, we can create a great network of city that will be the most powerful
collective
laboratory for self-government this planet has ever seen.
And also, you can imagine, a whole group of people with the same suit will have this mounting
collective
heartbeat that will be scary to the police.
Today, it's more of an experiment in
collective
dreaming.
The
collective
emotion in this place is overpowering and indescribable, before it's set afire on the last night of the event.
How they wheedle their way into the
collective
psyche without us even knowing, and how that should happen.
Even if you're somebody who decides that you never want to, the fact that there are other people who are willing to and able to resist and be adversarial to those in power — dissidents and journalists and activists and a whole range of others — is something that brings us all
collective
good that we should want to preserve.
And this needs to change, because when it does, not only will people re-engage with the structures of representation, but also complement these structures with direct, effective, and
collective
decision making, decision making of the kind that attacks inequality by its very inclusive nature, decision making of the kind that can change our cities into better places for us to live.
This world is calling out for us to have a
collective
mindset, and I believe in doing that.
We've heard extraordinary activities of civil society groups who are engaging in local and global
collective
action, and this is leading to digital protest and real revolution.
As the days passed in Kiev's central square, streams of armed fighters were joined by tens of thousands of ordinary people, filling the streets in an act of
collective
mourning.
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