Collective in sentence

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I can't wait to see what their experiment looks like, what their pilot project looks like, so we can start taking a collective approach nationally through the dignity of work.

And that makes it a perfect target for collective advocacy.

Also, union halls are full of union members who understand the importance of solidarity and the power of collective action.

Collective decision-making is so much better than individual decision-making if it's done well.

So our collective curiosity went into overdrive.

Of course, there's the color and the beauty of it, but there was also just the sheer oneness of it, as if it wasn't hundreds of fish but a single entity with a single collective mind that was making decisions.

For starters, any one fish is just so tiny compared to the sheer size of the collective, so it seems that any one individual would have a really limited and myopic view of what's going on, and intelligence isn't really about the individual but somehow a property of the group itself.

Instead, this incredible collective mind behavior is emerging purely from the interactions of one fish and another.

But mostly, we do it through robotics, where we try to create our own collective systems that can do the kinds of things that we see in nature, or at least try to.

So very simple robots, but they could be programmed to exhibit collective intelligence, and that's what we were able to do.

We can actually take these rules that we've learned from nature and combine them and create entirely new collective behaviors of our very own.

And even though no robot is doing anything perfectly, the rules are such that we can get the collective to do its goal robustly together.

Each of these systems that I showed you brings us closer to having the mathematical and the conceptual tools to create our own versions of collective power, and this can enable many different kinds of future applications, whether you think about robots that build flood barriers or you think about robotic bee colonies that could pollinate crops or underwater schools of robots that monitor coral reefs, or if we reach for the stars and we thinking about programming constellations of satellites.

In each of these systems, being able to understand how to design the rules of engagement and being able to create good collective behavior becomes a key to realizing these visions.

So, so far I've talked about rules for insects and for fish and for robots, but what about the rules that apply to our own human collective?

And the last thought that I'd like to leave you with is that science is of course itself an incredible manifestation of collective intelligence, but unlike the beautiful fish schools that I study, I feel we still have a much longer evolutionary path to walk.

So in addition to working on improving the science of robot collectives, I also work on creating robots and thinking about rules that will improve our own scientific collective.

I believe that we can choose our rules, and we engineer not just robots but we can engineer our own human collective, and if we do and when we do, it will be beautiful.

Thinking of them as exceptions absolves us of the collective responsibility to help students in similar situations.

I had to be part of the collective voice that wanted to send a clear message to the new president that we did not accept or condone his behavior or rhetoric during the election.

Man 2: So it's the individual versus the collective.

And a poetry collective joined forces with a university and hosted a series of tweet chats that challenged the nation on issues of faith, our faith not just in the context of religion, but our faith in politicians and tribe and nation, our faith in the older generation and in the younger generation.

This is a collective and conscious evolution.

The convergence of past, present and future, and of individual and collective.

They ask equally difficult questions of myself and my neighborhood counterparts about our value systems and what our path to collective agency needs to be.

I think it's our collective intelligence.

But secondly, and this is new, we have entered a new stage in world history in which collective sentiments guide and misguide politics more than ever before.

During this chapter one, there was a high level of public awareness about the potential of nuclear catastrophe, and an indelible image was implanted in our collective minds that, in fact, a nuclear holocaust would be absolutely globally destructive and could, in some ways, mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Their pictures became part of our collective consciousness and, as consciousness evolved into a shared sense of conscience, change became not only possible, but inevitable.

So there's this collective decision-making that's going on.

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