If we take a look around today it certainly looks like the world has gone psychopath. Full-blown insane. And maybe it can only become apparent through the stark contrast to the world we had all gotten

Being at psy festivals has taught me a lot about the organizing of individuals into an efficient and powerful group, and how that can be achieved quite effortlessly by mere structure. Bringing order to

So apparently bees do some kind of vibration dance to come up with Hivemind decisions (like where to seed a new home). Their decisions are surprisingly accurate, to the point of being able to outwit super

Personal Preference Bot Nets and The Quantification of Intention "Personal preference agents" are software autonomous agents (most commonly known as bots) that act on behalf of the individual.

I’ve been inspired to write this by @dana-edwards recent posts on stigmergic distributed collaborative organizations and swarm computers. Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination which is found

Attractor patterns The honey bees dances which act as the "attractor patterns". These dance patterns signal the "best site". Swarm intelligence is what we are seeing with bees but we

Swarm computers are coming and what? D. Dibenski [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons At this time we speak of swarms and we may think of swarm intelligence or we may think of the swarm in the biological