#634 Simon Garnier: Swarm Intelligence, Collective Decision-Making, and Human Societies
RECORDED ON MARCH 3rd 2022.
Dr. Simon Garnier is an Associate Professor of Biology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the head of the Swarm Lab, an interdisciplinary research lab that studies the mechanisms underlying Collective Behaviors and Swarm Intelligence in natural and artificial systems (http://www.theswarmlab.com). His research aims to reveal the detailed functioning of collective intelligence in systems as diverse as ant colonies, human crowds or robotic swarms.
In this episode, we talk about swarm intelligence. Topics include: examples of swarm intelligence in biological systems; collective decision-making; aggregation behavior; information; decision-making without brains or nervous systems, and embodied cognition; human crowds and collective intelligence; and phenomena that we could get a better grasp of through swarm intelligence, like human crowd motion, politics, and culture.
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Intro
What is swarm intelligence?
Examples of swarm intelligence in biological systems
Collective decision-making
Aggregation behavior
Information, from an evolutionary perspective
Aspects of sociality that allow for collective decision-making
Decision-making without brains or even nervous systems
Human crowds and collective intelligence
AI systems and natural intelligence
How human societies get organized
Human crowd motion
Political systems and human culture
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Follow Dr. Garnier’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/30pllvG
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/3FnTuuT
Twitter handle: @sjmgarnier