Perhaps Gullibility is an advantage in small societies but it strikes me as very hard to explain in one as large as ours. Gulibility and conformity have been stumbling blocks with regards to evolution at least for me. I can understand that Human Beings directed sheep evolution for our benefit but our own seems so alike
Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD vbur...@shaw.ca Sky Drive Site http://cid-14a5cdb09aee4237.photos.live.com/self.aspx/CSA/Braiding%20Simulat ions/ExperStruct.wmv 120-1053 Beaverhill Blvd. Winnipeg,Manitoba, R2J3R2 Canada (204) 2548321 Land (204) 8016064 Cell -----Original Message----- From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Russell Standish Sent: May-08-11 7:26 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Modeling obfuscation (was - Terrorosity and it's Fruits) On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 06:17:04PM -0500, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > > > It is an old joke , but the more people in the room the dumber it gets. > Having grown up on a sheep farm, I can say this definitely applies to sheep. An individual sheep is quite difficult to control, and I have a lot of respect for its intelligence. Sheep in mobs, on the other hand, are gobsmackingly stupid, and it only requires a man and his dog to control a mob of a hundred animals... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
