There's a nice story about "always knowing for sure" and leadership,
this time in some fishes. It's not only amazing that a swarm of fishes
stays together but that - at least in some species - swarms may change
direction almost synchronously, like a big swimming organism. Now the
story: Researchers found out that, in a certain species of fish, there
was always a "leader" in a swarm who's direction all of the others
followed. Of course the obvious question arose: What makes the natural
leader here? Is it a particuarly clever fish? Or a fish who knows
instinctively what direction is the best ist most circumstances? The
answer which turned out was: Fishes have a tendency to adjust their
direction with that of their neighbors in the swarm. There is always
one fish in a swarm who does NOT adjust to any other fish - thus his
direction wins over any other direction in the end. So much for
apparent knowledge for sure and natural leadership.
F
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Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu im Auftrag von wi...@cs.helsinki.fi
Gesendet: Do 15.03.2012 11:22
An: Stewart McCoy
Cc: Lute Net
Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Being too clever, knowing always "how it is"...
Dear Stewart,
That was clever! :-))
Btw, the idea (and phenomenon) seems seems to be older:
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the
intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Russell: "The Triumph of
Stupidity" (10 May 1933) )
Best,
Arto
On 15/03/12 11:36, Stewart McCoy wrote:
> Dear Arto,
>
> I'm not so sure. He may not be right.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Stewart McCoy.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [[1]mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu]
On
> Behalf Of Arto Wikla
> Sent: 14 March 2012 22:13
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> Subject: [LUTE] Being too clever, knowing always "how it is"...
>
> Dear lutenists,
>
> after having read every now and then some quite strong opinions "how
it
> really is" here in our List, I cannot resist posting a perhaps
slightly
> OT message, but there is a great wisdom in a comment by Charles
> Bukowski:
>
> "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full
of
> doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
>
> Actually that is very pessimistic, but anyhow
>
> all the best,
>
> Arto
>
>
>
>
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