Dear TOmas,<br><br>This is quite important in my opinion with network theory finally including human volition and abandoning reductionism,<br><br>I really hope you can look into this for discussion at our blog,<br><br>see <a href="http://gfbertini.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/wisdom-about-crowds/">http://gfbertini.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/wisdom-about-crowds/</a> ; <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/18584096?story_id=18584096&fsrc=rss">http://www.economist.com/node/18584096?story_id=18584096&fsrc=rss</a><br>
<br><br> Existing models of crowd behaviour do just that. They treat moving
masses of humanity as though they were fluids. This works, up to a
point. But it often fails to predict the changes that happen as a
crowd’s density increases and its movement becomes chaotic. That is why
Mehdi Moussaid of Paul Sabatier University, in Toulouse, and his
colleagues have made a radical innovation. Instead of treating the
individual human beings in a crowd as if they were molecules, they have
treated them as if they were human beings. They have, in other words,
given them volition. Of course, the objective of someone in a moving
crowd is usually fairly simple—to get somewhere and then stay there. But
it is an objective, nevertheless.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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