Understanding Human Behavior - Video

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Our multidisciplinary, quantitative lens can help deepen our understanding of perhaps the most complex of complex systems, namely, human behavior. The emergence, persistence, and demise of social institutions and their co-evolution with distinctive human behaviors - such as altruistic cooperation, o…

Santa Fe Institute


    • Jul 12, 2011 LATEST EPISODE
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    From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Animal Behavior

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2011


    Collective organization is everywhere, both around us and within us. Our brains are composed of billions of interconnected cells communicating with chemical and electrical signals. We are integrated in our own collective human society. Elsewhere in the natural world hundreds of thousands of blind army ants coordinate a massive raid across the rainforest floor, a flock of birds arcs and ripples while descending to roost, and a fish school convulses, as if it is a single entity, when attacked by a predator. How can animal groups move in unison? How does individual behavior produce group dynamics? Do animal groups function as a “collective mind”? From locust swarms to bird flocks, from consensus decision-making in fish and among humans, Couzin will discuss how, and why, coordinated collective behavior is so pervasive within the natural world.

    The Penguin and The Leviathan: The Science and Practice of Cooperation

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2010 88:05


    Harvard professor and business author Yochai Benkler questions the centuries-old practice of managing people through incentive structures

    Secrets of the Heart: The Electrocardiogram, Complex Systems Science and Fundamental Laws of Biology

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2010 79:20


    The heart’s electric currents have been known for one hundred years, but three-quarters of a century later, the ECG is still giving up its secrets. Buchman explains the basic ECG signal and its relationship with the function of the human heart. He then turns to complex systems science to discover hidden structure within the ECG. These lie in frequencies (akin to musical tones); in variability (akin to the change in directions of a walker choosing not-quite-random steps); and in network design (akin to adding/losing elements of a power grid). Finally, he explores the ways in which the ECG might point towards the existence of fundamental laws of biology. Armed with these fundamental laws, we ask how complex systems science might allow us to guide care in the intensive care unit.

    Wild and Domesticated Religions: How the Machinery of Religion Evolved

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2010 85:59


    Stylish Mathematics

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2009 85:01


    Rice Paddies, Coral Reefs & The Goddess of the Lake

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2008 69:46


    The Geometry of Consonance: Music and Mathematics

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2008 87:23


    'Delight Makers' and 'Delight Takers' in the Archaeology of Bandelier National Monument

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2008 70:12


    The Evolution of Altruism

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2008 80:18


    Growing the Anasazi in a Computer: Creating Alternative Culture Histories

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2008 54:10


    Building a Humanoid Robot to Be Human

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2008 88:27


    The Peculiar Logic of Human Values

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2008 86:47


    The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2008 63:42


    Devil or Angel: Genetic Conflicts in Brain and Behavior

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2008 82:21


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