Living in a group

For both, humans and animals, living in a group makes sense because there are many more beings to provide vigilance and defence, mating is easier, help is available, heat is conserved better. Ants and bees have become paragons of a system that’s coordinated but without central control. Intelligence does not belong to one dictating alpha, but is distributed across the entire group. Two types of intelligence operate in a group : adaptive – which means decisions stem from the interplay between individuals, and collective – a group of agents acting together as a single cognitive unit.

Full article in Ayurved Sutra Vol. 06 Issue 10

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