human fishes

Skybird · 03-12-07, 07:36 PM

Interesting experiment in Germany: a group of 200 people in a hall, all they do was walking around at will, but without communicating. Biologists and behavioral scientists monitored and analysed the movement patterns and were able to show (like they already predicted in a model two years earlier), that movement patterns of human crowds show self-emerging patterns that are exactly like those of fish swarms in the ocean. they also were able to demonstrate that the number of "leaders" to organize the dynamic structure of this pattern at will is around 5% - also exactly predicated by their model. Biologists see this experiment as a highly significant evidence that man had his origin in the oceans. Finally they tested what happens if one "swarm" with many leaders is ordered to walk in oppostition to movement patterns of the other "swarm" with less leaders (the leaders ob both swarms were told to do so, while the crowd did not know). It was expected that sooner or latter the pattern of the stronger swarm would dominate that of the weaker one. Wrong. Instead there was an increasing fluctuation of swarm members switching teams, or switching sides repeatedly. The leaders of the stronger swarm were not able to dominate, by independant fluctuation of team members the dynamic movement pattern got a will of it's own, it seems.

I just summed it up. Keep in mind when thinking about it that participants were not allowed to communcate with each other, and did not know what it was about. They were just told to move around at will.

German text only (but it will be published in international science magazine as well in the future):

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/n...471179,00.html

03-12-07, 07:36 PM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,602 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	human fishes Interesting experiment in Germany: a group of 200 people in a hall, all they do was walking around at will, but without communicating. Biologists and behavioral scientists monitored and analysed the movement patterns and were able to show (like they already predicted in a model two years earlier), that movement patterns of human crowds show self-emerging patterns that are exactly like those of fish swarms in the ocean. they also were able to demonstrate that the number of "leaders" to organize the dynamic structure of this pattern at will is around 5% - also exactly predicated by their model. Biologists see this experiment as a highly significant evidence that man had his origin in the oceans. Finally they tested what happens if one "swarm" with many leaders is ordered to walk in oppostition to movement patterns of the other "swarm" with less leaders (the leaders ob both swarms were told to do so, while the crowd did not know). It was expected that sooner or latter the pattern of the stronger swarm would dominate that of the weaker one. Wrong. Instead there was an increasing fluctuation of swarm members switching teams, or switching sides repeatedly. The leaders of the stronger swarm were not able to dominate, by independant fluctuation of team members the dynamic movement pattern got a will of it's own, it seems. I just summed it up. Keep in mind when thinking about it that participants were not allowed to communcate with each other, and did not know what it was about. They were just told to move around at will. German text only (but it will be published in international science magazine as well in the future): http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/n...471179,00.html __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.