On the Collective Nature of Human Intelligence

نویسنده

  • Alex Pentland
چکیده

A fundamental assumption of cognitive science is that the individual is the correct unit of analysis for understanding human intelligence. I present evidence that this assumption may have limited utility, that the social networks containing the individuals are an important additional unit of analysis, and that this " network intelligence " is significantly mediated by non-linguistic processes. Across a broad range of situations these network effects typically predict 40% or more of the variation in human behavior.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Adaptive Behaviour

دوره 15  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007