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Collective Decision Making: From Neurons to Societies - SOS

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Self Organized Science

For the afternoon sessions we will allow everyone to self organize around key topics related to the theme of collective decision making. Anyone who wants to is welcome to identify an issue or opportunity related to the theme that they care about exploring with others. Along with announcing and posting the idea to the group, the person must take responsibility for convening the group and insuring that the group's discussions get reported on the wiki. Please note that everyone should feel free to vote with their feet: if you are not learning or contributing to the group that you are in, feel free to go to another group at any time. (The idea of using self organization for setting agendas was inspired by work in complex systems and has been encapsulated by the somewhat confusing term "Open Space Technology.")

  • Report from Group 1
  • Report from Group 2

Note: The principles of self organizing conferences idea of using self organization is obviously related to SFI's research and also h