Re: leadership in flocks
Posted by
Douglas Roberts-2 on
Apr 10, 2010; 5:19am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/leadership-in-flocks-tp4868514p4880904.html
Of course, one significant difference between bird flocking behavior and human religious flocking behavior is that birds have brains...
--Doug
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:57 PM, glen e. p. ropella
<[hidden email]> wrote:
sarbajit roy wrote circa 10-04-09 06:34 AM:
> The religious grouping I belong to had cause to study/discuss this about 150
> years back (concerning flocks of men not birds). The leader of the faction
> in opposition to mine (which means my faction vehemently disagrees with his
> view) had this to say
That quote from your opposition seems to fall in line with the nature
article, the idea that particular birds/humans (presumably with
particular traits, inbred or learned) turn out to be leaders. I take it
from your statement that you agree more with the jasss article, that
leaders with no particularly exceptional traits emerge? Right?
Of course, to even have this discussion, we have to allow ourselves the
metaphor between human cliques and bird flocks...
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