Intelligent agents can still take irrational actions and, sometimes, groups of animals are better at making good decisions than their constituent individuals.
Read the latest article from the TWCF-funded project, “Rationality and Reason beyond the Individual“ project below.
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Does being in a collective buffer against individual forgetting, when it comes to navigation?
New paper by Joe Morford: we find that collectives of homing pigeons remember their routes better than individuals
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Collective wisdom emerges in pigeons through forgetting randomly-different information over time doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Scientific Reports - Collective route memories emerge through differential forgetting of navigational information in homing pigeons
