Howard Bloom - Learning Quotes

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A collective learning machine achieves its feats by using five elements... (1) conformity enforcers; (2) diversity generators; (3) inner-judges; (4) resource shifters; and (5) intergroup tournaments.

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Primordial commuinities of bacteria were elaborately interwoven by communication links.... These turned a colony into a collective processor... The resulting learning machine was so ingenious that Eshel Ben-Jacob has called its modern bacterial counterpart a "creative web."

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Remember a networked learning machine's most basic rule: strengthen the connections to those who succeed, weaken them to those who fail.

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