Scale-Free Thinking January 3, 2009
Posted by Eyal Sivan in Defining the Connective, Self.Tags: barabasi, black swan, cantor, e.o. wilson, eusocial, fractal, gladwell, kelly, liebniz, long tail, mandelbrot, power law, scale-free, superorganism
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In the Mandara Mountains of northern Cameroon live the Mofu, ethnic tribes whose culture is based on a reverence for social insects. Their favorite is a breed of ferocious red ant known to them as jaglavak. There are many other species too: ndroa, mananeh and ndakkol. These names all have one thing in common: they are both plural and singular. Jaklavak refers equally to one ant, a colony of ants, or all the ants in the world.
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