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Superorganismic Behavior via Human Computation

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In a future world with pervasive Human Computation (HC), there may be profound effects on how humanity functions at multiple levels from individual behaviors to species/wide changes in evolutionary development. What would such an HC/shaped human society look like? This hypothetical society would be the result of successful adaptations that provide both increased benefit to the high/level facilitators of large-scale computations as well as sufficient incentives to individuals to participate in those computations.

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Thanks to Bert Hölldobler for connecting us to this interesting speculative project. The writing of this chapter was supported by the National Science Foundation (award 1012029). Images in this chapter that were not already in the public domain were used either under the explicit permission of the image owner or according to a CC BY 2.0 (Creative Commons 2013a), CC BY 2.5 (Creative Commons 2013b), or CC BY 3.0 (Creative Commons 2013c) license.

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Pavlic, T.P., Pratt, S.C. (2013). Superorganismic Behavior via Human Computation. In: Michelucci, P. (eds) Handbook of Human Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8806-4_74

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