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Our Stanford University team’s World Economic Forum panel on the Neural Basis of Decision-Making is now up on Youtube. My favorite of our little 5 minute talks is that of my colleague Deborah Gordon, who explained how groups (in this case ants) can make informed decisions that no individual could make or coordinate alone.
[Cross-posted at The Reality-Based Community
Keith Humphreys is a Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and served as Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Obama Administration. @KeithNHumphreys
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