grithin Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 A caller on one of the youtube videos put out recently, along with many others, seem to think homogenizing people leads to better spread of ideas. This article appears to counter that idea. http://phys.org/news/2015-06-social-networks-group-boundaries-ideas.html I would rationalize it on the concept that people group with others that have shared language-of-understanding, and that when a new complex concept comes to the group, it only needs to be translated once into the groups language-of-understanding so that each member can understand, whereas, if there is no set of subgroups, when a concept is presented to someone, it probably is not presented in that person's language-of-understanding, but rather in some specialized or generic language of understanding, which reduces the capacity for the varied types of people to understand the concept.
McBeer Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 This is why I donate to FDR. The larger this group becomes, the more the ideas here will spread. 1
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