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This event is free to attend and no registration is required. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Speakers
Larissa Conradt, Affiliated Researcher, Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Elli Leadbeater, Reader in Biology, Royal Holloway, University of London
Christian List, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, LSE

Chair
Jonathan Birch, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method (LSE) and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow

Swarms of bees make decisions as a ‘democratic’ collective, voting on various possible nest sites through waggle dances. Does this phenomenon amount to a form of ‘collective intelligence’? Do we also find collective intelligence in humans? And what might humans be able to learn from bees about the best ways to act together and to make collective decisions? Philosopher Christian List, social insect biologist Elli Leadbeater, and evolutionary theorist Larissa Conradt consider the nature of collective intelligence in bees, humans, and other animals.

Image credit: Donald Macauley, ‘Starling Roost

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