“Quorum sensing” in human groups

#3 in a series related to a live event script on values

“Quorum sensing” is a clumsy term scientists use to talk about ‘collective decision-making’ in bacteria and animals. Here’s is a digest version for Greens and Progressives.

For a long time in bio-chemistry, bacteria were believed to exist merely as individual cells seeking nutrients and multiplying. Around the year 2000…