Ted Szuba: Chaos and collective intelligence

Tadeusz (Ted) Szuba is a pioneer of the formal study of the concept of collective intelligence (CI). Collective intelligence is group intelligence that emerges from the competition or collaboration of many individuals. It may involve Biology, Sociology, Computation or Business. In 2001, Dr. Skuba proposed a mathematical model for the phenomenon assuming to be a random, distributed and unconscious process. Recently, Professor Skuba has studied Chaos as one of the basic properties for CI. For instance, in bacterial colonies emerges CI based on mutual observation of metabolism products and the exchange of DNA. This phenomenon may vanish if a form of Chaos is not maintained. Professor Szuba asks himself what should the measure and form of Chaos be in the social structure. In case of society, Szuba speaks in terms of parallel Chaos. When individual intelligence of a being is poor, e.g., ants, bees, etc., it must be massive parallelism. It is obvious that increasing the organization of a social structure reduces chaotic behavior of individuals but reduces ability to solve unexpected problems, which a social structure can confront. In fact, panic behavior has a chaotic nature. In case of bacteria, for instance, this is some kind of mutation, while in case of human beings it can take any form of escape. According to Szuba, societies frequently add a chaotic element in an artificial way. For example, the concept of lottery giving an illusory chance to people, to change their life. Szuba concludes that the ability of the societies to solve specific class of problems, expressed through CI becomes non-Chaotic, despite a lot of individual Chaos inside the society.