No One is an Island
summary
A live prototype asks forty volunteers to become a human algorithm using simple embodied rules: one step per beat, keep at least half an arm’s length, look at five to six neighbors ahead and align with the local majority while moving toward the smaller subgroup. Participants assemble in a marked foyer area, follow the rules for 10–15 seconds of synchronized stepping, and get filmed from above for later speeded-up analysis. The claim is that these minimal rules produce emergent flocking patterns; this session tests whether humans can reliably reproduce algorithmic swarms.
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