Daily Analysis of 'The Hindu' - 8th June, 2020 | Additional Study Material for UPSC PDF Download

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Swarms of extremism
Addressing the elephant in the room
Profit, not profiteering
Paging the private sector in the COVID fight
In Persian Gulf littoral, cooperative security is key
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Swarms of extremism
Addressing the elephant in the room
Profit, not profiteering
Paging the private sector in the COVID fight
In Persian Gulf littoral, cooperative security is key
Swarms of extremism
?As if the COVID-19 crisis were not enough, we now
have swarms of locusts invading us.
?Travelled from Africa to South Asia: country borders
and barriers put up by proud sovereign nations are
fuitile for such swarms.
?Swarm intelligence: the individuals that make up a
colony of living creatures are singularly unintelligent
and are driven by programmed instinct, but their
collective actions make their entire colony
intelligent as an entity by itself.
?bees, ants, birds, fish etc
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Swarms of extremism
Addressing the elephant in the room
Profit, not profiteering
Paging the private sector in the COVID fight
In Persian Gulf littoral, cooperative security is key
Swarms of extremism
?As if the COVID-19 crisis were not enough, we now
have swarms of locusts invading us.
?Travelled from Africa to South Asia: country borders
and barriers put up by proud sovereign nations are
fuitile for such swarms.
?Swarm intelligence: the individuals that make up a
colony of living creatures are singularly unintelligent
and are driven by programmed instinct, but their
collective actions make their entire colony
intelligent as an entity by itself.
?bees, ants, birds, fish etc
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Swarms of extremism
Addressing the elephant in the room
Profit, not profiteering
Paging the private sector in the COVID fight
In Persian Gulf littoral, cooperative security is key
Swarms of extremism
?As if the COVID-19 crisis were not enough, we now
have swarms of locusts invading us.
?Travelled from Africa to South Asia: country borders
and barriers put up by proud sovereign nations are
fuitile for such swarms.
?Swarm intelligence: the individuals that make up a
colony of living creatures are singularly unintelligent
and are driven by programmed instinct, but their
collective actions make their entire colony
intelligent as an entity by itself.
?bees, ants, birds, fish etc
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Swarms of extremism
Addressing the elephant in the room
Profit, not profiteering
Paging the private sector in the COVID fight
In Persian Gulf littoral, cooperative security is key
Swarms of extremism
?As if the COVID-19 crisis were not enough, we now
have swarms of locusts invading us.
?Travelled from Africa to South Asia: country borders
and barriers put up by proud sovereign nations are
fuitile for such swarms.
?Swarm intelligence: the individuals that make up a
colony of living creatures are singularly unintelligent
and are driven by programmed instinct, but their
collective actions make their entire colony
intelligent as an entity by itself.
?bees, ants, birds, fish etc
?How does swarm intelligence work?
?An important point to note is that they are
leaderless.
?Scientists put it down to the fact that within a
swarm, individuals are constantly communicating
with each other through actions, signals or
otherwise, in a binary manner.
?Millions and billions of binary communications add
up to a sum larger than the whole.
?If the human brain was considered a colony of
independently alive neuron cells, then it can be
imagined that all its nuanced thought emerges
from simple, binary synapse-mediated
conversations between individual neurons.