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Human brains can be seen as knowledge processors in a distributed system. Each of them can achieve, conscious or not, a small part of a treatment too important to be done by one. These are also "hunter / gatherers" of knowledge. Provided that the number of contributors is large enough, the results are usually better quality than if they were the result of the activity of a single person, even if it is a domain expert. This type of activity is done via online games.

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Hardback by Mathieu Lafourcade , Alain Joubert

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Human brains can be seen as knowledge processors in a distributed system. Each of them can achieve, conscious or not,... Read more

    Publisher: ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 17/07/2015
    ISBN13: 9781848218031, 978-1848218031
    ISBN10: 1848218036

    Number of Pages: 160

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Human brains can be seen as knowledge processors in a distributed system. Each of them can achieve, conscious or not, a small part of a treatment too important to be done by one. These are also "hunter / gatherers" of knowledge. Provided that the number of contributors is large enough, the results are usually better quality than if they were the result of the activity of a single person, even if it is a domain expert. This type of activity is done via online games.

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