Our experience of the world depends on the actual structure of the networks in which we're residing and on all the kinds of things that ripple and flow through the network. Now, the reason, I think, that this is the case is that human beings assemble themselves and form a kind of superorganism. Now, a superorganism is a collection of individuals which show or evince behaviors or phenomena that are not reducible to the study of individuals and that must be understood by reference to, and by studying, the collective. Like, for example, a hive of bees that's finding a new nesting site, or a flock of birds that's evading a predator, or a flock of birds that's able to pool its wisdom and navigate and find a tiny speck of an island in the middle of the Pacific, or a pack of wolves that's able to bring down larger prey. Superorganisms have properties that cannot be understood just by studying the individuals. I think understanding social networks and how they form and operate can help us understand not just health and emotions but all kinds of other phenomena -- like crime, and warfare, and economic phenomena like bank runs and market crashes and the adoption of innovation and the spread of product adoption.
我们在这个世界的经历取决于我们所处网络的实质结构,以及激荡和流动于这个网络中的各种事物。我认为,其原因就在于人类可以组织在一起组成一个“超级生物体”。这个“超级生物体”就好像是每个个体的集合,展示或标注某些无法在个体层面上研究的行为和现象,是只能通过对整体的探讨和研究来获得了解,就好比一窝寻找新的筑巢之地的蜜蜂;又好比是一个躲避捕食者的鸟群;或是可以集中智慧、辨清方向、找到太平洋之中飘荡小岛的鸟群;抑或是可以捕捉巨大猎物的狼群。超级生物体的特性是无法通过对个体的研究得以完全理解的。我认为通过对社会网络的理解,研究它们是如何构成和运行的,能够帮助我们了解不仅仅是健康和情感,还有许多其他的各种现象,比如犯罪和福利以及经济现象比如银行挤兑和市场崩盘,再有就是新技术的引用以及产品使用的扩展。
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