Smart networks of bacteria wait for "triggers" and feedback to tell them when to act collaboratively and mulit-cellular collective action. Bacteria have a few million years of evolution on collective action planning. If our species, campaigns and social events thrive on these same conditions of signaling then we need to make sure that we encourage constant "quorum testing" across our base. It is not donations.
We need to look at common channels across our movements and among our base so that we can trigger movement action.
Our strategy of control and managing people in silos and isolation doesn't create power it jams our quorum sensing on political will for change.
Great and thought provoking talk on many levels.
Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves
