Why Neuro-Economics? open thread

Drawbacks of old models:



Enhancements of new methods:

Constellational Planes and Event Horizons

Chime.In is a new social media interface/platform organized for the purposes of connecting users through interest groups. As creator Bill Gross describes in his GigaOm interview, this may be the first successful foray into generating intellectual tribes in hyperspace. The question for me on the NE side is: will the primary attractive force acting to aggregate and organize interest and information be the particular interests or subject matter, or will it be individuals, lightning rod personalities through which content, and opinions regarding content, is channeled? In a cosmic model of social hyperspace, where interrelated, interconnected content communities can be conceptualized as constellations, or perhaps planes of constellations (assuming some degree of social segmenting), does the content or the content creator act as a gravitational force?