Swarm intelligence, politics and truth

This paper criticizes scientific deferentialism. This deferentialism is based on an erroneous understanding of science, but it has substantiated the current criticism of democracy as a process of collective decision-making. Plato, one of the earliest to see democracy as a problem, thought that the ignorance and the irrationality of the many justified the government of the wise. Brennan, in Against Democracy (2016), defended the same. The author offers, on the other hand, an innovative alternative based on a fallibilistic conception of knowledge and democracy, according to which democratic authority and legitimacy do not depend on the tendency of democracy to made correct solutions, but on the tendency of intelligent crowds, in the Information Age, to avoid wrong decisions.