 A different approach is taken by Alexander Bird (2014) who contends that the acceptance model of group belief is only one of many different (but legitimate) models. For instance, he introduces the “distributed model” to deal with systems that feature information-intensive tasks which cannot be processed by a single individual. Several individuals must gather different pieces of information while others coordinate this information and use it to complete the task. A famous example is provided by Edwin Hutchins (1995) who describes a large ship where different crew members take different bearings so that a plotter can determine the ship’s position and course. Members in such a distributed system will not ordinarily satisfy the conditions of mutual awareness and commitment that Gilbert and Schmitt require. Nonetheless, this seems to be a perfectly plausible species of group belief. Indeed, Bird contends that this is a fairly standard type of group model that occurs in science. Notice that for this model, again, it is quite possible that not all members of the group hold the same belief.