On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Denis Postle <d.postle@btinternet.com> wrote:

On 27/01/2011 09:34, Michel Bauwens wrote:

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Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:42 PM
Subject: New answer to "What factors facilitate collective intelligence?"
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'the basic elements of human knowledge are concepts, visions, opinions, convictions, images, ideas. These are by no means limited and cannot be ordered in a logical manner'.

The informal but long term experiential research I have been involved in suggests that a core consideration in the facilitation of cooperation, at least in the fairly small face-to-face groups that most of us seem to belong to, is what I call emotional competence, a developed capacity for intra-, interpersonal and social reflexivity.

I have published some criteria for emotional competence along with a brief discussion here. I can post more on how I see cooperation/conflict being structured if anyone is interested.

Denis Postle

New answer to "What factors facilitate collective intelligence?"

Greald Henstra:
Collective intelligence has always been there.
The most impeding factor, I think, always has been the constraints of
information exchange. In time and place. These constraints have
gradually been deminished by the introduction of script, book printing,
mass media. But nowadays with internet and other communication
technology these constraints can be neglected.
The impeding factor that now comes to surface is a harder nut to crack. It has to do with the difference between information and human knowledge.
Information can be assembled from a limited number of bits, letters, numbers etc. But the basic elements of human knowledge are concepts, visions, opinions, convictions, images, ideas. These are by no means limited and cannot be ordered in a logical manner.
So picking the elements of knowledge from the ocean (representing the collective), analogous to the way Google picks information from the internet, is not straightforward yet.
One way that should work is to organise information in the way the brain does.
That is to construct self reinforcing association tables between information elements.

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	New answer to "What factors facilitate collective intelligence?"
	Greald Henstra: Collective intelligence has always been there. The most impeding factor, I think, always has been the constraints of information exchange. In time and place. These constraints have gradually been deminished by the introduction of script, book printing, mass media. But nowadays with internet and other communication technology these constraints can be neglected. The impeding factor that now comes to surface is a harder nut to crack. It has to do with the difference between information and human knowledge. Information can be assembled from a limited number of bits, letters, numbers etc. But the basic elements of human knowledge are concepts, visions, opinions, convictions, images, ideas. These are by no means limited and cannot be ordered in a logical manner. So picking the elements of knowledge from the ocean (representing the collective), analogous to the way Google picks information from the internet, is not straightforward yet. One way that should work is to organise information in the way the brain does. That is to construct self reinforcing association tables between information elements. To see the question page with all answers, visit: http://www.quora.com/l/NQbZlv5L Thanks, The Quora Team