Collective intelligence solves problems or resolves conflicts of, by and for a group, an organization, a community or a whole society. It solve those problems and conflicts for the here and now, for people who are interested, aware, and involved. Collective wisdom, on the other hand, has a bigger challenge. It needs to expand out from the particular problem or conflict, from the here and now, from those interested, aware and involved. It needs to embrace larger contexts, interests, drivers and possibilities. It has to consider the deep needs of people long gone and yet unborn, and to delve into deeper levels of understanding and caring. It ventures into unseen dimensions of life - into background trends, hidden corruptions and connections, psychospiritual influences, scientific microcosms and macrocosms - to realize unexpected consequences, novel resources, and extraordinarily potent answers. Being the Big Picture form of intelligence, wisdom is born out of our capacity to stretch creatively into the unknown and the unacknowledged, into the new angle, the deeper parts of ourselves, the fringe insights and possibilities.
AN IMPORTANT PIVOT MOMENT TOWARDS A THE EMERGENCE OF A COLLECTIVE ORGANIC INTELLECTUAL FOR THE COMMONS MOVEMENT
The above has always been the ambition of the P2P Foundation, and I believe this is now coalescing .. some signs
1) Las Indias has consolidated all its original insights in the just published Communard Manifesto (Steve Herrick: you can perhaps let them know about this posting here as they are not on fb)
2) the last video by Dmytri Kleiner, which I posted here, also shows a convergence towards this multi-modal approach (working for the strengthening of the new economy within the existing one) and has a very precise strategy and many innovative concepts
3) the critique by Alanna Krause on the blockchain which I posited, along with the 'transvestment' practices, show that both the practice, and the theory, and the subjectivity of Enspiral is moving in the same direction
4) as for myself, I am working on a more theoretical book in which I'm aligning all our pasts insights following the overview of Kojin Karatini ..
I may be forgetting some other elements, but here we are, there is effectively, a collective organic intellectual at work, which is thinking through the strategies to be followed by the forces of the commons, in a way that may have been there in seed form, but is about to flower and .. THIS IS HUGELY IMPORTANT
I am not implying here of course that there are no differences between the approaches of these groups, but that they are moving broadly in the same direction .
At present, there are not any formal bridges between these groups, but there are occasional informal contacts, and the memes do seem to travel ..
With Dmytri Kleiner, we are discussing a 'Transvestment' conference in Berlin at the end of this year, no funding yet, this could be an occasion for these groups to enter into more coherent dialogue,
Michel
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