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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quora <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:42 PM Subject: New answer to "What factors facilitate collective intelligence?" To: [email protected] [image: Quora]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 We sent you this email because you are following this question. To stop following it, click this link: http://www.quora.com/l/u0DUVuid/_STOP_FOLLOWING To control which emails we send you, visit: http://www.quora.com/l/Su3lucq1 This email was sent by Quora, a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. To disable all email from Quora, visit the following link: http://www.quora.com/l/K3HE3bvA -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI
On 27/01/2011 09:34, Michel Bauwens wrote:
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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 <http://www.mind-gymnasium.com/ebooks/PDFs/EmotionalCompetence.pdf>. I can post more on how I see cooperation/conflict being structured if anyone is interested. Denis Postle
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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.
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thanks Denis, I'm sharing this with a friend who is doing this kind of work in China, and is just visiting me in Chiang Mai. Michel, perhaps you can share info about your last english book,\ Michel On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Denis Postle <[email protected]>wrote:
On 27/01/2011 09:34, Michel Bauwens wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quora <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:42 PM Subject: New answer to "What factors facilitate collective intelligence?" To: [email protected]
'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<http://www.mind-gymnasium.com/ebooks/PDFs/EmotionalCompetence.pdf>. I can post more on how I see cooperation/conflict being structured if anyone is interested.
Denis Postle
[image: Quora] 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*
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