[P2P-F] Fwd: New answer to "What factors facilitate collective intelligence?"

[Michel Bauwens]

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[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.

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