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

[Denis Postle]

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?"
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> *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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