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

Fri Jan 28 11:35:40 CET 2011

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 <d.postle at btinternet.com>wrote:

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> On 27/01/2011 09:34, Michel Bauwens wrote:
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> From: Quora <noreply at quora.com>
> Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:42 PM
> Subject: New answer to "What factors facilitate collective intelligence?"
> To: michelsub2004 at gmail.com
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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'.
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> 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.
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> 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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>   [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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> *To see the question page with all answers, visit:
> http://www.quora.com/l/NQbZlv5L*
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> Thanks,
> The Quora Team
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