[P2P-F] Fwd: Spanda Journal | Collective Intelligence

Fri Jan 23 18:50:41 CET 2015

thanks Helene!

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Helene Finidori <hfinidori at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Hi Michel, Kevin,
>
> My conversation with Sahlan was yesterday evening, so I can't quite
> transmit any request to him orally now. I have put him in copy in case he
> has more to share about this issue for you to publish.
>
> For the 'bonus text', no need for you to create one, I have made my own
> here: Collective intelligence is a commons that needs protection and a
> dedicated language.
> <https://www.academia.edu/10292904/Collective_intelligence_is_a_commons_that_needs_protection_and_a_dedicated_language>
> (I think I had already suggested in our exchanges about the p2p foundation
> blog and republishings, and to avoid cases such as the Heather Marsh sribd
> one, that you ask the authors to provide the full text links).
>
> As per the intro text, here are Sahlan's words and my own abstract in
> copyable format.
>
> Thanks & cheers :)
> H
>
> *Sahlan Momo’s words of introduction of the Issue*
>
> Included are some visions of friends on the Collective Intelligence theme,
> analysing and depicting its manifestations and its various angles from
> differing standpoints – some may appear off-topic, nonetheless here deemed
> instrumental in lightening the common framework in which the process itself
> is taking place. Worth of attention is also the Collective Intelligence
> Conference, to be held in Santa Clara, CA, USA , on May 31  – June 2, 2015
>
> *My abstract*
>
> *Collective intelligence is a commons that needs protection and a
> dedicated language.*
>
> Technology is what boosts the capacity of individuals and communities to
> become authors of their own stories, and what enables collective
> intelligence to become aware of itself and to fulfill its long awaited
> promise. It is also what can lock up potential inside black boxes for just
> a few to benefit from.
>
> We are facing a paradox. It seems that at the same time as collective
> intelligence is making itself increasingly palpable and promising as a
> whole, the possibility of it being actionable locally and effectively
> enabling us to get ourselves out of a planetary predicament is becoming
> remote.
>
> In this article, I look at how collective intelligence is being hindered
> or captured as it comes into being, with the threat of leaving us deprived
> from a significant source of latent agency, and I suggest what it would
> take to reclaim it back.
>
> I build upon the Ecology for Transformative Action, which I set the stage
> for in the last issue of this journal, to examine the condition under which
> technology and systems dynamics can be turned towards the greater good, and
> how collective intelligence can be mobilized and operate as a force for
> systemic change. In particular, I explore further how a pattern language
> for systemic change regenerative of commons could be the means of
> expression of operationalized collective intelligence.
>
> *A key quote of me:*
>
> "The mobilization of collective intelligence at wider systemic levels
> beyond the boundaries of our habitual communities to solve wicked
> interconnected problems involves more complex mechanisms and in particular
> the capacity to achieve more complex synergies (i.e. systemic coherence)
> across multiple centres in addition to ‘simple’ local synthesis (i.e.
> complexity reductions) within cohesive centres of shared experience.
>
> This requires an expansion of our capacities to meaningfully relate to
> each other, to understand our position in the bigger picture, to perceive
> and mutually recognize our respective logics and space for engagement, and
> to find and interpret the signals and tracks our actions leave in the
> system and the environment as feedback and feedforward that will inform
> further interpretation and action.
>
> Achieving coherence involves tools and processes that can facilitate
> self-coordination of multiple approaches at many levels and scales, in
> addition to building cohesion through facilitation methodologies within
> defined contexts."
>
>
>   On Friday, January 23, 2015 9:32 AM, Michel Bauwens <
> michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
>
>
> some intro presentation on that special issue in a copyable format,
>
> and perhaps we can scribd or issuu your text as a bonus for the same
> article ?
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Helene Finidori <hfinidori at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Michel,
>
> I don't have more info right now, I'm just an author in this one (you
> should read my article :) and received this email, and I'm the guest editor
> for the next one, of which I will be able to tell you more about when it's
> published.
>
> But what is it you would like to know/have? I'm talking with Sahlan in an
> hour.
>
> Cheers
> H
>
>
>   On Thursday, January 22, 2015 4:54 PM, Michel Bauwens <
> michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
>
>
> hi Kevin,
>
> this seems worth announcing on our blog, Helene may have more info as well
> as she's involved with spanda,
>
> Michel
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Spanda* <journal at spanda.org>
> Date: Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 7:05 PM
> Subject: Spanda Journal | Collective Intelligence
> To: Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net>
>
>
> Dear Reader,
>
> The *Spanda Journal *special issue on "*Collective Intelligence", * V
> (2), December 2014, is now available on Spanda website
> <http://www.spanda.org/publications.html>.
>
> The issue contains the following articles:
>
> *::  **Editorial*  |  *Sahlan Momo*, *Mesoteric Intelligence &
> Collective Serendipity  *|  Pages V-IX.
> *::  Ervin Laszlo*, *The One Mind in the Cosmos and its Manifestations in
> our Consciousness  *|  Pages 1-4.
> *::  **Tom Altee*, *The Role of Collective Intelligence in the Wise
> Democracy Needed for Humanity’s Survival*  |  Pages 5-16
> *::  **Pierre Lévy*, *The Philosophical Concept of Algorithmic
> Intelligence*  |  Pages 17-25
> *::  **Stanislav Grof*, *Archetypes, Mythic Imagination, and Modern
> Society: the Re-enchantment of the World*  |  Pages 27-37
>
> *::  **George Pór*, *From Right Mindfulness to Collective Intelligence to
> Collective Sentience:Signposts to the Later Stage of
> Our Evolutionary Journey*  |  Pages 39-49
> *::  **Francis Heylighen*, *Challenge Propagation: Towards a Theory of
> Distributed Intelligence and the Global Brain*  |  Pages 51-63
> *::  **Charles Eisenstein*, *Qualitative Dimensions of Collective
> Intelligence: Intention, Wisdom, and Soul*  |  Pages 65-69
> *::  **Derrick de Kerckhove*, *Connective or Collective? The Case for
> Precision in Terminology*  |  Pages 71-77
> *::  **Helene Finidori*, *Collective Intelligence is a Commons that Needs
> Protection and a Dedicated Language*  |  Pages 79-89
> *::  **Terri O’Fallon **~ Venita Ramirez ~ **Geoff Fitch*, *Collective
> Intelligence*  |  Pages 91-95
> *::  **Norman Lee Johnson*, *The Applied Science of Collective
> Intelligence: Solving the Grand Challenges Facing Humanity*  |
> Pages 97-107
> *::  **Jim Rough*, *The Circle: Structuring for Collective Intelligen**ce*
>   |  Pages 109-113
> *::  **Adebayo Akomolafe*, *The Trees Still Speak: the Collective
> Intelligence of the Natural World*  |  Pages 115-118
> *::  **Craig Hamilton*, *Collective Intelligence and the Evolution of
> Self and Culture* (interview by Suzanne Shealy and George Pór)  |
> Pages 119-126
> *::  **Robert D. Steele*, *Applied Collective Intelligence:* *Human-centric
> Holistic Analytics, True Cost Economics and Open Everything*  |
> Pages 127-137
> *::  **Ashok Gangadean*, *Awakening Collective Global Intelligence: the
> Power of Deep Dialogue*  |  Pages 139-147
> *::  **Amit Goswami*, *Love and the Awakening of the Heart Centre*  |
> Pages 149-152
> *::  **Arthur Colman ~ Pilar Montero*, *The New Longevity*  |
> Pages 153-162
>
> *Abstracts :: Summaries*  |  Pages 163-170.
>
> ISBN 978-88-7778-144-4   |   ISSN 2210-2175   |  180 (X + 170) p.
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