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    On 27/01/2011 09:34, Michel Bauwens wrote:
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        Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:42 PM<br>
        Subject: New answer to "What factors facilitate collective
        intelligence?"<br>
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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'. <br>
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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.<br>
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    I have published some criteria for emotional competence along with a
    brief discussion <a
      href="http://www.mind-gymnasium.com/ebooks/PDFs/EmotionalCompetence.pdf">here</a>.
    I can post more on how I see cooperation/conflict being structured
    if anyone is interested.<br>
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    Denis Postle<br>
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                  <div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.4em;"> <b>Greald
                      Henstra</b>:<br>
                    Collective intelligence has always been there. <br>
                    The most impeding factor, I think, always has been
                    the constraints of <br>
                    information exchange. In time and place. These
                    constraints have <br>
                    gradually been deminished by the introduction of
                    script, book printing, <br>
                    mass media. But nowadays with internet and other
                    communication <br>
                    technology these constraints can be neglected.<br>
                    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.<br>
                    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. <br>
                    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.<br>
                    One way that should work is to organise information
                    in the way the brain does.<br>
                    That is to construct self reinforcing association
                    tables between information elements.<br>
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