[MD] Collective intelligence

[Ron Kulp]

[Krimel]
Collective intelligence, the collective unconscious and consensual hallucinations may be speculations and metaphor but collective memory is the stuff of history. It's at the library. You can check it out.

[Ron]
Collective history figures heavy in the concept, we are what we know, eh? I thought it was interesting
Insofar as behavioral intuitiveness, cultural identity, social order. 

It intrests me because it was and is a troubeling observation for me. The "herd" mentality both fascinates
and irritates. I have spent a lot of time observing this behaviour. Admittedly, I'm a people watcher
and I'm hyper sensititve to my surroundings and what everyone else is doing in relation to me, thus
Shopping is an incedibly annoying experience of the greater percentage of folks having blinders on
in their own world which revolves around them. Interestingly enough they most all respond the same way
To encountered obsticals, crowd flow, objects of novelty. Do not get me started on traffic. People
Walk like they drive. I allways think that if everyone was alittle more mindful of their surroundings
and situation that flow would increase and be less troublesome.





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General concepts
"Howard Bloom traces the evolution of collective intelligence from the days of our bacterial ancestors 3.5 billion years ago to the present and demonstrates how a multi-species intelligence has worked since the beginning of life. [2]

Tom Atlee and George Pór, on the other hand, feel that while group theory and artificial intelligence have something to offer, the field of collective intelligence should be seen by some as primarily a human enterprise in which mind-sets, a willingness to share, and an openness to the value of distributed intelligence for the common good are paramount. Individuals who respect collective intelligence, say Atlee and Pór, are confident of their own abilities and recognize that the whole is indeed greater than the sum of any individual parts.

>From Pór and Atlee's point of view, maximizing collective intelligence
relies on the ability of an organization to accept and develop "The Golden Suggestion", which is any potentially useful input from any member.
Groupthink often hampers collective intelligence by limiting input to a select few individuals or filtering potential Golden Suggestions without fully developing them to implementation."

Full text
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence




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