The Case for Collective Intelligence, RW Archive

consequence, important parts of our intelligence exist as network properties, not individual properties, and important parts of our personal cognitive processes are guided by the network via unconscious and automatic processes such as signaling and imitation.

how might we think about it, and what might a leap in collective intelligence, and ultimately in collective wisdom, look like?

Yet, as we shall see, there are in fact many ways of doing intelligence, because intelligence is an active process, not just a mental capacity. By rethinking intelligence, and the forms in which it appears in other beings, we will begin to break down some of the barriers and false hierarchies that separate us from other species and the world. In do

Wisdom rarely occurs solo; most of what we know is learned from others, and groups are usually better at thinking than individuals. Mobilising group intelligence has become a major new area of activity—such as crowdsourcing ideas in business, or for agencies like NASA; crowd design and democratic decision-making, for example in Taiwan; and crowd ob