Pierre Levy's Blog | Various thoughts and papers in french and english. Thoughts on “Collective Intelligence” This is a summary and analysis of Pierre Lévy‘s book “Collective Intelligence: mankind’s emerging world in cyberspace”, which provides all direct and indirect quotes in this essay. “Human intelligence? Its space is dispersion. Its time, the eclipse. Its knowledge, the fragment. Collective intelligence realizes its reintegration. Summary: The thesis put forward in Collective Intelligence is essentially that mankind must acknowledge the potential of cyberspace to enable beneficial new forms of complex collective thought, collective expression, and social organization.
The greatest originality of Lévy’s thought, however, may lie in his utopian calling for a revolution in society’s understanding of itself – a revolution which would have as purpose the expansion of subjectivity (cf. The Farabian tradition – of Al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā – was the first to consistently describe a shared intellect beyond that of individuals, as an essentially theological concept (p. 92-95). Critical analysis: Thoughts on “Collective Intelligence” Pierre Levy's Blog | Various thoughts and papers in french and english.