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Handbook of Collective Intelligence

Handbook of Collective Intelligence

The Co-Intelligence Institute Six basic manifestations of co-intelligence If we are going to take wholeness, interconnectedness and co-creativity seriously, we are going to have to face some very challenging implications regarding intelligence: First: Intelligence must involve more than logical reason, since rationality constitutes only a tiny piece of our full capacity to learn from and relate to life. Second: Intelligence must involve more than learning how to control and predict things, since that does not engage the powerful co-creativity of life. Third: Intelligence must be far more than personal, since even ants can together generate an intelligence that's greater than they have individually. Fourth: Intelligence needs to reach far beyond the obvious, since whatever is obvious is connected to things that aren't so obvious, and intelligence should engage with the wholeness and relatedness of things, as much as possible. There is more to intelligence than brains and logic. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Collective Intelligence Collective Intelligence = "the capacity of a human community to evolve toward higher order complexity thought, problem-solving and integration through collaboration and innovation" (George Por URL = Towards the creation of a ommicentric Ideosphere: Kosmic Alignment. "We human beings are at our best not when we are engaged in abstract solitary reflection or on our individual transformation for its own sake but when we are engaged together in the act of transforming the world. Tom Attlee of the Co-Intelligence Institute has a restricted definition of collective intelligence, which he considers to be 'only one-fifth of co-intelligence', see George Por summarizes: "There are many definitions of collective intelligence available online. I'll start with definitions proposed by the prolific Pierre Levy": Pierre Levy Jean-Francois Noubel George Por His short version: Others "a. b. c. d. e.

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