Collective Conciousness and how the Internet is changing the world There can be no doubt that we are now at a point of being inexplicitly dependant on the Internet. The more I think about the evolution of the internet the more I am convinced about the emergence of a new collective conciousness which has formed an almost symbiotic relationship between man and machine through which we are now globally connected. There is almost no part of our lives which it does not touch and if it were to collapse tomorrow the results would be devastating. For a quick recap of how it all started check out the short film below - Looking at what’s going on in the world right now; we have the outsourcing of jobs, the open-sourcing of software, and the crowdsourcing of just about anything to anyone with the right skills. All of this and much more is taking place because of the global platform which is the internet and crosses previous boundaries of language, culture, territory and even law.
Collective consciousness Integral Intersubjectivity Chris Lucas "One of the primary points of difference between our common conception of science and that of religion is their claims about external reality. On the one hand, the scientific view of the world has long been dominated by a materialistic philosophy which takes matter as the fundamental reality and regards inner phenomena as mere epiphenomenon. The religious traditions, on the other hand, generally embrace an idealistic philosophy which takes God or spirit as fundamental and regards matter as derivative. Introduction - transcending thought dualisms "During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs." Over the last two millennia, there has been general agreement that two perspectives are key to our view of reality. Socially Situated Psychology - the enacted me When we consider ourselves, taking what is usually called a first-person perspective, just what do we see ?
Peartrees: Multi-dimensional Curation A few weeks ago now, I posted an opinion piece on Technorati titled, 'Why Social Media Curation Matters'. Following this I received quite a lot of feedback and it’s thanks to one of these comments – posted by on my blog – that I was led to Pearltrees. In addition to this, I was also motivated to re-evaluate my position on the subject of curation and take a closer look at what I perceived that to be. At first I made the rather naïve assumption that the difference between Pearltrees and the services I’d discussed in my previous articles both here and on my blog, was purely aesthetic – Pearltrees has a beautifully designed Flash interface. However, as I delved further into the service, and further contemplated readers' feedback, I began to realise that there were actually some fundamental differences both in the approach of the developers and in my perception of curation. Nonetheless, they are just lists. The answer can be summed up in one word, depth.
Metalogue: The Evolution of Mind, Consciousness, and the Web (this is my final paper for cybernetics class and for graduate school. it is a theoretical metalogue between myself and gregory bateson. many of his phrases and passages are pulled directly from the book Steps To An Ecology of Mind) vm: i want to understand the ecology of mind, how it works. I want to understand how technology is accelerating intentional evolution, and what the Web is becoming… a collective intelligence? a global mind? a path to destruction? How do you propose i begin? gb: You certainly are full of questions. vm: Yeah, it’s a curse. gb: Perhaps, but an exploration of mind and self is a worthy endeavor. vm: Please explain. gb: We are complex, self-corrective systems. vm: Yes, that makes sense. gb: Indeed. vm: Sounds like a holistic approach. gb: Well, the meaning of terms like “better” or “worse” are contingent upon whom you ask. vm: Which are? vm: Right, like a giant program, maintaining homeostasis via its interrelated subroutines. vm: Sounds dangerous. vm: Wait…. what?
Démocratie participative Consciously Self-reflexive Global Initiatives: Renaissance zones 22 April 2007 | Draft Renaissance zones, complex adaptive systems, and third order organizations Introduction Recursion and self-reflexivity Dematerialization and virtualizationProgressive self-reflexive learningProgressive integration of the shadow of non-self-reflexivity Insightful "rebirth" and emergent thought structuresImagination, constructivism, faith-based reality, revisionism and "spin"Form, geometry, pattern and dimensionalityCybernetics of cybernetics: complex adaptive systems? Introduction The case is frequently made for "new thinking" better adapted to the complex of challenges foreseen for the 21st century -- and the decades immediately to come. The following sections consider different ways in which the mode or form of "description" of an organizational system is itself progressively brought into question from increasingly recursive or self-referential perspectives. Recursion and self-reflexivity As an introduction to the sections that follow, Donald H. He concludes:
Pearltrees Brings Your Interest Graph' to the iPad One of the more buzzword-y buzzwords in Silicon Valley right now is the "interest graph," which is supposed to connect people and the topics that they're interested in. Lots of startups promise to tap into the interest graph, but Pearltrees CEO Patrice Lamothe says a new app from his startup is "maybe the first time you actually see an interest graph." The new feature, which Lamothe variously describes as "visual discovery" (his pitch to the tech press) and "related interests" (what it's actually called in the app), is included in the just-launched iPad application from the previously Web-only company. Related interests have also been added to the Pearltrees website, but Lamothe is clearly more excited by the iPad version—he warned that the Web experience probably isn't quite as good. That kind of self-deprecation from a startup CEO is a little strange, except that the Pearltrees iPad app is pretty impressive.
Collective Intelligence On a recent flight I was reading Jaron Lanier's book You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. I got stuck somewhere in the middle and then dozed off watching Avatar. (Brilliant. Best movie I've seen for a long time, even on a tiny in-seat monitor.) This combination got me thinking about a common theme in both: collective intelligence. Lanier is a skeptic. “The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. And later, in a section “Why It Matters,” he writes “Emphasizing the crowd means deemphasizing individual humans in the design of the society.” I am very sympathetic to many points Lanier is making, but I dislike the “Manifesto”-style in which he's trying to lead his arguments. Setting the Stage First, let us be clear on what we're talking about: A collective or a group or a crowd will in the following simply be a set with elements. I further do not actually want to talk about the “intelligence” of a collective in the common sense for two reasons. Collective Intelligence Type I Summary
Nemesis TV Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community — Central Intel [ Top of page ] What was that? How can we change ourselves in ways we cannot predict? Figure 1 - Complex Adaptive Behavior The only way to meet the continuously unpredictable challenges ahead of us is to match them with continuously unpredictable changes of our own. To describe a community that “dynamically reinvents itself by continuously learning and adapting” in response to environmental changes harks to theoretical developments in the philosophy of science that matured in the 1990s collectively known as Complexity Theory. . . . . . . The objective that was identified at the outset of this article was that the Intelligence Community must be able to dynamically reinvent itself by continuously learning and adapting as the national security environment changes. It is this expertise that engenders the trust required for independent action. The only way to learn from and adapt to the changing national security environment is to be in constant receipt of feedback from that environment.