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Collective intelligence is the capacity of human communities to evolve towards higher order complexity and harmony, through such innovation mechanisms as variation-feedback-selection, differentiation-integration-transformation, and competition-cooperation-coopetition-
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Author Archives: George Pór
CI in Denmark
Under the name CIPI, Collective Intelligence Practitioners Initiative, a loosely organized group of 15-20 people in Denmark, identifying themselves as practioneers (experienced, beginners, becoming, whatever…) in the field of CI, meets regularly for two day sessions of inquiry. Participation is … Continue reading
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Connecting conversations – come out, join the bigger you and play
I rarely came across a stranger, who could as accurately describe my feelings and aspirations, by expressing his own, as Michael Dubois did in his blog entry on “Co-Intelligence. The part and the whole”. “What if some of us did … Continue reading
Relationships enabled by the 4-fold ecosystem
This is a message as a comment on my earlier post of today on the 4-fold ecosystem of the CI field from David Beatty who has just asked me by email to post it for him because our spam-protecction software … Continue reading
The 4-fold ecosystem of CI – an inquiry into our survival
There are two questions that frequently keep me awake in the night or wake me up in the morning. This morning, they did it again. They are: Shall we have the collective will and capacity to absorb the complexity of … Continue reading
Why to invest our time and attention in an Integral Operating System
I started reading the work-in-progress online Excerpts from Wilber’s forthcoming “Kosmic Karma and Creativity” and found the gems quoted below. They are followed by my burning questions. “[T]he technological revolution can speed through the social system extremely quickly–leaving the old … Continue reading
“Are you in for a phone call tonight?”
“Leaning into the unknown,
you will see the direction emerging from the space within,
in which an intensely present creative impulse meets
one of the calls from the Field that are asking for your attention.”
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The Hyper-Cortex of Our Collective Intelligence
I’ve just discovered a fascinating paper on The Hyper-Cortex of Human Collective-Intelligence Systems (.pdf) by Marko Antonio Rodriguez, a Ph.D student at the University of California at Santa Cruz and the Center for Evolution, Complexity, and Cognition at Vrije Universiteit … Continue reading
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Growing better CI through better mental modeling
I woke up this morning with some insights about the relationship between mental modeling and collective intelligence. They seem new but one never knows; I could have already thought of them years ago or somebody else may have done so. … Continue reading
Posted in Cognitive Relations, Mental Modeling
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Memories (and mental models) of generic structures
Searching my hard disk for my notes on mental modeling I found fragments of my conversation with Peter Senge about it, in the late 80’s. Asking about how he sees the relationship of collective intelligence and team learning, he shared what follows.
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A local-to-global definition of CI
Collective intelligence as “the property of systems whereby the collective behaviors of entities interacting locally with their environment cause coherent functional global patterns to emerge.”
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