Hi Horse Useful suggestion. When our collective knowledge (whether seen as divine in origin, ancestral or mythic in origin) is put under questioning and suspicion then we have a more deliberate and intellectual approach to knowledge.
David M ----- Original Message ----- From: "Horse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [MD] (MD] Collective intelligence > Hi Folks > > Before we get into another pointless political debate about the > wonderfulness of the magnificent individual versus the marvelous > collective could we try and think about this maybe from a slightly > better perspective - i.e. mine! :) > > The term 'collective intelligence', IMO, is probably a misnomer in terms > of the MoQ as it, incorrectly, appears to conjoin social and > intellectual patterns. > It may be better to think of it as 'collective knowledge' which can then > be placed at the social level as patterns that accumulate and persist > over time within a social context. > All learned behaviours and other forms of knowledge that persist from > one generation to the next but are not transmitted by biological means > can now be neatly placed in this holder. Anything from how to crack an > oyster open to the mangled grunts that constitute primitive language can > be included, as can more complex language and whatever other social > patterns you choose to include. When this 'collective knowledge' becomes > sufficiently ordered and complex emergent patterns will start to appear > - for an example think in terms of how a city develops and persists over > many decades and even centuries. > Awareness and contemplation of these patterns gradually gives rise to > ordering and restructuring which leads to intellectual activity and the > emergence of the intellectual level. So just as the biological patterns > of life are available to the social level, so the developing social > patterns of collective knowledge are available to the intellectual level. > > Any thoughts? > > > Horse > > > moq_discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
