Re: [Fis] COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

2014-03-09 Thread John Collier
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Re: [Fis] COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

2014-03-08 Thread John Collier
Guy, This looks fruitful, but it might be argued that the exchanges of information in a colony can be reduced to individual exchanges and interactions, and thus there is not really any activity that is holistic. This is what Steven is doing with his example of pyramid building. On the other

Re: [Fis] COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

2014-03-06 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear John P. and FIS Colleagues, Thanks for the kickoff text. It a discussion on new themes that only occasionally and very superficially has surfaced in this list. Intelligence, the information flow in organizations, distributed knowledge, direct crowd enlistment in scientific activities...

Re: [Fis] COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

2014-03-06 Thread Bob Logan
Dear John, Pedro and Fis colleagues. John P has provided us with a delicious set of questions that are hard to resist. I want to address the questions he raised from a traditional point of view. No doubt the questions John has raised are motivated by the enormous possibilities that digital IT

Re: [Fis] COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

2014-03-06 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Is there such a thing as Collective Intelligence? I am concerned that the methods of the Harvard paper demonstrate nothing at all and, however well intended, they appear to be insufficiently rigorous and one might say unscientific. If the question were: are there things that a group of