Meditations on COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

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Meditations onCOLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

• Pierre Lévy

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Collective intelligencethe new source of
empowerment

• Tools digital communication, sharing of memory,
  perception and imagination.
• Process collective learning and creativity,
  exchange of knowledge, competitive cooperation
  and cooperative competition in the production of
  knowledge
• The Art of multiplying intelligence
• Games where the winners enhance and use the
  available intelligence and cooperate more
  efficiently
• Ground living unity and diversity of the
  noosphere the world of language interconnected
  in cyberspace

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Society Mind
Community Network
Evolution of the World of Ideas
Individuals Nodes
Emotions Links
Evolution du monde des idées
Technology Structure
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Collective intelligence learning power
Religion, ethics, law, institutions, psychology,
relational thinking
Energy, tools, architecture, agriculture,
industry, engineering, practical thinking
Mathematics, philosophy, communication, art,
litterature, semiotics, abstract thinking
Collective intelligence harmony between the
three dimensions of human learning
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Collective intelligence dynamics
virtual world
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Collective intelligence dialectic

• Virtuality
• Dialectic of problems and learning
• Opening of meaning (existential depth)

• Otherness, meeting of the other
• Network of multilogic communication
• Circulation and translation of meaning (Space of
  differing universes)

• Reproduction, mutation, transmission
• Dialectic of memory and interprétation
• creation of meaning (evolutive time )

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Evolution of language life improvements of
collective memory
Constitution of the noosphere ubiquity
andinterconnection of cultural signs in
cyberspace. Writing gains abilities for
autonomous action (software and robots)
Technical self-reproduction of the alphabet and
images
Writing becomes digital and universal
Autonomous technical memory of language
myths, rites, oral transmission,memory inscribed
in matter
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Evolution of language life forms in progress
Deliberate collective intelligence, omnivision,
economy of knowledge and ideas, global
cyberdemocracy, culture of diversity, conscious
piloting of biosperes evolution
Experimental science, mass industry, capitalism,
global market, human rights,modern democracies
Monotheism, money, commerce, citizenship,universa
l science
Agriculture, livestock farming , city, state,
law, systematic knowledge, school
Technique, art, images, music, religion, complex
social rules
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Information economy Science Religion
World wide Web Library Bible
Cyberspace Printing pressAlphabet
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Orality

• Economy hunting, gathering
• Politics tribe
• Religion animism, chamanism
• Knowledge myths, rituals, know-how
• Space centered cosmos
• Time cyclic

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Writing

• Economy agriculture
• Politics State, law, justice
• Religions polytheist with priests
• Knowledge systematic
• Space territory
• Time History
• Power great civilisations of ideographic
  writing Egypt, Mesopotamia, China,
  Pre-Columbian cultures, etc.

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The Alphabet

• Economy commerce, money
• Politics city, democracy
• Religion monotheism, buddhism
• Knowledge sciences philosophies with
  universal scope
• Space universal but abstract
• Time consciousness of history
• Power alphabetical empires (Alexander, César,
  Mahomet)

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The Printing Press

• Economy Industry, global market, capitalism
• Politics public opinion, modern democracies,
  human rights
• Religion reform, religions of terrestrial
  salvation (socialism, liberalism)
• Knowledge modern experimental science
• Space interconnection of the earth
• Time revolutions
• Power the printing press civilisation (Europe)
  dominates the world

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Cyberspace

• Economy of ideas. Collective intelligence and
  creativity.
• Politics towards a global confederation with
  electronic democracy
• Religion planetary syncretism. Eastern / Western
  merging. Evolutionism.
• Knowledge Simulation Omnivision
• Space virtual (the real territory is semantic)
• Time real
• Power civilization of computers,
  global-american

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Three evolutionary spheres

• Digital code DNA life, self organized
  molecular processes
• Digital code Nervous systems
  perception-action, phenomenal worlds
• Digital code Language culture
• Writing memory of language detached from
  speakers
• Alphabet universal code
• Printing Press autonomous self reproduction of
  language
• Cyberspace ubiquity and autonomous action of
  language. Universal sphere of language.
  Techno-noosphere. Culture-Biology merging.

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The three ecologies
Semantic ecology
Emotional and perceptive ecology
Organic ecology
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Techno-noosphere
Software life
Genetic engineering
DNA
Languages
Hyperbodies
Neuroconnexion
Virtual reality
OrganismsMolecular processes
Perception
Nervous Systems
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Cyberspace
CYBERSPACE
inclusion
transparency
universality
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inclusiveness
EVERYBODY
has his websiteis included in the public sphere
is a source of meaningis a facet of the
collective intelligence has a voice
participates to the concert
the concert is more harmonious when everybody
listen to everybody
civilisation of dialogue
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Transparency
making the invisible visible
DIGITAL PUBLIC
omni vision
Vision is a creative process
Being transparent empowerment
human society is becoming transparent to itself
Everything and everyone wants to be acknowledged
Everyone can show everything to anybody
Anybody can see everything from anywhere
Evil fears light
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Universality general interconnection
LIFE born out of freedomsigns reproduce
themselves, live in society, act by themselves
(softwares, simulations, artificial life,
societies of robots and knowbots)
Noosphere virtual biosphere of human langage in
cyberspace Nervous system of Gaïa piloting
the future biological evolution
GAÏA
EXPANSION OF DIVERSITY
LIFE giving birth to freedom collective
intelligence of the human mind
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Knowledge in flux the second flood

• The end of knowledge in stock knowledge in flux
  and general drifting
• Young people can be more skilled than their
  elders, ancient ways of cultural transmission are
  outdated
• What must we put in the ark ? Classifications and
  hierarchies are temporary and incidental. Several
  arks practicing collective intelligence.
• Growing responsibility of individuals and groups
  in the search, production and selection of
  knowledge.
• Learning navigation (there will be no landing)

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The web as an embodiment of CI

• The collective mind as a semantic network
  sites links
• Energetic, emotional and practical aspects
  hits money transactions
• Reminding processes search engines
• Ideas web sites
• Mix of discursive interpretation and sensory
  memory (text and multimedia)
• Every  idea  is a virtual center of the mind
  gt Mobile and entangled hierarchy between areas
  of knowledge and ideas
• Portals universal  concepts 
• Sites  ideas  of individuals
• Minds life or  world of ideas  wild
  evolutionary noetic ecology

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Collective intelligence
digitalgrace
informational capitalism
cyberdemocracy
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cyberdemocracy

• digital cities
• local e governments
• virtual agoras
• votes on line

global law justice government
PEACE
MANY
ONE
cyberspace science technology market freedom human
race art biosphere planet love
virtual communities ideas tribes interests tradit
ions tastes species territories religions
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Cyberdemocratic governance
Finances
Justice
intelligence collective
Simulationbiosphère
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the transparent state
omnivision
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The state serving collective intelligence
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Informational capitalism
LearningorganisationsIntertwining virtual
communities ofknowledge workers,consumers,
investorsand partners.Continuousrevolution
in products,management,finance,
marketing,etc.CooperativecompetitionCompetiti
veadvantage to theinventors of themost
cooperativegames.
main economic goods non destructive consumption
ubiquity in cyberspacemain production factor
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Knowledge Economy
Ideas
Interpretation
Evaluation
Creation
Money
Informations
Orientation
Idea knowledge form (memory) Information
knowledge novelty (perception) Money knowledge
energy (action)
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The economic expansion of the world of ideas
appropriate appropriated
Public domain
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Working cultivating ideas
Ideas broadcasters performers, publishers,
distributors, sellers, advertisers,
communicators, professors...
Producers of appropriate ideas designers,
authors, artists, scientific researchers,
engineers, entrepreneurs
Ideas achievers administrators, producers,
engineers, workers...
Collective intelligence farmers managers,
leaders, community animators, critics...
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The company, a virtual community

• The company intertwined symbiotic virtual
  communities
• customers, employees, partners, investors
• The transparent company
• Flat hierarchy
• Open communication with partners, customers and
  shareholders (collaborative business)
• Hypertext company web, intranet, extranet
• The virtual company
• coordination and actualisation of skills unit
• ? legal or spatio-temporal unit
• The company a project of collective intelligence
  
• Art of cooperation and synergies between
  informational and intellectual resources
• Art of service and dialogue. Ethics of
  conversation.

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The market, intertwined virtual communities

• Every market is determined by a (second)
  information market concerning trends, prices and
  qualities of goods and services.
• Cyberspace is an information market and a
  transversal (many to many) communication space.
• Markets (including the jobs market) become on
  line conversations networks in a transparent
  global space.
• Economic actors become web-media and self-media
  in a global communication space structured by the
  conversation dynamics of virtual communities.

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What does distinguish the philosophy of
collective intelligence ?
Minds life - negative dialectic in the inner
monologue of the absolute mind - mutual
questioning and cross interpretations of stories
in the multilogic meeting place of collective
intelligence
Ontology and epistemology - realism we should
recognize that things are as they are -
constructivism we are committed to a creative
co-evolutionary process with our environment
Goal - power (sterilization of the other) -
empowerment (fertility, creativity)
Practical strategy- power struggle (what is at
stake is defeat or victory) - interpretation
relationship (what is at stake is creation of
meaning)
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Collective intelligence ethics

• Each one of us is an autonomous and responsible
  source of meaning.
• We can enrich our world by integrating others as
  autonomous interpretation centers who are
  complete worlds in themselves.
• What is to be done with the others meaning
  production ? Ignore it, tolérate it, despise
  it, beat it, imitate it? this would not be a
  dialogue.
• Collective intelligence is the reciprocal
  implication and mutual recognition of autonomous
  world s sources.

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Design
Culture design
No theories
Continuous learning
Cognitive systems design
Added value
Design oriented organisations
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digital grace
INFINITE EMPTINESS
CREATION
mysticquest