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Definitions
As a property
Collective Intelligence is the capacity for a group of individuals to envision a future and reach it in complex contexts.
Discussion
These definition applies for all kinds of collective intelligences in any species. They work for an ant colony, a baseball team, a global corporation, an army or a school of fish.
It stresses on the teleology of reaching a goal. It also implicitly brings the present and the past because experience is part of the success to reach this future. Complexity involves unpredictibility, therefore capacity for adaptation and creativity.
As a scientific discipline
Collective intelligence is a new science field. It consists in studying social species, their structure, the different forms of consciousness that manifest, the different capacities of being and doing that emerge.
Collective intelligence as a discipline is collecting and reviewing many tools, methodologies that can leverage specific qualities within different sorts of collective intelligence. Check collective intelligence methodologies, collective intelligence technologies.
Different sorts of collective intelligence
Four main categories of collective intelligence have been mapped:
- Original collective intelligence: small group of individuals in holoptical context
- Pyramidal collective intelligence: large human organizations, since the invention of the writing
- Global collective intelligence: next stage of collective intelligence and evolution. Humanity is in the transition phase today.
- Swarm collective intelligence (often named 'swarm intelligence'): a specific aspect of collective intelligence that mostly applies to other species than human species. Human species can operate in swarm intelligence mode although this is not its usual operating mode.
What collective intelligence is NOT
It is common to hear people say "let's do collective intelligence", or 'let's apply collective intelligence principles'. Collective intelligence is not a methodology, it is a scientific discipline of observation in which methodologies are referenced.
Links and references
Read the paper Collective Intelligence: the Invisible Revolution.
Collective intelligence focuses on the external visible and objective aspects of collaboration. It's about doing. Actions, specifically their teological aspects, can be understood by external human observer. Examples: an ant colony bringing a dead insect back into the colony, a group of wolves hunting a prey, a group of engineersetc.
Collective consciousness and Collective wisdom focus on the inner subjective aspects of the experience of being together. Check CI and CIWC.
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