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Week 2 Different Collective Intelligences (Civilisation: Pyramidal CI…
Week 2
Different Collective Intelligences
Original CI
Characteristics
The Emerging Whole
: Teams have their own personality as if they were an individual entity.
The Social Contract
: The group value/rules. Their means of self-perpetuation. Kind of the groups 'reason for being'.
A Polymorphic Architecture
: (Polymorphic means 'many forms'). The way relationships in the group can change based on circumstances like proficiency, tasks to perform etc.
A Circulating object-link
: Converging of individualities toward a collectively pursued object (e.g. prey, a ball, a 'meeting objective' etc.)
A Learning Organisation
: Reflection. Learning from mistakes. Sharing our lessons learned within the group.
A Gift Economy
: Give first, and then receive once the community has benefited.
A Holoptical Space
: "
Horizontal
" Transparency (Each member is aware of/play off of other members). and/or "
Vertical
" communication (Hierarchical: May be a 'lead instrument' in the band, etc) with the emerging whole.
Limits
The Space
: Original CI requires people to be physically in close proximity.
When these become to large you get a division
The Number
: There is a limit to participants. Too many people lead to diminishing returns
Civilisation: Pyramidal CI
Coordinates and maximizes "Power of the masses"
Dynamic principles of Pyramidal CI
Authority
: From divine right, law, expertise, degrees etc.
A Scarce Currency
: A driving factor. People in higher authority control the money (or food, salt etc)
Labour Division
: Predifined roles to make people interchangable
Standards and Norms
: Allow objectivising/depersonalizing and circulation and interoperability of knowledge in the community
A Stable form of CI.Generally quite strong. Allows for many people working towards a goal.
Still used widely today
Limitations
Work Division
: Social architecture is hard-coded so there are limitations to flexibility and adapatation
Authority
: Top management can struggle to control massive amounts of information flow.
Scarce currency
: Scarcity breeds competition which limits collaboration.
Standards and Norms
: Serves a strategy of monopolistic control by artificially rarefying knowledge (Patents, intellectual property etc)
Swarm Intelligence
Interaction of a high number of individually 'stupid' organisms that cause the emergence of an intelligent, reactive, adaptable whole.
Swarm intelligence is blind (Individuals have no idea what the 'whole' is.)
Limitations
Success is subject to condition that its agents are uniform and de-individualised.
Individuals are easily sacrificed.
Global Intelligence
To arrive at Global CI we need:
Sufficient currency (Not scarce)
Standards and Norms which maximize interoperability
An Information System used to optimize the symbolic space shared by the community
A permanent interpenetration with cyberspace
Personal development - Individual and societal transformation