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Knowing all of this has tremendous potential for recognizing collective intelligence in human life where it currently exists and socially constructing it where it is needed. However, most of what I have recounted is new, emerging only within the last two or three decades, and is often not reflected in the thinking of otherwise smart people on the subject of collective intelligence. In particular, there is a tendency to naively assume that collective intelligence emerges spontaneously from...
Read More »Geoff Mulgan — Cognitive Economics: How Self-Organization and Collective Intelligence Works
The study of self-organizing groups points toward what could be called a cognitive economics.EvonomicsCognitive Economics: How Self-Organization and Collective Intelligence WorksGeoff Mulgan is chief executive of Nesta, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, and a senior visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Ash Center
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