[Bmi] Discussion on group intelligence

[Vojo]

Group i.e., collective i.e., swarm i.e., community, i.e., ..., 
intelligence is good
Individual ingenuity is better!

Each one, needs another one.
The group's intelligence is based on what each individual knows, and it 
is advanced on the differences in each individual knowledge.

At some points some person(s) (member of the swarm, group, collective, 
community) creates (makes) a crucial difference, The Difference, and the 
whole group is raised to the another level.
A group, being a swarm, keeps  doing what it has always been doing - it 
keeps improving its knowledge.
The process of improving may be labeled i.e., called the intelligence, 
and so the new cycle starts by repeating and improving itself at the 
higher level again, until, again, the (new or same) individual  makes a 
crucial difference again.

In short, all advances are always a result of a 
group-composed-of-individuals intelligence.

It is a subjective matter where one draws a splitting line between the 
group and the individuals.

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On 16-Dec-11 10:32 AM, Carlos Gershenson wrote:
>> Do you know many cases where groups get better ideas than its individuals?  For which kinds of problems does that happen?
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence
>
> In this paper they offer some overview of collective intelligence (attached below):
> Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups
> Anita Williams Woolley, Christopher F. Chabris, Alex Pentland, Nada Hashmi, and Thomas W. Malone
> Science 29 October 2010: 330 (6004), 686-688.
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1193147
> Their results show that groups of people work better not depending on the intelligence of individuals, but on how efficiently they interact. There is an interesting 6 min related TED talk at http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html
>
> I believe that Prof. Weng generalized the question: any cognitive system can be divided into components, usually the properties of the system are different than those of its components (e.g. neurons+molecules+energy), but we usually do not refer to properties of a brain as "group intelligence", even when it is indeed product of a collection of neurons, etc. It is just a convention.
>
> Best wishes,
> Caros
>
> 	Dr. Carlos Gershenson
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