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Group i.e., collective i.e., swarm i.e., community, i.e., ...,
intelligence is good<br>
Individual ingenuity is better!<br>
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Each one, needs another one.<br>
The group's intelligence is based on what each individual knows, and
it is advanced on the differences in each individual knowledge.<br>
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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.<br>
A group, being a swarm, keeps doing what it has always been doing -
it keeps improving its knowledge. <br>
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.<br>
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In short, all advances are always a result of a
group-composed-of-individuals intelligence.<br>
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It is a subjective matter where one draws a splitting line between
the group and the individuals.<br>
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Cheers <br>
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On 16-Dec-11 10:32 AM, Carlos Gershenson wrote:
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Do you know many cases where groups get better ideas than its individuals? For which kinds of problems does that happen?
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See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence</a>
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.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1193147">http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1193147</a>
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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/tom_wujec_build_a_tower.html</a>
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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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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