Nova Spivack on collective intelligence and the Global Brain

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Comment by Ferananda Ibarra on April 10, 2009 at 8:01am

More of my notes about this video:

Nova Spivack “On collective intelligence and the Global Brain”

View of the Global brain as a meme has been spread through dozens of visionaries/thinkers that have predicted the emergence of the Global Brain (social darwinism, omega point, cybernetic superorganisms, from systems to meta-systems, the Gaia hypothesis, learning networks, higher order intelligence, The story of one. The one machine. Kevin Kelly)

Meta-level intelligence: Sense of self-awareness, sense of its own identity. How can it happen in a larger network (aprox. at 60% of the video). Any similarities to holopticism?

levels of collective intelligence, top down and bottom up:
Crowds and crowd behaviors (without sense of whole)
Groups (shared visions, plan and achieve longer term goals, small subsets)
Selves (agreements, self as an illusion, mirrors the whole
Meta selves (research and actors, watches and learns from the behavior of the group)

Where is the flowplace?

Functions of meta selves:
• Consolidate sensory input: Get data in, aggregate and create a map (self and other mirrored in the system)
• Introspection : Human level and machine level working together
• Explore
• Learning and memory
• Orchestrate their output

Generating wealth?