Inteligencia coletiva??? Nao, por favor, nao com certas pessoas e grupos...

Eu sempre recebo os boletins mensais do The Edge, que me pareciam sumamente inteligentes...
até este aqui abaixo.
Não, eu não acredito em inteligência coletiva, a não ser torcidas de futebol organizadas, mas aí não é exatamente inteligência, e certamente não é para boas coisas, e sim para massacrar algum desavisado do time adverário (que deus o tenha...).
Eu não quero, sobretudo, partilhar da mesma inteligência que certos movimentos, certas quadrilhas, certos indivíduos, que, inteligentes ou não, caem naquela categoria de pessoas não frequentáveis...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida

Edge.org
November 27 2012
http://www.edge.org

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THE THIRD CULTURE
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As all the people and computers on our planet get more and more closely connected, it's becoming increasingly useful to think of all the people and computers on the planet as a kind of global brain.

A COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
A Conversation with
Thomas W. Malone [11.21.12]
http://edge.org/conversation/collective-intelligence
EdgeVideo
31 Minutes

THOMAS W. MALONE is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He was also the founding director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century".

A COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
Pretty much everything I'm doing now falls under the broad umbrella that I'd call collective intelligence. What does collective intelligence mean? It's important to realize that intelligence is not just something that happens inside individual brains. It also arises with groups of individuals. In fact, I'd define collective intelligence as groups of individuals acting collectively in ways that seem intelligent. By that definition, of course, collective intelligence has been around for a very long time. Families, companies, countries, and armies: those are all examples of groups of people working together in ways that at least sometimes seem intelligent.

It's also possible for groups of people to work together in ways that seem pretty stupid, and I think collective stupidity is just as possible as collective intelligence. Part of what I want to understand and part of what the people I'm working with want to understand is what are the conditions that lead to collective intelligence rather than collective stupidity. But in whatever form, either intelligence or stupidity, this collective behavior has existed for a long time.

What's new, though, is a new kind of collective intelligence enabled by the Internet. Think of Google, for instance, where millions of people all over the world create web pages, and link those web pages to each other. Then all that knowledge is harvested by the Google technology so that when you type a question in the Google search bar the answers you get often seem amazingly intelligent, at least by some definition of the word "intelligence." ...[MORE]