In Your Own Words

[Pozessed]

Describe

Collective Thought
Collective Knowledge
Collective Intelligence

Is there a difference?

How does society use these tools?
Is there a better way to utilize these tools?

 

[32k]

Describe

Collective Thought
Collective Knowledge
Collective Intelligence

Tools used to produce gain.

Is there a difference?

No.

How does society use these tools?

For personal gain.

Is there a better way to utilize these tools?

No.

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Memes in a meme pool serving genes in a gene pool.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Describe

Collective Thought
Collective Knowledge
Collective Intelligence

Is there a difference?

How does society use these tools?
Is there a better way to utilize these tools?

I don't really understand what you mean by these terms. Can you elaborate or provide a few examples?

 

[dlamberth]

Describe

Collective Thought
Collective Knowledge
Collective Intelligence

Is there a better way to utilize these tools?

Yes...through the lens of Collective Heart.

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[bricklayer]

Describe

Collective Thought
Collective Knowledge
Collective Intelligence

Is there a difference?

How does society use these tools?
Is there a better way to utilize these tools?

Thought, for finite beings, is a process. Knowledge (bodies of data, ideas) are units of the thought process. Intelligence is the efficacy of that process.

Thinkers may be simultaneous, but no finite being can have more than one thought at a time. Thinkers may be collective, but thoughts cannot. Knowledge may be collective. Intelligence may be combined but cannot be collective.

Society may use collected intelligence to improve individual intelligence.
A faculty is such an example.

Society may use collective knowledge to learn from the past and plan for the future.

Society may use collected thinkers to improve the intelligent assessment of collective knowledge.

 

[Eudaimonist]

Describe

Collective Thought
Collective Knowledge
Collective Intelligence

Nonexistent.

There is only individual thought, individual knowledge, and individual intelligence.

Sure, individuals can discuss ideas and make contributions to common goals, but that doesn't change the nature of mind. It is always individuals who are thinking, knowing, and reasoning.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[GrowingSmaller]

Well for me the boundaries between individual and collective can be blurred at will, perhaps not in terms of ego but capacities causes etc. Because this message causes neural changes in your brain, I see brain to bran (transbrain) communication as similar to within brain (individual thought) communication. If your thoughts cause horemonal changes in you, and my thoughts cause horemonal changes in you, then there is an analogy between me and you. My PFC (prefrontalcortex) is connected to yours via my vocal chords, fingertips etc. Its like leaves on a tree or wheels on a car. We can see them as individual or as part of a greater whole. Husserl saw groups acting as a whole as emergent, having properties the individual agents did not have alone. Multi-agent systems are reported to achieve things that individuals acting alone cannot. So if there are unique properties and capacities of groups which we share in then perhaps the notion of individuality becomes uprooted - or rather revealed as rooted in a greater neural-root system (like mushrooms springing up but all stemming from a common root source). If my properties are caused by other people (like my math skills) then perhaps my individuality is paradoxically emergent?

 

[Eudaimonist]

Husserl saw groups acting as a whole as emergent, having properties the individual agents did not have alone. Multi-agent systems are reported to achieve things that individuals acting alone cannot.

There is truth to that.

But I prefer to stand Husserl on his head. Individuals emerge out of the group. Social interaction helps individuals to realize themselves as human individuals, because language and culture play a big role in helping to form personal identity.

Whatever emergent properties groups have, they aren't collective minds. Rather, they are the emergent properties of groups of minded individuals. The emergent properties are what groups do.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[Archaeopteryx]

Nonexistent.

There is only individual thought, individual knowledge, and individual intelligence.

Sure, individuals can discuss ideas and make contributions to common goals, but that doesn't change the nature of mind. It is always individuals who are thinking, knowing, and reasoning.


eudaimonia,

Mark

Where does the content of individual thought come from?

 

[bricklayer]

Where does the content of individual thought come from?

It is prescribed.