COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE a civilisation (2)

1. COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE a civilisation (2) Pierre Lévy

2. Collective intelligencethe new source of empowerment • Tools : digital communication, sharing of memory, perception and imagination. • Process : collective learning and creativity, exchange of knowledge, competitive cooperation and cooperative competition in the production of knowledge • The Art of multiplying intelligence • Games where the winners enhance and use the available intelligence and cooperate more efficiently • Ground : living unity and diversity of the noosphere: the world of language interconnected in cyberspace

3. Knowledge in flux : the second flood • The end of knowledge in stock ; knowledge in flux and general drifting • Young people can be more skilled than their elders, ancient ways of cultural transmission are outdated • What must we put in the ark ? Classifications and hierarchies are temporary and incidental. Several arks practicing collective intelligence. • Growing responsibility of individuals and groups in the search, production and selection of knowledge. • Learning navigation (there will be no landing)

4. Cyberspace Printing Press Alphabet Writing Orality Evolution of language life : improvements of collective memory Constitution of the noosphere : ubiquity andinterconnection of cultural signs in cyberspace. Writing gains abilities for autonmous action (software and robots) Technical self-reproduction of the alphabet and images Writing becomes digital and universal Autonomous technical memory of language myths, rites, oral transmission,memory inscribed in matter

5. Cyberspace Printing Press Alphabet Writing Orality Evolution of language life : forms in progress Deliberate collective intelligence, omnivision, economy of knowledge and ideas, global cyberdemocracy, culture of diversity, conscious piloting of biospere’s evolution Experimental science, mass industry, capitalism, global market, human rights,modern democracies Monotheism, money, commerce, citizenship,universal science Agriculture, livestock farming , city, state, law, systematic knowledge, school Technique, art, images, music, religion, complex social rules

6. Collective intelligence dialectic Questions Reciprocal implication Stories and descriptions Dialogues • Virtuality • Dialectic of problems and learning • Opening of meaning (existential depth) • Otherness, meeting of the other • Network of multilogic communication • Circulation and translation of meaning (Space of differing universes) • Dialectic of memory and interprétation • Reproduction, mutation, transmission • creation of meaning (evolutive time )

7. Information economy Science Religion World wide Web Library Bible Cyberspace Printing pressAlphabet

8. CYBERSPACE Cyberspace inclusion transparency universality

9. inclusiveness EVERYBODY has his websiteis included in the public sphere is a source of meaningis a facet of the collective intelligence has a voice participates to the concert the concert is more harmonious when everybody listen to everybody civilisation of dialogue

10. Transparency making the invisible visible DIGITAL = PUBLIC omni vision Vision is a creative process Being transparent = empowerment human society is becoming transparent to itself Everything and everyone wants to be acknowledged Everyone can show everything to anybody Anybody can see everything from anywhere Evil fears light

11. LIFE born out of freedomsigns reproduce themselves, live in society, act by themselves (softwares, simulations, artificial life, societies of robots and knowbots) Universalitygeneral interconnection Noosphere : virtual biosphere of human langage in cyberspace Nervous system of Gaïa piloting the future biological evolution GAÏA EXPANSION OF DIVERSITY LIFE giving birth to freedom : collective intelligence of the human mind

12. Collective intelligence digitalgrace informational capitalism cyberdemocracy

13. Continuous improvement of collective intelligence Free circulation Creation of diversity cyberdemocracy • digital cities • local e governments • virtual agoras • votes on line global law justice government PEACE MANY ONE cyberspace science technology market freedom human race art biosphere planet love virtual communities ideas tribes interests traditions tastes species territories religions

14. the transparent state Dialogue Finance Justice Law Networks of virtual agoras and parliaments,Internetvoting Network of transparent budgets Dialogue Dialogue Environnemental simulation networks Biosphere simulation omnivision

15. The state serving collective intelligence COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE collective intelligence reflected in the mirror of the transparent state

16. creation from digital grace unexpectedcommunism Planetary public servicesMegamergers : 3 multinational companies for each econommic sector worldwide. Conscious investment Shares possessed by the global population playing the stock marcket on line.. Conscious consumption controlled bya transparent cybermarket. collective intelligence and creativity Information regulation from cyberdemocratic law Informational capitalism LearningorganisationsIntertwining virtual communities ofknowledge workers,consumers, investorsand partners.Continuousrevolutionin products,management,finance, marketing,etc.CooperativecompetitionCompetitiveadvantage to theinventors of themost cooperativegames. main economic goodsnon exclusive appropriationubiquity in cyberspacemain production factor

17. Knowledge Economy Ideas Interpretation Evaluation Creation Informations Money Orientation Idea = knowledge form (memory) Information = knowledge novelty (perception) Money = knowledge energy (action)

18. The economic expansion of the world of ideas “appropriate” = “appropriated” Ideas to be discovered Area of maximal collective intelligence Ideas to be discovered Ideas to be discovered Appropriate ideas Ideas to be discovered Public domain

19. technoscience philosophy new questions new life new games art new ideas new bodies new forms new meanings new ways to bridge minds new languages new perceptions improvements of collective intelligence digital grace INFINITE EMPTINESS CREATION mysticquest

20. What does distinguish the philosophy of collective intelligence ? Mind’s life - negative dialectic in the inner monologue of the absolute mind - mutual questioning and cross interpretations of stories in the multilogic meeting place of collective intelligence Ontology and epistemology - realism : we should recognize that things are as they are - constructivism : we are committed to a creative co-evolutionary process with our environment Goal- power (sterilization of the other) - empowerment (fertility, creativity) Practical strategy- power struggle (what is at stake is defeat or victory) - interpretation relationship (what is at stake is creation of meaning)

21. Collective intelligence ethics • Each one of us is an automous and responsible source of meaning. • We can enrich our world by integrating others as autonomous interpretation centers who are complete worlds in themselves. • What is to be done with the other’s meaning production ? Ignore it, tolérate it, despise it, beat it, imitate it…? this would not be a dialogue. • Collective intelligence is the reciprocal implication and mutual recognition of autonomous world ’s sources.