What is Collective Intelligence?
The question is on my mind because I recently spent a week in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a group of people from around the globe who were curious enough about the topic to leave their homes in search of an answer. Our group was skillfully convened by the Santa Fe Institute faculty and staff who arranged for a three-day inaugural symposium and short course on the topic. If you haven’t interacted with the Santa Fe Institute yet, then follow this link to learn more about their rich educational offerings. Highly recommended! The collective intelligence symposium and short course program integrated presentations from experts in the disciplines of physics, biology, biological physics, economics, engineering, computational science, and psychology with interdisciplinary panel discussions on the presentation topics. Connecting the speakers’ disciplinary specifics was a transdisciplinary orientation in complexity science, and woven throughout the three days wer...