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Knowledge focusing through various voting methods has the potential for many unique perspectives to converge through the assumption that uninformed voting is to some degree random and can be filtered from the [[decision]] [[process]] leaving only a residue of informed consensus. Critics point out that often bad ideas, misunderstandings, and misconceptions are widely held, and that structuring of the decision process must favor experts who are presumably less prone to random or misinformed voting in a given context.
Knowledge focusing through various voting methods has the potential for many unique perspectives to converge through the assumption that uninformed voting is to some degree random and can be filtered from the [[decision]] [[process]] leaving only a residue of informed consensus. Critics point out that often bad ideas, misunderstandings, and misconceptions are widely held, and that structuring of the decision process must favor experts who are presumably less prone to random or misinformed voting in a given context.
While these are the views of experts like Atlee and Pór, other founding fathers of collective intelligence see the field differently. Francis Heylighen, Valerie Turchin, and Gottfried Mayer-Kress view collective intelligence through the lens of [[computer science]] and cybernetics. Howard Bloom stresses the [[biological]] adaptations that have turned most of this [[earth]]'s living beings into components of what he calls "a learning machine". And [[Peter Russell]], Elisabet Sahtouris, and [[Barbara Marx Hubbard]] (originator of the term "conscious evolution") are inspired by the [[vision]]s of a [[noosphere]] — a [[transcendent]], rapidly evolving collective intelligence — an informational cortex of the planet.
While these are the views of experts like Atlee and Pór, other founding fathers of collective intelligence see the field differently. Francis Heylighen, Valerie Turchin, and Gottfried Mayer-Kress view collective intelligence through the lens of [[computer science]] and cybernetics. Howard Bloom stresses the [[biological]] adaptations that have turned most of this [[earth]]'s living beings into components of what he calls "a learning machine". And [http://www.peterrussell.com/index2.php Peter Russell], Elisabet Sahtouris, and [http://www.evolve.org/ Barbara Marx Hubbard] (originator of the term "conscious evolution") are inspired by the [[vision]]s of a [[noosphere]] — a [[transcendent]], rapidly evolving collective intelligence — an informational cortex of the planet.
Perhaps we may draw parallels between this informational cortex and the Internet. Defined by the Internet Society in 1995 as ‘... the global information system that... provides, uses or makes accessible, either [[public]]ly or [[private]]ly, high level services layered on... communications and related infrastructure...’ (Leiner et al. 2003) we can see how the Internet lends itself to becoming this ‘cortex’. Developing as far back as the late 1950’s, it wasn’t until 1991 that WWW ([[World Wide Web]]) was released. In 2005, there were as many as 1,018, 057, 389 Internet users worldwide ([[CIA]] 2008). So many users accessing the Internet can only mean one thing — a meeting of minds and collaboration of knowledge. The Internet is an information and communication tool, whether it be checking on the stock market or a celebrity gossip site, humans are primarily interested in the sharing of information, and the Internet serves this purpose.
Perhaps we may draw parallels between this informational cortex and the Internet. Defined by the Internet Society in 1995 as ‘... the global information system that... provides, uses or makes accessible, either [[public]]ly or [[private]]ly, high level services layered on... communications and related infrastructure...’ (Leiner et al. 2003) we can see how the Internet lends itself to becoming this ‘cortex’. Developing as far back as the late 1950’s, it wasn’t until 1991 that WWW ([[World Wide Web]]) was released. In 2005, there were as many as 1,018, 057, 389 Internet users worldwide ([[CIA]] 2008). So many users accessing the Internet can only mean one thing — a meeting of minds and collaboration of knowledge. The Internet is an information and communication tool, whether it be checking on the stock market or a celebrity gossip site, humans are primarily interested in the sharing of information, and the Internet serves this purpose.