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Topic A: Collective intelligence

Resources

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Start with the first of these resources and go reading, listening or watching each one of them in order. If there comes a moment when a resource becomes too difficult, then leave it and begin your own independent inquiry on this topic.

1. BBC-The Code: The Wisdom of the Crowd. This is a brief excerpt from a BBC documentary presented by Dr. Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford
2. Deep democracy and community wisdom. A short article by the social, peace and environmental activist and author Tom Atlee, in The Co-Intelligence Institute website. A simple explanation on why there is more wisdom in community and diversity than in any individual, all this aimed to construct deeper democracies
3. Wikipedia: Collective Intelligence. A compendium of this subject from studies in academic disciplines. No need to read everything in this article. The intention is to understand the most important ideas
4. Elgin (2014). Great transition stories for becoming a global eco-civilization. An article by the author, educator and media activist Duane Elgin. Collective intelligence contemplated from a consciousness perspective and aiming to a global sustainable civilization
5. Social Cognition and Collective Intelligence - Cooperation. Video from a short lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by Dr. Martin Nowak,Professor of Biology and Mathematics and Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University. A speech on the results of cooperation development studies
6. Collective intelligence at a time of global crisis. A video conference by Tom Atlee for TEDx Warwick '09. A speech on collective intelligence as a way to improve democracy, offering real examples in several countries. He speaks also about collective intelligence and Internet