Using dozens of striking examples and case studies, Malone shows how computers can help create more intelligent superminds simply by connecting humans to one another in a variety of rich, new ways. And these collectively intelligent human groups are about to get much smarter. In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Malone, the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, shows how groups of people working together in superminds - like hierarchies, markets, democracies, and communities - have been responsible for almost all human achievements in business, government, science, and beyond. But there's another kind of entity that can be far smarter: groups of people. If you're like most people, you probably believe that humans are the most intelligent animals on our planet. This extraordinary union is the essence of the supermind and its power to begin transfiguring matter itself.From the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence comes a fascinating look at the remarkable capacity for intelligence exhibited by groups of people and computers working together. Thus, the union of Emptiness (Spirit) and Form (the manifest world) is the union of Freedom and Fullness. This leads directly to a discussion of Freedom-which is the experience of Emptiness-and Fullness-which is the experience of oneness with the entire world of Form. One of the main conclusions is that the union of Emptiness and Form-which is how enlightenment is often conceived-must also mean the union of Emptiness and Evolution, because the world of form is evolving. Mike then laments the poverty of ideas about what occurs after enlightenment, and the discussion quickly focuses on the further reaches of embodiment. It concludes with the nature, radiance, and extraordinary transformative power of the supermind itself…. It moves to the necessity of an integral methodological pluralism to get at occasions such as the supermind focuses on why you can have an experience of the One and yet not have an experience of the supermind and derives a plausible theory to account for this (namely, the complexity of the manifest realm had to reach a certain evolutionary threshold before supermind could manifest easily). The dialogue opens with a discussion of Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Subtle Energies, one of Ken’s recent essays. It is not, however, for the intellectually faint of heart. This dialogue is warm, witty, loving, and vibrant. In this fast-paced and demanding dialogue, Mike and Ken discuss the nature of the “supermind”: its meanings, why it has not appeared previously in history on any sort of widespread scale, and why glimmers of its emergence are starting to happen now, today.
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