Collective intelligence
Collective intelligence is neither a new concept nor a discovery. It is what shapes social organizations – groups, tribes, companies, teams, governments, nations, societies, guilds, etc… – where individuals gather together to share and collaborate, and find an individual and collective advantage that is higher than if each participant had remained alone. Collective intelligence is what we term a positive-sum economy
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On a strictly behavioral level and if we exclude the symbolic layer of culture, collective intelligence communities are not exclusively a human prerogative, these are observed within many social animal species, from the ant-hill to the wolf pack and the fish shoal, when the emerging level is manifestly smarter than its individual components.
In human societies, different forms of collective intelligence coexist and mainly coordinate and express themselves in the symbolic space. Let's review them so that we are able to understand the mutation and evolution towards a Collective Intelligence (with capital letters) at the planetary level.