ORB Visualization
(soon)
4/3/2004 12:21 PM
I am pleased to see the long pdf file
http://207.44.196.94/~wilber/pdf/NoosEvolution.pdf
by Steve McIntosh. I will read this and put my future comments into this context.
My work is on a visual knowledge management system for blogs where the subject matter indicators are viewable as a graph construction.
For the blog output to be aggregated one needs both tools and a special type of human awareness, one that is working as a Magister Ludi (or librarian) to create a high fidelity index into the concept space.
This note is also posted within a “BCNGroup Glass Bead Game”
http://www.bcngroup.org/python3/fiftyone.htm
George (one of the participants at
http://www.community-intelligence.com/blogs/public/archives/000251.html
asked:
“How can a group of individual intelligences become truly collective intelligence? How can they escape into a more complex and capable collective intelligence, without sacrificing their autonomy?”
My reply is based on cognitive neuroscience (Pribram) and social biology (Maturana). We humans are already equipped to do this quite naturally. Yes? So the pragamatic question then becomes how can we fall into a social practice where our communications are not to an individual but to the collective group thought – in real time - now.
My answer to this new question is the visualization of thematic structure of real time social discourse.
http://www.bcngroup.org/area2/KnowledgeEcologies.htm
for the purpose of being social and enjoying the world. I can bring this technology from the intelligence community to the social world.
This is the notion of many-to-many communication. Yes?