Comparing “the wisdom of crowds” to real collective wisdom
The popular book “The Wisdom of Crowds” says a lot about the remarkable accuracy of thousands of people making guesses about something …
“A Not So Divided America” – but is it wise?
A new study of 24 major surveys in the U.S. shows clearly that partisan gridlock in Washington DC is not the result …
Realizing Empathy as Part of Co-Intelligence
Few people – including myself until recently – have realized how important empathy is to co-intelligence. Here I focus on four important …
How to integrate information for a wiser democracy
Many fields and professions – from journalism and academia to video games and movies – can and do stimulate informed – or …
Exploring Wholeness in more detail – to support our highest aspirations
Wholeness is the foundation of the co-intelligence worldview. It is a big subject – embracing many varieties, dimensions, and manifestations of wholeness, …
Surveillance and parasitism harm society’s collective intelligence
What this post is about: Society’s collective intelligence needs to be able to see clearly what’s going on and take action about …
Empathy notes #4: Toward an era of wise caring
Reason and feeling each have gifts and limitations. Used well together they generate wise caring. There are examples of wise caring in …
Empathy Notes #3: Empathy versus rationality?
Recent cogent critiques of empathy promote rationality as its antidote. But each of these powerful capacities has gifts and limitations. We need …
The wisdom of the fringes?
In the end, I believe that those who call forth the most collective intelligence and wisdom will be those who can manifest – and help others manifest – two vital capacities: 1. the ability to include more of what is normally overlooked and exclude…
Participatory wisdom and sustainability
I am working with a team exploring the emerging field of participatory sustainability. From this new perspective, sustainability cannot be achieved without increasing the level of co-intelligent participation in all aspects of our public life – es…