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What is Pyramidal CI

Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
The type of collective intelligence emerging from a hierarchical organization of societies. It provides a way for humans to organize as collectives that go past tens to hundreds of millions by yielding useful forms of coordination under the restrictions of natural communication means among humans. The resulting topology of information generation, transmitting and processing, and the interactions with individual reward schemes, put a severe load on the capability to find and take good decisions, actually limiting the intelligence of the collective.
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Collective Intelligence
Paulo Garrido (University of Minho, Portugal) and Wilfried Lemahieu (F.E.T.E.W., Belgium)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch037
Abstract
Intelligence is taken here as the ability for attaining goals or for solving problems that put at work responsiveness of the solver to the situation where the goal or problem arises and use of its previous knowledge and experience. Let one notice that this definition means that intelligence or intelligent behavior is not an absolute concept in at least three ways: • Intelligence is relative to the goal or problem being solved. • Intelligence is relative to the situation where the goal arises. • Intelligence is relative to the knowledge and experience of the solver. Usually, intelligence is conceived as a property of individuals. In recent years, the recognizance has grown that this conception is too narrow. It makes sense and it is most useful to consider the intelligence of groups of individuals, whether small or very large. Such intelligence is still the intelligence of one entity— the group—but it is made of the ways individual intelligences are orchestrated or coordinate themselves. This being given, collective intelligence (CI) is defined here simply as the intelligence of entities constituted by several or many individuals. As taken, CI is about the intelligent behavior of entities which are conceived from the beginning as not being atomic.
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