Designing bio-inspired knowledge and technical ecosystems to augment collective intelligence
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"Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for 'more of the same' that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency." -- from the description of "Resilience Thinking" (Walker and Salt, 2006)
For collective entities to access a level of intelligence higher than the one that created that situation, they have to pass an evolutionary the test. Our prior research on collective intelligence led us to assume that the key to pass that test lies in the sweet spot of the following 4 spheres and their corresponding ecosystems:
Biosphere and its living ecosystems (carbon-based)
Sociosphere and its social ecosystem (relationship-based)
Noosphere and its knowledge ecosystems (mind-based)
Technosphere and its computing ecosystems (silicon-based)
The focus of the proposed action research is to discover the requirements for
a multi-platform collective intelligence environment (technosphere)
capable to host and service healthy community knowledge gardens (noosphere)
as key resource to enhance social creativity and well-being (sociopshere),
and to learn from, sustain, and enrich life itself (biosphere).
In this concept paper, we will outline first the types of CI that can be enhanced in a multi-platform virtual environment. Only then can we introduce in a meaningful way:
a. the research’ working hypothesis to inform the analysis of the technical requirements for augmenting CI
b. the methodology we will use
c. the criteria for selecting the domain, on which we suggest to conduct a participatory action research involving rapid prototyping to test the usefulness of the requirement definitions.
On these pages, you will find the rough drafts and notes for an academic research paper to be submitted for publication in the PrimaVera Working Paper Series at the University of Amsterdam, by George Pór. It is also the researcher's experiment in writing a paper in a new way, using the practices of Open Notebook Science, including "the practice of making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online as it is recorded." Wikipedia
Working on this paper in an "Open Notebook Science" style provides an opportunity for those who want to get involved with the research to contribute to shaping it from its very inception. It is also an opportunity for the researcher to receive questions that may clarify or challenge his assumptions and mental models. Your questions and feedback will be appreciated.
This research would not exist without the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and Janine Benyus, whose inspiration is gratefully acknowledged.
The always current outline the research paper draft has links to the active sections and it is here:
http://www.twine.com/item/12hfwhvk1-3nf/current-outline-of-the-research-paper
The Biomimicry Design Spiral diagram on the left was developed by the Biomimicry Institute http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/about-us/biomimicry-a-tool-for-innovation.html . I intend to use the Design Spiral as one of the research's enabling frameworks.
For collective entities to access a level of intelligence higher than the one that created that situation, they have to pass an evolutionary the test. Our prior research on collective intelligence led us to assume that the key to pass that test lies in the sweet spot of the following 4 spheres and their corresponding ecosystems:
Biosphere and its living ecosystems (carbon-based)
Sociosphere and its social ecosystem (relationship-based)
Noosphere and its knowledge ecosystems (mind-based)
Technosphere and its computing ecosystems (silicon-based)
The focus of the proposed action research is to discover the requirements for
a multi-platform collective intelligence environment (technosphere)
capable to host and service healthy community knowledge gardens (noosphere)
as key resource to enhance social creativity and well-being (sociopshere),
and to learn from, sustain, and enrich life itself (biosphere).
In this concept paper, we will outline first the types of CI that can be enhanced in a multi-platform virtual environment. Only then can we introduce in a meaningful way:
a. the research’ working hypothesis to inform the analysis of the technical requirements for augmenting CI
b. the methodology we will use
c. the criteria for selecting the domain, on which we suggest to conduct a participatory action research involving rapid prototyping to test the usefulness of the requirement definitions.
On these pages, you will find the rough drafts and notes for an academic research paper to be submitted for publication in the PrimaVera Working Paper Series at the University of Amsterdam, by George Pór. It is also the researcher's experiment in writing a paper in a new way, using the practices of Open Notebook Science, including "the practice of making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online as it is recorded." Wikipedia
Working on this paper in an "Open Notebook Science" style provides an opportunity for those who want to get involved with the research to contribute to shaping it from its very inception. It is also an opportunity for the researcher to receive questions that may clarify or challenge his assumptions and mental models. Your questions and feedback will be appreciated.
This research would not exist without the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and Janine Benyus, whose inspiration is gratefully acknowledged.
The always current outline the research paper draft has links to the active sections and it is here:
http://www.twine.com/item/12hfwhvk1-3nf/current-outline-of-the-research-paper
The Biomimicry Design Spiral diagram on the left was developed by the Biomimicry Institute http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/about-us/biomimicry-a-tool-for-innovation.html . I intend to use the Design Spiral as one of the research's enabling frameworks.
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Nature-Inspired Collective IntelligenceBring together researchers working on nature-inspired paradigm and collective intelligence as well as to discuss these issues and to present current research results.
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Research notes for the “Lessons from Life Sciences” sectionLife’s principles Characteristics of organisms in a mature ecosystem What can knowledge ecology learn from systems biology models Modularity, robustness, and motifs in biological networks Studying nature’s community strategies Life Meta Hacks: Erosion, Streams, and Piles ...
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Scale-dependenceOne of the principal characteristics of the ecosystem is its scale-dependency . There are small (water-filled holes in tropical trees) and large (the boreal forest ) ecosystems, the latter encompassing the former. Recent research has been focussed on not only modeling energy flux in these ...
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Characteristics of organisms in a mature ecosystemOver billions of years, natural selection has come up with winning strategies adopted by all complex, mature ecosystems. The strategies in the following list are tried-and-true approaches to the mystery of surviving in place. Think of them as the ten commandments of the redwood clan. Organisms ...
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Life's Principles"Biomimicry follows Life’s Principles. Life’s Principles instruct us to: build from the bottom up, self-assemble, optimize rather than maximize, use free energy, cross-pollinate, embrace diversity, adapt and evolve, use life-friendly materials and processes, engage in symbiotic relationships, ...
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Studying nature’s community strategies3. Elders integrating the youth: I've wondered at the communication between Canadian Geese for years. We have several families in our neighborhood each summer. Over these next couple of weeks the geese born this year will learn to fly in formation with their elders. During that time of ...Barbara Shipka added 2 months ago
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Studying nature’s community strategies2. Not overpopulating/sustainability: Remembering the way over thousands of miles, year after year. We have peregrine falcons nesting in a tree outside my office window. They arrived 6 years ago and 2 (and only 2) have returned each year to bear and raise their young. Which 2 return? How is it ...Barbara Shipka added 2 months ago
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Studying nature’s community strategiesBiomicicry thoughts on migration behaviors (esp during this season of autumn): These appear to me to be additional strategies from the ones listed above even as they may have aspects in common with ants and honeybees but some very different as well. For example, ants have specified roles and ...Barbara Shipka added 2 months ago
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Studying nature’s community strategiesI see ego as both a great evolutionary achievement as well as an impediment of further movement forward to planetary consciousness. There's no way to go back, so mimicking animal behavior by humans is not a desirable state. Biomimicry can be useful at the level of ecosystems, if we manage to ...technoshaman added 2 months ago
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Studying nature’s community strategiesGood point...not much room for ego (as we know it) in the camps. Most everything - both material and non-material - had been stripped away. So, given your comment above about ego: Are you implying that you see a possibility that biomimicry might be a means of transcending the challenge of ...Barbara Shipka added 2 months ago
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