Pieter Peach » collective intelligence http://www.ppeach.com/blog Healthcare/Startups/Web Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:45:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Thought networking http://www.ppeach.com/blog/2008/09/thought-networking/ http://www.ppeach.com/blog/2008/09/thought-networking/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:34:08 +0000 admin http://www.ppeach.com/blog/?p=123 Good intro to the concept of thought networking from Primal Fusion who are developing what I’m hoping will be an interesting platform. Excerpts from original post below.

“Thought networks provide a concrete semantic representation of our thoughts, ideas and interests. Encoded as data, our thoughts are accessible to the power of computing. Semantic synthesis provides the means to expand and connect these thoughts in entirely new ways. Equally important, as structured data, thought networks may be used as inputs to software “agents” to automate much of the drudgery of our online experience.”

“Ultimately, thought networking is intended to provide two main benefits. First, it will enhance our cognition. Our ability to store and recall information is extremely limited. Thought networks can help by expanding the number of thoughts at our disposal and organizing them effectively. This isn’t a comment on our cognitive abilities, any more than a calculator is a comment on our math skills. It’s merely illustrative of the way computing complements thinking.”

“Secondly, thought networks will save time and effort. Consider how much time you spend collecting and organizing your thoughts. Whether you’re writing a paper for school, planning a trip, or researching a medical condition, thoughts are the necessary precursor to action. If we can migrate some of that arduous process online, we can put computers to the task of simplifying your online experience.”

“Once we digitize our thoughts and put them online, our thoughts may interact with the world even when we’re not attending to them. They become both an independent embodiment of our thinking as well as a powerful knowledge asset. Thought networks won’t displace thinking any more than social networks displace our socializing. But they will augment our ability to think and get stuff done.”

]]> http://www.ppeach.com/blog/2008/09/thought-networking/feed/ 2 The Internet as a Brain http://www.ppeach.com/blog/2008/08/the-internet-as-a-brain/ http://www.ppeach.com/blog/2008/08/the-internet-as-a-brain/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:03:11 +0000 admin http://www.ppeach.com/blog/?p=39 Just came across this post by Jeffrey Stibel. The Internet is a Brain.
It prompted this first post, as this is realy what I’m interested in exploring.   How we can figure out how to use the internet to achieve global superordinate goals.  Its not a new concept, but with the social web coming into its own over the last decade, it seems the tools are becoming available,
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Image courtesy http://www.u.arizona.edu/~jallen/Intro.htm

and the enabling mindset is emerging, to properly harness this enhanced interaction between people for this purpose.

Who knows what role we might play in its cognition.   An intelligent sensory organ, an eye, an ear, a finger, or a cognitive guide/gatekeeper for red-flag thought processes?   In the end we need to understand how our personal biases affect our ability to interpret our own experiences and inputs into this process.  Maybe the subject for a different blog.
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