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MSSCI 2024 Series: Mini-Symposia on Strong Collective Intelligence
ABOUT
This weekly series of mini-symposia will partner with an evolving set of organizations, and conferences to explore a different topic every week related to any limits to the problem-solving ability of human groups that might exist due to their lack of "strong collective intelligence" (strong CI). Here strong CI is defined as general rather than narrow problem-solving ability at the group level, as well as how it might be possible to vastly or even exponentially increase the problem-solving ability of human groups in order to overcome those limits. Any hypothetical limits to the problems that human groups can reliably define and/or solve in the absence of "strong collective intelligence" (strong CI), where strong CI is defined as general rather than narrow problem-solving ability at the group level, are critically important to research in Collective Intelligence (CI), as they are to a vast range of other disciplines. But despite this importance they are a topic that might be in general be outside the awareness of CI community specifically and the research community in general.
Having general problem-solving ability at the group level, a strong CI is potentially capable of switching between using any narrowly defined problem-solving strategy or algorithm depending on the specific context of each problem, wherever that strategy is most optimal. This contrasts with current CI methods that are narrow or weak in that they are confined to more narrowly defined problems, and must be redesigned to address others, or in that they don’t explicitly solve the problems required to identify specific classes of solutions that mimic the strong collective intelligence that occurs in various domains in nature. Taking the domain of cooperation between cells (multicelluarity) as an analogy, current CI methods are predicted to be unable to reliably take a multicellular-like approach in distributing and decentralizing all aspects of problem-solving.
As a result, working backwards from networks of interventions that in some cases predict a vast increase in impact on collective outcomes, current approaches to collective intelligence in some cases fail to reliably discover and/or select such better solutions. In other words, current approaches to CI fail to solve the problems involved in combining networks of processes, interventions, or other entities in cooperation that creates the capacity for vastly or even exponentially better collective outcomes than might be achieved through solutions that compete for impact on their own. One of the problems that current approaches to CI fail to solve is defining the entire space of possibilities within which such better solutions might be discovered. The existence of general problem-solving ability in a strong CI is also separate from its level or magnitude of such general problem-solving ability (its collective intelligence), which is considered here to be related to the volume and complexity of choices the group is potentially capable of searching through per unit of time in the process of problem-solving. This collective intelligence is also related to the group’s ability to sustain that search.
By drawing an analogy between strong CI and the collective intelligence between cells that nature has developed in multicellularity, the limit to the complexity of structures that can be achieved without multicellularity can help us metaphorically understand the limit to the complexity of problems that can be solved without strong CI. Multicellularity can solve complex problems like vision and cognition, while single-cellularity can only solve simpler problems like creating the kinds of simple structures that slime molds can combine to form.
Any such limits, if they exist, would suggest that while any given idea might be useful in reliably solving a specific group problem, past those limits of complexity, the group will reliably fail to solve that problem with that very same idea. If so, then in order to reliably be successful in executing any such idea, the group needs to increase its strong collective intelligence. In other words, part of an idea is its execution, and an idea being executed by a vastly more intelligent collective intelligence is not only being executed in a way that tries to solve the very different problem of optimizing collective outcomes, but it is also being executed by a vastly more powerful intelligence, and would therefore be expected to have very different outcomes. "strong collective intelligence" (strong CI).
Each symposium might be in-person or online depending on the specific event. The format is listed separately for each symposium below.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The call for submissions for each weekly mini-symposium will be linked below as it is created:
Those interested in giving a 5 minute lightning talk on the subject of the limits to the problem-solving ability of human groups in the absence of strong CI and/or using functional state spaces to overcome the limits to the complexity of systems that can be navigated by human groups are welcome to submit a 300 word abstract. Given the early stage of research in this field, perspective talks are welcome. Abstract submissions should be in PDF format.
Important Dates:
PROGRAM
The initial format while introducing this new topic will be a one hour symposium consisting of four five minute lightning talks that will be given by selected attendees. Each of these lightning talks will be followed by ten minutes of moderated discussion.
SPEAKERS
The talks will initially be informal and not recorded, to allow those new to this topic to participate.
REGISTRATION
Register to attend each event here when registration becomes available:
Registration for MSSCI-1 2024: 1st 2024 Mini-Symposium on Strong Collective Intelligence
Registration for MSSCI-3 2024: 3rd 2024 Mini-Symposium on Strong Collective Intelligence and the Blockchain
Registration for MSSCI-4 2024: 4th 2024 Mini-Symposium on Strong Collective Intelligence and the SDGs
Registration for MSSCI-5 2024: 5th 2024 Mini-Symposium on Strong Collective Intelligence and Digital Currencies
Registration for MSSCI-6 2024: 6th 2024 Mini-Symposium on Strong Collective Intelligence and Innovation
Registration for MSSCI-7 2024: 7th 2024 Mini-Symposium on Strong Collective Intelligence and Economics
Registration for MSSCI-8 2024: 8th 2024 Mini-Symposium on Strong Collective Intelligence in the Use and Design of AI
Registration for MSSCI-9 2024: 9th 2024 Mini-Symposium on Strong Collective Intelligence and Software Platform Architecture
Registration for MSSCI-10 2024: 10th 2024 Mini-Symposium on Strong Collective Intelligence and Banking
Registration for MSSCI-11 2024: 11th 2024 Mini-Symposium on Strong Collective Intelligence and Insurance
Registration for MSSCI-12 2024: 12th 2024 Mini-Symposium on Strong Collective Intelligence and Democracy
Attendance for listeners is free up to the cutoff limit of 100 users of Google Meet.
ORGANIZERS, SPONSORS, and COLLABORATIONS
Organizing Committee:
General Chair: Andy E. Williams
Program Chair: TBD
Publication Chair: TBD
Logistics Chair: Peter Mugenya
Sponsors and Collaborations:
Nobeah Foundation
Contact:
*** Contact email address info@nobeahfoundation.org ***