George,

(my previos post might have been eaten by the spam eating technology so I will redevelop and re-post)

Tim Berners Lee and his associates have developed the notion of a Semantic Web of information where two sides exists. One side has machine interoperabality and the other side is defined by human collaboration.

I have argued that the TBL notion of the Semantic Web is incomplete, largely because of the influence of the mythology of artificial intelligence

http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/anticipatoryWeb/ten.htm

I have proposed alternatives in the form of Human-centric Information Processing (HIP) technology that can be used to create Anticipatory Webs of Information. These proposals have been made to DARPA, NIST, NSF and IN-Q-Tel; but there are powerful individuals within the academic environments who block funding.

The ignition of collective intelligence is vital for the control of fundamentalisms, including pure capitalism and the explotations that come from consentrated military power. How does the participatory democracy work when 15 - 20% of the population of the United States can control the vast power and resources of the Nation, and use this control to control elections?

As an esoteric, and as a scientist/mathematician, I have to point out that the knowledge sciences is missing from our educational curriculums and that this absence needs to be fixed. The foundation I created in 1997 for this purpose is proposing a $60,000,000 National Project to establish the knowledge sciences as an academic discipline.

This educational curriculum will help individuals understand the nature of social discourse and the fibric of collective awareness.

I predict that the anticipatory technologies will ignite more and more small instances of Collective Intelligence, until the society as a whole lifts itself away from the current entrenchment kept stable by the media.

I wish I could talk to Horward Dean.

(I will not check the spelling, as I do not want to lose this message again).

George

I have a new PowerPoint presentation about the simple nature of anticipatory technology at:

http://www.bcngroup.org/beadgames/anticipatoryWeb/nine.htm

My group is composed of information scientists, and natural scienstists, who very much are in tune with the notion that social knowledge has an local and global manifestation, as David Bohm, Karl Pribram and many others have talked about.

So I very much hope that those interested in Collective Intelligence phenomenon will gather around the notions that we are making public domain.

Dr. Paul Prueitt
703- *981- *2676
Director, BCNGroup (Behavioral Computational Neuroscience Foundation)

George,

I just want to add the text of an interview Nick Drummond conducted with Chris Parish for further consideration.

What is Enlightened Comunication? Here is the starting point fronm the Interview:

What is Enlightened Communication?
In What Way is it New and
How can it be used to Further Human Evolution?
An interview with Chris Parish

By Nick Drummond, Nordic Integral Team
January 17, 2004

www.nordicintegral.com

The collective becomes singular; the collective becomes one mind; it’s a higher level of evolutionary potential. It’s the power of the many literally becoming one.
Andrew Cohen

Summary
In this interview with Chris Parish, chief coordinator of Andrew Cohen’s European IEF centres, we enquire into: what would it mean to come together and communicate with a large group of people and have the feeling that you were meeting yourself? What would be the quality of the communication? How might it affect the relationship you have with yourself, the people and world around you? And what might this new quality of communication and thinking offer in terms of practical application? What’s more, how can this new level of intersubjective communication be approached as an integral science?

Chris Parish distinguishes enlightened communication as being a clear example of how enlightened minds can come together to create a deep sense of mutual understanding. He also explains the prerequisites for bringing about this higher form of collective wisdom and intelligence in communication. "It’s not just a group of people having a dialogue or conversation together…It’s a different sort of movement than trying to come together and finding consensus or trying to agree or argue out what’s the best thing. Because while all that has its place, often a lot of the ways people have come together in the past have tended to cater to the lowest common denominator of being the best way of getting an agreement" Whereas here, "there’s often a real sense of urgency that we want to go somewhere. So this isn’t something for one’s own indulgence. It’s not something to just bask in for ones own self-satisfaction."

As Chris Parish explains, enlightened communication creates, "the possibility of a network of consciousnesses that is so fast … where there is no inertia between minds; there’s nothing in the way of communication; it opens up the possibility of something exponentially faster. Because the interesting thing is that when each person is speaking authentically… it’s not really a personal thing at all … It’s like someone is articulating ones own deepest soul feeling… the possibility is there that we could tackle all sorts of problems and find creative collective solutions that we probably would never have come across before. The possibilities are enormous."

Very exciing!

Albert