The Lancet Planetary Health - vol. 5 n° 5 -
"How do societies channel flows of information so that they can be responded to meaningfully, effectively, and wisely? How do societies maintain and transmit values, skills, and insights about the world so that they can be reproduced and built upon from one generation to the next? These are questions that might generally be assembled under the heading of collective intelligence; and while the term collective intelligence has been increasingly appropriated by studies of computing, business, and finance,1 it may be argued that a naturalistic study of collective intelligence—one that examines the ways that structures of collective perception, meaning making, and decision making function, evolve, and are reproduced across time2—is crucial to the field of planetary health, pertaining as it does to the wellbeing of both society and the natural world..."
"How do societies channel flows of information so that they can be responded to meaningfully, effectively, and wisely? How do societies maintain and transmit values, skills, and insights about the world so that they can be reproduced and built upon from one generation to the next? These are questions that might generally be assembled under the heading of collective intelligence; and while the term collective intelligence has been increasingly ...
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