THOUGHTSIGNS, INC.’S
(TSI)
“STARTSMARTR” TECHNOLOGY for
RE-MINDING HUMANITY
[To Mind (or Minding) is an act intended by the acting mind
to increase
the Intelligence/ Knowledge/ Wisdom in the acts of
a subject mind--individual or
collective]
Humans Minds
are, with varying degrees of intent, generally searching for more effective and
satisfying ways to inter-relate – interpersonally; within families, communities,
and organizations; in understanding different cultures and socio-economic and
environmental relations; and in creative cooperation with nature. But without an
understanding of the notion of relation
and its experiential realizations, each human-being drives their own little
bumper car in the carnival of life merely waiting for the next collision and
reaction. Never seeing the collective movement. Never understanding the inter-related
Whole.
Imagine, if
just for a moment, that all of human kind could move toward a more fluid,
peaceful, and symbiotic Whole with their fellow human beings and the world at
large, if only we were to tweak one tiny simple presumption in the traditional collective thinking of our global
culture. That is “One of the most profound
scientific recognitions of modern times is that the Universe no longer can be represented
only through material objects,
but rather must be seen as fundamentally relational. If the manifest Universe is
relational, then it behooves us to understand
how relations relate!” [Edited
from Hamann, J. R. and Rindge, J. P. (1978) "A New Transforming
Symbol System", Human
Dimensions, 6, Nos. 1 and 2]. In this context MultiCoRelationalism was born
and is being applied in developing a formal foundation for the collective understanding
of the Nature of MIND.
It is often said that “two
minds are better than one”! Yet we all recognize that the individual mind is the
prime source of human creativity. These seemingly conflicting impressions are
reconcilable from Humanity’s perspective when a created “truth” is also
“collectively relevant” and of “general value to humanity”. However, the
creativity of humans has generated profound societal change, including rapidly
exploding information availability (the Internet), leaving humanity with an
information overload for which the human mind requires a technological assist
to effectively act on the continually changing information. The traditional scientific
approach to a solution has been in the development and application of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) software. Despite the positive and sometimes
seemingly miraculous results of the AI solutions (like self-driving cars), the
general experience of managing the convergence of big data, cloud computing,
and ubiquitous networked sensors/devices in AI supported decision making, has
led to a continuing disappointment with the lack of explainability of many of these
AI engineered solutions. As a consequence, there is an alternative rapidly growing
neo-scientific and collective-enterprise value being placed on autonomous and
adaptive self-generating synthetic intelligence theories and technologies more
closely replicating the processes of Mind than the engineered AI models of
brain function. ThoughtSigns’ strategy
is to ride this growing wave of emerging theory, enabling technologies, and
market interest, all of which, due to their lack of a generalized artificial
intelligence, implicate the necessary need and value of ThoughtSigns’ Synthetic Intelligence (SI)/Synthetic Mind (AutoGnome
(AG)) development, all the while sustaining a technological applications business
advantage by partnering with AI developers in the implementation of their existing
AI software as initial commercial solutions which can then be morphed into AG solutions.
A first
generative instantiation of this Synthetic Intelligence is a Scientific
Intelligence. The automation of the logics of inquiry and inference will enable
machines to learn from data, and ask relevant questions to obtain new data.
This promises a reformed Scientific Method inclusive of the Collective Intelligence Quotients for each
of the T/R/V - Truth with Relevance and Value for Humanity as Whole.
Concomitant with the emergence of the prolific AI/SI developments, of
equal importance has been the
momentous
introduction of the concept of a network
as the operating infrastructure of our global socioeconomic reality. The Internet has led to a new socioeconomic
structure, a MultiCoRelational System composed of multiple and fluid connections,
operating within hierarchical and heterarchical levels, to access and process a
wide range of capital resources. Networks have the capacity to process not only
goods and services, but also information in a manner that promotes wide-ranging
collective involvement in strategic planning and decision-making rather than
special groups with unilateral information transference. Formally, it is known that the value of a network grows as the square of
the number of nodes/participants in the network.
Hence, the SI/AG StartSmartR Collective
Intelligence Technology, being a breakthrough in information/knowledge/wisdom
technology, will solve a broad range of economically and socially important
problems not effectively addressed by modern digital computing systems using AI
software alone. Commercialization of
this proprietary technology will create a new industry defining the standard
for virtual mind-enhancement of collective human decision-making in which ThoughtSigns,
Inc. intends to become the scientific, technological and business leader. The radical, unique and novel feature of this
collective intelligence is that both the Individual
AutoGnome (MyWebGnome) in the collective as well as the Collective AutoGnome (CoGnome) itself
are intelligent AutoGnomes. TSI through its StartSmartR Virtual Innovation Network goes beyond current virtual
social networking (e.g., Facebook) and collaboration platforms (e.g., Quora) to
a virtual collective-intelligence community, where users create, act, and learn
within a technology-enhanced community of inquiry and inference. These
community members can act on more complete, up-to-date, and relevant
information while continuously refining and adding to the collective capability
to achieve communal goals. StartSmartR
Technology’s unique formal structure relating communal knowledge and
experience will also enable autonomous synthetic intelligence to expand
and augment human capacity for increased success in innovation across a wide
range of applications.
TSI’s
General Enterprise Model is more than an application provider - TSI will
be a general capital partner (including financial,
intellectual, human, relational, etc.) in contributing to the success of the Virtual Innovation Network (VIN) of
Collective Enterprises which it facilitates, and will share in those
successes through value appreciation, revenue sharing, long-term contracts, and
through the usual crowdfunding and Technology and Organizational Development
Services fee structures. As this VIN grows globally, the gradual effect of the
collective intelligence on the individual mind can contribute to individual
satisfaction and thereby to collective truth with individual relevance and
increased value to Humanity as Whole.
