CREATING COLLECTIVE MINDS

The presence of a Global Collective Consciousness with Conscience (Truth with Relevence & Goodness for all Humanity) in a society is the essential foundation for creating and growing a democracy. The American experiment with such is increasingly seriously threatened at its foundation as has been observed in warnings for decades, for example:

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Co-Intelligence and the Holistic Politics
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Copyright © 1999 by Tom Atlee
Written for the Permaculture Activist Oct 1999
To our normal awareness a uranium rock is just a rock. But arrange its parts in a particular way, with the right processes, and it can blow up a city.
To our normal awareness a room filled with people is just a crowd. But arrange those people in the right way, with the right processes, and they can generate wisdom.
The experiment with human consciousness has reached a crisis: Will we design cultures that generate wisdom before our awesome physical powers destroy the laboratory, our world?
I invite you to consider "co-intelligence" as an antidote to blind human power, and a vital next step in our evolution.

THOUGHTSIGNS, INC.

CREATING MINDS

THOUGHTSIGNS, INC. (TSI) [also dba “ThoughtSigns Enterprise Systems” (TES)], is the asset owner/holder and managing developer of the AUTOGNOMICS (AG)-SMARTR TECHNOLOGY, a class of Synthetic Intelligence technology derived from a MultiCoRelational Semiotic-based formally-grounded standard theory of mind. [The AutoGnome (a Virtual Mind Clone) is a self(auto)-knowing (gnome) purposeful software system capable of autonomous inquiry, inference and intuition in decision-making.] “Project AutoGnome” aspires to vrtual minds (AutoGnomes) in virtual communities, i.e. Collective AutoGnomes. The radical, unique and novel feature of this Collective Intelligence/Collective Mind is that both the individual (personal) AutoGnome in the collective as well as the CollectiveGnome itself are intelligent AutoGnomes (Synthetic Minds).

TSI’S efforts are divided into three tracks: Conceptual, Research, and Commercial all currently directed at implementing TSI’s ThoughtEnactment (TEA) Technology development as a People’s Global Virtual Collective Mind, thus leading to the first true Synthetic Intelligence instantiation of a SmartR CITIZENS’ SCIENCE applied to SmartR Decision-Making in Choosing Acts, for example, for Organizing SmartR Smart City Development.

Specifically, TSI is the Developer of the instantiation of the (AG)-SMARTR TECHNOLOGY as a MultiCoRelational Scientific Methodology [Inquiry, Inference and Intuition], exemplified as a CITIZENS’ SCIENCE with a Citizen Scientist as a personal AutoGnome. The need in order to effectively engage this resource is for new processes and technologies that improve personal and organizational effectiveness in “Knowledge Creation and Development” implemented through an organizational and management architecture respecting autonomy throughout its hierarchical and heterarchical levels. This can be accomplished by effecting collective-intelligence in a cognitive network for Relational [rational & heuristic] Collective Decision Making to support and extend Individual and Collective Innovation. The solution is an Intelligized Cognitive Network of AutoGnomes, a Virtual Innovation Network.

THOUGHTENACTMENT (TEA) TECHNOLOGY

Since all that is known by Humans is known by “MIND”,

all queries will ultimately be referred back to

the foundation query of KNOWING MIND

 TSI’s initial mission is to focus on the Democratization (Sovereign Persons, Individually and Collectively, with Open Participation “Benefit Corporation” Governance) of Access to Knowledge and Capital, both individually and collectively, through this Collective Intelligence. The Technology is to be applied generally in Human Intelligent Community Enterprise Development with an initial concentration on Research, Education, Sustainable Futures and Community and Economic Development through Entrepreneurial Innovation Technology Development & Business Applications. As a consequence, AutoGnomics Collective Intelligence solutions for specific chosen projects in a Global Virtual Innovation Network (VIN) will gradually lead to the Birthing of a Global Network of the MultiCoRelational, MultiLingual, and MultiCultural Intelligent Communities, i.e. the communities of the Future— Including Indigenous, Rural and Metro/Urban populations and cultures. 

STARTSMARTR^TM INC. (SSI)

STARTSMARTR^TM—ORGANIZING

APPLIED TO SMART COMMUNITY/VILLAGE/CITY DEVELOPMENT

 Humanity is increasingly attentive to the widely understood dominance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in driving the foreseeable future of global technology development. For example, AI in BioMedPharma Apps is a top Investor target, a Multi-Billion $ Industry, and by adding the Human MicroBiome to these Apps it has been suggested to be a Trillion $ market.

The World Urban Population in 1980 had 1.731 billion people worldwide, i.e. 39%, living in cities. By 2015 this had increased to 3.968 billion (54%) and is projected to grow to 6.419 billion (66%) by 2050, (World Urbanization Trends - 2014). In response, Urban Planning has rapidly adopted AI in a growing effort to build “Smart Cities”.

[Smart City Defined: A smart city, although still nascent and heterogenous in definition, is broadly recognized as a concept in which information and communication technology integrate with an “Internet of Things” (IoT) to connect machine components across a community or urban landscape. “The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of physical things embedded with sensors, software, electronics and connectivity to allow it to perform better by exchanging information with other connected devices, the operator or the manufacturer.”

Smart City Growth: At present there are recognized over 100 smart cities globally with a projection of about 600 in the next 20 years.

The Opportunity: Strategic Opportunity Analysis of the Global Smart City Market is estimated to be worth $1.565 Trillion by 2020.]

From the Fourth Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Annual International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2018) in Kansas City, Missouri, USA during September 16 – 19, 2018- we have:

“As we continue to layer new technology on top of and within our cities and infrastructure, we are forced to confront the complex interplay between our technology systems and our service delivery systems that make our communities attractive and welcoming to the people who live there. We talk broadly about the health care system or the education system, and we acknowledge the regional nature of transportation systems, energy and water systems, and even food systems. As sensors, data, connectivity, networks, and analytics offer opportunities to improve each of these systems independently, the common elements of the technology infrastructure offer more opportunities for interoperability across systems and to reframe how we optimize and make decisions about these systems. Better transportation can help provide access to food and healthcare, for example, or smart lighting can address energy consumption and public safety. Yet the more we focus on the system, how do we maintain an appreciation of the people within the system as complex, unique individuals with disparate values rather than simply as nodes in a network? How do we balance the opportunity for shared efficiency with the heightened risks of linking things together? The technical and social challenges we encounter in this work are the foundation for the 4th International IEEE Smart Cities Conference”  and the reason for our SMARTR Technology applied to Smart Community/Village/City Development.