A Model for General Collective Intelligence

Abstract

A General Collective Intelligence or GCI is a hypothetical platform that combines groups into a virtual collective cognition with a single well-defined thread of collective reasoning. While groups might have some innate general problem-solving ability described by a general collective intelligence factor (c), any collective intelligence software platform or methodology used as a decision-making tool by groups to increase problem-solving ability has narrow problem-solving ability where it is not able to address any problem in general. As opposed to such collective intelligence methodologies or software platforms, GCI has the potential to combine individual cognition into a single virtual collective cognition with general problem-solving ability, and also creates the potential to exponentially increase this general problem-solving ability.