wikosophy.org: Doubts and Comments

Closing Down

mebert — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:24:59 +0000

The Wikosophy project is now officially closed. Thanks for collaborating!

Ten Days To Go

mebert — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:00:30 +0000

Before closing down the Wikosophy website, so if ever, now is your time to start thinking.

What Amateurs Can Do

mebert — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:35:07 +0000

But can you “remix” thinking?

Asimov and the Foundation

mebert — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:18:51 +0000

Science fiction hero Asimov deals with mobs in his “Foundation” series. “The individual human being is unpredictable, but the reactions of human mobs, Seldon found, could be treated statistically. The larger the mob, the greater the accuracy that could be achieved.” But what about the thoughts of the many? Can they be creative and innovative?

The Internet = (? plus a Typewriter) x infinity

mebert — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:51:33 +0000

This image suggests that you should put in “Monkey” for the ? in the title. Wikosophy hopes to show that the Internet consists of an extremely big group of thinkers.

Prepare For A Joke

mebert — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:50:41 +0000

Prepare for a joke, taken from here: “The First Law of Philosophy: For every philosopher, there exists an equal and opposite philosopher. The Second Law of Philosophy: They’re both wrong.” How true, but on the other hand I still believe: A big number of Wikosophy contributors would be very, very wrong – or, in the end perhaps even perfectly right, because all their different and contradictory opinions would be edited out by each others resulting in what we aim for: a comprehensive philosophical thought which has not one but many authors.

Pre-runner of the web

mebert — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:34:29 +0000

A spectacular vision of a world wide web was created in the 1930ies. In the mind of Paul Otlet, “electric telescopes” would link all the people in the world with the opportunity to browse through documents, images and all of creation. He, according to the New York Times article, even anticipated social networking, where people “participate, applaud, give ovations, sing in the chorus.” A singular mind has anticipated what became reality – or, even possible – only decades later. What would have happened if Otlet had put his idea up on an analouge pre-”wiki”, under scrutiny by his contemporaries? A lot of laughter, most likely, and total rejection of his ideas. Have times changed? can people nowadays accept visionaries more easily? Would the Wikosophy project know an innovative idea or just reject it?

True? At least, funny

mebert — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:27:02 +0000

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it. (Terry Pratchett, taken from here)

Search for Collective Intelligence

mebert — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:04:11 +0000

Peter A. Gloor is not doing SETI, he is doing SECI: At the Center for Collective Intelligence at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, he is into the search for collective intelligence. Some of his theses are outlined in this item at DenkBloggAde. To quote Gloor: “We need collective intelligence”. So let’s create it at Wikosophy.

Hierarchy of Thinking

mebert — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:54:23 +0000

If you go in-depth about thinking, is it necessary to construct some hierarchy in the process? Is there some judge living inside of you, telling you: “Okay, now, this is more right than that”? There seems to be the belief that networks need hierarchies to function. Is this true for Wikipedia? If thinking is put into a non-hierarchical network – as Wikosophy is trying to do -, does it have to fail? And if so, why?