Group Intelligence, Enhancement, and Extended Minds - 0 views
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Keith Hamon on 07 Feb 11Virtually all talk of cognitive enhancement focuses exclusively on the enhancement of individual intelligence. In a fascinating paper published in Science entitled "Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups" (2010), Dr. Anita Williams Woolley and her colleagues find that there is such a thing as collective intelligence: the analogue of general intelligence, or IQ, except it exists at the level of the group rather than the individual.