Re: . 2.7 Million Morons

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 06:09:44 GMT, Ken Muldrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Spiffy discussion, BTW.  I should probably trim the followups to just
sci.physics, but I don't know if I'll bother.

> The beauty of the idea of "collective cognition" (analogous to
> collective action) is that the more minds are involved in solving a
> problem, the better the solution. What I want to do is get more people
> thinking about the idea. Once that gets going then it will either
> become obvious that it has to be implemented, or it will become
> obvious why it cannot be implemented. 

I've read all the preceding posts, and I hope I have some inkling of your 
proposal.  Let me see if I understand:

1) citizen of this political entity does their thing -- some kind of work,
I suppose -- for a predetermined amount of decision making power

2) at regular times, the citizens who have some decision-credit get
together to make laws and solve problems (or, perhaps, elect
representatives or apppoint people to positions)

3) instead of money, this decision-making-credit is the stuff which is 
used in trade (?? I'm not sure on this)

Am I completely off?  I haven't got any scotch to help me along.  (Which
is just as well, I suspect.  Wine will have to do.)


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