Modern science: a case of collective intelligence? On the role of thought economy and gratifying attention in knowledge production.
Your attention please: Phenomenal conciousness, that is, how something feels, does not exist for an observer. As science relies on observations, it is not aware of the nature of subjectivity and thus science is not often defined as a collective intelligence. In this Essay, the roles of intelligence and attention are discussed, as well as an analysis of scientific communication and citation, in order to evaluate whether science is a case of collective intelligence.
Dept. of Digital Methods in Architecture and Planning, Institute of Architectural Sciences, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. franck@iemar.tuwien.ac.at
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