What is Collective Wisdom?

This seeded conversation focuses on the question 'What is Collective Wisdom?', as presented in the opening speech given by Dr. Albrecht Mahr at a conference on Collective Wisdom held in Wurzburg, Germany in April, 2006.

We invite you to voice your thoughts about this engaging subject.

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[David Star]

I have also been impressed by the writings of Teilhard de Chardin. But I was much more impressed by what I read in the book "The Celestine Prophesy". It excited me to imagine that the human species as a whole was in the process of experiencing a positve spiritual ,physiological,& environmental evolution. Though fiction - that book really spoke to my own desire to grow and evolve as well. I reckon that is also what drew me to search for a website like this one.

[Edmond J. Kerollis]

My interest in collective wisdom began when I returned to College in 2003 and did a paper on "The Celestine Prophecy". This was also my first exposure to the Internet. Curious about the power of the Internet I came across the concept of "Memes" and the "Noosphere". This led me to the person who coined the Noosphere,Pierre Teilhard De Chardin.
The following excerpt was published in 1955 by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin under the mis-translated title "The Phenomenon of Man"
"The general gathering together in which, by correlated actions of the without and the within of the earth, the totality of thinking units and thinking forces are engaged---the aggregation in a single block of a mankind whose fragments weld together and interpenetrate before our eyes in spite of (indeed in proportion to) their efforts to separate--all this becomes intelligible from top to bottom as soon as we perceive it as the natural culmination of a cosmic process of organisation which has never varied since those remote ages when our planet was young."
Now today I came across something that validated my belief that there are Natural (Moral) Laws. It was the Alpha Publishing Co.: Richard W. Wetherill identified a natural law that determines the results of people's actions with one another and the environment. He called it the "Law of Absolute Right". The law states that right action is logical, appropriate and moral -- and gets right results.
Then I found this Initiative. Some coincidence.