Symbiotic Intelligence: Self-Organizing Knowledge on Distributed
Networks Driven by Human Interaction
Norman Johnson
Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Steen Rasmussen
Los Alamos National
Laboratory and Santa Fe Institute
Cliff Joslyn
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Luis Rocha
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Steven Smith
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Marianna Kantor
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract
This work addresses how human societies, and other diverse and distributed
systems, solve collective challenges that are not approachable from the
level of the individual, and how the Internet will change the way societies
and organizations view problem solving.
Through conceptual examples, an experiment of collective decision making
on the Net and a simulation showing the effect of noise and loss of information
on collective decision making, we argue that the resulting symbiotic structure
of humans and the Internet will evolve as an alternative problem solving
approach for groups, organizations and society.