Think of a collection of people as a kind of collective mind. How do you tell what that collective mind believes?
That may sound like a fanciful philosophical question, but it has very real, even urgent applications. For example the IPCC is a collection of hundreds of scientists, and they put out reports supposedly embodying their [...]
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Figuring out what We believe
Posted in Argument Mapping, Austhink, Belief, Deliberation, Rationale Consensus, Wisdom of Crowds on March 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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