@markjbradford quoted @GrahamHill, which was retweeted by @Technoshaman

• "The key is that effective co-creation needs to be organised. It doesn't self-organise..."

I totally disagree with this, thus I responded to them saying:  More >

@VenessaMiemis (http://emergentbydesign.com) asked on Twitter:

• "Does a Corporation have consciousness?"

• "What would happen if developing human potential of people were top priority of corps & orgs?"

The other responses that I saw focused on profit motives, incentives, toppling capitalism, etc. These are the usual types of responses and they arise from an anthropocentric paradigm, which could be caricatured by the phrase "people rule the world". They focus on how people can engineer organisations for the benefit of people without even considering the perspectives of the organisations themselves and what they want. For example, the comment by @steve_e

• Orgs more successful, people happier. Orgs would exist to support/enhance people, not the other way round!

And in particular the comment by @mgusek555 caught my attention

• Corps don't have consciousness, but the people within them do collectively.

IMHO these are rather narrow anthropocentric perspectives on a very important issue, hence I decided to throw in my two cents worth in order to present an alternative non-anthropocentric / systemic perspective. Here are my tweets:  More >

@notthisbody how do memetic algorithms relate 2 collectiveIntelligence?

Related questions are, What is a meme, memeplex, mind, collectiveMind?

• A meme is a cognitive virus that breeds via repetition. Symbolic expressions are its outer form & ideas, beliefs, etc are its inner form.

• A memeplex is an integrated self-reinforcing network of memes, for example 'modernism' & 'Hinduism' are two memeplexes.

• A mind is a memetic ecosystem where memes & memeplexes compete for dominance. The ego / personality is the 'mainstream' memeplex.

• When minds communicate they interlink & form a multidimensional socioCognitive landscape - a larger memetic ecosystem - a collectiveMind.

• When the ideas that we think come filtered through our socialNetworks we are experiencing reality through the lens of the collectiveMind.

• When we share ideas with others we are contributing to the reality experienced by the collectiveMind.

• Culture is collectiveIntelligence in action.

More tweets from @anandavala at http://twitter.com/anandavala

• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious (CarlJung)
• Our present ego-feeling is a shrunken residue of a much more inclusive all-embracing-feeling, a more intimate bond (Freud)
• Freud gave us insight/demonstration that the ordinary person is a shrivelled desiccated fragment of what a person can be (RDLaing)
• For man has closed himself up, 'till he sees all things thro' the chinks of his cavern (WilliamBlake)
• The 'I' that I think I am is a self image formed in the mind. I am not what I think I am. So what am I? That is THE question!
• When a thought is born you are born. You think there's 'somebody' who feels your feelings; that's the illusion. (UGKrishnamurti)
• Nothing keeps you from liberation except fear. You are afraid of being impersonal, of impersonal being. (Nisargadatta)
• That which is the subtle essence, in it is the self of all that exists. It is the True. It is the Self & thou art it. (Chandogya Upanishad)
• Imagine ur a sentient being within a VR, it would seem physical, you would seem separate, yet the true agent behind every action is the CPU.
• In this VR scenario computation "is the self of all that exists. It is the True. It is the Self & thou art it. (Chandogya Upanishad)
• RT @petervan Virtual Reality you can reach out and touch http://bit.ly/cJS08I When virtual reality feels real http://bit.ly/dtTvxA
• In tech VR we look from the outside in but in cosmic VR we are emergent from the information process, which animates every thought/action.
• Quantum Mechanics also provides an information theoretic analogy for the nature of reality
• The "physical universe" is analogous to a VR animated by "universal consciousness" and it evolves as a unified holistic process.
• Hence - events happen, deeds are done but there is no individual doer of any deed (Buddha)
• The objects we experience are objects-of-perception; the contents of awareness that are imagined to exist "out there" due to naive realism
• Hence - "with our thoughts we make the world" (Buddha)
• Signs of an emerging paradigmShift http://bit.ly/dfxL4R : quantum mechanics categorically proves naive realism is a false perspective.
• For details of QM disproof of naive realism search for "Stern Gerlach" http://bit.ly/cCOjTx or see relevant chapter of http://bit.ly/9XhElB