Unified Individual Intelligence
By Pierre Levy

Can you share with me your perspective on the tension, or distinction between networked intelligences and holism?

I think that one individual intelligence is like a sphere that reflects in itself the world outside, and every individual intelligence is reflecting the outside world in a different way from her or his point of view. So, the more that these intelligences are connected and the more their perception of the external world expands because we get information; the more we are interconnected, and the greater our understanding of the external world becomes. In a certain way, the external world is made of other intelligences because there is no real material external world outside of our perception. There is no color red in the material world. There are just wavelengths or things like this. The red is only in our mind and meanings are only in our mind.

I think that the interconnection of individual intelligence is the creative power that generates the whole and finally, the whole is made of individual intelligence.

So, our perception of the world is created by our minds and the more we can connect our minds, the more we can perceive a vast world, and also the more we can create a vast world. And also, maybe create a different world because we can cooperatively create this world by language, by communication technology, by computers, etc. Everyday we have new means to create this world, this global world.

So, I think that the interconnection of individual intelligence is the creative power that generates the whole and finally, the whole is made of individual intelligence.

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