Healthy living systems circulate collaborative intelligence that fails when beings see themselves as superior.

Evidence

Working together to revitalize the commons generates and draws from a kind of systemic wisdom or what Susan Griffin (1995) calls “collaborative intelligence.” As Gregory Bateson (2000) taught us, collaborative intelligence or wisdom circulates through the complex communication patterns in all healthy living systems. When it fails, or when we see ourselves as outside of or superior to it, the system fails, causing death. In contrast when it is allowed to flow freely, the system and the creatures within it flourish. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1763

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the book’s earlier relational-communication picture of mind (ch9 on the self as relational communication) to systemic wisdom. — connects to: Autonomous thinking self is a fiction; mind is relational communication — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 464; Group living forges obligated interdependence that beats individual self-maximization; Group living evolves by suppressing self-interest into obligated interdependence — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 905 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• A group’s social interconnectedness outweighs individual intelligence in producing innovation #corroborates (0.85) — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 694
• Collective numbers, not individual genius, drive human intellect’s reach. #corroborates (0.85) — Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success, 1043
• Group living forges obligated interdependence that beats individual self-maximization #corroborates (0.82)
• Humans are obligatorily interdependent because their evolved traits require group living #corroborates (0.80) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2503
• Moral systems are interlocking mechanisms that regulate self-interest to enable cooperation #corroborates (0.80) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 466
• Group living evolves by suppressing self-interest into obligated interdependence #corroborates (0.78) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 905
• Group living suppresses individual self-interest to enable resource efficiency and mutual dependence. #corroborates (0.78)
• Asymmetries of knowledge and power divide humanity into tuners and the tuned #exemplifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1060