Social Cognition and Collective Intelligence

Collective intelligence is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation. There exists an interesting correlation between collective intelligence and the degree of the human development. Some months ago it was held a dialogue in MIT TV between Andrew Lo (MIT), Martin Nowak (Harvard), Alexander Pentland (MIT) and Rebecca Saxe (MIT). Thomas Malone moderated the dialogue. The interested reader may find the link here: http://video.mit.edu/watch/social-cognition-and-collective-intelligence-7792/