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  2. Collective wisdom - Wikipedia

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    Harnessing the collective wisdom of people is an area of intense contemporary interest and cutting-edge research. The application of the term to methodologies that are designed to harness collective wisdom is credited to the work of Alexander Christakis and his group, [3] [4] As the challenges society faces today are of extreme complexities, the only solution is to develop technologies capable ...

  3. Collective intelligence - Wikipedia

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    H.G. Wells World Brain (1936–1938). The concept (although not so named) originated in 1785 with the Marquis de Condorcet, whose "jury theorem" states that if each member of a voting group is more likely than not to make a correct decision, the probability that the highest vote of the group is the correct decision increases with the number of members of the group. [20]

  4. Group cognition - Wikipedia

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    Group cognition is a social, largely linguistic phenomenon whereby a group of people produce a sequence of utterances that performs a cognitive act. That is, if a similar sequence was uttered or thought by an individual it would be considered an act of cognition or thinking.

  5. Transactive memory - Wikipedia

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    Transactive memory is a psychological hypothesis first proposed by Daniel Wegner in 1985 as a response to earlier theories of "group mind" such as groupthink. [1] A transactive memory system is a mechanism through which groups collectively encode, store, and retrieve knowledge.

  6. Community of practice - Wikipedia

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    A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who "share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly". [1] The concept was first proposed by cognitive anthropologist Jean Lave and educational theorist Etienne Wenger in their 1991 book Situated Learning. [2]

  7. Tribal knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Tribal knowledge may be one aspect of a group's bus factor. If too many individuals with tribal knowledge leave a team, the knowledge may be lost and hamper the team's ability to work. Tribal knowledge has a lot of commonality with tacit knowledge. Both tacit and tribal knowledge are formed by personal stories, learning experiences, mentorships ...

  8. Common knowledge (logic) - Wikipedia

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    Common knowledge is a special kind of knowledge for a group of agents. There is common knowledge of p in a group of agents G when all the agents in G know p, they all know that they know p, they all know that they all know that they know p, and so on ad infinitum. [1] It can be denoted as .

  9. Collective identity - Wikipedia

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    Collective identity or group identity is a shared sense of belonging to a group. This concept appears within a few social science fields. This concept appears within a few social science fields. National identity is a simple example, though myriad groups exist which share a sense of identity.