Redundancy in the Organizational Network of the Intelligent Consortium

In the Information Redundancy and Intelligence Potential section of On Intelligence, I proposed that creating redundancy is one of the key means to enhance intelligence potential. Based on this inference, when the following redundancies appear in the Intelligent Consortium organization, they should not be regarded as waste. Organizational individuals, when building and gradually improving the organizational network, can consider further increasing redundancy and accepting its inherent characteristics to achieve the goal of enhancing the organization’s intelligence potential.

Information Redundancy: As introduced in the “Information Transmission Characteristics of the Intelligent Consortium” section, the fractal diffusion characteristics of information transmission within the Intelligent Consortium have been discussed. Based on this characteristic, it can be foreseen that organizational information transmission is diffusion-like, with each action node’s information being fully or partially transmitted to most organizational individuals. Even if some organizational individuals do not receive complete information during the initial transmission process, they can integrate information through other individuals when needed. To some external observers, this information transmission method may seem to unnecessarily pass information to a large number of organizational individuals who have no immediate interest in it, and they may believe this process lacks obvious value. However, from the perspective of information redundancy and intelligence potential, a large amount of redundant information may enable organizational individuals to generate more possibilities for information invocation and integration during their work or daily thinking, which is precisely the source of inspiration and innovation for these individuals.

Node Redundancy: From the introduction to the organizational network structure of the Intelligent Consortium, it is clear that each action node in the network structure is followed by a complete deep learning-like neural network structure, with a certain number of neuron-like driving nodes driving the behavior of the action node. In the actual operation of this network, not all driving nodes consistently play a sufficiently significant role, just as many neurons in a deep learning neural network often do not provide decisive contributions to the final output, instead playing minor or even negligible roles at times. However, we cannot deny the value of these nodes simply because some driving nodes or neurons do not play a decisive or any role in many cases. These nodes precisely reflect the growth potential and intelligence potential of the network. During organizational operations, organizational individuals cannot accurately predict which specific driving node will play a particular role in a specific action scenario. The driving process exhibits a high degree of randomness and uncertainty, but a sufficient number of driving nodes remains necessary. They are the source of new ideas and thoughts, and a key element that distinguishes the Intelligent Consortium from traditional cybernetics organizations.

Attention and Thinking Redundancy: The information diffusion characteristics of the Intelligent Consortium mean that organizational information will continuously spread from within the organization to the outside, potentially sparking ongoing attention and discussion among organizational individuals and external individuals. Organizational individuals should accept and even encourage this phenomenon of information diffusion from within the organization to its external network and the resulting attention and discussion. In my view, this seemingly inconsequential attention and debate reflect the redundancy of attention and thinking provided by individuals to the organization’s operations. Although we cannot precisely predict the specific impact of this attention and thinking redundancy on the organization at a given time, this attention and thinking itself is the soil for theoretical differentiation and proposal, bringing potential possibilities for theoretical openness and new organizational individuals to the organization.