Limitations and Prospects of Intelligenism

Social Value of Intelligenism

  • The rules of Intelligenism and the Intelligent Consortium reshape the relationships among consumers, labor suppliers, capital suppliers, goods and service providers, and other stakeholders in traditional commercial organizations. Under the Intelligent Consortium framework, all aforementioned stakeholders are represented as different types of organizational individuals, with their contributions to the organization uniformly quantified by Driving Influence (A). While organizational individuals must still consider the interests of capital suppliers to secure funding, the organization’s operations are otherwise driven solely through consensus-building mechanisms between Driving Nodes and Action Nodes. This results in less hierarchical and more egalitarian relationships compared to cybernetic organizations. In my vision, relationships among organizational individuals in such an organization will be more equal.
  • The Connectionism-like information diffusion characteristics of the Intelligent Consortium allow for faster and more comprehensive information dissemination compared to traditional Cybernetics organizations, enabling organizational individuals to access more internal information quickly. This scenario, where individuals have easier access to extensive information, results in higher transparency and coverage of information within the organization. Information generated by the behavior of action nodes in the network can quickly reach more organizational individuals. Under these characteristics, corrupt or unfair behaviors by network nodes are more likely to be detected, making it easier for the organization to reduce or even eliminate internal corruption risks. The decentralized power and decision-making allocation in the Intelligent Consortium can enhance the overall participation of organizational individuals. Higher decision-making participation can increase organizational identification, influence the form of Rights Conversion, and improve mobilization efficiency. Different types of organizational individuals have their own interests, and these interests drive the network to consider the needs and information provided by various individuals. This may enhance the sense of belonging among organizational individuals and reduce the concentration of interest distribution. Therefore, the development and popularization of Intelligenism and the Intelligent Consortium may serve as a potential method to reduce wealth disparities.
  • In the Intelligent Consortium, all organizational individuals function to some extent as sensors and decision-making units of the organizational network. The diffuse information transmission form enables faster and more comprehensive information flow, allowing more individuals to make decisions based on extensive information during localized actions. This results in more flexible and externally adaptable action outputs under well-developed consensus-building mechanisms. The Intelligent Consortium’s actions can respond flexibly and perform effectively in a wide range of real-world scenarios, even beyond the cognitive or comprehension capabilities of a single individual or a few individuals. In contrast, in top-down Cybernetics organizations, a few high-level decision-makers operate in a filtered information environment, making such flexibility unachievable. The higher external environment adaptability of the Intelligent Consortium’s outputs is reflected in its ability to match the specific needs of different scenarios when interacting with the external environment through sub-networks. Its behaviors, products, and services demonstrate greater flexibility and precision in handling details. Conversely, top-down Cybernetics organizations rely on hierarchical instruction transmission, where top decision-makers often lack sufficient understanding or information-processing capacity for end-level execution scenarios, resulting in a lack of detailed control or flexibility. In reality, the value of outputs usually does not increase linearly. For example, in critical exams, scores of 25, 50, and 100 do not yield benefits in a 1:2:4 ratio; rather, 25 or 50 may yield no benefits, while 100 yields significant rewards. Similarly, in the context of battery efficiency and electric vehicle adoption, only when battery efficiency surpasses a specific threshold can the industry take off. Likewise, only when display chip computing power reaches a certain threshold does the AI industry begin to proliferate. In the case of humans as a species, while human intelligence surpasses that of other species, the genetic similarity to some species is over 90%, and some animals’ intelligence may reach the level of a human toddler. Yet, this seemingly small gap results in humans dominating most of Earth’s resources. The nonlinear, highly flexible, precise, and adaptive outputs of the Intelligent Consortium may enable it to surpass value thresholds in certain scenarios, creating new industrial possibilities and capturing significant shares of benefits in these new contexts.