Hello @andrestaltz , we know each other (a bit) from Scuttlebutt. Nice to read you! This made me think:
When I think about collective intelligence, I like to use metaphors from evolutionary biology. I like social systems with an engine of variation (like mutation or sex in biology), and an engine of selection among the variants (like natural selection in biology). In the right conditions, these systems converge: some variants are superior to others, so they outcompete them, and suddenly the species has evolved. I am aware of the problems posed by taking Darwinian evolution as a blueprint for social processes (for one, the variation and selection processes are not independent from each other in most social processes). But still, there is something very appealing in this schema.
Back in the days of the unMonastery, I tried to apply it to Protocol, a set of low-level rules of interaction for working together. Sometimes it seems a lot of Egderyders lives by it, other times it just seems a failure. Good one, though 