Collective digitalized mind, i.e. digitalized and connected thoughts/ideas from multiple users by itself, may not automatically achieve collective intelligence (the intelligent capabilities of solving problems collectively). If all thoughts and ideas are given equal weight and importance in the collective mind, it may be too swamped with them and fail to be coherent or useful.

A system that lets users record their inquiry thoughts/ideas as observations, hypotheses, and predictions (OH&P) can provide a new mode of communication and collaboration between users - they can structurally connect their atomic OH&P directly to other users' OH&P. ([This is challenging](https://www.themind.net/observations/4fcVuFGoTEa43ez-xhSAsg) when thoughts/ideas are organized in the usual narrative structure, such as books, lectures, and talks). Such a system that connects atomic ideas and thoughts between users might achieve a **digitalized collective mind**. Digitalized mind means all ideas/thoughts are digitalized, collective meaning that these ideas/thoughts are contributed by multiple users and digitally connected to each other.

Group conversations, online communities, and coffee shop conversations have been great for exchanging ideas, but these forms usually lack organization and structure.

Group discussions, online communities, and coffee shop conversations are traditional ways for participants to exchange ideas. Ideas are usually freely bouncing around between participants. Ideas exchanged in such forms usually require a significant amount of later work (usually by a single individual) to be [organized into narrative structures](https://www.themind.net/observations/AfHZZXnNQmaVukmQ2I7EAw) that be easily consumed.

Narrative organization of ideas such as books, lectures, and talks, is excellent for the owner of those ideas to convey them to an audience. But it's not effective in enabling multidirectional exchanges of ideas in which ideas come from and go to multiple participants. We do not write each other books or give each other lectures when we need to exchange ideas. Instead, we have conversations, correspondences, tweets, comments, etc. In them, we forego structure/organization to enable smaller bits of ideas and thoughts to go freely in any direction.

A system can be created to let users record their inquiry thoughts/ideas as observations, hypotheses, and predictions (OH&P). Thanks to the intrinsic structure, the system can digitalize these thoughts/ideas with auto connections and visualization, thus providing an automatic way to organize these thoughts/ideas. We can call this digitalized mind. The digitalized mind makes thoughts/ideas easier to consume, assess and generate new insights.

Human has been organizing thoughts/ideas in story-like linear ways since the beginning of human culture. Books, talks, and lectures are all examples of such organizations. It's not the only way we convey ideas, e.g. day to day conversations usually are more or less structure-free and spontaneous. Ideas are bouncing in all directions. In the Internet age, Twitter and other social media provide new ways to perform such conversations multilaterally, but they are not well structured. The mainstream way to communicate larger groups of thoughts/ideas in a structured way remains to be the linear structure as in books, lectures, podcasts, etc. Though they have two main shortcomings 1. [they take non-trivial effort](https://www.themind.net/observations/AfHZZXnNQmaVukmQ2I7EAw), and 2. [they are ineffective in facilitating multidirectional communication.](https://www.themind.net/observations/4fcVuFGoTEa43ez-xhSAsg)

We can digitalize the essence of the mind by digitalizing the meaningful bits of thoughts, ideas, and the links between them.

**Observation:** An observed empirical fact, indisputable for reasonable people. **Hypothesis:** A conjecture that is generalized from observations (induction), or deducted from other hypotheses (deduction). Collectively, hypotheses constitute our model (or theory) of the world. A hypothesis, often together with other hypotheses, can produce predictions. We use the broadest sense of this word, not limited to untested theories of how something works. It encompasses assumption, theory, putative knowledge, and the narrow sense of hypothesis. **Prediction:** A yet-to-be-made observation or (observational categorical per Quine). It's usually based on one or more hypotheses. The relationships between these categories of thoughts are fixed. In another sentence, there is an algebra in these elements of thoughts. This theory (or "hypothesis" as defined in itself) has [a philosophical basis](https://www.themind.net/hypotheses/M1qolEkbTje29ze62yEfQg): our knowledge of the world consists solely of prediction models. and [a neuroscience one](https://www.themind.net/hypotheses/M4p8C9lOTRu8ipf5zGtEJA) (and [independently](https://www.themind.net/hypotheses/n3Tx6wlrSWOjsXHSYggrFQ).) Out brain's intelligence is solely neurons trained to that predicts inputs working collectively.

Thanks to the intrinsic set of fixed relationships between them, this formalization provides a helpful structure to our inquiry. It enables the learning cycle of observations -> hypotheses -> predictions -> correct with observations. This can be argued for [philosophically](https://www.themind.net/hypotheses/W2wRBi5mSeGueEYevUjMzw) and [neuroscientifically](https://www.themind.net/hypotheses/M4p8C9lOTRu8ipf5zGtEJA).