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Includes only formulated ideas, i.e. Questions, Hypotheses, Predictions, and Observations
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There is a need for an alternative useful way to organize thoughts/ideas
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)
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Digitalized minds
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.
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Collective digitalized mind
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.
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Collective digitalized mind does not automatically enable collective intelligence
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.
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It takes non-trivial effort and determination to organize ideas in a narrative way. Be it books, articles, ...(252 more characters.)
It takes non-trivial effort and determination to organize ideas in a narrative way. Be it books, articles, or lectures, a lot fewer people can afford the energy and time to create them than the people who have ideas (and just publish them without much organization on micro-blogging platforms. ) But this is the most effective way to convey a group of ideas.
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The traditional narrative organization of ideas does not facilitate multidirectional communication.
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.
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