Following some of the discusssions of the two concepts recently, George Siemens tries his hand at drawing the distinction. And he does pretty well, using an example I - and every other Canadian - have used since childhood: "Essentially, as defined by common use (not the definitions provided above), the collective presents a 'melting pot' of ideas. The connective represents a "mosaic" of ideas." Probably my own deepest exploration of this is my essay My Canada, which concludes with the slogan, "In diversity, harmony." Which should strike a chord with the people who have listened to be try to explain the way Boltzmann mechanisms create connections in neural network. Anyhow, there's a lot more to say on this, and I'm sure this topic will occupy these pages in the future.
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