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Stephen Downes

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It's common to talk of group consciousness in education, the hive mind, emergent knowledge, and the rest. But what does that mean, exactly? This article explores some of the possibilities. Maybe this: " Conscious experience is still the province of individual people. What Pettit adds is only a somewhat more complex way of picking out which individual conscious experiences count as the group's shared conscious experience." Or.... maybe not.

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