Morphing Intelligence by Catherine Malabou

Author:Catherine Malabou
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Columbia University Press

PUBLIC SPACE AND EXPERIMENTAL DEMOCRACY

For Dewey, taking the plurality of perspectives into account when examining problems, along with identifying the greatest wealth of possibilities in a given situation, is democracy par excellence. The “growth” and “power” of collective intelligence are conditions for “experimental democracy.”

In The Public and Its Problems, we read that moving toward “experimental democracy” requires that ideas be shared and communicated: “ideas which are not communicated, shared and reborn in expression are but soliloquy, and soliloquy is but broken and imperfect thought.” It also requires the establishment of relations of interpersonal exchange in the local community: “Expansion and reinforcement of personal understanding and judgement by the cumulative and transmitted intellectual wealth of the community … can be fulfilled only in the relations of personal intercourse in the local community.” We might conclude that there is no collective intelligence without community expression. Dewey confirms precisely this, writing: “There is no limit to the liberal expansion and confirmation of limited personal intellectual endowment which may proceed from the flow of social intelligence when that circulates by word of mouth from one to another in the communications of the local community. That and that only gives reality to public opinion.”22

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