There seems to be no central processing center in our brain but rather a
probabilistically-biased parallel exploration of possibilities.(page 150).
The principle of collective intelligence is based on the principle that many individuals will nearly always come up with a better solution than any individual on his or her own.
Constant generation, regrouping and chaining together of new ideas has the potential of always finding a satisfying solution.
This is exactly what is going on in our brain:
We are constantly producing "codelets" (small parts of information), regrouping them and chaining them together in various fashions until the solution to a problem is found.
Codelets are constantly competing with each other, trying to come closer to solving a given problem.
For our purposes the only obvious difference between humans interacting with each other and codelets interacting with each other is that codelets are not self-aware. They do not have the "big picture". Rather the interaction amongst them is actually creating the global picture.
The precise strategies of these interactions remain unknown.
But Numbo is definitely a good starting point in order to try to understand more about this emergent phenomenon.
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