If you take people of average smartness.
And they talk to each other.
And by talking to each other they combine their minds.
Is that combined mind/person smarter?
If you take people of average smartness.
And they talk to each other.
And by talking to each other they combine their minds.
Is that combined mind/person smarter?
One would hope, but in practice almost never.
I think about the problem of (and pardon me) “dumb people”.
If you make a system where dumb people can talk to each other and have really good conversations, are you really achieving anything? I mean, they’re dumb. Polish a turd and it’s still a turd.
Or, maybe if two dumb people talk together really really well, they combine to make a smart person. Maybe that’s real.