HOLISTIC WISDOM

In a world flooded with fragmented knowledge and information, our greatest challenge lies in the gap between the complexity of real-world problems and the limitations of the human brain. As Sir William Osler aptly noted, “No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.” Our perceptions are shaped by limited perspectives, and we often cling to our own views as superior.

Since H.G. Wells introduced the concept of the “World Brain” in 1937, numerous organizations like Google, Wikipedia, Microsoft, and Facebook have made significant strides in democratizing access to information. However, without addressing the issue of knowledge fragmentation, this democratization alone does not translate into increased intelligence or wisdom. Information overload can lead to analysis paralysis, resulting in unintended biases and flawed decisions.

GoPeaks champions the unrestrained pursuit of holistic wisdom, free from parochial interests. By uniting fragmented knowledge and expert communities into comprehensive decision-making solutions, GoPeaks aims to expand perspectives, eliminate biases, and avert misguided decisions. Our mission is to create a globally connected and shared "brain and nervous system" within our planetary and social ecosystem, enabling individuals to access the complete truth and understand the world more profoundly.

Engage with GoPeaks to be part of this revolutionary journey towards a smarter, more connected world. Together, we can transform information into actionable wisdom and build a future where informed decisions shape a better tomorrow.

A SHARED BRAIN FOR PEOPLE AND SOCIETY

The overarching goal of GoPeaks is to facilitate large-scale, comprehensive collaborations between natural and artificial intelligence. Through this synergy, fragmented knowledge will coalesce and evolve into timely, widely accessible, and actionable wisdom, ultimately enhancing the well-being of individuals and society.

CONNECTING THE SENSING, PROCESSING, AND REASONING SYSTEMS OF KNOWLEDGE

Distinct from formal organizations, GoPeaks aims to build an open digital community through globally coordinated efforts involving academia, industry, government, and the general public. This community will consolidate fragmented knowledge into timely, widely accessible, and actionable wisdom that enhances societal well-being.

Achieving this ambitious goal requires the development and integration of three key knowledge systems:

1. The Sensing System: Knowledge is often fragmented among expert domains and individual users. Access to this knowledge is scattered across various communities. GoPeaks envisions a new virtual community that connects these distributed communities into a global user interface. This system will automatically assemble complementary expertise from both experts and users, bridging gaps and facilitating seamless knowledge sharing.

2. The Processing System: Discovering knowledge involves the continuous testing and retesting of hypotheses, along with the aggregation of evidence. Currently, this process is local and constrained by data boundaries. GoPeaks seeks to establish a novel human-machine collaboration system that accelerates and scales the discovery and integration of evidence from distributed data silos, enhancing the overall knowledge discovery process.

3. The Reasoning System: Reasoning requires understanding the causes and effects of various factors, and offering guidelines on what actions to take. A unified knowledge graph is essential to consolidate knowledge about causal relationships among concepts. This knowledge graph will continuously organize and update variables, their causal relations, underlying mechanisms, and models into meta-frameworks for holistic reasoning.

More fundamentally, GoPeaks advocates for radical innovations in how humans collaborate and learn. To effectively study grand, complex problems, we must shift from small, closed teams within specific domains to massive, open, and interdisciplinary collaboration.