COMPLEMENTARY COGNITION

Complementary Cognition is a new scientific theory that explains, for the first time, that our species adapts via a hitherto unrecognised system of collective cognition... We believe that what lies at the foundation of many of the problems we see today is the difficulty of adapting at scale, and a lack of awareness that we adapt through complementary cognition. For most of our existence, humans primarily lived in highly collaborative hunter-gatherer tribes. For this system of collective cognition to enable us to adapt at scale, we need to be aware of it so that we can design and build systems from education to the economy that nurture different ways of thinking as well as effective communication and collaboration. Harnessing the power of complementary cognition - combining different cognitive search abilities - would enable humans to co-create superior technologies, solve more complex problems and accelerate successful and sustainable adaptation to the significant changes we face.

Primary location: United Kingdom