Do we have 'more' senses if we -- You and I -- combine our 'common' senses?

We have mapped (made a link from) learning process to the 5 Khandhas. We have seen as corollaries (logical consequences) that:

    * We would know things more thoroughly if we use more senses.
    * We would learn more and know more if we have more senses.

We think that better senses give rise to better performance (dogs can smell better than people and they can use their olfactory sense to learn what going on in their space / world). We accept that we can learn more if we have more (kinds of) senses (bats have sonar sense that people don't have, they can learn by echo-location).

Do we have 'more' senses if we -- You and I -- combine our 'common' senses?
Yes and No!
Yes -- if we work together. No -- if we work against each other.
[I am using a 'common sense' to support my argument ;-) ]

So 'organizations' have many (copies of) common (or ordinary) senses. Using these common senses in certain co-operative ways organizations can learn more (widely and deeply) and out-perform individuals.

There is a challenge, however. How do we combine our common senses so that we can learn more (effectively and efficiently)?
In modern terms -- we want to know if 'we' in a 'community' can 'self-organize' and achieve higher-performance 'collaborative senses'. Many legends praise the power of these self-organized senses, and suggest that 'the whole (combined sense) is greater than the sum of (individual) senses'. But we need details on how multiple (copies of same) senses get combined or self-organized!

We can now re-look at 'individual' (private, personal, secret) knowledge and 'public' (common, shared, open) knowledge. In the next iteration, we will explore a 'learning organization' of 'learning (software) agents'. Don't go away alone too long ;-) .