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Complementary Cognition identifies a new evolutionary system in which our brains evolved to specialise in different but complementary ways, functioning together to generate, update and pass on the knowledge needed to adapt and solve problems: a distinctive form of collaborative intelligence.
A distinctive form of collaborative intelligence.
It explains how that system evolved, how it works, how modern culture has disrupted it, and how it became disconnected from the natural world. The theory has implications for economic growth and ecological systems, education and work.
If you’re interested in learning how your support could help accelerate the real-world application of Complementary Cognition research, please get in touch.
The insights of this theory have emerged by building up evidence from across a range of different fields, including neuroscience, complex systems theory, palaeoarchaeology and entrepreneurship. This breadth is what has led to Dr Taylor’s ground-breaking findings, but also makes it challenging to fit into conventional funding schemes.
The impact your support could have...
In the short term, Dr Taylor has results ready to publish on how collaborative intelligence works and how it evolved.
Funding would allow her to:
- finish and publish that work
- complete case studies of how it operates in entrepreneurial teams, including further evidence for dyslexia as an exploratory specialisation
- connect the theory with ecological and economic models.
The long-term aim is an Institute of Complementary Cognition, extending the research through experimental studies and applying it in practice.
