We have already seen how the collective mind system can make a decision when there is a representation of an action: through the emission of a collective positive emotion towards this action. For example, people conceive a new drug that meets the representations showing it is beneficial and safe, and enough people invest a positive emotion allowing the release of funds to realize this action representation.
But sometimes we need (individually or collectively) to make decisions or judgments that cannot rely on a long or complex decision-making process. For example, for collective governance:
Unlike the scientific system, a collective mind must be able to decide in all cases, even in situations of doubt, complexity, lack of information, or urgency.
How to make effective collective decisions when the system of representations/emotions is insufficient ?
A decision can be made in different ways: by an individual, a group, a machine. To manage a decision-making process, it is necessary to determine:
There is a wide variety of solutions. For example, recruiting actors based on diplomas, then signing a contract where the evaluation of completed tasks is done by other people (usually in a hierarchical system). But the evaluation can also be done by clients (rating system).
We can notice two poles of motivations based on negative emotions (the most common as they are adapted to the culture generated by capitalism and its system of domination) and others positive, at the extremes we have:
We see that there is a whole variety of contexts that can generate different solutions. For example, when the task is essentially to satisfy people, we can ask them to do the evaluation.
The distributed governance system can establish norms to delegate actions according to the context.