Difference between revisions of "Importance of deliberation"

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Deliberation may be the most important field of research humankind will engage in the 21th century. Deliberation is so important, because every group of people as small as a group composed of two people, like a couple, to groups as large as hounderds of milions, like states, needs to find solutions that will help their members prosper. To prosper, all groups have to arrive at the best solutions available in their current situation. Deliberation is a field of research that engages the ways people can work together, with corroborated knoweldge to pursuit the best solutions. If we will understand how to promote together the best solution through agreements, we will find ways to bring prosperity to wider population, and we may also bring more peace among nations.

From the start of civilization until our days, decisions for a group were put at the hands of a small groups of decision makers. Although this method had helped create our mega to giga groups, it provided these small groups that are positioned near the center of decision making process, an abounded resources and wealth, while leaving the other members in the outer circles with much less resources. In modern representative democracy, the size of the groups of decision makers become bigger than those of the old monarchies, thus promoting more equality, and more wisdom into the decision making process. Bringing more people into the decision making circles made the groups wiser and more legitimate by their people, thus making them much stronger then monarchies. This may be one of the main causes for the triumph of democracies over tyrannies in the 20th century.

In the 21th century a technology, named "the internet" was introduced. In theory this innovation, can help every citizen participate in his group's decision making process. But this is just a potential. We do not yet know enough about decision making process, to build tools and methods to bring good decisions within large scale groups. When we will know how to build such tools and methods, we will be able to give any citizen an equal opportunity to contribute his knowledge and needs to the overall process of decision making which will help all of us, no matter our what is our social status or gender or any other discriminating factors, to contribute to the welfare of us all, and to produce much more informed and wise solution, through the wisdom of the multitudes.

We are in our way to actualize these systems and methods. Throughout the world, people are working to find solutions to this challenge, and tools are being built.

This site is an attempt to contribute to the global effort to understand how people decide, and how we can bring the wisdom of the multitude to the decision making process. It is based on research and experience done by scientists and practitioners in fields that relates to decision making and deliberation.

Let us all embrace ourselves for the quest for reveling ways for wise decision making by the multitudes'.