Reaching a collective, composite opinion

Question from the Internet:

“Personal concept map of globalization: Students will engage in a free association exercise of ideas they associate with globalization. Based on the concepts they list, they will synthesize a personal definition of the concept?”

In short, yes. The way we can arrive at a truthful, objective concept, viewpoint on anything is through such collective “synthetization” of ideas.

Of course, to do it properly we need the right conditions. We can organize and conduct the right conditions for such “synthetization”, for building collective, composite ideas, solutions through workshops, purposefully conducted “round table discussions”.

If each person participating in such discussions puts one’s own opinion on the table and then from then on “forgets” about one’s own opinion and makes conscious, full effort to accept, absorb the opinions, ideas, solutions of all the others, then after a few round they can generate a completely new, truly collective and composite idea, opinion, solution which contains elements of all the individual parts, but which new composite opinion, solution never existed in any of them individually before.

Especially in our present, globally integrated, and fully interdependent conditions — while facing seemingly unsolvable global problems we try to solve egoistically, through subjective, individualistic viewpoints — only such collective problem-solving, action can we become successful in facilitating, safeguarding our collective survival.