As writers such as Brooks have argued, building large complex minds is difficult because we do not understand what the necessary components of the mind are or how they should interact. Even if the components and their interactions were known, it is difficult to see a situation where a single lab would have all the necessary expertise and manpower to be able to build the mind. A solution is to distribute the problem between all interested parties, each of whom can solve part of the problem, and then provide a way for the independently developed components to interact with each-other. The world-wide-mind project suggests such a scheme and this paper describes the first implementation where a society of mind.
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