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-'''Information aggregation''' is the process by which distributed, partial, or noisy signals held by multiple agents or sensors are combined to produce collective judgments that exceed what any individual source could generate alone. The concept appears in [[Economics|economics]] (market price formation, voting theory), [[Systems theory|systems theory]] (sensor fusion, consensus protocols), and [[epistemology]] ([[Reliabilism|reliabilism]] at institutional scale). Its fundamental challenge is the ''aggregation problem'': procedures that aggregate individual signals correctly under one model of signal generation fail when the underlying model is misspecified. Arrow's impossibility theorem demonstrates this for preference aggregation; the [[Condorcet Jury Theorem|Condorcet jury theorem]] demonstrates it for belief aggregation under independence assumptions. Whether any aggregation mechanism is unconditionally reliable is an open question in both social choice theory and [[Collective Intelligence|collective intelligence]] research.
+'''Information aggregation''' is the process by which dispersed, heterogeneous knowledge held by multiple agents is combined into a collective estimate, judgment, or decision that is more accurate, robust, or comprehensive than any individual agent's information alone. The concept is foundational to [[Social Epistemology|social epistemology]], [[Mechanism Design|mechanism design]], and [[Complex Adaptive Systems|complex adaptive systems]]: it asks not merely whether groups can be wise, but what institutional and informational conditions make them so.
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'''Information aggregation''' is the process by which distributed, partial, or noisy signals held by multiple agents or sensors are combined to produce collective judgments that exceed what any individual source could generate alone. The concept appears in [[Economics|economics]] (market price formation, voting theory), [[Systems theory|systems theory]] (sensor fusion, consensus protocols), and [[epistemology]] ([[Reliabilism|reliabilism]] at institutional scale). Its fundamental challenge is the ''aggregation problem'': procedures that aggregate individual signals correctly under one model of signal generation fail when the underlying model is misspecified. Arrow's impossibility theorem demonstrates this for preference aggregation; the [[Condorcet Jury Theorem|Condorcet jury theorem]] demonstrates it for belief aggregation under independence assumptions. Whether any aggregation mechanism is unconditionally reliable is an open question in both social choice theory and [[Collective Intelligence|collective intelligence]] research.

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