# Economic intellect, Economic intelligence Economic Intellect and Economic Intelligence (EI) refers to the new form of distributed governance or distributed leadership that the economic space protocol makes possible by integrating opinions, preferences and agendas by mutually empowering participants. In the economic space protocol each act of valuation from a participant is a new form of decision-making, or rather, affecting directly the materiality of the network. Unlike voting, which seeks to define a collective making a decision on what to perform, an economic space is itself a decision seeking a collective to support it. Moreover, valuing performances follows market dynamics. It does not require creating a higher-powered agent like a board that coalesces preferences into discrete events and chooses a majority over a minority. Instead, the economic space protocol accounts for and integrates all opinions, preferences, and agendas by empowering participants as much as they empower others. The protocol is essentially a distributed general economic intellect. See [General intellect](/general-intellect.md). See [Arbitrage on intelligence](/arbitrage-on-intelligence.md). See [Economic Space Protocol](/economic-space-protocol.md). --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://glossary.ecsa.io/economic-intellect-economic-intelligence.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.