Dear friends,| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
Dear friends,| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
We are near the end of our summer fundraiser. Folks have donated $3274 toward our $15,000 target. Please join them in supporting our work.| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
What this message is about: Everything in the world is part of an evolving whole. Learning – once again, newly – how to be contributing members of that larger community is essential for human survival and will itself be a contribution to the ongoing story of evolution. In order to do that, we have to raise our awareness of the importance of diversity, disturbance, generative conversation, wisdom-consciousness and more….| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
This is the second of six posts seeking to describe what it means to practice co-intelligence. (You can find the first post here.) I’m doing this to support the creation of what’s called “a community of practice” – a network of people who are seeking – together – to better understand and apply co-intelligence in their lives and their work. In the process, I’ve come up with six new ways to describe co-intelligence. So you can use them as windows into the world of co-intel...| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
The increasing challenges and unpredictability of electoral activities – and society in general – in the US and elsewhere generate opportunities for moving towards fundamental transformation. Not all such transformation is desirable, but in this post I explore some that could be promoted from the worldview of co-intelligence and wise democracy. I don’t often comment on current events, but the speed of change over the last week inspired me to offer my two cents. I hope yo...| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
I had a conversation with Claude, one of my AI colleagues, which I share here. Starting with a prompt about wise public policy, we delved into the tension between the needs of people vs nature, which Claude addressed well, I thought, including notes about the root causes of that tension. We both agreed that actually addressing all that would be a fundamentally transformational challenge – in response to which Claude offered some overall guidance about “getting better at change itself”...| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
(NOTE: I’m not really happy with the title of this post, but am having trouble thinking of a different one to describe what the post is about. So please bear with me….- Tom)| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
Shifting our fundamental identity from being separate individuals and groups to being facets of the dynamic metabolism of nature – as strange as that sounds – actually could have a profound impact on all aspects of society. Once I realized that, I could design questions that led two generative artificial intelligence agents to describe for me what such a society would be like. I found the results fascinating.| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
Below I share one of my conversations with ChatGPT 4o about generating wise, inclusive, multi-level self-governance. It provides a remarkable overview of existing initiatives that can serve that vision. Yet it leaves me with questions about how to best use – or work with – its unusual capacities for the greatest impact….| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
These are my responses to the Federal government’s new Request for Information (RFI) survey about methods and leading practices for advancing public participation and community engagement with the Federal Government.| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge