My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $1146 from 13 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me some support (it’s tax-deductible). Thank you so much! – Tom| 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
The Wise Democracy Project has a guiding principle – its prime directive to evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the whole on behalf of the whole. I explore below why I and the Co-Intelligence Institute consider it so important, even invaluable. I share how it helps identify which initiatives or processes help support wise democracy – and why. I also share a bit about how the prime directive shapes how I and others view three major issues of our time – climate, pandemics, ...| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
This is the third of six posts seeking to describe what it means to practice co-intelligence. (You can find the first post here and the second here.) I’m posting these 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. But even if you’re not interested in that, these new ways I’ve learned to describe co-intelligence might int...| 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
I offer videos from two of my most important teachers – Daniel Schmachtenberger and Nora Bateson. Their lessons are about the importance of understanding – and being deeply awed and moved by – the powerful uniqueness and interconnectedness of everything in the world, including ourselves. I understand these as dimensions of wholeness, and their realization as fundamental to healing, transforming and sustaining the regenerative powers of living systems, including humanity in the conte...| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
Following up on my earlier post about the horrendous situation in Israel and Palestine, I’m offering here a similar broad-spectrum empathic reflection by columnist Nicholas Kristof. Then I share a fascinating conversation I had with ChatGPT, to whom I gave the challenging prompt to be a Great Peacemaker there. Under my urging, it responded with increasingly creative approaches. Finally, I note some interesting grassroots nonviolent direct actions happening there that could be expanded...| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
In this message, I explore ChatGPT’s adventure with me into strategizing how to utilize the great list it produced of existing approaches that could be useful for generating wise, inclusive, multi-level self-governance.| 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