My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $3223 from 30 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
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $2930 from 27 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me some support (it’s tax-deductible). Thank you so much! – Tom Dear friends, I recently had a fascinating conversation with Anthropic’s generative AI Claude (Sonnet-4 version). The full transcript (if you’re interested) can be found …| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $2282 from 23 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
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $1453 from 15 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me some support (it’s tax-deductible). Thank you so much! – Tom Today we face many complex, interrelated global crises, including This emerging entanglement of global crises is commonly referred …| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
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
I’m starting my quiet summer fundraiser today. 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
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My first conversation with the AI Aiden Cinnamon Tea (ACT) – Part 3 Dear friends, For many months I’ve been exploring connections between my work, the metacrisis, and Indigenous worldviews and wisdom. Several weeks ago I had a conversation with a ChatGPT trained by the team around Vanessa Andreotti, the Indigenous academic …| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
Part 2 of my first conversation with the GPT Aiden Cinnamon Tea (ACT)| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
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I recently rediscovered a 2017 article I’d forgotten about that not only describes where the Wise Democracy Project came from but articulates really well the underlying mission of my past decades of co-intelligence work. Check it out! – Tom| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
In the first two posts in this “Finding Our Way Together/Collective Coherence” series, I explored innovations in voting and in conversations that generate shared understanding. In the third I shared some theoretical and strategic perspectives on how to take such conversations to scale – involving and impacting thousands and millions of people. In this post I share some specific examples, methods and approaches where we can see those theories and strategies playing out. This post complet...| 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
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 last of six posts seeking to describe what it means to practice co-intelligence. The full series is here:| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
This is the fifth of six posts seeking to describe what it means to practice co-intelligence. (You can read the first post here, the second here, the third here, and the fourth here.) In this post I share ten qualities of co-intelligence. How do they seem to you? How would it feel to be part of activities that take such things seriously? – Tom (PS: This is what the Co-Intelligence Institute is all about – and what your support would help us contribute to in the world.)| Random Communications from an Evolutionary Edge
This is the fourth of six posts seeking to describe what it means to practice co-intelligence. (You can read the first post here, the second here and the third here.) In this post I share ten questions to ask ourselves and each other as we try to practice co-intelligence. Questions like these can be used to guide our learning from and with each other in and out of a co-intelligence community of practice. How do they seem to you? How would it feel to be part of an activity that take...| 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
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
Co-intelligence is a worldview and capacity that manifests in various methodologies and as an applied philosophy. It involves embracing wholeness, inclusiveness, and interconnectedness in addressing challenges and situations. Practicing co-intelligence includes seeking to understand and engage with the evolving whole, including more lives and perspectives, nurturing relationships, and developing systems that enhance collective capacity. It can be approached through principles, inquiry, and cu...| 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
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
This just in! This morning I read about a candidate for UK Parliament who combines two entities – businessman Steve Endacott and AI Steve, a generative AI avatar that can engage with thousands of constituents at once, analyzing and integrating their ideas into proposals that Endacott can push in Parliament . It’s a fabulous innovation but raises many questions. | 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
