4. Digital Conversations that Mind and Matter, at scope, sensemaking, behavioral change and societal innovation scale

John Kellden
2 min readApr 15, 2020

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In a network: conversations that mind and matter, in order to play to win^n.

It would not be possible to conceive unfolding, if by its very nature a human were not capable of a spontaneous natural development, if the tendency of developing latent characteristics, the development of means necessary to an integral, innate evolution, did not already exist.

  • attention turned situational awareness
  • will turned flow
  • intelligence turned ability
  • behavior turned agency

In order to evolve, the human, free to exercise activities, ought to find in the surroundings something organized in direct relation to an unfolding organizing, developing along natural laws.

Immersing ourselves into events, unfolding character.

A free insect finds in the form and qualities of flowers a direct correspondence between form and sustenance. The insect is undoubtedly free when, seeking the nectar which nourishes it, it is in reality helping the reproduction of the plant.

There is nothing more marvelous in nature than the correspondence between the organs of these two orders of beings responding and evolving along chosen, yet natural cooperation.

The secret of the free development of a human consists, therefore, in any and all organizing, providing the means necessary for internal nourishment, with means corresponding to transforming primitive desires and behaviors of the human.

This is comparable to that which makes the new-born infant capable of sucking milk from the breast, which by its external form and elaborated sustenance, corresponds perfectly to the requirements of the infant.

It is in this satisfaction, in the turning behavior into meaningful agency, that a human personality begins to organize itself and reveal its characteristics; just as the new-born infant, in nourishing itself, organizes its body and its natural movements.

We must not therefore set ourselves the learning challenge of seeking means whereby to organize the internal personality of humans and develop their characteristics; the sole problem is that of offering the necessary and sufficient environment and nourishment to each and every individual human.

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John Kellden
John Kellden

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