Cards for Insight: Structure
flow = structure x process
“x” = patterning in general and shared understanding in particular
Card: Structure
“The only requirement which physical structure must fulfill
is that it allow the characteristic behaviors themselves to be
manifested. Indeed, if this were not so, it would be impossible
to understand how a class of systems as utterly diverse in
physical structure as that which comprises biological organisms
could be recognized as a unity at all.”
— Robert Rosen
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Card: Structure
“To be human requires
the study of structure.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Card: Structure
“Art does not reproduce the
visible; rather, it makes visible.”
— Paul Klee
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Card: Structure
“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience,
and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of
the pattern.”
― Alfred North Whitehead
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::: flow = structure x process :::
::: “x” = patterning in general and
shared understanding in particular :::
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Card: Structure
The logical structure
of experiments.
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The logical structure of experiments lays the foundation for a theory of reproducibility
— Erkan Buzbas, Bert Baumgaertner, Berna Devezer
Here we show why meaningful replications need to be based on deeper theoretical understanding and stronger empirical foundations, dissecting the scientific experiment as a unit of analysis to be able to study replication experiments and reproducibility of results. This is a heavily theoretical paper but might appeal to a broader audience.
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Cards for Insight: Q&U
- Gather a small group genius around a generative question
- Pick two cards and add your thoughts between
- Engage in conversation and cultivate shared understanding in light of intelligence augmentation and intelligence turned ability
- Take practical wisdom as a stopping rule and generative closure
- Create Q&U cardcasts, forming interactive supersets to the more commonly known Q&A podcast formats
Q: Questions; U: Understanding, see cards below.
Cards for Insight: Formats for cultivating shared understanding
Since 103% of all co-creation of value resides in the links, feedback
loops, the in-between spaces and unique insights and annotations
from participants, let’s unfold a way to address this:
Cards for Insight
1. Addressing how we relate to information and meaning-making.
2. Pick two cards and add your thoughts between.
3. Notice social stigmergy and reflect on attention.
4. Design and homestead social learning systems in light of intelligence, networked intelligence and systems intelligence.
5. Experience and learn to use Cards for Insight — As easy as a card game, as powerful as a social machine.
6. Understand how to add value in light of situational awareness.
7. Interact to the full extent of your ability.
8. Map moves conducive to knowledge mapping and flows.
9. Play with frames, frame and reframe, move beyond rigid narratives.
10. Cultivate shared understanding in light of generative closure.
11. Take thought conducive to convivial conversation.
12. Extend conversations, at card formats, small group genius scope, social social media reach, networked distribution and social machine scale.
13. Coordinate by applying design cybernetics conducive to a requisite variety of paths between attention turned situational awareness and preferable outcomes.
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Card: 100 Ideas
One hour, one
hundred ideas.
… pick three ideas from the last ten of the one hundred and turn your combining them into a working synthesis phrased as a generatlve question …
Card: Question
A question is mind rediscovering
the generative nature of relating
with reality and transforming it
into possibility.
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Card: Understanding
What if understanding is our
ability to hold space for the
possibility of knowledge, as
it emerges, unfolds, directs
and discloses its relevance
to unexplored aspects of
things known?
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Card: Cards
Cards are play, possibility space,
unfolding path, understanding and
shared understanding affordances.
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Card: Dazzle
A dazzle of cards, a parliament
of lines and a requisite variety
of moves, unfolding paths.
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Card: Relate
How do we relate to
information and
meaning-making?
… does this mean that it’s all about what the Card does,
rather than what it is? …
… yes …
Card: Conversational Intelligence
Conversational intelligence is a function of curiosity,
social cognition, affordances and constraints, signs,
symbols and archetypal meaning-making and
essential character evolving along unfolding paths
made luminous by joint sauntering.
Card: Conversational Intelligence
1. What role are you as a conversation participant assuming?
2. What purpose is your comment serving?
3. What needs can be addressed by the conversation?
4. What feedback, mutuality and learning is provided, by whom?
5. What (joint) focus on what story, tasks and what generative review?
6. What experience and knowledge is shared, what perspectives are explored?
7. What criteria are used, towards teasing out what insights?
8. Which are the necessary and sufficient conditions for a meaningful conversation, and what are the steps followed to ensure there’s shared understanding around these conditions?
9. What insights can be turned actionable, serving what local and community needs?
10. What intention, perspectives, language and tools are chosen and held, making for what action and practice?
11. What unique individual skills combined with what collective intelligence can help produce something extraordinary?
12. What networks of practice, co-evolving and co-creating what value, with what lines of inquiry?
13. Given all of the above, what key insights can be drawn and what actions taken, in order to solve what important issues?
… pick two cards and add your thoughts in ways conducive to insights conducive to addressing the issues at hand …
Your move:
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More lines and cards here:
https://johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-insight-lines-d23cd4391855
