Cards for Insight: Taking Thought
In a network, immersed in action, taking thought.
flow = structure x process
“x” = patterning in general and shared understanding in particular
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.
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
- Addressing how we relate to information and meaning-making.
- Pick two cards and add your thoughts between.
- Notice social stigmergy and reflect on attention.
- Design and homestead social learning systems in light of intelligence, networked intelligence and systems intelligence.
- Experience and learn to use Cards for Insight — As easy as a card game, as powerful as a social machine.
- Understand how to add value in light of situational awareness.
- Interact to the full extent of your ability.
- Map moves conducive to knowledge mapping and flows.
- Play with frames, frame and reframe, move beyond rigid narratives.
- Cultivate shared understanding in light of generative closure.
- Take thought conducive to convivial conversation.
- Extend conversations, at card formats, small group genius scope, social social media reach, networked distribution and social machine scale.
- Coordinate by applying design cybernetics conducive to a requisite variety of paths between attention turned situational awareness and preferable outcomes.
… pick two cards and add your thoughts between …
Card: Question
A question is mind rediscovering
the generative nature of relating
with reality and transforming it
into possibility.
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Card: Taking Thought
“We cannot think first and act afterwards.
From the moment of birth we are immersed
in action and can only guide it by taking thought.”
― Alfred North Whitehead
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Card: Thought
Thoughts inside
given narratives.
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Card: Thought
“Similarly, in a dialogue group you could say that everybody is different — “I am here, you are there, you know this, I know that,” and so on. But we could also say that participation is taking place, which means everybody is partaking of whatever is going on, and also maybe making a contribution.
Even if you don’t make a visible contribution, you’re still partaking, and taking part in some way. All the thoughts, feelings, views, opinions come in, and they are growing in us, even as we think we are resisting them. We are particularly affected by the thought, “That’s his view, and this is mine” — which is false.
All the views are just thought. Wherever thought is, it is just thought — it is all one. It’s similar to the Eskimos saying, “It’s all one seal,” only this seems even more so. Here we have an example where that kind of participatory view really works. Thought is all one, manifesting in all sorts of places and with all sorts of specific content. So the spirit of a dialogue is important in facing this question of literal and participatory thought, even though we realize that we are going in a direction which a very large part of the culture doesn’t agree with at all.
But as long as we stick only to this literal thought, there is no room in it for participation. We think only of external mechanical relationships. We think the self is there as an object, and that everything comes from this self. I would propose, however, that in true participation, thought may establish distinctions, but there is participation between those distinctions — between people, between thought and feeling, between anything.
I will say: ultimately the nature of all the world is that it is all mutual participation — everything is everything. That is what was meant in my book, Wholeness and the Implicate Order. It’s another way of looking at things — to say everything “enfolds” everything. Ultimately, the ground of everything is the en-folded, and the un- folded is just a display, or a show of the enfolded.”
— David Bohm
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Card: Two-card card play
Distinctions: cards; and
participation: add your
thoughts between.
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Card: Participation
“… thought may establish distinctions,
but there is participation between those
distinctions — between people, between
thought and feeling, between anything.”
— David Bohm
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Card: Participation
Distinctions and participation
between distinctions.
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John Kellden:
According to David Bohm, thought may establish distinctions, but there is participation between those distinctions — between people, between thought and feeling, between anything. Brainstorm how AI in general and OpenAI in particular can help augment both distinctions and participation between distinctions, weaving between individual thought scope and social machine scale.
… pick two cards and add your thoughts, prompts, insights, individual and small group genius annotations, book excerpts and prompt responses, between …
OpenAI:
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to augment both distinctions and participation between distinctions in a number of ways. One way in which AI can help to augment distinctions is through the use of machine learning algorithms, which can analyze large datasets and identify patterns and trends that may not be immediately apparent to humans. This can help individuals and organizations to make more informed decisions by providing them with a clearer understanding of the data they are working with.
AI can also help to facilitate participation between distinctions by providing tools and platforms for communication and collaboration. For example, AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants can help to facilitate communication between individuals and groups, allowing them to share information and ideas more easily. Additionally, AI can be used to create virtual environments for collaboration, such as virtual meeting spaces or virtual co-working spaces, which can help to bring people together from different locations and facilitate greater participation and collaboration.
In terms of how OpenAI specifically can help to augment both distinctions and participation between distinctions, the company has a number of projects and initiatives focused on these goals. One example is the OpenAI Scholars program, which is designed to provide individuals with the skills and knowledge they need to develop cutting-edge AI technologies and applications. Through this program, OpenAI hopes to foster greater collaboration and participation between individuals with diverse backgrounds and expertise, and to help build a more diverse and inclusive AI community.
Another example is the OpenAI API, which is a suite of tools and services that allows developers to build AI applications more easily. By providing developers with access to powerful AI technologies, OpenAI hopes to encourage the development of new and innovative AI applications that can help to facilitate communication, collaboration, and participation between individuals and organizations.
Overall, the use of AI has the potential to greatly enhance both distinctions and participation between distinctions, and OpenAI is at the forefront of this effort through its various projects and initiatives.
… pick two cards and add your thoughts, prompts, insights, individual and small group genius annotations, book excerpts and prompt responses, between …
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,
roped path and shared
understanding affordances.
https://johnkellden.medium.com/cards-for-insight-q-u-formats-a78afdd04e7b
