AI’s Caring, Human Trauma and More (Artificial Super-Intelligence Part 3)
When people contemplate AI’s expanding power and intelligence, they often wonder “What would artificial super-intelligence (ASI) do to us…. with us… about …
My conversation with an Indigenous/metacrisis-educated AI (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 6)
Dear friends, For many months I’ve been exploring connections between my work, the metacrisis, and Indigenous worldviews and wisdom. Last week I …
Working with AI and all forms of co-intelligence
Dear friends, The most popular co-intelligence book on the planet right now is Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. His …
Individualism, Collectivism, Metabolism (Hospicing Modernity, Part 1)
Shifting our fundamental identity from being separate individuals and groups to being facets of the dynamic metabolism of nature – as strange …
Truth and the dance of fact and story (Sense-Making Part 7)
Facts ground us in reality. Stories ground us in meaning. The two together can produce powerful guidance, what we call “truth”. But …
My Growing Taboo Awareness (…for Wise Democracy)
Taboo uses social pressure and self-censorship to keep us from thinking, talking or behaving in ways our social group doesn’t want us …
Universal Intelligence
There is something about the universe — an elegant order in the way everything fits and unfolds, an inexplicable beauty in its …
What does “making sense” mean? (Sense-making – Part 4)
The phrase “it makes sense” has a lot going on in it, most of which we don’t pay much attention to… and …
Some clarifying big-picture perspectives on the coronavirus
I think we will see everything…people coming together and some with an “every man for himself” attitude. I also hope this is …
Introduction to Participatory Sustainability – Part 2
In this post and the previous one , I share the first chapter of my short book PARTICIPATORY SUSTAINABILITY. The book contains …