Advanced Cybernetic Team-Dialog Scaffolding [TDS]

This essay introduces a very practical tool/technology, tested and available for 3+ decades. There are many reasons for its under-use and slow improvement. One, being its obscure name “team syntegrity” and it’s esoteric discipline “cybernetics”. This is presented here, not as a finished product, but as an early prototype upon which we can build a…

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Complicated vs Complex: UPLIFT?

I often started my Intro Psych course with this written on the chalkboard: EMBRACE COMPLEXITY: THE TEXTURE OF REALITY LEARN-TO-LEARN RULES FOR NAVIGATING COMPLEXITY. Complexity Science, and its variants, are esoteric mathematical adventures. Some may find applications. Others are math art-forms. “Complexity”, as an open-ended, abstract discipline, can play with conceptual schemes well beyond what…

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INSIGHT CASCADE Jan 12, 2018

On the morning of 02/12/18, on trips out with Eloise, I had a cascade of insights – hints of which I wrote with pen-on-pad.  I transcribe them below, with comments or links to posted comments. ———— cogangs   Mafia   cabal   Trump/Putin competency sets for UPLIFT ** personal uplift competencies This was an extended insight related…

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MINDSHIFT: Analysis of Comments on Trump’s SOTU

MINDSHIFT: Analysis of Comments on Trump’s SOTU It isn’t Trump, his tweets and speeches, or his actions that are most relevant today  (01/31/2018). What all others report about Trump and his behavior is revealing, and vitally significant. Everyone (from progressive pundits to Trump’s base) ALL report that they KNOW what Trump actually said and intended….

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RUSSIA doesn’t EXIST

Nor does the USA, China or any “nation” or “state” – in the same “sense of existence” as tables, trees, houses, persons, and even villages. When is the action of a part not considered an action of the whole? The answer depends on our definitions for “action”, “part”, whole”, and “considered”. Is my writing this…

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Meta, Fractal, Vertical DISCOURSE

I contribute another META view, which is what I end up doing to all my email responses. There are many categories/styles of response – all important to the collective. Michel’s reference to a larger context, to the highly detailed exploration of one domain given by John, triggered me to think, again, of the “fractal-like-nature” for…

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