http://www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcast
[[2020-06-18]]
# Source Code Analysis
How to avoid common traps in dialogue
- How to disinvest ourselves from our hidden agendas (Rawls' veil of ignorance)
What are the emergent patterns (of power, trust, etc)?
What are the protocols that generate these patterns?
# Power
Power is defined as what moves what.
absolute power = skills + resources / needs + wants
Thorson - Don't try to change reality. Try to see reality so clearly that it changes itself.
Bonnita - If you are very committed to making a more beautiful world, you will make choices that will come with a taste of risk.
# Trust
- What do we need to amplify in ourselves to build trust?
- Harder to define trust. Unlike power, we don't have words for this. Power has words like patriarchy, etc, that help us identify it.
- Trust declines over time, because trust is often about predictability, but over time, predictability becomes expectation, and stops becoming a gift of trust
- Society is built up out of massive amounts of trust, but we stop experiencing that trust. We don't feel that impact on our body. Whereas mistrust is experienced quite sharply.
- Entitlement reduces trust, because we can't see it (will explain later)
- Trust requires predictable unpredictability (humans, complex systems). A rock is too predictable and doesn't require us to trust it.
- If I can be more unpredictable with you and still have trust, then we have greater trust.
- Trusting someone means understanding their core truth.
- Trust is about making promises that create possibilities. Laws are promises that constrain possibilities.
- We can build trust by deconstructing promises that dampen possibilities. Ie removing reciprocal, tit-for-tat relationships. Gifting would be an alternative. Pay-it-forward.
- Reciprocity often holds people back. (This is interesting to compare with Schmidtz's Elements of Justice)
- When things get to an unwieldy level of metacomplexity, that's a signal that we need to go back to the beginning and re-think our fundamental assumptions. For example, the MHC gets very abstract. Insight practice suggests that we've made a wrong move very early on in our description of mental development. When we pull out one of these keystone wrong moves, the whole thing comes crumbling down.
- Fake news could be a phenomenon that shows an evolutionary advancement, because more people are getting used to the idea of patterns breaking down, and re-molding patterns.
- The problem with blockchain is that it is a system that can't be transgressed, and systems that can't be transgressed don't evolve and eventually fall apart.
- Would we want markets to be completely predictable? No, because then the person with the most powerful computer wins. It would be a winner-take-all situation.
# Collective Action
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- A good conceptual prime goes back to a naive meaning. It attaches itself to lived experience.
- Autonomy, relationality, agency are the protocols of collective action.
- Low autonomy means being fixed in your identity. High autonomy means you are fluid.
- Agency relates to our skills, talents and resources. High agency people are inspirational.
- In a complex situation, we act in order to improve ourselves. We don't wait to get our internal house in order before we act.
- Agency means to act in order to make sense.
- Sensemaking is backwards looking. The better intelligence is about acting and not cognition.
- The eyes have to move in order to see.
- Acting into the unknown is a cognitive function and has a high degree of inteliigence.
- Autonomy: Did I advocate for myself?
- Relationality: DId I seek advice from others?
- Agency: Did I act first?
- Karl Weick, leading theorist of sensemaking.
- We are looking for the "we" as the unit of action.