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 [[2020-06-19]] - 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.