Author Archives: dgermann
Talk, hear, tension
Can we talk with the 300-year grandchildren and hear them talk with us? Not so quick: hold that tension. Either is conceivable. The stretching is the key. Here imagination stirs. :- Doug.
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Feedback grandchildren?
Can we form a feedback loop with grandchildren? :- Doug.
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Do they dance?
If I turn my thoughts to you and you turn yours to me, do they dance? Do they communicate? Do they do something good? :- Doug.
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Turn toward
The initiation is to turn toward one another. To invite others. :- Doug.
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Conscious dance
A key: can these others be conscious of us and we of them? Does conversation rest on consciousness? Or rather dance with it? :- Doug.
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Mapping kangaroos
Let’s devise a way to map a conversation. Indicators of speed, direction, timing, people taking turns, talking over one another, a butterfly floating in and out, bumblebees, kangaroos, giraffes, minds bubbling, and getting lazy. What’s going on in there? :- … Continue reading
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Bits and brews
It is significant that I don’t know—we don’t know—what conversation is. The turning of dance or compost is just the start. But what is going on? What is happening inside this operation that emerges new thinking? Where are the edges, … Continue reading
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Conversation looks
Why should I think I know what conversation looks like? :- Doug.
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Explosives in the library
A Library of Conversations for Grandchildren: Wherein I Ask If it is Possible & Continuously Have my Mind Burst Open :- Doug.
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Intensive grandchildren
I’m on an intensive study of grandchildren. :- Doug.
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Practice like the White Queen:
Practice like the White Queen: believe six impossible things before each breakfast. :- Doug.
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one mouth, one ear
Your model of conversation is one mouth, one ear, but what if reality is thousands? And some are miles and sleeps away? Say like neurons? Or a big rowdy party? :- Doug.
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quantum hop?
We don’t have to get there in one hop (But quantum-ly who knows?) :- Doug.
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How people influence
Thinking of other people is an influence of them on me. A piece of a conversation. Time and generation may be irrelevant. :- Doug.
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Wizards advanced
It’s not just the connections—the conversations—that trigger growth, but the nodes—the people—are each wizards. It’s the back and about and forth, the bumping, the random-plus that “adds” the advanced math to the equation. :- Doug.
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Humanity the nimble
When each of us, a neuron on humanity’s brain, comes online, it makes humanity more nimble. As we think larger, we are bringing more thinking to the human project. :- Doug.
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