Global Sensemaking2024-03-28T20:03:18ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbshttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3345837404?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://globalsensemaking.net/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=3qa42pxydfmi6&feed=yes&xn_auth=noWho is still here?tag:globalsensemaking.net,2013-05-18:2052744:Topic:385832013-05-18T17:26:10.918ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I just found this group today based on the very intriguing name. It seems however quite quiet here lately given that most contributions data 2012 or earlier.</p>
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<p>I wonder why? The need for Global Sensemaking is bigger than ever. No only w.r.t. climate but in almost any aspect of life and economy. F.e. how are we gonna prevent World War III in 2014-2018? With nasty examples in 1812 and 1914-1918 .....</p>
<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I just found this group today based on the very intriguing name. It seems however quite quiet here lately given that most contributions data 2012 or earlier.</p>
<p></p>
<p>I wonder why? The need for Global Sensemaking is bigger than ever. No only w.r.t. climate but in almost any aspect of life and economy. F.e. how are we gonna prevent World War III in 2014-2018? With nasty examples in 1812 and 1914-1918 .....</p> [RuleML2012] Deadline Extension and final CfPtag:globalsensemaking.net,2012-03-28:2052744:Topic:311712012-03-28T16:06:40.673ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
<p>====================================================================*<br></br>* RuleML2012@ECAI - 6th International Symposium on Rules: *<br></br>* Research Based and Industry Focused *<br></br>* Montpellier, France, August 27-29, 2012. *<br></br>* <a href="http://2012.ruleml.org">http://2012.ruleml.org</a> *<br></br>====================================================================*</p>
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<p>The paper submission deadline has been extended to April 15,…</p>
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<p>The paper submission deadline has been extended to April 15, 2012.</p>
<p>Keynotes<br/>========<br/>This year, the RuleML symposium is honoured by three keynotes:<br/>Prof. Robert Kowalski, Prof. Marie-Laure Mugnier and Dr. Francois Briant.<br/>More information on <a href="http://2012.ruleml.org/keynotes">http://2012.ruleml.org/keynotes</a></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-6">E</span>verybody does what they do because it makes sense to them at the time, because they think it will benefit them somehow. Even the people who deliberately harm themselves (like attempting suicide) see a benefit (ending pain), although we may call it insane.</p>
<p>Insanity is wrongly being defined lately as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Actually, that’s just an example of irrational behavior. The law defines insanity as a…</p>
<p><span class="font-size-6">E</span>verybody does what they do because it makes sense to them at the time, because they think it will benefit them somehow. Even the people who deliberately harm themselves (like attempting suicide) see a benefit (ending pain), although we may call it insane.</p>
<p>Insanity is wrongly being defined lately as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Actually, that’s just an example of irrational behavior. The law defines insanity as a mental illness so severe that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality. An insane person’s picture of the world is deeply distorted.</p>
<p>I assert that our modern view of life on earth is insane. We think we can hurt one another and the planet and not pay for the damage. Thinking we can act without consequences is crazy.</p>
<p>Newton’s third law of motion — cause and effect — governs life. In Eastern philosophy, the term for balancing the life scales is karma. What goes around comes around. Whatever we put out is what we get back. We reap what we sow. Every action produces consequences. Only an insane person leaps from an airplane without a parachute and sings aloud while plummeting down, “So far so good!”</p>
<p>A pebble plopped in a pond radiates ripples lapping every shore. Each behavioral act reverberates outward. My irritation with a store clerk stimulates her curtness to her next customers, who then go out and infect others with my mood. Actions also radiate inward. My anger lingers inside of me, affecting how I feel about myself, which affects all my interactions, including how I relate to Spirit.</p>
<p>How we each interact creates the societies in which we interact. We co-create our cultures through our acts of communication.</p>
<p>Anthropologist Clifford Geertz asserts language weaves the web of culture. Acts of communication compose the cultures that comprise our world. Communication is how we make sense of the world and our lives within the world. Communication theory labels this process as <em>sense-making.</em> I want to discuss this because we need to know how we make sense of life to grasp the power of a global sensibility.</p>
<p>Sense-making physically occurs in the synapses of the brain as we are encoding and decoding messages and experiences. We integrate a thought, emotion or sensation by coding it electrochemically into our neural network. A stimulus first goes to the medulla oblongata, the oldest instinctive portion of the brain stem that decides our fight-or-flight reactions. Signals processed there next enter the cerebral cortex, seat of our awake mind. First we yank our hand away from a hot pot handle; a moment later we think, “Damn! That pot is hot!”</p>
<p>The hypothalmus in the brain triggers neural peptides that affect behavior while the limbic system records emotions, motivations and memories. We store emotions in the cellular memories of our brain, muscles, bone marrow, and intestines. We can get a pain in the neck, know stuff in our bones, get gut feelings. A network of mirror neurons records whatever we see others do as if we are doing it, so our bodies sway as we watch people dancing; we learn by watching.</p>
<p>The human body is a scalable, searchable data processing network for accessing all the information we have ever stored about “reality.” Our sense-making database contains genetic traits, life experiences and acquired knowledge. All these form our mental model of reality — the map and compass we use for navigating life. Our <em>mindmap, worldview, weltanschauung, zeitgeist, paradigm</em> organizes life for us, so new data can fit into a pattern.</p>
<p>Without a Big Picture of how life works, even if it’s inaccurate, our lives do not make sense to us, thus religion flourishes. Without a mindmap of reality, we get lost. We get frightened and confused. When life stops making sense, we must change how we think about our lives, or else our minds will fracture. We’ll go insane.<br/> ________</p>
<p>This essay is an excerpt from Judah Freed's book, <em><strong>GLOBAL SENSE:</strong> The 2012 Edition: A spiritual handbook on the nature of society and how to change the world by changing ourselves.</em> Visit <a href="http://globalsense.com" target="_blank">GlobalSense.com</a>.</p> An experiment in community...tag:globalsensemaking.net,2011-02-25:2052744:Topic:166672011-02-25T05:21:46.140ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
<p>An interesting experiment has been taking place in Melbourne, Australia around the creation of generative spaces for strengthening neighbourhoods and tackling challenging issues.</p>
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<p>The experiment was started, perhaps rather unexpectedly, by a church but most decidedly it was not an attempt to try draw people “into the institution.” Instead it asked how might we create more neighbourhood spaces for authentic engagement, person to person? It worked on the assumption that we can…</p>
<p>An interesting experiment has been taking place in Melbourne, Australia around the creation of generative spaces for strengthening neighbourhoods and tackling challenging issues.</p>
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<p>The experiment was started, perhaps rather unexpectedly, by a church but most decidedly it was not an attempt to try draw people “into the institution.” Instead it asked how might we create more neighbourhood spaces for authentic engagement, person to person? It worked on the assumption that we can co-create a different type of world if we start with local conversations around issues that people care about. Based on Margaret Wheatley’s call to gather people around us who share our passion on an issue and get talking, <a href="http://www.gift-a-blog.net/">Adrian Pyle</a> (the Uniting Church in Australia’s Director of Relationships Innovation), convened a gathering of about twenty people he’d met who had a deep and genuine commitment to helping sustain healthy neighbourhoods. These were not just “professional” community developers but entrepreneurs, residents, change agents, artists, activists and business people. The gathered participants used the metaphor of a “U” to help describe the type of conversation they were trying to have …the idea of the “bowl” or “downward orientation” of the U encouraging participants to keep there language personal, grounded, humble, real ….and avoid postulating what we could/should/must do to others.</p>
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<p>Something must have worked in this conversation. Grass-roots community blogger and activist <a href="http://www.pigswillfly.com.au/?p=10859">Gail Plowman wrote this significant entry at her “Pigs Will Fly” blog</a>. Gail was moved by the nature of the discussion and what appeared to happen within it. She made mention of others who commented or blogged on the event.</p>
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<p>The one international participant at the event was Dave Cooper from <a href="http://shalommakers.com/about/">Shalom Makers</a> in the US, an organisation that searching for useful connections between community, organisational and spiritual development. Inspired by the event, Dave has begun to make connections into the <a href="http://colabradio.mit.edu/?p=9511">MIT Community Innovators Lab and has started blogging about the experience with the first two entries available at the time of writing.</a></p>
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<p>Adrian Pyle began the process of preparing for this event with a paper exploring the resonance between spiritual, community and organisational development, and how has observed that techniques of profound change seem to represent the “U” shaped wisdom. To provide background for what it is worth, Adrian has posted that paper on his blog over several entries such as:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.gift-a-blog.net/2011/01/philosopy-of-adrian-part-nine-show-us.html">The metaphor of the U and Asset Based Community Development</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.gift-a-blog.net/2011/01/philosopy-of-adrian-part-ten-show-us.html">The metaphor of the U and a brain dominance instrument</a></p>
<p> </p> Good books/review articles on collective intelligence/social computingtag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-07-31:2052744:Topic:150532010-07-31T03:15:21.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Any pointers on some good review books/articles on the varieties and properties of computer-supported collective intelligence AKA social computing? I'm trying to pull together an overview of the area and the amount of material is overwhelming, so I'm looking for good summaries. I'm already aware of:<div><br></br></div>
<div>wikinomics</div>
<div>infotopia</div>
<div>the wisdom of crowds</div>
<div>here comes everybody</div>
<div>cognitive surplus</div>
<div>wealth of…</div>
Any pointers on some good review books/articles on the varieties and properties of computer-supported collective intelligence AKA social computing? I'm trying to pull together an overview of the area and the amount of material is overwhelming, so I'm looking for good summaries. I'm already aware of:<div><br/></div>
<div>wikinomics</div>
<div>infotopia</div>
<div>the wisdom of crowds</div>
<div>here comes everybody</div>
<div>cognitive surplus</div>
<div>wealth of networks</div>
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<div>Any other good sources?</div>
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<div> Thanks,</div>
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<div>Mark</div>
<div><br/></div> Given enough data and time to discuss, would we tend to converge on the same conclusions?tag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-07-23:2052744:Topic:150372010-07-23T20:16:44.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
I reckon with the appropriate environment for collective online deliberation we could easily give an answer to this question. But as far as I see it's still too early for that. Does anybody know of any research done in this direction? What is your opinion?<br/><br/>cheers,<br/><br/>Simeó<br/>
I reckon with the appropriate environment for collective online deliberation we could easily give an answer to this question. But as far as I see it's still too early for that. Does anybody know of any research done in this direction? What is your opinion?<br/><br/>cheers,<br/><br/>Simeó<br/> Research Project: Express your vote in a climate change debate!tag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-05-17:2052744:Topic:148792010-05-17T02:18:35.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
<div>Hi all,</div>
<div> we are running a study using a new rating feature inside the Deliberatorium application. We are testing it in a map titled: Global warming: threat or myth?</div>
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<div>The following is a short description to invite people to participate:</div>
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<div>Do you want to use a cutting-edge collective intelligence system to see a systematic summary of the Climate Change debate and express your vote? Participate in this research…</div>
<div>Hi all,</div>
<div> we are running a study using a new rating feature inside the Deliberatorium application. We are testing it in a map titled: Global warming: threat or myth?</div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>The following is a short description to invite people to participate:</div>
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<div>Do you want to use a cutting-edge collective intelligence system to see a systematic summary of the Climate Change debate and express your vote? Participate in this research project.</div>
<div><br/></div>
<div>The project, run by the Center for Collective Intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aims to develop novel collective intelligence technologies that enable more effective deliberation with large groups. We are looking for people interested in using our technology to browse and rate a "map" of the argument about Climate Change. Participation in the study is entirely voluntary, and all data will be anonymized, so your confidentiality is assured.</div>
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<div>To get started, simply follow this link: <a href="http://franc2.mit.edu:8000/ci/register?E-3NNLOF-1375">http://franc2.mit.edu:8000/ci/register?E-3NNLOF-1375</a></div>
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<div>Your participation is highly appreciated! </div>
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<div>Carlo</div> Online Deliberation 2010: an Issue Mapping panel?tag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-02-15:2052744:Topic:145512010-02-15T23:20:42.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
Hi all<br></br><br></br>Some of you will have heard of the <a href="http://www.od2010.dico.unimi.it/">Online Deliberation</a> conference, which this year comes to Leeds, UK. It will pull in both human-centred technologists and policymakers interested in what the net has to offer. <br></br><br></br>David Price and I are thinking of doing a 1.5hr panel session on the emergence of Issue/Dialogue/Argument mapping as something to take note of. <br></br><br></br>We thought we'd crowdsource suggestions from you! The floor's…
Hi all<br/><br/>Some of you will have heard of the <a href="http://www.od2010.dico.unimi.it/">Online Deliberation</a> conference, which this year comes to Leeds, UK. It will pull in both human-centred technologists and policymakers interested in what the net has to offer. <br/><br/>David Price and I are thinking of doing a 1.5hr panel session on the emergence of Issue/Dialogue/Argument mapping as something to take note of. <br/><br/>We thought we'd crowdsource suggestions from you! The floor's open, but a few ideas are <br/><ul>
<li>who to get on the panel</li>
<li>what the burning questions are that we might try and tackle</li>
<li>what the takehome message is for policymakers</li>
</ul>
<br/>Your ideas welcomed :-)<br/><br/>Simon <br/> JOBS: Humantific New York: Senior Visual SenseMakerstag:globalsensemaking.net,2010-01-31:2052744:Topic:145302010-01-31T19:51:59.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
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</span></font></div> measuring signal to noise ratios using argument maps - request for pointerstag:globalsensemaking.net,2009-12-18:2052744:Topic:143722009-12-18T15:44:46.000ZSimon Buckingham Shumhttp://globalsensemaking.net/profile/sbs
I've become interested in the signal to noise ratios of different types of media and one way I've tried to measure it is simply count the number of posts it takes to represent a given item (e.g. a web forum or newspaper article) as an argument map, compared to the number of words in the item. I've done a few examples:<br />
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83 words/post for Wall Street Journal article on global warming<br />
67 words/post for UK PIRC "climate safety" report<br />
267 words/post for Italian Omniauto web forum<br />
459 words/post for…
I've become interested in the signal to noise ratios of different types of media and one way I've tried to measure it is simply count the number of posts it takes to represent a given item (e.g. a web forum or newspaper article) as an argument map, compared to the number of words in the item. I've done a few examples:<br />
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83 words/post for Wall Street Journal article on global warming<br />
67 words/post for UK PIRC "climate safety" report<br />
267 words/post for Italian Omniauto web forum<br />
459 words/post for planeta carbon offsetting web forum<br />
262 words/post for windmills web forum<br />
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The web forums, unsurprisingly, have substantially lower signal-to-noise ratios (i.e. more words per argument map entry) than the more polished articles and reports.<br />
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My question is: has anyone else done some projects where they created a map that represents all and only the content in a given article, web forum, or other corpus, so we could calculate the signal-to-noise ratio for them as well? This will enable to quantify, in some sense, one benefit of using arguments maps as a social medium - the results have a higher signal-to-noise ratio.<br />
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If you have some examples that allow calculating signal-to-noise ratios, could you let me know? I'll post whatever results I get in the GSM web site.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
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Mark Klein