Author Archives: George Pór

The power of open AND generative questions

Posted on August 20, 2006 by George Pór

Robert Bystrom wrote in his comment on the “Connectivity ramp, CI, and Jaron Lanier” blog entry. “Whenever you entertain an open question, you invite personal intelligence. Whenever a group entertains a shared question, they invite their collective intelligence.” Robert, the … Continue reading →

Posted in C I & All Quadrants All Levels, CI Principles, Presencing, Questions Worth Asking, Shared Attention | 3 Comments

Connectivity ramp, CI, and Jaron Lanier

Posted on August 6, 2006 by George Pór

I’ve just finished reading an amazing book by Joel Garreau, a reporter and editor at of the Washington Post, titled “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and What It Means to Be Human.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Connecting Our Conversations, Evolutionary Threshold, Technologies That Support CI | 8 Comments

Chance and choice experiences, presencing as community art

Posted on August 6, 2006 by George Pór

Andrew Campbell wrote somewhere, “The more whole and integrated each person the chances for choices are increased…” I may have found that sentence in the context of his conversation with de Lange on the Learning Organizations list, 5 years ago. … Continue reading →

Posted in Collective Wisdom, Intersubjectivity, Presencing, Time, attention, bandwidth & CI, Ways of Tuning with Collective Consciousness | 1 Comment

Escaping from the Museum of the 20th Century

Posted on August 6, 2006 by George Pór

As I woke up, I immediately knew: the meaning of this dream will grow with me, keep unfolding; I will see clearer the guidance that Im getting from it, over the years. At the time of that dream, in the … Continue reading →

Posted in CI Within, Collective Wisdom, Intersubjectivity, Presencing, Shared Attention, Ways of Tuning with Collective Consciousness | 2 Comments

All presencing is co-presencing

Posted on July 29, 2006 by George Pór

Talking about presence, Andrew Campbell wrote in email, what it means is not what it is — and does. It reminded me of Aurobindo’s saying, Man’s greatness is not in what he is but in what he makes possible. What … Continue reading →

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Wisdom society and navigating towards it by CI

Posted on July 25, 2006 by George Pór

It was one of those rare teaching dreams. I was the captain of a ship returning to the harbor. There were cheering crowds waiting there, giving us a heroes’ welcome. They must have already known what we came back with. … Continue reading →

Posted in CI Within, Collective Wisdom, Shared Attention, Time, attention, bandwidth & CI | 4 Comments

Redwoods, Messiah, shared-attention, and sustaining CI

Posted on July 1, 2006 by George Pór

“One of the things I love that is so special about the Redwood trees is that they are MASSIVE and yet they only send their roots about ten feet deep… they send them wide and hold onto their community for … Continue reading →

Posted in Collective Wisdom, Community of CI Practitioners, Shared Attention, Time, attention, bandwidth & CI | 1 Comment

CI in the transcendence of private property

Posted on June 20, 2006 by George Pór

“Private property of the means of production today, in the era of the hegemony of cooperative and immaterial labour, is only a putrid and tyrannical obsolescence. The tools of production tend to be recomposed in collective subjectivity and in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Co-intelligent Economy | 1 Comment

Forms of Collective Intelligence

Posted on May 1, 2006 by George Pór

There are many forms, manifestation of CI, and correspondingly, many “tribes” of its practitioners. This is an abbreviated overview. A more detailed inventory by Tom Atlee can be found here. a. Dialogic CI — A diverse group of participants suspend their … Continue reading →

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Diving into the CI of what is emerging

Posted on April 22, 2006 by George Pór

In the months that gone by since I last wrote in the blog, I’ve been on a fast-pace learning journey into emergent CI, not as a concept but as the living experience of people gathering in circles, in various countries, … Continue reading →

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