Author Archives: George Pór

Integral Mindfulness, Wisdom Society, and Collective Sentience

Posted on February 15, 2015 by George Pór

Integral Mindfulness, Wisdom Society, and Collective Sentience: an exploration into the next stage of human consciousness Abstracts of my paper for the Mindfulness & Compassion conference in San Francisco, 3-7 June This contribution to the “Mindfulness & Compassion” conference is focused … Continue reading →

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From Integral Mindfulness to Collective Intelligence to Collective Sentience

Posted on January 24, 2015 by George Pór

From Integral Mindfulness to Collective Intelligence to Collective Sentience: signposts to the later stages of our evolutionary journey  by George Pór   Abstracts This essay is a wide-ranging exploration into the conditions for realizing the next-level potential of human and … Continue reading →

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2014 in review

Posted on December 30, 2014 by George Pór

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2014. If it were a … Continue reading →

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The comparative advantages of online dialogue

Posted on December 14, 2014 by George Pór

I wrote up the following points originally, in an online conversation on Facebook, related to Frederic Laloux‘ upcoming lecture on “How to Become a Soulful Organisation“: • We can pause for a moment of contemplating ( ) before answering to what has just been written, thus … Continue reading →

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Evolution’s engine picking up steam

Posted on November 2, 2014 by George Pór

  Evolution’s engine is picking up steam. Those on the edge are entertained by a dazzling firework of opportunities. To choose well, engaging the flow for the highest impact, the collective mind has to access collective wisdom, swiftly. Practice, practice, practice!

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2015 Collective Intelligence Conference

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Pór

The annual interdisciplinary conference that brings together researchers from the academy, businesses, non profits, governments and the world at large to share insights and ideas from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence in its many … Continue reading →

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Europe’s big chance

Posted on October 12, 2014 by George Pór

Some of you read the transcript of my keynote address at 57th conference of the International Society for Systems Sciences, last year, on Augmenting the Collective Intelligence of the Ecosystem of Systems Communities. The title of the conference was “Curating the Conditions for … Continue reading →

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A Project for a New Humanism: an interview with Pierre Lévy

Posted on October 11, 2014 by George Pór

Pierre Lévy is a philosopher and a pioneer in the study of the impact of the Internet on human knowledge and culture. In Collective Intelligence. Mankind’s Emerging World in Cyberspace, published in French in 1994 (English translation in 1999), he … Continue reading →

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Issue paper for the workshop on Collective Intelligence for the Common Good (CI4CG)

Posted on September 25, 2014 by George Pór

“The notion of the common good is a denial that society is and should be composed of atomized individuals living in isolation from one another.” (Encyclopedia Britannica) The workshop hosted by the Open University on September 29-30, 2014 is aimed … Continue reading →

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From Right Mindfulness to Collective Intelligence to Collective Sentience

Posted on September 23, 2014 by George Pór

Abstracts of paper invited to Spanda Journal’s special issue on Collective Intelligence   Without an ethical foundation grounded in the common good and an integral, evolutionary worldview, the currently trending mindfulness practices and trainings risk to reduce a radical, ancient wisdom … Continue reading →

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