Author Archives: George Pór

The Evidence Hub: Harnessing the Collective Intelligence of Communities to Build Evidence-Based Knowledge

Posted on April 26, 2014 by George Pór

“Conventional document and discussion websites provide users with no help in assessing the quality or quantity of evidence behind any given idea. Besides, the very meaning of what evidence is may not be unequivocally defined within a community, and may require deep … Continue reading →

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Mindful Together: shared mindfulness amplifies

Posted on April 26, 2014 by George Pór

Good night, good morning Instead of talking about, can we try talking from and to mindfulness? From mine to yours, from yours to mine. Embodying it right here and now, as I’m writing these words, and you embodying it wherever … Continue reading →

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An experiment to combine electronic and mindfulness amplification processes

Posted on April 21, 2014 by George Pór

To follow on what I started exploring in my note about the personal and transpersonal meaning of increased technical connectivity, I want to put some seeds in the ground about the possibility combine electronic and mindfulness processes that amplify  the connectivity in the … Continue reading →

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A note about the personal and transpersonal meaning of increased technical connectivity

Posted on April 21, 2014 by George Pór

I like to watch YouTube vids while working out on my exercise bike. Since YouTube’s algorithms are getting as good at suggesting vids for me as Amazon does with books, usually I graze its recommendations page before jumping on my bike. … Continue reading →

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Somewhere, on our way to humankind’s awakening…

Posted on April 17, 2014 by George Pór

Somewhere, on our way to humankind’s awakening to its collective wisdom, global heart, and sentience… self-organizing communities of co-creation and practice will master the combination of swarm intelligence ( see also starlings as teachers ) with wildfire learning (see chapter 7 in my Federated Framework for … Continue reading →

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CI as collective consciousness in action (both being and doing)

Posted on February 14, 2014 by George Pór

Yet another definition: “Mastering collective intelligence is the deliberate exercising of collective consciousness in action (both being & doing) where we can see and recognise the steps, relationships and rational process that is contributing to the power and potential of … Continue reading →

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Dysfunctional Collective Intelligence

Posted on February 12, 2014 by George Pór

Below is an excerpt from How to Create a Group Mind | 100 Trillion Connections, by Duncan Work. “A dysfunctional society, or group mind, is full of emotion-laden biases, fears, animosity, internal hostilities, greed, bitter or violent competitions (winner-take-all), or … Continue reading →

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Letting collective intelligence use me for organizing itself

Posted on February 3, 2014 by George Pór

I emailed a tweet I’ve just stumbled upon in my tweetstream to a colleague because I knew it had to do with one of her interests. We cannot spend all our time on hanging out in the stream but the … Continue reading →

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The Emergence of Higher We-Spaces

Posted on January 31, 2014 by George Pór

The Emergence of Higher We-Spaces:  steps towards humankind awakening to its collective sentience  |  Lessons from trailblazing practice communities Introductory section of my presentation invited to the Integral European Conference, Budapest, Hungary, May 8-11, 2014 Introduction: personal and planetary contexts (draft) I am irresistibly … Continue reading →

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Heard in the Techno-progressive Pub…

Posted on December 20, 2013 by George Pór

The other day, I went to a meeting of London Futurists with the title When linearity met exponential – a summer at Singularity University. As expected, the conversation  was focused on various technological aspects of our future.  Towards the end I … Continue reading →

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