With the lens I have been using (harnessed consciousness through Web3 token engineering, perhaps for the purposes of individual and group consensus divination) the ideas I am talking about in this video and the beginning of the previous one are actually quite important. If you want to write me off as simply being angry, you’ve missed the point entirely. Though admittedly I do continue to be annoyed at the ongoing disconnect. We’re still human after all.
The fact that so few people seem to be able to engage on the topic of meta-cognition with regards to their digital media consumption seems to indicate that many are sleepwalking through life online, maybe especially the ones who loudly proclaim they are “awake.”
Perhaps the psychic ant computer relies on agents who respond to and act on subconscious cues while having little interest in exerting their own agency independent of the socio-technical systems into which they are embedded?
If that is the case, I guess I need to throw the whole “informed consent” framing out the window, because very, very few participants want to take ownership of their own thinking and inform THEMSELVES. The consumer model in the attention economy is quite powerful. I guess we shall see, because there’s not much time before data-driven, second order cybernetic governance protocols take center stage. Cultivate curiosity and devise better questions. There is always more to learn.
Cultivate curiosity…. My whole pedagogy is based on that action! Thank You Alison!
I love your work.
I’m going to try and engage with your work with more depth. Not just utilizing a “ladder,” to use your vernacular.
I suppose I remain silent and only issue supportive comments to you when it seems necessary, because I haven’t done the work of reading everything you’ve read.
I’m interested in your current focus of “thinking about thinking.” I do enjoy that subject as well. I haven’t poked my head over the wall in a while so I hadn’t heard some of your terminology like “scaffolding.” I like it. But I guess in my training, that scaffolding is something I would call conscience. I do think there is a structure that can pointed to in that regard. So I’d say I’m not just being whimsical or speculative there. And no, I do not get engagement when I broach the subject. I also like the “tunnel” language you use to show how that framework is ultimately created.
I created a blog space on wordpress today. I’d like to talk about my thinking there. And like you, I’m an independent thinker who is “somewhat” used to the rejection of others. Of course, it is difficult to have hope squashed time after time.
I have never paid for CAF’s site. I’m more drawn to what you’re doing here and I appreciate your growth. Would be more interested in a private conversation, but I’ll be open to talk in any way that works for you. Thank you and I’ll do my best to keep up.
A la “informed consent”, we generally forget to examine who is doing the informing; therein lies the rub.
I’m just finding that most people have been deconditioned by the feed (and probably 24/7 news cycle before that and probably NY Times bestsellers before that) to actively informing themselves. And of course life is busy and hectic and there isn’t really so much time to carve out to do that. Instead lots of people align with categories of thought and tend to stick on the comfortable road provided rather than sampling many ideas and figuring out for themselves what makes sense for them at a given point, knowing that it could definitely change later and that it’s ok to change. We can never know all the things that we don’t know, but it behooves us to know they are out there waiting to be stumbled upon – and some of those things once encountered can totally upend our worlds in productive or crippling ways.
Excellent, as always, Alison.
I’ve been thinking that we’ve been on a down elevator, or a cognitive devolution road for quite a while now.
Our collective existence as an increasingly transactional species within the grip of consumerism (or whatever it should be called) has killed our ability to dream big, think beyond the horizon and imagine the impossible. The human mass seems settled into a zombie state of indifference to any and all non-material stimuli. To buy is to live, “happily” servile to the system.
Serving ourselves as free-thinking humans has been dismissed and recycled, reproduced ad nauseam, or taken to the landfill. Or murdered? In this environment, the ability to perform basic human tasks like the ability to “cultivate curiosity and devise better questions” with the intent to learn may no longer be readily accessible to the vast majority.
Maybe through music, art and poetry another point of entry can be developed. Media, literature, and other conventional methods seem to be blocked, or caught in self-sensor modes of the hive mind. I dunno’, but it’s obviously complicated.