hrheingold #mindamp Live session recording from 3-18-11 now available: http://bit.ly/mindamp_3-18-11
tuning... paying attention to who i'm paying attention to
the engaging part is where infotension turned into personal network - you are in an active relationship
Peg Boyles: Engage+inquire+respond=converse. I love the etymology of the word converse: "to turn around, about together
Peter Rothman: engagement is a key idea thing
Peter Rothman: then
Cole Tucker: i've certainly found howard's point out that sharing enough to personalize yourself to the network very helpful
Ken 1: Good insight on "stop following some" under 'Tuning'
Peg Boyles: That was me, Laurie. Impt aspect of Ellen Langer's mindfulness theory.
30 years of research at harvard, 1st tenured female of pych
research ?: could how we learn matter as much and possibly even more than what we learn.
mindfulness
the power of mindful learning
counterclockwise
she considers all the conventional methods of learning as basically context free (mindless) absolute, typcially delivered by experts, not supposed to question but "learn"
mindful = making distinctions, asking questions, every concept has a context, and you need to explore that context
revolutionary theory of decision making, not making pre-mature cognitive statements
there's a lot more randomness in learning, chaos
we make patterns out of the chaos - bill miller - quantum change
wake up one morning and you don't know how, but something difficult yesterday is easier
she has a lot to say about attention as well
Christopher Neal: Connectivism: by George Siemens - The ability to draw distinctions between important and unimportant information is vital. The ability to recognize when new information alters the landscape based on decisions made yesterday is also critical.
µichael Rose: Another tactic: I feel it's good for me to learn to balance (and practice both) divergent and convergent thinking, spending time listening to many voices and then focus on what *we* think given all that. Then diverge again, rinse and repeat
Charles Cameron (hipbone): in gterms of mind maps, mind maps are divergent unless you work to make them converge
sock puppets, creating a face identity to agree with you
Peg Boyles: Twitter curation is evolving to create a culture of trust.
Peg Boyles: I've been thinking about a whole phenomenlogy of trust online.
who constitutes an expert... Howard - if someone consistently is the first one to share something in a particular field - flow of info that turn out to be accurate
if someone is proclaiming (as opposed to displaying it) their expertise, cause for a little suspect
Cole Tucker: and group interactions often bring out tacit expertise
lisa piazza: it has been amazing to what @acravin from NPR do live fact checking via Twitter while reporting on Eqypt, Libya, Bahrain, etc.
Peg Boyles: I don't think there's a right level, Howard. I just wish there were some way to bank it all for future checking, even when the discussion goes cold and the course is over.
is this Peg?
µichael Rose: Are we shying away from 'chemical augmentation' questions?
Peg Boyles: Yes. Move towards herbs.
Peg Boyles: Encorphins.
Peg Boyles: I mean, endorphins.
Laurie Williams: most librarians i know love beer...coincidence?
Peg Boyles: Yes. Beer and bread, which makes grains digestible.
Peter Rothman: some of the most messed up tweakers I've ever met were doing so called "smart drugs" caveat emptor
Moderator: Pandora's Seed
Cole Tucker: i'm a big fan of the '*cetams
µichael Rose: Terence McKenna argues (quite persuasivelty) that mushrooms kicked society off
lisa piazza: Yesterday my next door neighbor gave me a catalog from the MAPS - multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
lisa piazza: had never heard of the group before
µichael Rose: MAPS are great. Rick Doblin is fantastic.
µichael Rose: 'unprovable' for sure. Like most of his work
Moderator: Munn
Moderator: Mushrooms of Language
Charles Cameron (hipbone): superb essay
Cole Tucker: michael, mckenna's cattle grazing mushroom theory fits very well with the theory in Saharasia
Joshua Madara: see also Bill Hicks
Christopher Neal: Will we discuss information flow and connectivism in future infosessions. I really enjoyed the readings on these topics?
Peter Rothman: also in the software inductry
Cole Tucker: about development of agriculture and rise of patriarchy
Peter Rothman: industry
Peter Rothman: what the dor mouse said
µichael Rose: "it's just a ride"
Peter Rothman: Also rushkoff's Cyberia but arguably his worst book, full of inaccuracies, I sent him corrections
µichael Rose: I'm fascinated by animal consciousness (rather than machine consciousness) and LSD etc. seem to be the best tools for exploring the mind.
Peter Rothman: can you enhance animals? why or why not? see the recent experiments with dolphin/human communication based on a visual language
connectivism and info flow
interesting mix going on here. but of course.. i've not read any of their forums, etc..
thank you for sharing this with us Howard..
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