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Lee, that was a great article. Thank you. Might we go further and explicitly discuss the developmental (i.e. increasing complexity) of our sense-making?

To use AI wisely we need to develop more complex ways of sense-making, individually and collectively. Otherwise, we risk getting increasingly clever answers to stupid questions. To do this, I suggest we'd be well served by recognising the difference between learning as the acquisition of new information (sometimes called 'horizontal' learning in adult developmental psychology) and learning as the development of more complex ways of sense-making ('vertical' learning). We can work in ways that support the development of both, simultaneously, rather than holding one or the other back. This also means broadening our view of 'experience' and 'experiencing'.

I recently wrote this (admittedly rather long) piece about experiencing in the context of 'DevEx' which says more about this.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/devex-opportunity-risk-being-missed-yet-again-john-turley-ut6je/

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