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.
Thanks John. You raise a good point about sense-making, which, along with what we used to call double loop learning, will be very important in future. And yes, that does indeed broaden what we call 'experience' - I hadn't quite thought of it in those terms. I liked the linked piece as well, so thanks for sharing that.
Yes, a great point. Double loop learning is one of the capacities that emerges at 'later stages' of psychological development that we can access in moments of vertical learning.
Thanks for taking the time to read the article and the feedback.
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/
Thanks John. You raise a good point about sense-making, which, along with what we used to call double loop learning, will be very important in future. And yes, that does indeed broaden what we call 'experience' - I hadn't quite thought of it in those terms. I liked the linked piece as well, so thanks for sharing that.
Yes, a great point. Double loop learning is one of the capacities that emerges at 'later stages' of psychological development that we can access in moments of vertical learning.
Thanks for taking the time to read the article and the feedback.