We are co-thinkers by definition.
“We’ve co-thought with our environments, we’ve co-thought with our artifacts. We make something, and that teaches us about something about the materials we use. We write on whiteboards, we carve something, and that gives us a different idea. The physicality of it teaches us constantly. So we are not trapped inside of our bodies.”
Ross Dawson sits down with Mickey McManus to explore a range of topics in a sort of looping and leaping conversation inspired by the BBC series “Connections” and to give a sense of how humans caper and dance and pull on threads across a range of ideas and memories. Ross is co-thinking with Mickey. Their minds are melding into a hybrid consciousness if only for a very brief period of time. The artifact they made together was a cothinker as well and shaped what was possible with the podcast studio environment, timing, and trappings of an audio broadcast.
Listen on Apple Podcast or on Spotify or click on the link below to follow along on the Humans+AI site.
How are all the links below connected? Well you’ll have to listen to the podcast to find out.
the Kiva from the MAYA offices…
The Being Context Protocol (BCP)…
Catfish have over 175,000 tastebuds… (try the link out and select taste and see how humans compare to catfish)
Basal Intelligence and bioelectricity…
TXT Me, Bonin’s book that changed his understanding of how intimate conversations can become and how quickly when folks text each other…
Ori Systems by Kent Larson’s team at MIT City Science Lab…
Gödel, Escher, Bach… of course that’s got to make it in the conversation, no? Even if his theories haven’t/maybe can’t be proven they are provocative.
Pareidolia, Moltbook, and the false signals in the noise…
Trillions and beautiful complexity…
French wines with American roots…
David Sloan Wilson, Elinor Ostrom, and a ProSocial World…
The Structural Microfoundations Theory…
Idealab and IdeaDays with Bill Gross…
What happens with Moore and Metcalfe meet Mother Nature?
and…
The international Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM)…