Relational awareness training
Return to your teams with the relational awareness to play your part in sustaining whole-system resilience.
With all attention on making everything function as expected, each function mastered builds confidence that nothing will go wrong—until one part fails and the whole fragments. When systemic fragmentation stems from broken relationships between functions, improving individual functions misses the point. A better approach is to develop the relational awareness to process how functions relate as a whole. To relax into alert connection and enjoy a dance of anticipation, confident that we can handle whatever comes next.
Welcome. I hope you’re well. My name is Jon Thorne, and I spent the first part of my career separating functional and relational thinking from human connection. In the second, I focused on bringing the relational back to the functional. My book explains why meaningful connection cannot come from focusing only on how things function. That may be enough for some people, but I’m writing for those who want something more.
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A conversation about how AI and people can work effectively together
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About the event
Setting the scene
Experts who study AI and the human brain agree on a fundamental principle: for a system to work, its functional parts must be assembled effectively, and the relationships between those parts must be continually adjusted to sustain whole-system resilience in its environment. Think of driving a car, whether the driver is an AI system or a human being.
AI uses one way of attending to the world.
It builds functions to generate predictions, executes them, compares the outcomes with its expectations, measures the errors, and corrects itself. It applies this process both to assembling functional parts and to adjusting the relationships between them in order to sustain whole-system resilience. When a self-driving car travels along a busy high street, AI performs the functions needed to operate the car while measuring the distances between all the functional parts around it. When one part moves, it predicts what will…
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