Fascinating site on practical methods for social convening, composing individuals into dyads into “crews” into “congregations”. Mostly it suggests how deep the “skill tree” can be for something seemingly so “innate” as social convening. (via )
microsolidarity.cc
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(What an evocative image that “fractal view of belonging” is! Fuzzy meiotic boundaries! And… it’s a loop?! Because the crowd ultimately becomes so big that it’s atomizing again, I guess?! Gosh…)
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You discovered non-dualism / Advaita / Buddhist philosophy.
IIRC it originally came out of this blog post series by : medium.com/microsolidarit
In particular I found it useful to think about the distinction/combination of providing economic and emotional support within those networks.
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👋 I made this.
Andy I'm curious: in your perspective, what is social convening for? What is the point of developing excellence in this skill tree?
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Given the role social interaction plays in cognition and emotional experience, seems a bit like asking “what is language for”! :) Probably the skill trees differ somewhat for different purposes—enjoyment, distributed effort, mutual aid, sense-making, creative collaboration…
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