5 ms·
Interesting idea here: Draw from a pool of people who wish to be involved in cerebratory pursuits, and who are willing to accept and give ideas freely to other
by genericone 12y ago
Interesting idea here:
Draw from a pool of people who wish to be involved in cerebratory pursuits, and who are willing to accept and give ideas freely to others. Out of this pool, some combination of 4 or 5 individuals within the same geographical region can be drawn randomly from this group for cerebration sessions following a few Asimov Cerebration Guidelines (ACGs):
-"ease, relaxation, and a general sense of permissiveness."
-"short reports to write, or summaries of their conclusions, or brief answers to suggested problems, [and be paid for that]"
-"educate the participants in facts and fact-combinations, in theories and vagrant thoughts."
-"meeting in someone’s home or over a dinner table at some restaurant"
-"a session-arbiter will have to sit there, stirring up the animals, asking the shrewd question, making the necessary comment, bringing them gently back to the point."
After the session, the session can be given an evaluation by each of the participants:
A. did the session feel neutralized by any of the participants reputations?
B. was any insight gained?
C. was the session jovial?
I think I, as well as some others, would be interested in attending something like this if it could be organized well.
- laglad 12y agoThis is a very interesting idea. Perhaps taping a sample session with some extraordinarily easeful people and showing it to participants can help model the openness involved. I'd be game.
- filoeleven 12y agoI am not sure that one can learn to have that kind of openness without practicing it oneself. An equally esoteric practice that might help to foster this is the Bohm Dialogue.[1] [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm_Dialogue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm_Dialogue
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoThis sounds like a Melvyn Bragg radio show on BBC Radio 4 ...
- theoh 12y ago“Decades of research have consistently shown that brainstorming groups think of far fewer ideas than the same number of people who work alone and later pool their ideas.” http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/30/groupthink http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/30/groupthink