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Jasen Robillard's avatar

My sense is that this transition in the age of network information has been enabled by a number of factors including a massive shift in online circling, authentic listening, dialogos, and generative empathic collaboration. Those regularly participating in trusted information and empathy networks end up intuitively drawn to patterns of murmuration. These murmurations are amazing to watch but even more thrilling to participate in. Listening to those named individuals in practice with each other can lead to memetic biomimicry among those who are sensitive and attentive to patterns and reverberations.

https://open.substack.com/pub/releasingthemuse/p/murmurations-in-communities-of-practice?r=8fury&utm_medium=ios

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Sudipto Ghosh's avatar

Thank you very much for that post. It becomes obvious from this and from the way that you respond to others' posts that you are genuinely attentive to the world around you. I want to repeat that --"genuinely attentive". Because this is not common. It is not something most people are. We scroll past looking for that which interests us. You are not looking for specific things that fill your agenda book for the day. You are open. And that's what makes this post important. Earthstar One's comment on the brazen individual voices that stand out in the beauty of a murmuration's swirling storm, was valid until you realise that there are leader birds and follower birds even within the murmuration. Individuals can tilt the frame, ever so slightly, with a way of seeing the world, that can in fact start the slide; tip the scales in favour of achieving critical mass. I do not know if we are in an age of transition just yet. But, that YOU are not here, responding to these comments--instead choosing to be elsewhere for a higher purpose--shows that you just might be that individual.

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