Where Does the Thinking Go? - Research Group Meeting Friday September 4, 2026

Research and Sense-Making
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Trees of change, forum discussions, and getting Second Renaissance to constantly evolve its vision.

​Any movement for civilizational renewal needs its discourse to compound: hypotheses about how renewal happens needs to evolve, questions and suggestions need to be captured and resolved. Right now it often doesn’t. Discussions are scattered across the forum or WhatsApp and frequently repeats itself; offers of help struggle to find a place to land.

​The proposal here is to develop a “reason commons”, a place where shared thinking anchors to a tree of change — rather than a stack of documents. This means that discourse has a foundation to build on and to contribute to. We show how to use AI to connect everyday conversation to that tree with little extra work.

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This would have been entirely too much to bring up in the live call, but the most interesting sort of “logical tree” I’ve seen lately are diagrams to illustrate the “concresion” of multiple “prehensions” across four dimensional space-time for a Whiteheadian “actual entity”. (See the article below).

What I really like about Whitehead’s version of the logical tree, is that branches exist in the past and future as well as the perceptual present. Indeed, without the past and future branches, there is no perception at all!