This thesis explores the hypothesis that humor emerges from the incongruities of the digital experience. It argues that digital media generates unexpected juxtapositions and enables the sharing of incongruous phenomena, feeding our addiction to humor. The document discusses philosophers' perspectives on humor and presents several theories of humor, including incongruity-resolution, superiority, and relief theories. It also examines the relationship between problem-solving, evolution, and humor.
WE make more sense than me - the art of Collective SensemakingAntoinette Coetzee
Talk delivered by Antoinette Coezee and Jason Knight at the Agile2019 conference.
Abstract:
Making sense is too important to do alone. We each see a part of the puzzle. It's only when we combine our collective sense of what's going on that we see more of the reality around us. Too often, it remains hidden. We need this collective wisdom to make sense of volatility, uncertainty, accelerated change, and ambiguity in order to respond.
Did you know there is a framework for having a Collective Sensemaking conversation? And, if done properly, it develops the thinking of everyone involved? In this session, you will observe a live demo with a detailed breakdown of the demo to illustrate the power of this approach. You will then have an opportunity to practice yourself. Come to this interactive workshop and learn how you and your organization can apply this framework to better respond to the challenges you face.
Learning Outcomes:
* Describe the Sense-and-Respond pattern
* Recognize the power of Collective Sensemaking in catalyzing deep individual growth and development
* Understand and demonstrate Collective Sensemaking and its value in co-creating solutions
* Explain the link between developing Collective Sensemaking and the impact on our leadership capabilities
* Understand key nuances in the practice and application of Collective Sensemaking
* Apply Collective Sensemaking to your own problem-solving
* Demonstrate the kind of interactions and attitudes needed for Collective Sensemaking
* Explain how the practice of Collective Sensemaking can significantly impact the quality of relationship within groups (e.g. in meetings) and teams
Video embedded on slide 2: https://youtu.be/bmQRwyrvsqo
WE make more sense than me - the art of Collective SensemakingAntoinette Coetzee
Talk delivered by Antoinette Coezee and Jason Knight at the Agile2019 conference.
Abstract:
Making sense is too important to do alone. We each see a part of the puzzle. It's only when we combine our collective sense of what's going on that we see more of the reality around us. Too often, it remains hidden. We need this collective wisdom to make sense of volatility, uncertainty, accelerated change, and ambiguity in order to respond.
Did you know there is a framework for having a Collective Sensemaking conversation? And, if done properly, it develops the thinking of everyone involved? In this session, you will observe a live demo with a detailed breakdown of the demo to illustrate the power of this approach. You will then have an opportunity to practice yourself. Come to this interactive workshop and learn how you and your organization can apply this framework to better respond to the challenges you face.
Learning Outcomes:
* Describe the Sense-and-Respond pattern
* Recognize the power of Collective Sensemaking in catalyzing deep individual growth and development
* Understand and demonstrate Collective Sensemaking and its value in co-creating solutions
* Explain the link between developing Collective Sensemaking and the impact on our leadership capabilities
* Understand key nuances in the practice and application of Collective Sensemaking
* Apply Collective Sensemaking to your own problem-solving
* Demonstrate the kind of interactions and attitudes needed for Collective Sensemaking
* Explain how the practice of Collective Sensemaking can significantly impact the quality of relationship within groups (e.g. in meetings) and teams
Video embedded on slide 2: https://youtu.be/bmQRwyrvsqo
Past civilisations have nurtured small populations of those trying to understand and manipulate nature to some advantage in materials, tools, weapons, food, and wealth. However, they never formed communities and lacked the means of recording, communicating, and sharing successes and failures. They also lacked a common framework/philosophy to qualify them as scientists, but that all began to change in the 16th Century. In this lecture we consider the progression to a philosophy of science, and the underlying principles and assumptions that now guide scientific inquiry.We also examines the nature of scientific knowledge, the methods of acquisition, evolution, and significance over past centuries, and reflect on the value to society.
In the struggle to solve problems, deliver understanding, and reveal the truth about our universe, science had to suffer and survive: ignorance, bigotry, established superstitions, and the ‘diktats’ of religions and politics, and latterly, falling education standards mired by social media. We chart that ‘scientific’ journey emphasising the importance of observation, experimentation, and the search for universal laws. Ultimately, this essentially Aristotelian perspective was challenged and overtaken by the rise of empiricism, which emphasised the importance of sensory experience and the limitations of human knowledge.
Science continues to evolve and provide us with the best truths attainable with our leading edge technologies of observation and experimentation. Today, it stands as the greatest and richest contributor to human knowledge, understanding, progress, and wellbeing. In turn, debates and controversies are ongoing, shaping the field and philosophy which remains essential for understanding the nature of scientific knowledge and the models it creates. But unlike any belief system, the answers and models furnishers by science are not certain and invariant, they tend to be stochastic and incomplete - ‘the best we can do’ at a given time.
The MTL Professional Development Programme is a collection of 202 PowerPoint presentations that will provide you with step-by-step summaries of a key management or personal development skill. This presentation is on "Erik Erikson's Lifespan Psychology" and will explain to you Erik Erikson's model of personal growth and how it can help you in counselling others.
Kim Solez Singularity explained and promoted winter 2014Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The technological Singularity explained and promoted" in the Technology and Future of Medicine course on January 16, 2014, at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2014 JustMachines Inc.
Kim Solez Singularity explained promoted winter 2015Kim Solez ,
Dr. Kim Solez presents "The Technological Singularity Explained and Promoted" on January 13th, 2015 in the course on Technology and the Future of Medicine LABMP 590 http://www.singularitycourse.com at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Copyright (c) 2015, JustMachines Inc.
1. THESIS ONE
Digital Absurdity
Michael Silber | Professor Tom Klinkowstein
2. “Nothing in man is more
serious than his sense of
humor; it is the sign that
he wants all the truth.”
-Mark van Doren
Michael Silber | Directed Research | Professor Tom Klinkowstein
3. Hypothesis
This thesis presents the hypothesis that
humor emerges from the incongruities of
digital experience.
Humor in this form celebrates juxtapositions,
boundary confusion, and promotes
absurd connections.
Digital media generate unexpected
incongruities, enable us to record incongruous
phenomena, and provide us a means to share
and broadcast them. As a result, the digital
experience feeds our addiction to humor.
Michael Silber | Directed Research | Professor Tom Klinkowstein
5. The Persistence of Humor
Through All Media
Michael Silber | Directed Research | Professor Tom Klinkowstein
6. Philosophers on Humor
A Tickling of the Mind.
- Charles Darwin
A Mixture of Joy and Shock.
- Rene Descartes
A Sudden Glory.
- Thomas Hobbes
A Comparison Between Noble and Ignoble States.
- Aristotle
Michael Silber | Directed Research | Professor Tom Klinkowstein
10. Is there an evolutionary/
adaptive explanation for the
existence of humor?
How does humor define
our humanity?
Michael Silber | Directed Research | Professor Tom Klinkowstein
11. Perception
We only see what we look at. To look is an act
of choice […] We never look at one thing; we
are always looking at the relation between
things and ourselves. Our vision is continually
active, continually moving, continually
holding things in a circle around itself,
constituting what is present to us as we are.
-John Berger - "Ways of Seeing"
Michael Silber | Directed Research | Professor Tom Klinkowstein
12. The Digital Experience
and Absurdity
Incongruent fragments of
written, verbal, and visual
information can become fused
in nonsensical absurd ways,
as our minds seek to
process and organize.
Michael Silber | Directed Research | Professor Tom Klinkowstein
17. If you put things together in
just the right way you can
create transcendent effect.
-Ray Kurzweil
Michael Silber | Directed Research | Professor Tom Klinkowstein