How do the new events taking place across the new webs and forms lead (maybe) to a new understanding of intuitive processes? Could we begin to speak of technology assisting us towards working with a collective intuition, much more powerful than the individual one?
More will follow...
A month ago at a conference I talked about intuition as being "autopoietic knowledge". Knowledge that is created in its own space, without being dominated by institutional forces or external rules. Like an event of knwoledge, existing only for itself.
If we think of something like Open Source, it somehow seems to create a space around that possibility for autopoïesis. The best condition for Open Source as a cultural idea (i.e. as more than just software developing) is something like that: making social spaces and temporalities that allow for pure knowledge to be born, from which we may tap for our work with more mundane and controlled activities.
The interesting thing here is that intuition seen this way is taken at least partially out of its romantic bedrock of individual creativity. This way of talking about intuition is as something (an event, maybe), that is pre-individual, it is social in a way that defines our way of interacting through it.
I'd like to pursue these ideas here, with input from some of the creative (oh, sorry, autopoïetic) people at Reboot...
