Retrospective 2024-22

This is a retrospective of week 22, 2024 (2024-05-27–2024-06-02).

I’ve continued reading The Living Classroom by Christopher Bache this week. I’ve mentioned the book here and here in previous retrospectives. The book is about collective consciousness and teaching, but it is as applicable to any circumstance where people gather with a common intent. I’ll review the book next week.

I’ve also started reading The Courage to Teach by Parker J. Palmer. It’s an exploration of the inner landscape of a teacher’s life, or any life really. Bache and Palmer are both deep thinkers and very good writers. Palmer writes:

…I am a very slow writer. … I doubt that I have ever published a page that has not been refried eight or ten or twelve times. … The very act of writing helps me discover what I feel or know about something, and since each succeeding draft drives that discovery a little deeper, it is hard to know when to stop.

—Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life

To paraphrase Palmer, the very act of blogging helps me discover what I feel or know. Inspired by Bache and Palmer, I wrote the following this week:

Underneath all words

Underneath all words,
our being reaches out
and touches others.

There it mingles
with their being,
and their experiences.

This is a natural
and unstoppable effect.

It is put into action by
an invisible living energy.

Experience awakens experience.
Depth triggers depth.

It cannot be faked.
Neither can it be
contained.

Look more deeply

The habit
of thinking
is so strong
that to consider
another alternative
pushes the boundaries
of our experience.

It asks us
to go between
and beyond
how we usually
experience
the world
and look
more deeply 
into the
subtle fabric
of our lives.

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We’re all connected in one way or another. How can we help each other to grow and learn?

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Jag har nämnt AI här och här i mina tillbakablickar. Den här veckan hittade jag följande citat av Alexander Norén, som skriver (min betoning i fetstil):

Tänk på att du inte kan lita på chatbottens svar till 100 procent. Ibland ”killgissar” den. Den är nämligen utformad för att hela tiden gissa sig fram till nästa ord, nästa mening, nästa stycke och så vidare. Man kan säga att den gissar det mest sannolika svaret, utifrån vad den lärt sig i grunden.

—Alexander Norén, Så pratar du med AI på rätt sätt (SVT Nyheter, 20240329) https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/sa-pratar-du-med-ai-pa-ratt-satt

Hur avgör man om man kan lita på svaret (om man inte redan vet svaret)?