Part 1 - Emerging Topics for

#NewMacy Meeting #3 aimed to move closer to action-oriented intentions. The conversations were based on the emerging themes around creating alternatives to “the pandemic of today’s AI.”
In Part 1, group discussions explored the following themes
1. Disciplines
2. Sustainability
3. Conversation Machines
4. Integrative Approach
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[@CreativeRecipeswithKaren]

You need to establish if this so called pandemic was contrived or if it was true in the first place. If one of the goals ofc cybernetics is to correct epistemological errors (Mary Catherine Bateson) then please ask the question: what is a virus and if such a thing actually exists. You people are falling right in line instead of questioning accepted knowledge of things.

[@Welcometotheparadigmshift]

This is extremely academic and intellectual. I may be very mildly titillated cerebrally but remain unmoved. The persistent focus on AI seems like navel gazing. I don’t see any bottom up thinking from somaticists, indigenous knowledge, embodiment educators or workers in the field. In particular, human movement and the body are grossly underappreciated.
Shouldn’t things like history, medicine, mental health, therapy and evolutionary mismatch or maladaptation be a part of the conversation? What about neuroscience, cognitive science and motor control theory? This is extremely academic and mentalist in focus. It is not at all physiological or anatomical.
One extreme of cybernetics is this top down intellectual discourse. The other is its ability to frame and contain bottom up structures of meaning such as those found in the body and the earth. For me that is sadly missing here. Cybernetics needs to be fleshed out not made even more arid!