Sense-making | Episode 5

From the utility and limitations of metaphors to an approach for building empathy in the interactions we have with others, sense-making plays a key role in how we participate in the world around us. Dive in to the episode to see how the conversation unfolds. 

Date of Recording
November 26th 2020 

Timestamps

• Summary of last episode - intro to machine and informational metaphor (02:11)
• Why metaphors are useful but insufficient (05:23)
• The flip side of using informational metaphors (12:04) 
• The ineffable lived experience of culture (14:23)
• The danger of applying the mechanical or software lens too tightly (17:21) 
• The informational driven patterns and human experience (19:24)
• Tool invention to sense-making (22:06)
• The decoupling of innovation and human experience (25:01)
• The blank slate fallacy (29:23)
• Rejecting the narrative (33:27)
• Psychological triggers and Forrest Landry’s three levels of perception (35:26)
• Building Sovereignty (42:16)
• Jungian sub-personalities and social media (44:13)
• Sub-personalities and the polluted information ecology (51:17) 
• Reframing personal relationships as a pathway to empathy and crossing divides (52:49)
• Finding the signal in the noise (01:00:19)
• Collapsing into worldviews, sense-making and bridge building (01:02:00)
• Holding and seeking value in multiple perspectives (01:12:17)
• The psychology of anxiety in uncertainty (01:15:08)
• Stepping into the undefined and navigating the unknown as agents (01:21:30)
• The new metaphors - the surfer (01:23:07)
• Takeaways and questions to ask ourselves (01:27:38)

Questions to ponder over

• What might be some of the other ways of finding signal in the noise in our arenas as we try to navigate them? How might we do that? 
• How might we hold the uncertainty that we need to hold for others and the people around us? 
• How else do we use metaphors to make sense of our world?

Links to explore 

• Forrest Landry - philosophy and metaphysics 
• Roger Scruton - Anthropologist's gaze 
• Jordan Peterson - Lobster hierarchies 
• Sigmund Freud 
• Carl Jung  
• Sub-personalities
• Daniel Schmachtenberger - The War on Sensemaking 
• Infinity Stones (01:31-03:14)
• John Vervaeke - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Contact 

• Metaperspective.io
• hello@metaperspective.io