Socrates style of teaching—immortalized as the Socratic method—involved not conveying knowledge, but rather asking question after clarifying question until his students arrived at their own understanding.
In a collective learning sense we are ‘Socrat(us)’ - midwifing collective wisdom, and the questions we are trying to ask are EdgeQuestions which are typically thought-provoking questions that inspires innovative thinking and groundbreaking insights into some of the most significant challenges facing society.
And in true Socratic spirit this issue of Messenger only poses questions for the readers to arrive on their own understanding of the edge question “How does the ecosystem become wise?”
A poem by ChatGPT on “The Porous Circle
In the circle of life, All things are connected, One thing flows into another, A never-ending cycle. But the circle is not solid, It is porous, open, Allowing the flow of energy, To move freely within and without. The circle is a container, A vessel for transformation, As we journey through life, We are constantly changing. In the porous circle, We find unity in diversity, We honor the interconnectedness, Of all beings and all things. So let us embrace the porosity, Of the circle of life, And find peace in the knowledge, That we are all part of the whole.
In this edition of the “Gallery of Imaginary Objects” we want to introduce a purely conceptual thought object. An object that can only exist in thought and cannot ever be the real.