We make new meaning at the edge of our current consciousness.
We each have an edge but each of ours is different. We know that to make new meaning we must be challenged to stretch beyond our edge and to courageously Walk into the Unknown, into the chaos beyond the order.
Stretching into that space, we are inevitably surprised because the world is far more complex than our understanding of it – our cognitive model is limited by our lived experience. That surprise then forms into a pattern of new meaning, emergent bounded meaning that Karl Friston refers to as a 'Markov blanket' that updates our understanding of the world, our schema, our consciousness. That which we sense happens in a supercritical state where there is non-linear emergence.
We face two challenges as meaning makers, how to continually maintain the Beginner's Mind of a learner but also how to share what we have learned with others.
To share what we have learned challenges us to be with the mind of another, to sense the world from their perspective, their consciousness with Unbounded Consciousness.
If we can do that, we can entice them to be curious about that which might lie just over _their_ horizon, gently guiding them into their unknown in which they might make new meaning. Meaning that might delight and awakens new wonder within them, experiences that might further unleash their creative potential.
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