Month: February 2026

Two Streams, One River

Two intellectual traditions — one emphasising embodied appreciation (Dewey, Bateson, Vickers, Checkland, Stacey), the other cognitive extension (Haraway, Clark) — have developed independently for decades. This paper argues that their convergence, seen through the lens of Recognition Theory, reveals the metacrisis as cognitive extension outpacing regulatory feedback at civilisational scale, and reframes the Three Horizons model accordingly.

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The Path That Was Walked

A dated record of one person’s journey from extractive to generative AI use over thirty-two months, beginning with a pacemaker that kept him alive. The timeline reveals a characteristic pattern: the body leads, the mind follows, practice precedes theory, and the gap between doing and recognising is where the art of judgement operates.

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