Participatory Inquiry, episode 111: Knowledge
“In a network: knowledge logistics.”
@johnkellden
Knowledge. Let’s start with data.
Data
In a network, data is the intersect of will and intelligence, will turned flow and performance. Warm data is data cultivated in a context of dialogue, learning, generativity, mutuality, play, nature and connectivity.
agents, stakeholders, participants, fellow enactors
The key for agents, stakeholders, participants, fellow enactors to co-evolve with the cultivation, is mutuality. The strategic outcome of participants co-evolving with the cultivation of warm data is contextual intelligence.
Information
Information is the intersect of situational awareness and will turned flow.
Ie, without data supporting, wireframing our information, there’s a risk with information too selectively sifted and sorted, reinforcing our own separate, separative, polarizing will.
Knowledge
Knowledge is the intersect of imagination and situational awareness, with our own and others’ existing behavior the core constraint and, should we so choose, providing us with ample opportunity to learn, unlearn and relearn, turning constraints into catalysts for creativity, play(work) and co-creation.
turning constraints into catalysts
Wisdom
Wisdom is the intersect of intelligence and imagination. If our behavior is too much of a constraint, to the detriment of our imagination, the intersect of intelligence and imagination becomes polarized, conflicted, resisted and in extreme cases, non-existent.
unwisdom of tribal behavior and gaming for personal gain
The unwisdom of tribal behavior, rigid institutionalisation, frantic market busy-ness and gaming networks purely for personal gain.
Ability
Ability is our acting wisely upon things apprehended. In order to act wisely, there needs to be sufficient knowledge relevant to the domain of action and this knowledge needs to be sufficiently informed and the information needs to be built on top of data, preferrably warm data. Whereto? An unfolding of our essential character, meeting with evolutionary purpose, out of which both a growing ability and a dedication to our own unique learning journey.
dedication to our own unique learning journey
Possibility Spaces and Knowledges, co-evolving
The generative sequence of data, information, knowledge and wisdom can be combined with contextual intelligence in order to enact a possibility space. Once enacted, our ability grows.
corner of contextual intelligence and possibility space
Knowledge Logistics
In a network, this is yet to happen. Knowledge logistics is the intersect of knowledge and logistics, the intersect of intelligence and flow. What usually keeps us from happening flow is our insistence and attachment to personal will to the detriment of intelligence, ie, our inability and/or unwillingness to cultivate data, instead too often relying on (too cold, too extractive) data and belief structures not of our own making.
too rigid attachment to belief structures
It Ain’t Happening! Wha?
What usually keeps us from happening intelligence is our too rigid attachment to belief structures, often thinly disguised as story and narrative. Stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and the world, until we believe them, whether the data and the available information supports this or not.
Story and narrative is two of our most magnificent social, cultural, civilizational artefacts. Avoid misusing them.
“But, but, you know, I’m the *victim* here!”
And one gazillion other excuses to similar effect. In order to move beyond unnecessarily limiting, too finite patterns of play — return to data, information, knowledge and wisdom.
Knowledge Logistics, How To Get Started
Reflecting on our own attachment to too personal will and our own too rigid attachment to belief structures, this becomes the optimal starting point from which to grow our own unique ability to instigate knowledge flow and become a proactive participant in knowledge logistics.
essential character and evolutionary purpose
Knowledge
Knowledge is the intersect of imagination and situational awareness, should we so choose. These our choices can over time become increasingly guided by synthesis, selfhood and service, turning us on a path of essential character, shaping and embracing being shaped by, evolutionary purpose.
Participatory Inquiry, episode 111: Knowledge

