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Collective Inquiry Processes™
How a group thinks about a question together, rather than taking turns having opinions about it.
5 chapters · 32,202 words · Narrated · Still being written
Collective inquiry is not discussion, debate or brainstorming, and most groups that believe they are doing it are doing one of those three. The distinguishing move is that the question stays open longer than is comfortable and no one is allowed to resolve it early on behalf of the room.
The volume sets out the forms — circle, council, structured silence, the slow question — and, more usefully, the conditions under which each one fails.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.