The Lab of Intelligence Culture

The Laboratory of Intelligence Culture has its origins in a substantial dialogue. The wide question raised at its inception is framed as “what to do with our ‘minds’ in the 21st century?”.

Mind is a concept. Different eras, different civilizations in human history, expanded different aspects of it, inquiring and occupying it for different purposes. How do we relate to mind? and Consciousness?
We believe the serious way to address such questions is by a plurality of voices, thus the concept of a ‘Laboratory’, calling for newfound researchers to inquire and interact. The aim is a space of critical culturing of intelligences at play.

What interest us, is to create the circumstances to meet the question anew, uncluttered. On unfamiliar grounds, allowing it to provoke a first reflection of ourselves to ourselves, a flickering in intensity. Entering through a raw and naive corridor, and on the move weaving a network of connections to the bottomless richness of existing references.

Lab Attitude - Navigation in uncertainty’ – as the fundamental experience of being alive. Not knowing is the norm upon which we explore anew, when we succeed. Questioning what is at the base of our beliefs.

‘Reflective autonomy’ – claiming the basic capacity to operate the power of one’s own reflective sense-thought and intuition, at times within and at times without the main stream.

Challenge – Literacy of Mind: The Lab first task is to compile a literacy that can support reflective autonomy. We call it a ‘Literacy of Mind’, compiled by the Lab while in exploration. The task is incommensurate but critical, thus we navigate. We do not expect it to be comprehensive in the sense of ordering under one language all possible voices. It necessarily must not be, its depth would not reside in categories. At the moment we think of it as a multiplicity of sleeves (keyholes) from which to explore and in-sight. New corridors can be written or rewritten, merged or detached, thus the literacy is open-ended.

Lab Stance - “we are the citizens, the authors and the products of our mind”.
Consciousness is a project not fully given.

Operation - The Lab operates, in this initial phase, via propositions brought at events, that invite participants to explore & experience, validate, critically reflect and extract via the particular sleeve. Documents and creative artifacts are an output of these events. We expect a Literacy of mind to begin to aggregate and coagulate out of these very trajectories of experience. To achieve a critical mass that, while provisional, does make a difference at the level of engaged individuals.
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