Where Meeting

JetPack and Jotform communicate: hand waving “quantum effects”

Math problems are low context. Ritual high context, a physicality.

Define the input / collection network, organs. The impressions that can be made (‘medley of sensuous and intellectual representations’).

There’s a fitness between the problem set (the memeset, ideas / concept set, the questions asked -the medley) and the homogeneity required of the chipsets.

The right balance – chipset communicates to chipset: handwaving “Consciousness” 

HAT TIP
Edward T. Hall

Phenomenology of Spirit no. 205

APPLICATION

The distinction between low-context and high-context communication, and the observation that ritual carries a physicality that pure information exchange does not, maps directly onto a persistent failure in organizational decision making: confusing the output of a meeting with a real decision. Low-context communication, the slide deck, the email, the analysis, can transfer information with high fidelity. But it cannot do what high-context communication does: create the shared physiological and relational conditions in which people actually commit. The chipset-to-chipset handshake that produces genuine alignment requires presence, attention, and the kind of embodied resonance that Edward T. Hall documented. Leaders who understand this have the potential to stop treating meetings as information transfer vehicles and start designing them as the high-context rituals they actually are, environments where the right medley of sensory and intellectual impressions can produce the genuine convergence that makes a decision real.