Kokoro for Personal Wisdom

Kokoro (Heart/Mind) is an AI platform designed to tap the collective wisdom of humanity and Nature to support humans in making wiser, more resilient decisions. This presentation on June 21, 2025 was the focus of a World Talent Economic Forum, hosted by Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana, who at the outset posed these five challenges confronting […]

Challenging the Separation Hypothesis

Time Defeated by Love, Beauty, and Hope by Simon Vouet 1627 Program Outline 1. Introductory Practice — Shikantaza — setting a foundation 2. Stopping Time (in 3 steps):   3. Enjoying  the Miracle — Just Click! — a practice to connect Quiet (Unfettered) Mind, Beauty, and Love to your very next moment and enjoy the miracle. 4. […]

Kokoro: Navigating Wise Decisions Assisted by AI

For wisdom is more precious than rubies and all things that may be desired are not to be compared with it.Proverbs 8:11 KJV Many users are thrilled by the arrival of AI, while others view AI with profound trepidation. This is altogether understandable, because AI like many economically strategic technologies (from the invention of fire to […]

Collective Blindness, Risk, Resilience, Emergence

We live in an age of cascading risks which portend societies’ collapse.  In this Evolutionary Conversation we will discuss some root causes of our inability or unwillingness to discern and deal with risk, even when it is palpable, and we will explore opportunities for community and national transcendence and transformation. We will use our indifference […]