WHAT IS A PALINODE?  Here's an example.  In 1993 the avant-garde U.S. band They Might Be Giants released a song called “Why Does the Sun Shine?” They sang:

The Sun is a mass
of incandescent gas
a giant nuclear furnace.

But obviously, that is no longer considered scientifically accurate.  Recently they released a corrected replacement song:

The sun is a miasma
of incandescent plasma
forget what you've been told
in the past...

This is a palinode. 

A poetic recantation.  A lyrical correction.  Does the contemporary academic approach to philosophical, human, and spiritual education also require poetic correction?  That's where Palinode Productions enters the story.

It begins with teachers frustrated by the decay and ineffectiveness of the current university system (weakened by capitalist incentive structures and destabilized by the accelerating emergence of AI) and simultaneously unsatisfied by the unrealized potential of the internet to provide a powerful engine of high-quality decentralized education that can outperform legacy institutions.

This is a familiar motive.  We've seen it give rise to alternative liminal education environments like Cadell Last's Philosophy Portal but the Palinode Project felt it was necessary to attack this problem at the algorithmic level -- to cultivate digital extra-academic deep learning systems that optimize for learning & curiosity.
 
Here's Karin Valis:

>>> Sounds pretty ambitious, right? Well yeah… Because it is. You all know I’m an old tech-doomer, but the vision of our founder, scholar of Plato, and Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University, Dr. Danielle Layne is so inspiring, that even a mad miser like me dares to work towards a better future.

>>>We spent months designing and re-designing various prototypes, collecting references and comparing notes on different methods of learning and note-taking, sketching, coding, hacking, and trying to figure out what it could be. We finally decided on a basic set of essential features needed to achieve our goals and started developing a new algorithm we call Khora.

>>>The content in Khora will initially consist of our partnered works, from professional philosophers, podcasters and writers. The user logs in, tells Khora about themselves and starts their learning journey. Seeing what kind of content the user consumes, Khora will learn how the users learn. In turn, she will serve content that challenges their current ways of thinking and their metaphysical worldviews, all in a digestible form. Slowly and gently, Khora will bridge the gaps between opposing ideas - not changing people’s minds, but allowing them to engage with different beliefs earnestly. [...] the structure is intentionally kept very fluid - we don’t focus on formal reasoning and argument components, but rather on capturing the multi-faceted nature of learning. We let the weirdness and random synchronicities seep through the Khora’s marrow. Because human thinking itself isn’t rigorous, despite many vehemently insisting so.

They let the “weirdness and random synchronicity seep through.”  That sounds essential. 

Palinode has been working with many thinkers including such friends of the developmental, transformational and regenerative communities as Dr. Jeff Kripal, Jill Nephew, Layman Pascal, Rick Repetti, and more. 

They are actively looking for people.  If you have a suggestion or would like to volunteer your own content, please reach out to them.   

And hopefully, they get Cadell Last and the Philosophy Portal involved...


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