Connecting Minds Connecting and synchronising minds

A powerful metaphor for exploring group thinking is the idea of connecting minds. 

Connecting minds is a common metaphor when we talk about an increasingly connected world.

In a connected world, we think of how the World Wide Web and apps like Facebook help to connect people. And we think about the Internet of Things that is rapidly connecting our cars, our homes and much more.

But does Facebook or Whatsapp or old-fashioned email connect minds? Such apps allow people to communicate but do they connect minds? What does it mean to connect minds?

Connecting minds is about more than communication – it is more about thinking together. Connecting minds means to think together. So what does it mean to think together?

Reflect for a moment on your communications or conversations with other people. How often do you think together? Do your thoughts resonate?

It is rare, isn’t it? And when you do think together just how good are you at it? And can you think together well by exchanging text messages or does it have to be face-to-face? And how many people are ideal for such thinking conversation?

Thinking together means connecting face-to-face in a real conversation or more specifically in dialogue.

It is through dialogue that we connect minds and think together.  

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Resources

• Nature: Measuring speaker-listener neural coupling with functional near-infrared spectroscopy
• Wired Magazine: Good connection really does lead to mind meld
• Paper: Speaker-listener neural coupling underlies successful communication
• Psychology Today: Why Sharing Stories Brings People Together

Detailed Resources

• Article: Embodied Cognition by Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2021)

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