Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Consensus, Majority Vote, "Blocks" [was Report on Survey of Cohousing Communities 2011. Just released. A must read!]

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

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From: "Thomas Lofft" <tlofft [at] hotmail.com>
To: "Cohousing Network-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:07 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ Consensus, Majority Vote, "Blocks" [was Report on Survey of 
Cohousing Communities 2011. Just released. A must read!]

"'reconciliation' says to me there first has to be a dispute or disruption 
between parties . . ."

Reconciliation also can mean the act of a continuous stream of "best fits" 
coming from an adaptive social organism of social organisms, as it were, 
which heads off head-butting in advance. Visualize a Venn diagram where the 
subsets overlap a lot and are largely contained within the whole, and the 
process at work is moving more toward more reconciliation in this sense, 
rather away from it; that is, toward the common center or sweet-spot. A kind 
of fuzzy logic system in a continuous state of adaptation to a dynamic state 
of scoreless mutualism.

WT