George Marshall wrote a book called Don't Even Think About It talks about why our brains are uniquely poorly wired to deal with climate change because of various psychological biases.
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Frank Adloff: Das ist ein weit verbreitetes Phänomen, das aus Psychologie und Soziologie bekannt ist: Wir wissen etwas und haben auch Pläne und die Motivation, etwas zu tun – tun es am Ende aber nicht. Das gibt es in vielen alltagspraktischen Bereichen. Wir nehmen uns jedes Jahr zu Neujahr vor, ins Fitness-Studio zu gehen, und es klappt nicht. Beim Klimawandel kommt hinzu, dass Menschen evolutionär am besten auf greifbare und konkrete Gefahren reagieren. Wenn eine Spinne in unserem Haus herumkrabbelt, werden wir sofort aktiv. Doch der Klimawandel ist ein abstraktes Phänomen, das – so glauben wir manchmal – noch in der Zukunft liegt. Es ist vielleicht auch räumlich weiter entfernt. Deshalb handelt man verlangsamt.
The climate crisis is a non-tangible phenomena, which also seems in the future and far away for a person in Europe. This makes it harder to act on it -- even if somebody wants to. [My perspective: its an hyperobject.]
polar regions. The melting of sea ice and ice sheets is not palpable to most.” 201Climate change is invisible when we consider ourselves separate from Gaia
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adjacency - hyperobject -- language of separation - There is another related reason that many people do not value climate crisis - these concepts are hyperobjects - objects so large that they are beyond the scope of evolutionarily evolved salience - language evolved within humans to deal with environmental events that were salient to our immediate survival - the climate crisis is steeped in complex science and applies to the entire planet, something that humans were never evolved to cognitively apprehend
a phenomenon of something beyond our experience, beyond something that we'll ever comprehend, the millions of years and this confluence of forces
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I think it's really important for us to develop a science of that like CR like critically important
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adjacency - between - multi scale competency architecture - cognitive light cone - hyperobject - awakening / enlightenment - adjacency relationship - At every stage of the multi scale competency architecture, - the living entities at a particular stage may maintain - feedback and - feedforward signals - with any - higher or - lower level systems. - Human INTERbeCOMings and other consciousness are no different - We exist at one level but are both - composed of lower level living parts and - compose larger social superorganism - Indeed, the spiritual acts variously described as - awakening - enlightenment - can be interpreted as transcending level cognitive light cone
I don't think you can prove it but I wonder if what what it would feel like I think is is um synchronicity
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Adjacency - between - Jordan Hall / Michael Levin conversation - hyperobject - cognitive light cone - lower level indicator of higher level - enlightenment / awakening Frederico Faggin experience - meditation - adjacency statement - Federico Faggin's experience of inter level awareness was - his profound awakening experience transcending even oneness - That was an indicator event that shattered his belief that he was alone, shuttered in existential isolation - and showed him that he was a part of a much larger system - In general, at the level of humans and human consciousness, - awakening and enlightenment experiences described throughout human history in many different - times and - places - could be interpreted as reaching upwards to a higher level in our lower level cognitive light cone
do you think that this idea of the hyper object might relate to um how an individual cell relates to the whole of the body because the body itself would be outside the cognitive light cone of the cell
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are you familiar with the concept of hyper object
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Comment - Both Jordan Hall and I are familiar with the concept of hyperobject but in this part of the conversation, Jordan introduced the idea to Micheal for the first time - This illustrates to me that truism that our perspectival knowledge of reality is unique - Our individual meaningverses and lebenswelt are uniquely located and situated in life - And whenever a multi meaningverse events, the ensuing conversation is collectively - consciousness expanding - expanding the - semantic fingerprint and - symmathesetic fingerprint - of all conversants
what do we do when a problem is either too small or too big to see with our eyes we have to look with our minds
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hyper objects are viscous molten non-local phased an inter object if
tectonic 00:00:26 plates global warming nuclear radiation evolution these are hyper objects entities that are massively distributed in time and space at least relative to human scales
Recognizing that the CEC hyperthreat operates at micro and macro scales across most forms of human activity and that a whole-of-society approach is required to combat it, the approach to the CEC hyperthreat partly relies on a philosophical pivot. The idea here is that a powerful understanding of the CEC hyperthreat (how it feels, moves, and operates), as well as the larger philosophical and survival-based reasons for hyper-reconfiguration, enables all actors and groups to design their own bespoke solutions. Consequently, the narrative and threat description act as a type of orchestration tool across many agencies. This is like the “shared consciousness” idea in retired U.S. Army general Stanley A. McChrystal’s “team of teams” approach to complexity.7 Such an approach is heavily dependent on exceptional communication of both the CEC hyperthreat and hyper-response pathways, as well as providing an enabling environment in terms of capacity to make decisions, access information and resources. This idea informs Operation Visibility and Knowability (OP VAK), which will be described later.
Such an effort will require a supporting worldwide digital ecosystem. In the recent past, major evolutionary transitions (MET) (Robin et al, 2021) of our species have been triggered by radical new information systems such as spoken language, and then inscribed language. Something akin to a Major Competitive Transitions (MCT) may be required to accompany a radical transition to a good anthropocene. (See annotation: https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontiersin.org%2Farticles%2F10.3389%2Ffevo.2021.711556%2Ffull&group=world)
If large data is ingested into a public Indyweb, because Indyweb is naturally a graph database, a salience landscape can be constructed of the hyperthreat and data visualized in its multiple dimensions and scales.
Metaphorically, it can manifest as a hydra with multiple tentacles reach out to multiple scales and dimensions. VR and AR technology can be used to expose the hyperobject and its progression.
The proper hyperthreat is not climate change alone, although that is the most time sensitive dimension of it, but rather the totality of all blowbacks of human progress...the aggregate of all progress traps that have been allowed to grow, through a myopic prioritization of profit over global wellbeing due to the invisibility of the hyperobject, from molehills into mountains.