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Let us at this point simply note that the Māra drive seems reducible to a wish to maintain the status quo (“sentient beings suffer, and they shall keep doing so!”) whereas the Bodhisattva is committed to infinite transformation.
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- this is definitely seeing evolution through a Buddhist lens!
- mara - maintain status quo
- bodhisattva - infinite transformation
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The scope of the Bodhisattva’s sphere of measurement and modification is not just seemingly infinite, but actually so, because a Bodhisattva’s scope and mode of engagement are not defined by the intrinsically limiting frame of one individual mind. Instead, it is shaped and driven by the infinity of living beings, constituting infinitely diverse instances of needs and desires in time and space.
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- an exemplary story comes to mind, that of the Tibetan yogi named Tilopa
- There are stories of the master Tilopa liberating fish by biting their heads off
- To an ordinary being, this would seem to be the direct opposite of liberation. Indeed, the story of his student Naropa's seemingly blind faith in Tilopa can easily be interpreted as abusive in modern society: https://thrangumonastery.org/about/kagyu-lineage/naropa/#:~:text=As%20he%20got%20closer%2C%20he,for%20taking%20it%20to%20market.
- an exemplary story comes to mind, that of the Tibetan yogi named Tilopa
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Biology offers many examples of Selves which change on-the-fly—not just during evolutionary time scales, but during the lifetime of the agent. All animals were once a single fertilized egg cell, then became a collection of cells solving problems in anatomical space, and only later developed an emergent centralized Self focused around navigating 3D space of behaviors
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- analog: human development
- Buddhist teachings on illusory nature of the self often make use of the example of our use of the same name for a body that is ever changing - it started as a sperm/egg united, then an embryo, fetus, neonate, newborn, infant, child, adolescent, young adult, adult, finally elderly.
- the early stages of human development are just as radical as caterpillar to butterfly.
- As adult humans, we take memories for granted, but such meta-level features do not even exist in the earlier parts of our development, such as just after the sperm inseminates the egg and we are just a collection of rapidly dividing cells
- In this case, it is indeed insightful to apply more universal ideas of life and intelligence, since we ourselves have been through many different types of intelligences in our own individual human development
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It is hard to maintain the I-you distinction, and cooperation is massively favored. This is not because the agents have become less selfish, but because the size of the self (to which they are committed) has grown. For properly coupled cells, it is impossible to hide information from each other (from yourself) and it is impossible to do anything injurious to your neighbor because the same effects (consequences) will affect you within seconds.
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interesting fact: multicellular mechanisms to create coherence in competent constituent subunit cells
- more research
- very interesting mechanisms that mediate benefits of collective behavior of competent subunits within the biological body.
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Defined in this way, “stress” turns out to be a compelling translation of the Sanskrit term duḥkha (otherwise often rendered as “suffering”), which describes a treacherous world inhabited by restlessly craving beings.
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- If enlightenment is defined as the ultimate awareness that penetrates the self-illusion, and therefore subject / object dualism is what brings peace, and the cessation of suffering due to the cessation of seeking, then how does this relate to the idea of goal-seeking, homeostatic efforts to attain a specific setpoint?
- Do we attain the setpoint by awareness that stops the suffering in a unique way?
- If enlightenment is defined as the ultimate awareness that penetrates the self-illusion, and therefore subject / object dualism is what brings peace, and the cessation of suffering due to the cessation of seeking, then how does this relate to the idea of goal-seeking, homeostatic efforts to attain a specific setpoint?
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. It should be noted that stress can be seen as the inverse of “satisfaction” [22], and is relative to a contextual and non-stationary target.
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- what is interesting is that there is strong emphasis on Buddhist and other contemplative teachings on acceptance of the present state and cessation of searching.
- In Buddhist teachings, desire is an expression of a dissatisfaction of some aspect of the present and drives change
- and last but perhaps most importantly, Buddhist teachings teach that the source of the desire is indicative of attachment to the constructed self narrative
- hence, at first read, it would seem the goal-oriented nature of the definition is at odds with Buddhist teachings.
- David Loy refers to desires as a way to fulfill something we feel is missing. He refers to this as a "Lack project"
- When we feel incomplete, we are motivated to strive towards those things that we perceive to make us feel more complete. This is also referred to in some branches of Buddhism as poverty mentality: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=poverty+mentality
- If we penetrate the self construct and see it's constructed, provisional nature, then we also expose the greater already existent reality that we already are.
- It seems paradoxical. While we are strongly reifying the self-construct, we will be goal-seeking and a priority goal may be to experience the self as a construct, which has the effect of ending root level goal seeking.
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the Bodhisattva cognitive system is no longer constrained by the perception that one single self—i.e., its own self—requires special and sustained attention. Instead, Bodhisattva cognitive processes are now said to engage with spontaneous care for all apparent individuals. Thus, an immediate takeaway from non-dual insight is said to be the perception that oneself and all others are ultimately of the same identity.
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- to understand what it is to experience the world free of (object, agent, action) triplet, it is necessary to understand what it means to experience the world from the (object, agent, action) perspective.
- Buddhism's starting assumption is that experience from the (object, agent, action) perspective is the pathological but normative one.
- It cannot be simply intellectual understanding, that is not enough for deep transformation. It must be quite deep, to the core of how we experience the world - as a seeming subject moving through a field of seeming objects.
- This is accompanied by a feeling of alienation. The subject is separated from the field of objects.
- David Loy has good insights on this subject of the mundane feeling of emptiness that accompanies our meaning crisis: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=david+loy
- Of course if you are able to penetrate the illusory nature of your own self construct in a meaningful way, it also gives you insight into the other perceived selves outside of you. Even this sentence is paradoxical to say, since there is no inside / outside in a nondual realization that penetrates the self.
- So then, it does make sense to value all aspects of reality, not just yourself and others, but treating it as one unbroken gestalt
- The concept of poverty mentality is useful here, David Loy refers to this as the "Lack project": https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=poverty+mentality
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for a Bodhisattva who emerges from the understanding that object, agent, and action are interdependent constructs, this perception of a worthy and deserving self is now said to accompany the perception of any and all sentient individuals—with the same force and naturalness that were previously reserved for the perception of one’s own self.
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- When we understand how we construct then reify the (psycho-social) self, then we can let it go and see it as a pragmatic construct
- If we see how we ourselves mistakenly took the constructed, reified self to be solid, then we can also see the same mistake being made in others.
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According to the Bodhisattva model of intelligence, such deconstruction of the apparent foundations of cognition elicits a transformation of both the scope and acuity of the cognitive system that performs it.
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- this is a necessary outcome of the self-reflective nature of human cognition.
- English, and many other languages bake the (object, agent, action) triplet into its very structure, making it problematic to use language in the same way after the foundations of cognition have been so deconstructed.
- Even though strictly speaking the self can be better interpreted as a psycho-social construct and an epiphenomena, it is still very compelling and practical in day-to-day living, including the use of languages which structurally embed the (object, agent, action) triplet.
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Self is an illusory modelling construct created by perceptual systems of Agents
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- Self is an illusory modelling construct created by perceptual systems of Agents
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- Self is an illusory modelling construct created by perceptual systems of Agents
- Agents construct models of causal Selves for others, and for ourselves, using the same machinery.
- The same mechanisms that cause an agent to act toward stress reduction in itself
- (even though the beneficiary of those actions is in an important sense impermanent)
- can be expanded to extend to other Selves.
- In this way, while our focus is on understanding and formulating Self in a way that is applicable to a broad range of scientific contexts,
- we also see ourselves as here contributing to the treatment of perennial issues in contemporary Buddhist philosophy
- such as the feasibility of genuine care in a world without real individuals
- we also see ourselves as here contributing to the treatment of perennial issues in contemporary Buddhist philosophy
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- the last statement has always been a paradox for me
- Buddhist teachers often warn of how mistaken, immature views of emptiness can lead to harmful action
- Indeed, if no selves exist, then over can easily mistaken nilhism as the logical behavioural conclusion
- yet, teaching texts make clear that there is something critical the student has missed it they come to that conclusion
- the transformation is missing its most important element of that false conclusion persists
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According to general Buddhist analysis, the individual that may be assumed to exist as a singular, enduring, and controlling self is mere appearance devoid of causal efficacy, and thus epiphenomenal [68]. In the case of a Bodhisattva, this understanding is carried forward so as to encompass a critique of the apparent foundations of cognition: object, agent, and action.
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- this short description of the reasoning behind deconstructing the self is quite fresh and insightful, especially relating it to cognition.
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“intelligence as care
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- the slogan "intelligence as care" seems parallel to the Buddhist slogan of "wisdom and compassion" where:
- care is analogous to compassion
- insight is analogous to wisdom
- the slogan "intelligence as care" seems parallel to the Buddhist slogan of "wisdom and compassion" where:
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Another feature of this vision that aligns well with Buddhist ideas is the lack of a permanent, unique, unitary Self [68]. The picture given by the evolutionary cell-biological perspective is one where a cognitive agent is seen as a self-reinforcing process (the homeostatic loop), not a thing [69,70,71].
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Many definitions of intelligence and cognitive capacity have been debated over the centuries [28]. The problem with most existing formalisms is that they are closely tied to a specific type of subject
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in other words
- there is a need to find a common denominator of intelligence and cognition amongst this great diversity
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“stress” (the delta between current state and optimal state, or the difference between the goals at different subsystems’ levels)
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- this is a generalized definition of stress that includes basal cognitive organisms
- definition: stress
- In the context of a generalized definition of intelligence applied beyond the traditional definition that applies only to organisms with neurons and nervous systems to include organisms that display basal cognition,
- stress is defined as the delta between
- current state and
- optimal state,
- or the difference between the goals at different subsystems’ levels
- stress is defined as the delta between
- Reduction of this stress parameter is a driver that keeps the system exerting energy in action to move and navigate within the problem space.
- The authors note that stress can be seen as the inverse of “satisfaction”, and is relative to a contextual and non-stationary target.
- In the context of a generalized definition of intelligence applied beyond the traditional definition that applies only to organisms with neurons and nervous systems to include organisms that display basal cognition,
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Given that intelligent behavior does not require traditional brains [16,18], and can take place in many spaces besides the familiar 3D space of motile behavior (e.g., physiological, metabolic, anatomical, and other kinds of problem spaces), how can we develop rigorous formalisms for recognizing, designing, and relating to truly diverse intelligences?
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- Given that
- intelligent behavior does not require traditional brains, and
- can take place in many spaces besides the familiar 3D space of motile behavior, for example
- physiological space,
- metabolic space,
- anatomical space, and
- other kinds of problem spaces,
- how can we develop rigorous formalisms for
- recognizing,
- designing, and
- relating
- to truly diverse intelligences?
- Given that
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The field of basal cognition [14,15,16,17,18] emphasizes a continuum of intelligence, which originated in the control loops of microbes but was scaled up throughout multicellular forms to the obvious kinds of intelligent behavior observed in advanced animals.
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it's kind of a miracle that that a collection of individual cells with their own agendas and their own ability to pursue various goals in physiological space and and Gene expressions face and so on that there is a way to arrange 00:02:52 those things that give rise to this gives rise to this emergent new self that operates in a different problem space
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- it's kind of a miracle that a collection of individual cells with their own agendas and their own ability to pursue various goals in physiological space and gene expressions, that there is a way to arrange those things that give rise to this emergent new self that operates in a different problem space
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- He also points out how contradictory many of the behaviors of the emergent, composite self is to the wellbeing of the individual parts.
- We are all aware of the many destructive behaviors that the emergent, composite human superorganism can participate in such as:
- drug addiction
- violence
- suicide
- poor diet
- lack of exercise
- destructive emotional behavior
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I have no clue like like who you know if anybody reads them or who reads them or or what happens after that I don't know yeah yeah well I 01:21:00 appreciate that and certainly people people you know that people contact me but I I know it's it's very hard to know um you know how these things are are actually spreading or not spreading through the through the community
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- Indyweb would enable Michael to trace all public interactions with his papers so he WOULD know.
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the bodhisattva vial which is which is huge 01:16:56 um it's this it's this commitment it's it's a medical it's the commitment to enlarge your cognitive apparatus to enable bigger goals to enable you to pursue bigger goals with more compassion
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- interesting adjacency between:
- Buddhism and
- biology:
- Adjacency statement
- The bodhisattva vow is a commitment to enlarge your cognitive apparatus, your cognitive light cone of compassion to enable the pursuit of bigger goals
- interesting adjacency between:
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your your self isn't 01:13:47 some permanent uh monadic structure that just kind of exists it's an active construction it's a process it's a you know it it's a constant information processing Auto police is that you know 01:13:59 of the mind doesn't stop during embryogenesis it kind of keeps going it has to and um and and it has these it has these interesting implications
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- this is a fascinating insight that gives us deeper nuance on what it means to construct our selves in every moment
- we obviously know we don't have access to our past and only have access to engrams of the past , so it isn't wrong to say that we are constantly reconstructing ourselves like a Planaria worm does to regenerate its body, all the time.
- engrams are abstract traces of the past
- this goes to the heart of constructing the self, in the Buddhist sense, as a kind of illusion
- Levin says he is somewhere in the middle between the two poles of illusion and solidity of self, the self is a pragmatic useful metaphor, like everything else we construct
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if you're going to have a collective intelligence what is it going to uh care about um we don't we don't have a good science 01:05:49 of that
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- If you're going to have a collective intelligence, what is it going to care about? We don't have a good science of that
- author: Michael Levin
- date, July 2023
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I've 01:04:30 been interested in these kinds of things for a really long time both from the perspective of uh kind of Eastern thought about philosophy of mind and and things like that and more broadly questions of uh of of uh concern and 01:04:44 compassion and and things like that
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- Michael Levin has been interested in Eastern thought, philosophy of mind and compassion for a long time
- the idea of care seems to have been stimulated by his child's project to build a robotic cat. He wanted the cat to have the attribute of caring.
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- Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence
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you mentioned the idea of like beginner mind and you have a quote from Suzuki about 01:03:40 the in The Beginner's mind there's many possibilities and experts mine there are a few
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- this was a surprising adjacency to discover Levin connecting Daisetz Suzuki's concept of Beginner's mind to his research. It demonstrates a broad perspective of research
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- Suzuki's Beginner's mind
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- adjacency statement
- I just finished annotating Gyuri's referall to Wisdom commons article in which the author introduced the notion of foolhood and wisdom signaling
- These are saying the same thing as Suzuki's concept of beginner's mind
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what what this is fundamentally about is is care and compassion
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- unity requires expanding circles of care:
- care of self
- care of family
- care of ingroup
- care of outgroup
- care of other species
- unity requires expanding circles of care:
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ou certainly have a light cone that does not belong to any of your pieces
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- a human being certainly has a light cone that does not belong to any of its pieces (ie cells)
- at the conscious level of a human being, we have
- goals
- preferences
- hopes
- dreams
- narratives
- humans occupy spaces that do not belong to our individual cells, tissues or organs
- those smaller parts work in
- physiological space
- transcriptional space
- biomolecular space
- those smaller parts work in
- When we were an embryo we worked in morphogenetic space
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- Since MET implies that these smaller structures of which we are constituted like
- cells and
- sub-cellular structures like mitochondria
- were descended from individual organisms long ago in deep history, those contemporary proxies are occupying their own umwelt
- Since MET implies that these smaller structures of which we are constituted like
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- Major evolutionary transition (MET) are milestones in evolution in which collections of distinct individual life forms unite into one cohesive collection due to improved fitness and begin to replicate as a new individual unit
- hence the Deep Humanity term individual / collective gestalt, developed to deal with the level of human organisms and the societies and groups they belong to, applies to evolutionary biology as well through the MET where a new higher level individual is formed out of a collective of lower level indivdiuals
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what this is supposed to be what this is supposed to be is um a framework that moves these kind of 00:15:43 questions questions of uh cognition of sentience of uh of of um intelligence and so on from the area of philosophy where people have a lot of philosophical feelings and preconceptions about what things can do 00:15:56 and what things can't do and it really uh really stresses the idea that you you can't just have feelings about this stuff you have to make testable claims
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- a meta transformation from philosophy to science
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an overview of the paper
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paper overview
- motivated by 2018 Templeton Foundation conference to present idea on unconventional and diverse intelligence
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Levin was interested in any conceivable type of cognitive system and was interested in find a way to universally characterize them all
- how are they detected
- how to understand them
- how to relate to them and
- how to create them
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Levin had been thinking about this for years
- Levin adopts a cybernetic definition of intelligence proposed by William James that focuses on the competency to reach a defined goal by different paths
- Navigation plays a critical role in this defiinition.
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the next version of this which is the tame paper the Tammy the technological approach to mind 00:15:30 everywhere
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how Minds can exist in the universe how they interact with their 00:04:08 bodies how Minds scale from the Primitive kinds of um metabolic and other competencies of single cells to the emergent mind of the of the body and then of the of the whole 00:04:21 organism in a behavioral sense and uh this the scaling embodiment and uh communication is is at the root of everything
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- answer: one fundamental question that he has been interested in since he was a child is the issue of embodied minds:
- how minds can exist in the universe
- how they interact with their bodies
- how minds scale
- from the primitive kinds of metabolic and other competencies of single cells
- to the emergent mind of the of the body and then of the whole organism in a behavioral sense
- This the scaling embodiment and communication at the root of all fields of biology
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- Long before the appearance of neurons and nervous systems, evolution had already laid a solid foundation of capacities to enable organisms to
- become familiar with
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- features of their surroundings to further existential goals.
- Long before the appearance of neurons and nervous systems, evolution had already laid a solid foundation of capacities to enable organisms to
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we are fundamentally a cultural species. 00:09:51 Culture is our life support system. Our cumulative culture allows us to cushion ourselves against the harsh realities of the environment and to reshape the environment.
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- Our evolving technology allowed us to expand into new territories and manipulate the environment in ways that gave us an edge.
- Places like this remind me about how harsh nature can be.
- We're so used to living in air conditioning, and having the comfort of the modern world, but when you go out into nature and experience it first hand, you're reminded very powerfully about how weak we are as an animal.
- And this is because we are fundamentally a cultural species.
- Culture is our life support system.
- Our cumulative culture allows us to
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In terms of evolution, animals adapt to their ecological conditions, but as humans, we have been able to control our ecological conditions.
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- . In terms of evolution, animals adapt to their ecological conditions, but as humans, we have been able to control our ecological conditions.
- author: Ruth Gates
- source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJV0Kx7oGxU&t=496s
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- her remark made me think about how often I feel this difference with our pets. They adapt to whatever we do. We control our environment by building something. They just adapt to whatever we build.
- Our pets never build anything, but simply adapt to what we build.
- her remark made me think about how often I feel this difference with our pets. They adapt to whatever we do. We control our environment by building something. They just adapt to whatever we build.
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I understand some people that if they say 00:07:47 "no, no, this is a science thing, "it's not for us, that's the province of God, we shouldn't go there." I can hear that view, but I really don't think it's what I see in scripture. What I see in scripture is, c'mon, I wanna to show it to you. I want to reveal myself to you. I don't see science as challenging my faith. In fact, I see it as affirming my faith.
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- title: Comprehending and Minimizing Interpersonal Conflict: An Adaptation of Laing, Philipson, and Lee’s Interpersonal Perception Method
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the conjunction of those two claims the properties exist even when they're not perceived even when they're not measured and they have influences that propagate no faster 00:06:57 than the speed of light that's local realism and local realism is false
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- How would Donald respond to the question:
- If a tree falls in the forest, does anyone hear?
- Does he hold the same view as modern consensus of quantum physics?
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religious ideas contend that a non-physical Consciousness called God was in a good mood at one point so he and it usually is a he created 01:27:18 physicality the material world around us thank you so in those viewpoints Frameworks you're not allowed to ask who or what created God because the answer will be well he 01:27:35 just is and always was so have faith my child and stop asking questions like that [Music] religion or Mythos of materialism philosophy you are not allowed to ask 01:27:46 what created physical energy if you do the answer will be the big bang just happened it was this energy in a point that just was and always will be so have faith my child and don't ask questions 01:28:00 that can't be answered
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- Good observation of an adjacency, although not all religions hold those views, and even in those religions, those are those views are held by less critical thinkers.
- In the more contemplative branches of major world religions, there is a lot of deep, critical thinking that is not so naive.
- Good observation of an adjacency, although not all religions hold those views, and even in those religions, those are those views are held by less critical thinkers.
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- See Donald Hoffman's Information theory and contention that we live in a simulation. Does it also come with the same implicit materialist assumption?
- The nagging thing about the simulation theories is it is also a narrative that posits an unknowable reality beyond which we can never access - a rendition of the narrative that we only ever have access to the shadows in Plato's cave.
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hypothesis is kind of easy to agree on after a couple deductive guesses so you 01:23:21 guys want to go through it and see if you're a simulation hypothesis that's what Elon Musk is all right first question to silently answer these do you think it's probable that our 01:23:36 descendants will have computational power that is vast compared to ours today presume the answer is probably [Music] 01:23:48 okay next question will that vast ability to simulate worlds result in any of them doing two or more High Fidelity or hyper realistic ancestor or origin 01:24:02 simulations that include fully realistic physics presume the answer is sure it's probably true that at least two out of countless trillions of our 01:24:15 descendants spread across every imaginable region of time and space will use their Advanced abilities to do origin simulations deducted conclusion in Elon musk's words 01:24:28 we're probably living in a simulation in my words it is more probable than not that we are in one of the simulated realities versus being so lucky we happen to be in the one real reality
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- I agreed with a lot of what he said up to now. In fact, he does a rather good presentation summarizing the contemporary problems we face and emphasizing the acceleration of change in all human spheres, giving rise to our current polycrisis
- I agree that the mythos of materialism needs to be seriously explored and other perspectives may give us new salient insights, but I don't think it's so obvious that the theory that we are living in a simulation.
- and quantum gravity theory a highly abstract cultural artefact being used to prove that
- is going to be the panacea to create a compelling new mythos..
- If technology alone is insufficient as he earlier claimed, then quantum gravity theory, as part of the entangled STEMS nexus is part of that techno-complex that is insufficient.
- This claim will have to be proven true by strong and compelling evidence that receives mass acceptance. Without that, it becomes an unjustified claim and the complexity of it will elude most people.
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- His first doom and gloom section is accurate meta presentation, but his claims on advanced physics have been questioned by a number of critics.
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- the centrality of our ignorance, in contrast to the focus on our wisdom is a natural antidote to reifying ego
- Wisdom signaling appears to be a movement towards the direction of reifying ego and self-righteousness
- Many of the greatest minds (and hearts) of humanity talk genuinely about how ignorant they are about reality because of the paradox that
- the more you know, the greater your discovery of how much you don't know, and therefore the awareness of how expansive our ignorance is
- in this sense, the continual reminder and awareness of the enormity of one's ignorance creates authentic sense of humbleness, not a contrived one
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- the caterpillar is a soft-bodied creature that lives in a in a largely two-dimensional world that:
- crawls around on flat surfaces
- chews leaves and
- has a brain appropriate for that purpose
- it has to turn into a butterfly which is a hard-bodied creature that
- lives in a three-dimensional world
- has to fly it has to drink nectar
- needs a completely different brain suited to a hard-bodied organism
- in between what happens is during this process the brain is largely largely destroyed
- most of the connections are broken down
- most of the cells die and and
- the new brain is rebuilt during the lifetime of the organism
- this kind of change makes the the confusion of puberty seemed like child's play
- This is a single agent radically changing its brain and its body
- The amazing thing about it is that it has been shown that the memories that the caterpillar acquires are retained in the moth or butterfly
- Despite the disaggregation of the brain, some information is able to make it across to the butterfly or moth
- the caterpillar is a soft-bodied creature that lives in a in a largely two-dimensional world that:
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- cultural evolution, which itself emerges from biological evolution is acting upon itself to create new life forms that have no evolutionary backstory
- this is tantamount to playing God
- progress traps often emerge out of the large speed mismatch between cultural and biological/genetic evolution.
- Nowhere is this more profound than in bioengineering of new forms of life with no evolutionary history
- This presents profound ethical challenges
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biological pattern formation is literally the behavior of a collective intelligence of cells in a space known as morphospace
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- collective intelligence at the cellular level operating in morphospace generates biological patterns in response to solving problems at that level
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if one Zooms in you find out that we are all in fact Collective intelligences
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- If one zooms in, you find out that we are all in fact collective intelligence
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- author: Pan Wu, Xuan We, Huimin Yu, Jingyuan Zhao, Yida Wang, Kewu Pi, Gary Owens, Haolan Xu
- date: Oct. 1, 2023
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The scientists behind the new study are planning an eradication campaign in Sicily. With help from authorities, they say they will destroy the known nests, continue to search local areas for more nests, and monitor for several years to make sure no ants escape. They hope to recruit residents across Europe to keep an eye out for more fire ants.
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Based on an analysis of suitable habitats, the researchers estimate the ants could invade 7% of the European continent.
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- Sicily, the site of discovery, ships a variety of plants across the Mediterranean
- Southern Spain offers ideal climate for red fire ants
- Climate change could increase its range by 25% by 2050.
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- Fire ants would be devastating if released in continental Europe and even more all around the Mediterranean Sea.
- The cost for human economies and well-being would be enormous. Where they have been invasive, they have:
- displaced native ant and other species
- damage electrical equipment
- A genetic analysis of the Italian ants suggests they likely came from either China or the United States.
- In the U.S., the species causes an estimated $6 billion in damage each year.
- The insects spread internationally via shipping, especially of plants and soil.
- Red fire ants have been detected in imported products in Spain, Finland, and the Netherlands, but not as wild colonies.
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- title: Urban inequalities in the 21st century economy
- author: Jan niman, Yehua Dennis Wei
- date: Apr 2, 2020
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- The extremism in the far right politics is in direct proportion to the high degree to which they perceive threat
- Religious faith can inspire extremely powerful emotional responses and devotion. When combined with politics this can lead to extreme events, such as the Jan. 6 insurrection.
- The mobilization of Christian nationals into local school boards has turned education into a political battleground.
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- author: Zander S. Venter, Helene Figari, Olve Krange, Vegard Gundersen
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- title: A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness
- author: Nir Lahav, Zahariah A. Neemeh
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- In recent decades, the scientific study of consciousness has significantly increased our understanding of this elusive phenomenon.
- Yet, despite critical development in our understanding of the functional side of consciousness, we still lack a fundamental theory regarding its phenomenal aspect.
- There is an “explanatory gap” between
- our scientific knowledge of functional consciousness and
- its “subjective,” phenomenal aspects,
- referred to as the “hard problem” of consciousness.
- The phenomenal aspect of consciousness is the first-person answer to “what it’s like” question, and
- it has thus far proved recalcitrant to direct scientific investigation.
- Naturalistic dualists argue that it is composed of a primitive, private, non-reductive element of reality that is independent from the functional and physical aspects of consciousness.
- Illusionists, on the other hand, argue that it is merely a cognitive illusion, and that all that exists are ultimately physical, non-phenomenal properties.
- We contend that both the dualist and illusionist positions are flawed because they tacitly assume consciousness to be an absolute property that doesn’t depend on the observer.
- We develop a conceptual and a mathematical argument for a relativistic theory of consciousness in which
- a system either has or doesn’t have phenomenal consciousness with respect to some observer.
- Phenomenal consciousness is neither private nor delusional, just relativistic.
- In the frame of reference of the cognitive system, it will be observable (first-person perspective) and
- in other frame of reference it will not (third-person perspective).
- These two cognitive frames of reference are both correct,
- just as in the case of
- an observer that claims to be at rest
- while another will claim that the observer has constant velocity.
- just as in the case of
- Given that consciousness is a relativistic phenomenon, neither observer position can be privileged,
- as they both describe the same underlying reality.
- Based on relativistic phenomena in physics
- we developed a mathematical formalization for consciousness which bridges the explanatory gap and dissolves the hard problem.
- Given that the first-person cognitive frame of reference also offers legitimate observations on consciousness,
- we conclude by arguing that philosophers can usefully contribute to the science of consciousness by collaborating with neuroscientists to explore the neural basis of phenomenal structures.
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Phenomenal consciousness is only seemingly private because in order to measure it one needs to be in the appropriate cognitive frame of reference. It is not a simple transformation to change from a third-person cognitive frame of reference to the first-person frame, but in principle it can be done, and hence phenomenal consciousness isn’t private anymore.
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- Donald Winnicott
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- when James Barnes wrote that Winnicott's psychoanalysis is based on a unitary conception of self and other,
- that resonated deeply with me
- due to my own spiritual journey in
- non-duality as well as
- Deep Humanity conception of human INTERbeCOMing
- when James Barnes wrote that Winnicott's psychoanalysis is based on a unitary conception of self and other,
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- this morning, after deep discussion, my partner posted a picture of Donald Winnicott on my WhatsApp and I googled Donald Winnicott and found, read and resonated deeply with this article:
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- The dualism of scientific materialism gives rise to one-person psychologies
- and are arguably complicit in much of the psychological and social damage we are now recognising.
- For instance, a good deal of the historical denial of the role of psychological and social trauma has been traced
- back to the Freudian model’s almost exclusive focus on the internal world;
- the actual impact of others and society has been, as a result, relatively ignored.
- back to the Freudian model’s almost exclusive focus on the internal world;
- Modern psychiatry, which accepts the same philosophical model but changes the level of explanation, is just as culpable.
- Likewise CBT, with its focus on dysfunctional thought patterns and rational remedies administered from the outside, also follows the same misguided philosophy.
- The dualism of scientific materialism gives rise to one-person psychologies
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Winnicott had a strikingly different notion of the agent of psychological change than Freud.
- Winnicott
- His psychotherapeutic model was developmental, one that sees.
- the therapeutic relationship and
- the original parent-child relationship(s)
- as analogous.
- Thus, just as he saw the development of the child as being fundamentally tied
- to the immediate, visceral relationship with the mother in the experiential unit.
- His psychotherapeutic model was developmental, one that sees.
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- This was later conceptualised as a shift
- from a ‘one-person’ psychology
- to a ‘two-person’ psychology.
- This was later conceptualised as a shift
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- Freud was focused on rational interventions from the outside
- This gave way in Winnicott to a co-creative journey occurring in the area in between,
- which was much more about who one was and what one did, than what one thought or said.
- In his book Playing and Reality (1971),
- Winnicott called the location of this experience ‘transitional space’,
- alluding to its dynamic, insubstantial quality,
- but also to its nature as a place of becoming.
- It is, he said, a place we both
- create and that
- creates us
- a paradox that we must accept and not try to resolve
- where unformulated possibility replaces
- fixed identities, and
- experience is necessarily co-constructed.
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Winnicott’s concept of psychopathology was very different from Freud’s.
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- Winnicott’s concept of psychopathology was very different from Freud’s.
- Freud
- Freud understood psychopathology in terms of conflicts between:
- the internal drives and
- the external demands of the world
- that what goes wrong is something internal to the person
- only triggered by the outside world.
- This basic idea is still very much alive in reductive psychiatric thinking and CBT, which, following the common dualistic model,
- also locate the problem inside the mind/brain.
- Freud understood psychopathology in terms of conflicts between:
- Winnicott
- By contrast, Winnicott understood psychopathology primarily in terms of trauma or deficit in the relational domain,
- which in turn follows from his inherently interpersonal understanding of the psyche.
- Crucially, what goes wrong is not to be located in the individual per se,
- but in the experiential units that the person was and is involved including, by extension,
- the sociocultural milieu in which they find themselves.
- Freud
- Winnicott’s concept of psychopathology was very different from Freud’s.
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He wrote of culture – its artifacts and its activities – as extensions of the transitional phenomena of childhood, themselves rooted in the original mix-up with the parent. He thought that the very worlds we inhabit and take for granted are always partly of our own making.
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- There is no such thing as a baby … if you set out to describe a baby, you will find you are describing a baby and someone.
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- the Deep Humanity concepts of
- the individual / collective gestalt and
- human INTERbeCOMing,
- the Buddhist concepts of:
- emptiness,
- non-duality in the human realm,
- Indra's net of jewels in the human realm and
- Thich Nhat Hahn's INTERbeing
- complexity
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- Freud conceptualised our basic nature as
- self-contained bundles of energy, born into a sort of introverted narcissism (the Id).
- The development of the mind (the Ego) was a result of
- the clash between the outward expressions of this energy (the drives) and
- the world’s responses to them.
- Freud conceptualised our basic nature as
- Psychological development was therefore a self-creative act,
- shaped by the external world only in terms of necessary adaptation.
- Freud saw the role of the other as largely limited to
- external arbiter and enforcer of rules and regulations for behaviour.
- While oversimplified, the core image of mind here is as
- a sort of internal outgrowth, responsible for
- cognitively traversing the subject-object gap and
- acting as intermediator between two distinct domains.
- a sort of internal outgrowth, responsible for
- Freud saw the role of the other as largely limited to
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- Freud's model of the psyche was firmly rooted in the Cartesian-empiricist philosophy that continues to dominate the scientific worldview.
- The most basic commitment of this model is the idea that:
- we are discrete individual entities opposed to
- an objective, neutral world that exists independently of us.
- Per this model, we come to know and experience the world outside of us through a combination of:
- internally determined processes and
- the mental assimilation of data from the outside world.
- Minds, as such, are
- a prerequisite for experience, and
- experiences are essentially a result of cognition.
- This perspective perseveres today, for example, in the notion that
- we become familiar with other people’s internal worlds through our private theories of their minds.
- It also perseveres in the conceptual basis of CBT,
- which understands our experience of the world and relationships as being determined, in large part, by
- how we individually perceive and make sense of those things.
- which understands our experience of the world and relationships as being determined, in large part, by
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, a fundamentally unitary conception of self and other.
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- He (Donald Winnicott) largely circumvented the subject-object dualism inherent in the Freudian model of mind (which both the Ego-psychologists and the Kleinians subscribed to) and
- espoused, or at least regularly insinuated, a fundamentally unitary conception of self and other.
- He (Donald Winnicott) largely circumvented the subject-object dualism inherent in the Freudian model of mind (which both the Ego-psychologists and the Kleinians subscribed to) and
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comment -The Deep Humanity definition of the individual / collective gestalt identifies the indivisible nature of the individual and collective.
- It can also need called the ' self / other gestalt' and both are really another way to articulate non-duality in between members of the same species
- a ' unitary conception of self and other' is yet another way to articulate this same thing
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Save Share Tweet EmailJames Barnesis a psychotherapist, lecturer and writer with a background in psychoanalysis and philosophy. He has a psychotherapy practice in Exeter, UK, and sees clients remotely.Edited by Christian JarrettSyndicate this idea Save Share Tweet EmailFor Donald Winnicott, your psyche isn’t just in your head – it emerges from your relationships with others and the world
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From inert matter to the global society life as multi-level networks of processes
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- A few billion years have passed since the first life forms appeared.
- Since then, life has continued to forge complex associations between the different emergent levels of interconnection it forms.
- The advances of recent decades in molecular chemistry and theoretical biology, which have embraced complex systems approaches, now make it possible to conceptualize the questions of the origins of life and its increasing complexity from three complementary notions of:closure:
- processes closure,
- autocatalytic closure and
- constraints closure.
- Developed in the wake of the second-order cybernetics, this triple closure approach,
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- graph theory and
- complex networks science,
- sketch a paradigm where it is possible to go up the physical levels of organization of matter,
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- without resorting to strong reductionism. -The phenomenon of life is conceived as the contingent complexification of the organization of matter, until the emergence of life forms, defined as a network of auto-catalytic process networks, organized in a multi-level manner. This approach of living systems, initiated by Maturana & Varela and Kauffman, inevitably leads to a reflection on the nature of cognition; and in the face of the deep changes that affected humanity as a complex systems, on the nature of cultural evolution. Faced with the major challenges that humanity will have to address in the decades to come, this new paradigm invites us to change our conception of causality by shifting our attention from state change to process change and to abandon a widespread notion of 'local' causality in favour of complex systems thinking. It also highlights the importance of a better understanding of the influence of social networks, recommendation systems and artificial intelligence on our future collective dynamics and social cognition processes.
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- a complex living organism is not simply nested structurally in terms of cells which comprise tissues, comprising organs, and bodies, and then ultimately societies. Each of these layers has certain problem-solving competencies.
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- The HUMAN interBEcomING is a multi-level system.
- It would be insightful to learn if there are ways our human consciousness level can communicate to each level, including the social level
- future work
- literature review of research on specific areas related to the level of human consciousness communicating with other levels of the superorganism
- perhaps called "interlevel communication of multi-level superorganism
- interoception signals?
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after a year and a half there, I eventually understood that not only does McKinsey fail to make the world better—it often colludes with those who make the world worse.
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that's that is the Dirty Little Secret 00:12:08 of where we're at right now with Americans at each other's throats politically it's being created caused on purpose by the Chinese and the Russians who are manipulating people 00:12:22 through um use of phony websites and other disinformation campaigns being run which is a type of warfare that's being run 00:12:34 against the American people and they're falling for it
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A widely publicized study published last year by researchers at the University of Northern Arizona analyzed satellite images taken between 1985 and 2019. They show that large parts of the boreal forest have “browned” (i.e., died) in the south and greened with trees and shrubs in the north. If this shift, long hypothesized as a future outcome of warming, is already underway, the effects will be profound, transforming natural habitats, animal migration and human settlements.
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Hotter, harder-to-contain fires will burn indefinitely
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the decline of winter shaking our national self-identity the most.
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Cities across the country will begin to reach “climate departure”: a symbolic rubicon, after which a climate falls completely outside historical norms.
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- Cities across the country will begin to reach “climate departure”: a symbolic rubicon, after which a climate falls completely outside historical norms.
- Even the coldest year, going forward, will be hotter than the hottest in the past.
- The concept was defined in 2013 by researchers at the University of Hawai’i, who crunched computer models of 39 different planetary futures to arrive at their predictions.
- In a scenario consistent with roughly two degrees warming by mid-century,
- stats: start - Montreal is estimated to reach its departure point in 2072, - Toronto in 2074 and - Vancouver in 2083.
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- the article doesn't mention two important points
- a number of places are expected to reach climate departure in the 2020's, such as
- Manokwari, Indonesia in 2020
- Lagos and Jakarta in 2029
- Even if we decarbonize at the most aggresive RCP pathway, it would not prevent climate departure, but only delay it by a few decades
- a number of places are expected to reach climate departure in the 2020's, such as
- The implications are profound. It means that the living organisms on most places on the planet will be on a path to extinction or migration. The entire biosphere will be in migration and this also has profound implications on human social and economic systems. Species whose livelihood billions of people depend on will be migrating to other parts of the environment, potentially devastating large swathes of local economies the world over.
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- title: CANADA IN THE YEAR 2060
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“On one hand, if it’s only 12% accounting for half the beef consumption, you could make some big gains if you get those 12% on board,” Rose says. “On the other hand, those 12% may be most resistant to change.”
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“In a few months’ time, this government will not be accountable for the severe consequences that may follow from the Schiphol decision, particularly with respect to relations with the Netherlands’ trading partners, and lost jobs and prosperity at home,”
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- “In a few months’ time, this government will not be accountable for the severe consequences that may follow from the Schiphol decision, particularly with respect to relations with the Netherlands’ trading partners, and lost jobs and prosperity at home,”
- This comment ONLY refers to things economic, and NOTHING to climate boiling, which air travel is a significant contributor to.'
- If they saw it coming from years ago, why did they not adapt? It is their failure to adapt itself that places themselves in a self-created position of vulnerability
- During a transition as unprecedented as this, the governments of the world must invoke policy that gives protection to workers in industries such as the airline industry and all industries downstream of it so that they can survive the transition as such jobs vanish or morph.
- Indeed, this is one of the major tenets of degrowth advocates. A Universal Basic Income and job retraining to sustainable jobs is the responsible thing to do to protect from job losses.
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KLM on Friday called the cap "incomprehensible" and said implementing it would damage the Netherlands’ economy.
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- incomprehensible is defined as :
- impossible to comprehend : unintelligible.
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yet on KLM's website, they appear aware of climate change and even make the following commitment:
- https://news.klm.com/klm-groups-co2-emission-reduction-targets-for-2030-approved-by-sbti/
- "KLM Group’s CO2 emission reduction targets for 2030 approved by SBTi
- Together with Air France-KLM and Air France, the KLM Group commits to reducing its CO2 emissions by 30% per revenue tonne kilometre (RTK) by 2030, compared to base year 2019; -The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved that – in compliance with the Paris Agreement – the emission reduction target for 2030 adheres to the well-below 2°C trajectory; -The validation marks an important milestone in KLM’s sustainability roadmap, which encompasses actions aimed at achieving its 2030 CO2 reduction target."
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Clearly, they understand the intent of this action. It is not "incomprehensible" KLM language attempts to convey that the cap is not informed by rational thinking, while the rationale is quite obvious.
- KLM officials must be aware of the record breaking extreme weather events as well as the dire climate situation and planetary tipping points, yet they are not including this in their media statement. All they mention is the economic impact on the
- Logically, fossil fuel dependent businesses such as the airline industry will fight hard to keep their business alive.Government has to regulate when industry and society are too slow to respond to existential threats such as global boiling.
- Perhaps a more transparent response would be to say they don't agree with it because they want to continue BAU and are against measures that significantly impact their bottom line, even if it is necessary for the survival of our civilization.
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After CNN’s reporting, Musk reversed course, tweeting “the hell with it … we’ll just keep funding Ukraine govt for free.”
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“How am I in this war?” Musk asks Isaacson. “Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars. It was so people can watch Netflix and chill and get online for school and do good peaceful things, not drone strikes.”
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As Ukrainian submarine drones strapped with explosives approached the Russian fleet, they “lost connectivity and washed ashore harmlessly,” Isaacson writes. Musk’s decision, which left Ukrainian officials begging him to turn the satellites back on, was driven by an acute fear that Russia would respond to a Ukrainian attack on Crimea with nuclear weapons
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- Here, Elon Musk demonstrates how the most powerful technological leaders are themselves unable to predict the unintended consequences of progress.
- This story exposes the power that no tech titan is immune to
- making one dimensional decisions based on high dimensional information whose salient relationships can not be predicted ahead of time.
- The dilemma of power - it is opaque and puts the fate of humanity in the decision of a few God-like individuals
- Do 8 billion people really trust one man to decide the fate of civilization?
- And yet, this is the kind of world that those in power continue to reify by consolidating their positions
- The myth of dictators wanting to hold onto power at all costs goes beyond the sphere of politics
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Steve Bannon I mean to my to my delight 00:25:29 and horror read an entire section of my book team human aloud on war room pandemic and it was a section of the book that I looked at and I still there's nothing I can really change in it to defend it from being used in that 00:25:42 context
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- thinking of what Douglas Rushkoff felt about Steven Bannon's use of his writing in a way that is opposite to what Rushkoff aspires to and advocates for,
- we could not use the word "misquote" because it was verbatim
- the portmanteau "disquote" can imply disinformation but it has a meaning that means a fake attribution of a quote, which is not quite right here
- however, Bannon used Rushkoff's book chapter in a polar opposite context, to resonate with the pain of the masses, but lead to an end result that is diametrically opposite to the ultimate wellbeing of the hurt masses
- this suggests a new meaning for the word "disquote", a quote used for quite divergent context
- From a "Team Human" perspective, far right propaganda can be seen as using the content generated by the left in order to justify authoritarianism position that further consolidate power of the elites
- The left critiques the many failings of neoliberalism and destructive capitalism by pointing out the social and ecological harm it causes and the same critiques can be coopted by the far right to rally the masses harmed by neoliberal policies.
- The failing of the elite neoliberal class breaks up team human into perceived polarized team left and team far right (populist), where team populist is now mis-perceived to be the standard bearer of social justice.
- The far right is stepping in to fill the gap of reacting to the enormous harm caused by neoliberal policies, but their solutions come with their own serious problems.
- Team human, in the wide sense of the term must reclaim the territory for humanity
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- This conversation was insightful on so many dimensions salient to the polycrisis humanity is moving through.
- It makes me think of the old cliches:
- "The more things change, the more they remain the same"
- "What's old is new" ' "History repeats"
- the conversation explores Naomi's latest book (as of this podcast), Into the Mirror World, in which Naomi adopts a different style of writing to explicate, articulate and give voice to
- implicit and tacit discomforting ideas and feelings she experienced during covid and earlier, and
- became a focal point through a personal comparative analysis with another female author and thought leader, Naomi Wolf,
- a feminist writer who ended up being rejected by mainstream media and turned to right wing media.
- The conversation explores the process of:
- othering,
- coopting and
- abandoning
- of ideas important for personal and social wellbeing.
- and speaks to the need to identify what is going on and to reclaim those ideas for the sake of humanity
- In this context, the doppleganger is the people who are mirror-like imiages of ourselves, but on the other side of polarized issues.
- Charismatic leaders who are bad actors often are good at identifying the suffering of the masses, and coopt the ideas of good actors to serve their own ends of self-enrichment.
- There are real world conspiracies that have caused significant societal harm, and still do,
- however, when there ithere are phenomena which we have no direct sense experience of, the mixture of
- a sense of helplessness,
- anger emerging from injustice
- a charismatic leader proposing a concrete, possible but explanatory theory
- is a powerful story whose mythology can be reified by many people believing it
- Another cliche springs to mind
- A lie told a hundred times becomes a truth
- hence the amplifying role of social media
- When we think about where this phenomena manifests, we find it everywhere:
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Another concern is that these emerging economies could be simply trapping themselves in more debt with these agreements.
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- in building out renewable infrastructure, these loans and grants may further increase debt to disenfranchised countries
- then it is no longer Just energy transition but becomes Unjust Energy Transition Partnerships (UETP)
- if not done right, JETP can turn into UETP
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- fossil fuel bridging fuels can be very problematic
- the carbon budget is shrinking fast
- instead of rich nations and peoples transferring the remaining carbon budget to those in need of development, it is simply being wasted on high carbon lifestyles of the rich and famous and to a lesser degree, the middle class
- we are making a tradeoff between high carbon lifestyle choices and transferring that carbon to those in developmental need
- this is where the "bridging fossil fuels" come into play, to compensate for the high carbon life style
- If the transfer from the elites to the energy disenfranchised actually happened, perhaps we would not even need those bridging fossil fuels!
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- Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETP) are happening in South Africa and also Indonesia, Vietnam, Senegal and possibly India.
- Will these actually happen? Will they be enough to avoid the highest risk of planetary tipping points?
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Ramalope says they also don’t go far enough. “I think the weakness of JETPs is that they’re not encouraging 1.5 [degrees] Celsius,”
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- the JETPs do not go far enough. This is dangerous as it still allows significant amounts of fossil fuel emissions that will breach 1.5 Deg C and increase chances of breaching severe planetary tipping points
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“Given the high unemployment rate in South Africa as well … you cannot sell it as a climate change intervention,” says Deborah Ramalope, head of climate policy analysis at the policy institute Climate Analytics in Berlin. “You really need to sell it as a socioeconomic intervention.”
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- Given the high unemployment rate in South Africa as well … you cannot sell it as a climate change intervention, you really need to sell it as a socioeconomic intervention.
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- date: Aug. 15, 2023
- source: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/just-energy-transition-partnerships-south-africa-cop
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climate finance expert Malango Mughogho, who is managing director of ZeniZeni Sustainable Finance Limited in South Africa and a member of the United Nations High-Level Expert Group on net-zero emissions commitments.
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Just Energy Transition Partnerships, or JETPs, an attempt to catalyze global finance for emerging economies looking to shift energy reliance away from fossil fuels in a way that doesn’t leave certain people and communities behind.
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- title: The Great Disruption has Begun
- author: Paul Gilding
- date: Sept 3, 2023
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- good q uick opening paragraphs that summarize the plethora of extreme events in 2023 up to Sept 2023 (but misses the Canadian Wildfires) and also the list of potential planetary tipping points that are giving indication of being at the threshold.
- He makes a good point about the conservative nature of science that underestimates impacts due to the inertia of scientific study.
- Coins a good meme
- Everything, everywhere, all at once
- He ties all the various crisis together to show the many components of the wicked problem we face
- finally what it comes down to is that we cannot stop the coming unprecedented changes but we can and must slow it down as much as possible and we should be prepared for a wild ride
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- It would be a good educational tool for deep and transformative climate education to map all these elements of the polycrisis and show their feedbacks and interactions, especially how it relates to socio-economic impacts to motivate transformative change and mobilize the urgency now required.
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However, knowing the science community has long underestimated climate impacts, it is my judgement that the climate system has crossed a critical threshold. I believe its destabilisation will now trigger cascading and chaotic changes and disruption to human social and economic systems – and do so globally.
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- disruption to human social and
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- and do so globally.
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- the concept of emptiness (shunyata), found throughout eastern philosophy is an organizing principle that can be used to frame the polycrisis, especially the many system wide entanglements.
- Emptiness's two main characteristics:
- interdependency and
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Is the Future Terrifying? Or Exciting?
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www.york.ac.uk www.york.ac.uk
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- for: velocar, low carbon transportation
- title: Up the velorution: appropriating the bicycle and the politics of technology
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citeseerx.ist.psu.edu citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
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- for: velocar, low carbon transportation
- Title: The Velomobile as a Vehicle for more Sustainable Transportation
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www.mprnews.org www.mprnews.org
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- for: sister city, sweet spot, example, example - sweet spot, example - sister city
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- Example
- TPF sister city program
- optimum size and sweet spot for population cohorts for climate action
- community cooperative
- Example
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- Aug 2023
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www.mdpi.com www.mdpi.com
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- key finding
- global temp of 2 Deg C could theoretically result in a billion human deaths
- title: Quantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy Policy
- authors: Joshua Pearce, Richard Pamcutt
- date: aug. 19, 2023
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iopscience.iop.org iopscience.iop.org
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the systemwide optimum population cohort for the climate action interventions is a community (P4) of 10 000 persons
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for: cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries, downscaled planetary boundaries, leverage point
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- 10000 to 1 million is optimum size
- question: investigate rationale
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We suggest that prioritizing the analyzed climate actions between community and urban scales, where global and local converge, can help catalyze and enhance individual, household and local practices, and support national and international policies and finances for rapid sustainability transformations.
- for: cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries, downscaled planetary boundaries, leverage point
- key finding
- suitable cohorts and cohort ranges for rapidly deploying climate and sustainability actions between a single individual and the globally projected ∼ 10 billion persons by 2050 is:
- community scale between 10k and 100k
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- for: cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries, downscaled planetary boundaries, leverage point
- title: Powers of 10: seeking 'sweet spots' for rapid climate and sustainability actions between individual and global scales
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www.mdpi.com www.mdpi.com
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Demographic and Socioeconomic Correlates of Disproportionate Beef Consumption among US Adults in an Age of Global Warming
- for: climate change impacts - dietary, climate change impacts - meat eating, carbon footprint - meat, leverage point - meat eating
- title: Demographic and Socioeconomic Correlates of Disproportionate Beef Consumption among US Adults in an Age of Global Warming
- author: Donald Rose
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date: Aug. 30, 2023
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- study based on NHANES study of 10, 248 U.S. adults between 2015 and 2018 indicated that 12% accounted for all beef consumed
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- for: climate change impacts - meat, carbon footprint - meat, leverage point - food, stats, stats - meat eating
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- 12% OF AMERICANS EAT HALF OF ALL BEEF CONSUMED IN A DAY
- date: Aug. 30, 2023
- source: https://www.futurity.org/beef-food-climate-change-2967702-2/
- cited paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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the total number of marine invertebrates killed was almost certainly in the billions
- for: quote, quote - Pacific Northwest heatwave, extinction, biodiversity loss, climate departure
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- the total number of marine invertebrates killed was almost certainly in the billions.
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The hottest days of the 2021 heatwave coincided with very low, early afternoon low tides throughout most of the Salish Sea (the inland waters of BC and Washington State). As a result, surface temperatures in excess of 50 °C were observed in the intertidal zone (Fig. 6a, b), particularly on gently sloping south and west-facing surfaces that received the most direct solar radiation.
- for: intertidal zones, Canary in the mineshaft, Pacific Northwest heatwave, marine heatwave
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- Rocky intertidal shores are some of the most physically stressful habitats on Earth, and
- many of the species that occupy them often live very close to their physiological tolerance limits.
- Intertidal ecosystems are therefore often used as bellwethers for the ecological effects of
- climate change and
- extreme weather events.
- Plants and animals that live in the intertidal zone are especially susceptible to extremely high temperatures during daytime low tides,
- when solar radiation can raise organismal body temperatures well above air temperature.
- The hottest days of the 2021 heatwave coincided with
- very low, early afternoon low tides throughout most of the Salish Sea (the inland waters of BC and Washington State).
- As a result, surface temperatures in excess of 50 °C were observed in the intertidal zone,
- particularly on gently sloping south and west-facing surfaces that received the most direct solar radiation.
- Rocky intertidal shores are some of the most physically stressful habitats on Earth, and
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forecasts of the magnitude and longevity of the event were very good; although forecasted high-temperature records fell 1–3 °C short of the observed highs in many cases.
- for: meteorology, forecasting, ensemble forecasting, Pacific Northwest heatwave
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- forecasts of the magnitude and longevity of the event were very good;
- although forecasted high-temperature records fell 1–3 °C short of the observed highs in many cases.
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Meteorologists are typically reluctant to make extreme weather forecasts at forecast horizons of around a week for fear of “crying wolf” and the associated reduction in end-user trust. In this case, however, the ensemble forecast provided sufficient certainty that meteorologists were able to warn of “extreme” heat at this relatively long-lead time—a testament to ensemble forecast technology.
- for meteorology, forecasting, ensemble forecasting
- paraphrase
- Meteorologists are typically reluctant to make extreme weather forecasts at forecast horizons of around a week
- for fear of “crying wolf” and
- the associated reduction in end-user trust.
- In this case, however, the ensemble forecast provided sufficient certainty that meteorologists were able to warn of “extreme” heat at this relatively long-lead time
- a testament to ensemble forecast technology.
- Meteorologists are typically reluctant to make extreme weather forecasts at forecast horizons of around a week
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This “heat dome” phrase is not a common phrase within the scientific community
- for: definition, definition - heat dome, Pacific Northwest heatwave
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paraphrase
- This event was widely described in the media as a “heat dome”, wherein
- subsidence/adiabatic warming,
- “trapped air”, and
- sensible heating
- are the dominant mechanisms driving the anomalous heat.
- This conceptual model ignores the role of upstream diabatic heating,
- which our analysis
- shows is a significant heat source.
- This “heat dome” phrase is not a common phrase within the scientific community
- This event was widely described in the media as a “heat dome”, wherein
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- the authors do not refer to this event as a heat dome, as is popularly used in the media because diabatic heating was involved
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near-term forecasts of this event were good, albeit underestimating the magnitude of the maximum temperatures.
- for: weather prediction, climate prediction, Pacific Northwest heatwave, comment, question, question - Pacific Northwest heatwave
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- near-term forecasts of this event were good, albeit underestimating the magnitude of the maximum temperatures.
- comment
- question
- could appropriate measures have been in taken, our were the predicted temperature so far off that appropriate measures could not be recommended?
- in particular, with the mass dieoff from the marine heatwave of an estimate billion marines organisms due to:
- low tide,
- high surface air temperature and
- elevated ocean temperatures,
- could interventions have been organized such as:
- increasing dissolved oxygen levels in parts of the ocean dense with sea life or
- soaking shellfish exposed to extreme sea surface temperature?
- what are the future impacts in terms of biodiversity loss and extinction?
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An unprecedented heatwave occurred in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) from ~25 June to 2 July 2021, over lands colonially named British Columbia (BC) and Alberta (AB) in Canada, Washington (WA), and Oregon (OR) in the United States.
- for climate change - impacts, climate departure, extinction, biodiversity loss, marine heat wave, ubc, Pacific Northwest heatwave
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- An unprecedented heatwave occurred in the Pacific Northwest (PNW)
- from ~25 June to 2 July 2021,
- over lands colonially named
- British Columbia (BC)
- Alberta (AB) in Canada,
- Washington (WA),
- Oregon (OR) in the United States.
- Near-surface air temperature anomalies reached up to 16–20 °C above normal over a wide region (Fig. 1),
- with many locations breaking all-time maximum temperature records by more than 5 °C (Fig. 2a).
- The Canadian national temperature record was broken 3 days in a row, at multiple locations,
- with the highest temperature of 49.6 °C recorded in Lytton, BC, on 29 June (Figs. 1b),
- 4.6 °C higher than the Canadian record prior to this event.
- The new record temperature was reportedly the hottest worldwide temperature recorded north of 45° latitude,
- and hotter than any recorded temperature in Europe or South America.
- An unprecedented heatwave occurred in the Pacific Northwest (PNW)
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- for: marine heat wave, fish dieoff, fish kill, extinction, climate departure, climate change - impacts
- title: The unprecedented Pacific Northwest heatwave of June 2021
- date: Feb. 9, 2023
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None of the 28 streams Cunningham and his colleagues studied hit summertime highs warmer than 25.9 C, the point where warming water can become lethal. But in four rivers, temperatures climbed past 20.3 C, the threshold where some have found juvenile coho stop growing.
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for: climate change - impacts, extinction, biodiversity loss, fish kill, salmon dieoff, stats, stats - salmon, logging, human activity
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- None of the 28 streams Cunningham and his colleagues studied hit summertime highs warmer than 25.9 C,
- the point where warming water can become lethal.
- But in four rivers, temperatures climbed past 20.3 C,
- the threshold where some have found juvenile coho stop growing.
- In some watersheds, deforestation rates climbed to 59 per cent.
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- deforestation may be a contributing factor but there are also other variables like changes in glacial melt water
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One study found once temperatures climb past 20.3 C, salmon stop growing because they can't get enough food to satisfy their metabolism.
-for: salmon survival temperature, stats, stats - salmon, salmon dieoff, climate change - impacts, fish kill - paraphrase -stats - One study found once temperatures climb past 20.3 C, - salmon stop growing because they can't get enough food to satisfy their metabolism.
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medium.com medium.com
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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The graph shows that ecological awareness does in fact lowers the footprint of high income consumption. They may shift from meat to plant based diet or fly less. Yet, they still consume more, fly more, travel more, buy more items, larger homes, larger cars etc. etc. This problem is why policies that promote circular-responsible-organic-whatever products will not deliver to targets.
- for: sustainable consumption, individual change, impact of environmental awareness, Custora
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- individual consumption choices have an impact, but far from enough
- system change is also required on policy and structural level
- voluntarily reducing our income could be one way
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www.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org
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The unequal distribution of household carbon footprints in Europe and its link to sustainability
- for: inequality, carbon inequality, carbon inequality - eu
- title: The unequal distribution of household carbon footprints in Europe and its link to sustainability
- authors
- Diana ivanova
- Richard Wood
- date: July 6, 2020
- source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/unequal-distribution-of-household-carbon-footprints-in-europe-and-its-link-to-sustainability/F1ED4F705AF1C6C1FCAD477398353DC2#article
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theconversation.com theconversation.com
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Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist’s perspective, it’s inevitable
- for: degrowth, polycrisis, simplification
- title: Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable – but from an ecologist’s perspective, it’s inevitable
- author: Mike Joy
- date: Aug. 15, 2023
- source: https://theconversation.com/critics-of-degrowth-economics-say-its-unworkable-but-from-an-ecologists-perspective-its-inevitable-211496
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- summary: The author makes the claim that state capture lay at the root of our polycrisis. Effectively addressing state capture is a leverage point for rapid whole system change,
- for: state capture, leverage point, rapid whole system change, saving humanity, lobbying
- title: Saving humanity: here’s a radical approach to building a sustainable and just society
- author: Mark Diesendorf
- date: May 18, 2023
- source: https://theconversation.com/saving-humanity-heres-a-radical-approach-to-building-a-sustainable-and-just-society-205566
- reference: book
- The path to a Sustainable Civilization
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Political scientists and political economists argue governments, public servants, the media and indeed the majority of decision-makers and influencers become captured by vested interests.
- for: definition, definition - state capture, state capture
- definition: state capture
- when governments, public servants, the media and the majority of decision-makers and influencers become captured by vested interests.
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Confronting state capture involves reversing several undemocratic practices.
- for: state capture
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- main categories of state capture
- funding of political parties by corporate interests
- revolving door jobs between government and corporate interests
- concentration of media ownership
- influence of "think tanks" funded by vested interests
- main categories of state capture
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- for: sustainable living, regenerative living, greenhouse living, greenhouse
- title: Living in a Greenhouse
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- The Tills are a couple that operate a nursery and also built their home into the same greenhouse
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pluralistic.net pluralistic.net
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- for: W2W, inequality, 1%, oligarch, elites, kleptocrats, civil society - exploitation, TUSN, Transnational Uncivil Society Network
- title: How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth
- author: Peter Rinko
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- This article explores the research work of Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw and Ricard Soares de Oliverira who coauthored the paper
Transnational Uncivil Society Networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism - reference - https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5e5a3052-c693-4991-a7cc-bc2b47134467/download_file?file_format=application%2Fpdf&safe_filename=Cooley_et_al_2023_transnational_uncivil_society.pdf&type_of_work=Journal+article
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Across the region, roads buckled, car windows cracked and power cables melted. The emerald fringes of conifers browned overnight, as if singed by flame. Entire cherry orchards were destroyed, the fruit stewed on the trees. More than 650,000 farm animals died of heat stress. Hundreds of thousands of honeybees perished, their organs exploding outside their bodies. Billions of shoreline creatures, especially shellfish, simply baked to death, strewing beaches with empty shells and a fetid stench that lingered for weeks. Birds and insects went unnervingly silent. All the while the skies were hazy but clear, the air preternaturally still, not a cloud in sight. The air pressure was so high they’d all dissipated.
- for: climate communication, polycrisis communication, Canadian fires, Canadian wildfires, Canadian forest fires
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- Across the region,
- roads buckled,
- car windows cracked and
- power cables melted.
- The emerald fringes of conifers browned overnight,
- as if singed by flame.
- Entire cherry orchards were destroyed, the fruit stewed on the trees.
- More than 650,000 farm animals died of heat stress.
- Hundreds of thousands of honeybees perished,
- their organs exploding outside their bodies.
- Billions of shoreline creatures,
- especially shellfish,
- simply baked to death,
- strewing beaches with empty shells and a fetid stench that lingered for weeks.
- Birds and insects went unnervingly silent.
- All the while the skies were hazy but clear, the air preternaturally still, not a cloud in sight.
- The air pressure was so high they’d all dissipated.
- Across the region,
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- date: Aug, 2023
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- this description is so visceral that it should be made into a short movie,
- a new communication format more powerful than mainstream media presently uses is to record the actual substantial and visceral impacts with video and show to the public
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What follows is a portrait of Canada in a world warmed by two degrees. This is not what our country will look like if the world fails to reduce emissions—this is our future even if we do.
- for: Canada's future, climate future - Canada, climate communication, polycrisis communication
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- What follows is a portrait of Canada in a world warmed by two degrees. This is not what our country will look like if the world fails to reduce emissions—this is our future even if we do.
- author: Anne Shibata Casselman
- date: Aug, 2023
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- graph that shows the unprecedented forest fires turning forests from carbon sink to carbon source
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Whole humans and more than human. Sustainability and systems are a window into the spiritual for many because it’s about wholes.So not a pillar. Rather a deeper level of understanding.
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Without a solid spiritual foundation, humanity may well continue on its path toward self-destruction, whether it be through environmental collapse, nuclear war or Artificial Intelligence gone haywire. On the other hand, if we evolve our culture to value inner work as much as we value outer work, then our individual and collective spiritual wisdom might just catch up with our rapidly advancing technology.
- comment
- critics will argue that such internal paradigm shifts take decades rather than years
- see the paper showing time scales of different types of social tipping points:
- However, what his not been researched is the combination of different types of social tipping points and how specific combinations might actually accelerate action.
- Applying the social tipping point complex contagion findings of Damon Centola to cascading tipping points, where deep inner transformation can play a strategic role, is a possibility worth investigating
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While our modern world cringes at any mention of spirituality, it is not the enemy of science. It speaks volumes that many of the greatest minds of history, including Einstein, Tesla, Da Vinci, Plato and Pythagorus were as interested in the spiritual world as they were in the material sciences.
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One of the core principles of Hermetic philosophy is the principle of Mentalism, which states that all things are created from and expand from the mind.
- for: definition, definition - mentalism, hermetic philosophy
- definition: Mentalism
- things are created from and expand from the mind
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- quote
- There are different ways that you can interpret this,
- but in its simplest form it means that
- everything that we do in life begins with a thought or a feeling.
- The thought or feeling always precedes the action. / Comment: This is part of the philosophy of Deep Humanity that entangles inner transformation with outer transformation /
- Therefore the inner world, the spiritual world, drives the physical world. It is a mirror. / Comment: A Deep Humanity way to express this is to say that the outer world is a reflection of the cumulative inner world's of humanity/
- Everything that humans have ever done throughout our entire history
- has begun as thoughts and feelings,
- which then manifested as actions in the physical world.
- Our society is therefore shaped by the interaction between
- our inner worlds and
- the laws of nature.
- We cannot change the laws of nature
- and so if we want to change the world,
- we must focus our attention inwards. / Comment: Again, this is reflected in the Deep Humanity phrase: A stimuli occurs, the heart feels, the mind thinks, the body acts and an impact appears in our public, shared reality/
- There are different ways that you can interpret this,
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spirituality is not even a fourth pillar of sustainability, but is instead the foundation upon which the pillars of people, planet and profit must be constructed. To succeed on the triple bottom line, we must build a strong spiritual foundation. To do that, we must look inwards.
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- spirituality is not even a fourth pillar of sustainability,
- but is instead the foundation upon which the pillars of
- people,
- planet and
- profit
- must be constructed.
- but is instead the foundation upon which the pillars of
- To succeed on the triple bottom line,
- we must build a strong spiritual foundation.
- To do that, we must look inwards.
- spirituality is not even a fourth pillar of sustainability,
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- We could express this succinctly in a new phrase:
- The bottom line of the triple bottom line is spirituality
- We could express this succinctly in a new phrase:
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I think if we stripped away the social stigma and stereotypes, we would find that most people have some personal beliefs about life, death and the universe that could be considered spiritual.
- for: quote, quote - dogma, quote - wonder, quote - spirituality, quote- Tom Greenwood
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- I think if we stripped away
- the social stigma and
- stereotypes,
- we would find that most people have some personal beliefs about
- life,
- death and
- the universe
- that could be considered spiritual.
- In fact, I would bet that
- the number of people who never wonder about any of these things would be close to zero.
- Spirituality then, is really the exploration of the other half of life
- that our society isn’t comfortable exploring.
- And that’s where it gets interesting.
- I think if we stripped away
- author: Tom Greenwood
- date: aug. 23, 2023
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The problem is that in rejecting the dogma, we too have created dogma. A dogma that shuts down our natural human inclination to explore the mysteries of life, of our own inner worlds and of our deep connection to nature and each other.
- for: quote, quote - dogma, quote - wonder, quote - spirituality, quote- Tom Greenwood
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- The problem is that in rejecting the dogma,
- we too have created dogma.
- A dogma that shuts down our natural human inclination to explore the mysteries of life,
- of our own inner worlds and
- of our deep connection to nature and each other.
- author: Tom Greenwood
- date: aug. 23, 2023
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We all wonder about it, but we don’t like to talk about it because it sounds a bit religious and unscientific, but in truth it’s just mysterious.
- for: comment, comment - emptiness, emptiness
- comment
- in fact, there is a way to talk about these things in a philosophical way by using the concept of emptiness, commonly found in Eastern Religions
- The interesting thing about the concept of emptiness is that even though there is a strong tradition of it in Eastern religions, it inherently defies all attempts to classify it under any of
- these categories:
- religion,
- spirituality,
- science,
- philosophy or
- language.
- It is part of all of these, yet does not belong solely to any of them.
- emptiness can be used as a tool and organizing principle to delve into the unnamable quality of life
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define spirituality
- for: definition, definition - spirituality
- definition
- paraphrase
- spirituality is simply
- the process of exploring the mysteries of the self and the universe, and
- believing that there is more to life than material survival,
- even if we don’t know what.
- If the material world is what we can observe with our five physical senses,
- the spiritual world is everything else.
- spirituality is simply
- author: Tom Greenwood
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- Tom'w working definition is similiar to neuroscientist David Eangleman's definition of possibilian and possibilianism
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- David Eagleman's Possibilian website:
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I have to admit that it feels uncomfortable even writing this. Somehow we need to get comfortable talking about spirituality.
- for: insight, insight - spirituality - business, quote, quote - spirituality and business
- adjacency
- spirituality
- business
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- I have to admit that it feels uncomfortable even writing this. Somehow we need to get comfortable talking about spirituality.
- author: Tom Greenwood
- date: Aug 24, 2023
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all good regenerative businesses are built on four pillars: ecological, social, spiritual and financial
- for: quote, quote Satish Kumar, quote - spirituality
- quote
- all good regenerative businesses are built on four pillars: ecological, social, spiritual and financial
- author: Satish Kumar
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I've been wondering if we are too focused on systems and actions that we can do, rather than on ourselves as human beings and what we can be.
- for: human DOing, Deep Humanity, DH, quote, quote - DH, quote - Deep Humanity, quote - human DOing
- quote
- I've been wondering if we are too focused on systems and actions
- that we can do, rather than on ourselves as human beings and
- what we can be.
- I've been wondering if we are too focused on systems and actions
- comment
- this is aligned to the Deep Humanity notion of the difference between:
- human DOing vs
- human BEing
- this is aligned to the Deep Humanity notion of the difference between:
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The challenge is that we're now nearly thirty years in the future and despite the best efforts of many people, we haven't yet cracked the nut of sustainable business or sustainability more broadly.
- new trailmark: - new trailmark
- replace "for" with "adjacency"
- adjacency
- between
- sustainability
- failure,
- root causes
- between
- source: reason why the author started asking the question:
- what's missing in sustainability that makes it unachievable after decades of trying?
- new trailmark: - new trailmark
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triple bottom line
- for: definition, definition - triple bottom line, triple bottom line
- adjacency: definition, John Elkington, triple bottom line
- definition: triple bottom line
- author: John Elkington
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Is spirituality the missing pillar of sustainability?
- for: spirituality and science, spirituality and sustainability, spirituality - missing link, Isaac Newton
- title: Is spirituality the missing pillar of sustainability?
- author: Tom Greenwood
- date: Aug. 24, 2023
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When I wrote my treatise about our system I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
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- When I wrote my treatise about our system
- I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity;
- and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose..
- author: Isaac Newton
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- Isaac Newton, Principia, ed. Stephen Hawking (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002), 426–27.
- author: Isaac Newton
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- Isaac Newton, Original letter from Isaac Newton to Richard Bentley, 189.R.4.47, ff. 4A-5, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK; found on the Newton Project website: http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00254; spelling and punctuation modernized.
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This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all. . . . The Supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect . . . and from his true dominion it follows that the true God is a living, intelligent, and powerful Being. . . . He is not eternity and infinity, but eternal and infinite; he is not duration or space, but he endures and is present.
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- This Being governs all things,
- not as the soul of the world,
- but as Lord over all.
- . . . The Supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect
- . . . and from his true dominion it follows that the true God is a
- living,
- intelligent, and
- powerful Being.
- . . . He is not
- eternity and
- infinity, -but
- eternal and
- infinite;
- he is not
- duration or
- space,
- but he
- endures and
- is present.
- This Being governs all things,
- author: Isaac Newton
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- Isaac Newton, Principia, ed. Stephen Hawking (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002), 426–27.
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Does it not appear from phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space . . . sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly.
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- Does it not appear from phenomena
- that there is a Being
- incorporeal,
- living,
- intelligent,
- omnipresent,
- who in infinite space
- sees the things themselves intimately, and
- thoroughly perceives them, and
- comprehends them wholly.
- author: Isaac Newton
- reference
- Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. (London: William Innys, 1730), 344; spelling and punctuation modernized.
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Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? And whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? . . . Was the eye contrived without skill in optics? And the ear without knowledge of sounds?
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- Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain?
- And whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world?
- Was the eye contrived without skill in optics?
- And the ear without knowledge of sounds?
- author: Isaac Newton
- reference
- Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. (London: William Innys, 1730), 344; spelling and punctuation modernized.
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A Brief Survey of Sir Isaac Newton's Views on Religion
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- title: A Brief Survey of Sir Isaac Newton's Views on Religion
- author: Steven E. Jones
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- Newton was a serious theological scholar who was driven to use science to validate his conception of God
- Newton's scientific work is therefore a testament to the union between the deepest, common aspiration and motivations for science and religion, that is universal wonder of being
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Possibilianism is a philosophy which rejects both the idiosyncratic claims of traditional theism and the positions of certainty in atheism in favor of a middle, exploratory ground. The term was first defined by neuroscientist David Eagleman in relation to his book of fiction Sum. Asked whether he was an atheist or a religious person on a National Public Radio interview in 2009, he replied "I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
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Possibilianism is a philosophy which rejects
- both
- the idiosyncratic claims of traditional theism and
- the positions of certainty in atheism
- in favor of a middle, exploratory ground.
- The term was first defined by neuroscientist David Eagleman in relation to his book of fiction Sum.
- Asked whether he was an atheist or a religious person on a National Public Radio interview in 2009, he replied
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- I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
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- In an interview with the New York Times, he expanded upon this:
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- Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet
- we know too much to commit to a particular religion.
- A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story
- (say, a man with a beard on a cloud) is true or not true.
- But with Possibilianism I'm hoping to define a new position
- one that emphasizes the exploration of new, unconsidered possibilities.
- Possibilianism is comfortable holding multiple ideas in mind;
- it is not interested in committing to any particular story.
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- Yet another example of capitalism's tendency to externalize manifests at the most basic level.
- The tendency to treat nature as an inexhaustable garbage dumping ground seems to be built into our culture's economic norms taught to us by most parents and society at large.
- There are not enough parents that teach their children to love, respect and feel that they are an intrinsic part of nature.
- The externalization our society teaches us in the form of destructive, widely-accepted social norms of waste such as::
- having the concept of waste and garbage
- garbage taken out once a week
- waste bins everywhere
- keep our backyard clean, but at the expense of trucking out our garbage to some unknown place
- has been enculturated into us from early age
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The January 6th insurrection on Capitol Hill over one year ago, and the United States’ ongoing struggle to respond effectively to threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, warn us of the dangers posed by unchecked polarization.
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- current example of polarization
- The January 6th US insurrection on Capitol Hill
- COVID-19 pandemic
- climate change,
- warn us of the dangers posed by unchecked polarization.
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- title: Climate change is hitting close to home for nearly 2 out of 3 Americans, poll finds
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The instinctual BS-meter is not enough. The next version of the ‘BS-meter’ will need to be technologically based. The tricks of misinformation have far outstripped the ability of people to reliably tell whether they are receiving BS or not – not to mention that it requires a constant state of vigilance that’s exhausting to maintain. I think that the ability and usefulness of the web to enable positive grassroots civic communication will be harnessed, moving beyond mailing lists and fairly static one-way websites.
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- The instinctual BS-meter is not enough.
- The next version of the ‘BS-meter’ will need to be technologically based.
- The tricks of misinformation have far outstripped the ability of people to reliably tell whether they are receiving BS or not
- author: Greg Shatan
- lawyer, Moses & Singer LLP
- not to mention that it requires a constant state of vigilance that’s exhausting to maintain.
- I think that the ability and usefulness of the web to enable positive grassroots civic communication will be harnessed,
- moving beyond mailing lists and fairly static one-way websites.
- lawyer, Moses & Singer LLP
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the gig economy is enabled by technology; technology finds buyers for workers and their services. However, given the choice between an economy with many gig workers and an economy with an equivalent number of traditional middle-class jobs, I think that most people would prefer the latter.”
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- the gig economy is enabled by technology;
- technology finds buyers for workers and their services.
- However, given the choice between
- an economy with many gig workers and
- an economy with an equivalent number of traditional middle-class jobs,
- I think that most people would prefer the latter.
- author: James Mickens
- associate professor of computer science, Harvard University
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We will use technology to solve the problems the use of technology creates, but the new fixes will bring new issues. Every design solution creates a new design problem, and so it is with the ways we have built our global networks.
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Technology and social innovation intended to overcome the negatives of the digital age will likely cause additional negative consequences. Examples include: the decentralized web, end-to-end encryption, AI and machine learning, social media.
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- Technology and social innovation intended to overcome the negatives of the digital age
- will likely cause additional negative consequences. Examples include:
- the decentralized web,
- end-to-end encryption,
- AI and machine learning,
- social media.
- will likely cause additional negative consequences. Examples include:
- Technology and social innovation intended to overcome the negatives of the digital age
- author: Larry Masinter -internet pioneer, formerly with Adobe, AT&T Labs and Xerox PARC, who helped create internet and web standards with IETF and W3C
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I believe we are arriving at multiple simultaneous breaking points. The most obvious is of course the climate crisis, but also consider the mounting levels of inequality, of pollution and of despicable charlatanry exhibited by those in positions of power. These simply cannot go on if we are to survive as a civilization. Since civilization is resilient, the odds are that we develop tools to support a saner society and bring those tools to bear. I’m not prescient enough to enumerate them, but it seems that the single most useful technology would be one that clearly distinguishes verifiable truth from agitprop in an unavoidable and unambiguous way. This is a necessary but not sufficient condition for making progress on any of the key issues we face.
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- I believe we are arriving at multiple simultaneous breaking points.
- The most obvious is of course the climate crisis, but also consider the mounting levels of
- inequality,
- of pollution and of
- despicable charlatanry exhibited by those in positions of power.
- These simply cannot go on if we are to survive as a civilization.
- Since civilization is resilient, the odds are that we develop tools to support a saner society and bring those tools to bear.
- I’m not prescient enough to enumerate them, but it seems that the single most useful technology would be one that
- clearly distinguishes
- verifiable truth from
- agitprop
- in an unavoidable and unambiguous way.
- clearly distinguishes
- This is a necessary but not sufficient condition for making progress on any of the key issues we face.
- author: David Bray
- executive director, People-Centered Internet Coalition
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At best, we will see new forms of collaboration among large numbers of people toward beneficial ends. The most obvious example is the changing nature of responses to largescale natural disasters. Perhaps we will see this spirit of volunteer and entrepreneurial cooperation emerge to address such pressing issues as climate change (e.g., maybe, the Green New Deal will be crowdsourced)
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- At best, we will see new forms of collaboration among large numbers of people toward beneficial ends.
- The most obvious example is the changing nature of responses to largescale natural disasters.
- Perhaps we will see this spirit of volunteer and entrepreneurial cooperation emerge to address such pressing issues as climate change
- e.g., maybe, the Green New Deal will be crowdsourced.
- author: Miles Fidelman
- founder, Center for Civic Networking
- principal, Protocol Technologies Group
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We are already seeing the emergence of ‘tech-free’ camps and vacation packages. Experiencing life ‘offline’ will become a generational goal, much like the Millennial generation introduced ride sharing and home sharing. Ironically, it will be technology that enables this trend, and premiums will be paid for uninterrupted time to focus or to simply enjoy being alive. This may also indicate a new kind of disparity between economic strata, with the more-wealthy affording privacy, peace and quiet while the lower strata remain fodder for 24/7 social media aggregators and botnets.
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- We are already seeing the emergence of
- ‘tech-free’ camps and
- ' tech-free' vacation packages
- Experiencing life ‘offline’ will become a generational goal,
- much like the Millennial generation introduced ride sharing and home sharing.
- Ironically, it will be technology that enables this trend, and premiums will be paid for uninterrupted time to focus or to simply enjoy being alive.
- This may also indicate a new kind of disparity between economic strata, with
- the more-wealthy affording privacy, peace and quiet while
- the lower strata remain fodder for 24/7 social media aggregators and botnets.
- We are already seeing the emergence of
- author: Sam Adams
- 24 year veteran of IBM
- senior AI research scientist, RTI International
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there is a disconnect between the long period of evolution that honed our humanity and the short period of rapid technology change we are facing.
- for: progress trap, quote, quote - progress trap, quote Brian Southwell, Science in the Public Sphere Program, RTI International
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- We are likely to make some gains in personal health, are likely to face some collective concerns in terms of environmental health and
- are not likely to cope with the alienation and despair that is a part of a life lived largely online.
- In the latter case, there is a disconnect between the long period of evolution that honed our humanity and
- the short period of rapid technology change we are facing.
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author: Brian Southwell
- director, Science in the Public Sphere Program, RTI International
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Health care is an area that will likely see many innovations. There are already multiple research prototypes underway looking at monitoring of one’s physical and mental health. Some of my colleagues (and myself as well) are also looking at social behaviors, and how those behaviors not only impact one’s health but also how innovations spread through one’s social network.
- for: quote, quote - Jason Hong, quote - health apps, health care app, idea spread through social network, mental health app, physical health app, transform app
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- Health care is an area that will likely see many innovations.
-There are already multiple research prototypes underway looking at monitoring of one’s
- physical and
- mental health.
- Some of my colleagues (and myself as well) are also looking at
- social behaviors, and how those behaviors
- not only impact one’s health but also
- how innovations spread through one’s social network.
- social behaviors, and how those behaviors
- Health care is an area that will likely see many innovations.
-There are already multiple research prototypes underway looking at monitoring of one’s
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So far, smart city systems are being set up to appropriate and commercialize individual and community data. So far, communities are not waking up to the realization that a capacity they need is being stolen from them before they have it.”
- for: smart cities, doughnut cities, cosmolocal, downscaled planetary boundaries, cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries, TPF, community data, local data, open data, community data ownership, quote, quote - Garth Graham, quote - community owned data
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- paraphrase
- Innovation in the creation and sustainability of social institutions acts predominantly at the local level.
- In the Internet of Things, for those capacities to emerge in smart cities, communities need the capacity to own and analyse the data created that models what they are experiencing.
- Local data needs to be seen as a common, pool resource.
- Where that occurs, communities will have the capacity to learn or innovate their way forward.
- So far, smart city systems are being set up to appropriate and commercialize individual and community data.
- So far, communities are not waking up to the realization that a capacity they need is being stolen from them before they have it.
- author: Garth Graham
- leader of Telecommunities Canada
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Four billion people are now connected to the same infrastructure, the internet, that we the science and technology community put in place just decades ago. This is creating the conditions for an explosion of open creativity and innovation never seen before. A huge wave of labs of all kinds (living labs, fablabs, social labs, edulabs, innovation spaces, even policy labs) is emerging as the new kind of groups and communities of the digital era. We are moving from the net to the lab. On the 2030 horizon, many of these labs will gather and agree in generating the first universal innovation ecosystems in regions and countries.
- for: quote, quote - Artur Serra, quote - labs, quote - innovation, quote - internet labs
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- Four billion people are now connected to the same infrastructure, the internet, that we the science and technology community put in place just decades ago.
- This is creating the conditions for an explosion of open creativity and innovation never seen before.
- A huge wave of labs of all kinds,
- living labs,
- fablabs,
- social labs,
- edulabs,
- innovation spaces and
- policy labs
- citizen labs
- is emerging as the new kind of groups and communities of the digital era.
- We are moving from the net to the lab.
- On the 2030 horizon, many of these labs will gather and agree in generating the first universal innovation ecosystems in regions and countries.
- https://www.ecsite.eu/activities-and-services/news-and-publications/digital-spokes/issue-45
- author: Artur Serra
- deputy director of I2CQT Foundation
- research director, Citilab, Catalonia, Spain
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We are wasting valuable time for humankind when we focus on technology and platforms, or even in privacy and control over data, and not on conduct, a whole chain of conduct from the active subject of a possible manipulation to the harms suffered by others and society as a consequence of manipulation and other abuses. It’s not that tech is not important; it is that we overlook what goes on around it.
- for: quote, quote - Alejandro Pisanty, quote -human conduct vs tech, Alejandro Pisanty
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- We are wasting valuable time for humankind when we focus on
- technology and platforms,
- or even in privacy and control over data,
- and not on conduct
- A whole chain of conduct
- from the active subject of a possible manipulation
- to the harms suffered by others and society
- occur as a consequence of manipulation and other abuses.
- It’s not that tech is not important; it is that we overlook what goes on around it.”
- We are wasting valuable time for humankind when we focus on
- author: Alejandro Pisanty
- professor at the National University of Mexico
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The primary means of social and civic innovation will occur as people go offline and reconnect with their local communities. So, I don’t see so much positive change occurring from the top down, through policies and regulation – even though it would be nice to try. I do think government and corporations can be pressured to respond to widespread, bottom-up social activism and widespread changes in citizen and consumer behavior.
- for: quote, quote - Douglas Rushkoff, quote - bottom-up, bottom-up action
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- The primary means of social and civic innovation will occur as people go offline and reconnect with their local communities.
- So, I don’t see so much positive change occurring from the top down,
- through policies and
- regulation
- even though it would be nice to try.
- I do think government and corporations can be pressured to respond to widespread,
- bottom-up social activism and
- changes in citizen and consumer behavior.
- author: Douglas Rushkoff
- media theorist
- author
- professor of media, City University of New York
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We lived in a relatively unregulated digital world until now. It was great until the public realized that a few companies wield too much power today in our lives. We will see significant changes in areas like privacy, data protection, algorithm and architecture design guidelines, and platform accountability, etc. which should reduce the pervasiveness of misinformation, hate and visceral content over the internet.
- for: quote, quote - Prateek Raj, quote - internet regulation, quote - reducing misinformation, fake news, indyweb - support
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- We lived in a relatively unregulated digital world until now.
- It was great until the public realized that a few companies wield too much power today in our lives.
- We will see significant changes in areas like
- privacy,
- data protection,
- algorithm and
- architecture design guidelines, and
- platform accountability, etc.
- which should reduce the pervasiveness of
- misinformation,
- hate and visceral content
- over the internet.
- These steps will also reduce the power wielded by digital giants.
- Beyond these immediate effects, it is difficult to say if these social innovations will create a more participative and healthy society.
- These broader effects are driven by deeper underlying factors, like
- history,
- diversity,
- cohesiveness and
- social capital, and also
- political climate and
- institutions.
- In other words,
- just as digital world is shaping the physical world,
- physical world shapes our digital world as well.
- author: Prateek Raj
- assistant professor in strategy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
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Thomas Jefferson’s aphorism ‘Do well by doing good’ is timely and trendy in a way it hasn’t been for centuries. Because that ethos for technology entrepreneurs is increasingly recognized as the only way many people will expect firms offering technology innovations to approach them: humbly and with a broader social mission and accounting not just as a corporate social responsibility afterthought, but as a core value of the products and companies themselves
- for: quote, quote - Lee McKnight, quote - corporate social responsibility
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- Thomas Jefferson’s aphorism ‘Do well by doing good’ is timely and trendy in a way it hasn’t been for centuries.
- Because that ethos for technology entrepreneurs is increasingly recognized as the only way many people will expect firms offering technology innovations to approach them:
- humbly and
- with a broader social mission and
- accounting not just as a corporate social responsibility afterthought, but -as a core value of the products and companies themselves
- author: Lee McKnight
- associate professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
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Much social and civic innovation is possible if the GAAF platform monopolies (Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook) are broken up or regulated appropriately. I believe that will happen, and I hope it will happen in appropriate ways. Done right, it will release a torrent of innovation, including social and civic changes. I trust that the general level of competence is growing among digital citizens. So, I am modestly hopeful we can sort out the helpful from the harmful changes for a net positive gain.
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- Much social and civic innovation is possible if the GAAF platform monopolies (Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook) are broken up or regulated appropriately.
- I believe that will happen, and I hope it will happen in appropriate ways.
- Done right, it will release a torrent of innovation, including social and civic changes.
- I trust that the general level of competence is growing among digital citizens.
- So, I am modestly hopeful we can sort out the helpful from the harmful changes for a net positive gain.
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- Director of Public Policy Center of Mississipi
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Our first attempts at building community online have had both good and bad outcomes. We know them all. But would we have expected otherwise? We are new at digital communities and are inventing them as we move forward. Of course we aren’t going to get it right the first time. But the key question is whether these technologies help us form social bonds or not. Anyone who has posted a question in a forum and received an answer from a stranger knows firsthand that they bring us together.
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- Our first attempts at building community online have had both good and bad outcomes.
- We know them all. But would we have expected otherwise?
- We are new at digital communities and are inventing them as we move forward.
- Of course we aren’t going to get it right the first time. But the key question is whether these technologies help us form social bonds or not.
- Anyone who has posted a question in a forum and received an answer from a stranger knows firsthand that they bring us together.
- author: Byron Reese
- futurist
- author of "The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers and the Future of Humanity"
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I do expect new social platforms to emerge that focus on privacy and ‘fake-free’ information, or at least they will claim to be so. Proving that to a jaded public will be a challenge. Resisting the temptation to exploit all that data will be extremely hard. And how to pay for it all? If it is subscriber-paid, then only the wealthy will be able to afford it.
- for: quote, quote - Sam Adams, quote - social media
- quote, indyweb - support, people-centered
- I do expect new social platforms to emerge that focus on privacy and ‘fake-free’ information, or at least they will claim to be so.
- Proving that to a jaded public will be a challenge.
- Resisting the temptation to exploit all that data will be extremely hard.
- And how to pay for it all?
- If it is subscriber-paid, then only the wealthy will be able to afford it.
- author: Sam Adams
- 24 year IBM veteran -senior research scientist in AI at RTI International working on national scale knowledge graphs for global good
- comment
- his comment about exploiting all that data is based on an assumption
- a centralized, server data model
- his comment about exploiting all that data is based on an assumption
- this doesn't hold true with a people-centered, person-owned data network such as Inyweb
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Will members-only, perhaps subscription-based ‘online communities’ reemerge instead of ‘post and we’ll sell your data’ forms of social media? I hope so, but at this point a giant investment would be needed to counter the mega-billions of companies like Facebook!
- for: quote, quote - Janet Salmons, quote - online communities, quote - social media, indyweb - support
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- Will members-only, perhaps subscription-based ‘online communities’ reemerge instead of
- ‘post and we’ll sell your data’ forms of social media?
- I hope so, but at this point a giant investment would be needed to counter the mega-billions of companies like Facebook!
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Extreme bad behaviour from governments and private companies – GAFAs [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon] and the like in China – will create a social and civic innovation to compensate and/or to contribute to an innovation jump. I hope for development of human cooperative brain networks.
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- Extreme bad behaviour from governments and private companies – GAFAs [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon] and the like in China – will create a social and civic innovation to compensate and/or to contribute to an innovation jump. I hope for development of human cooperative brain networks.
- author: Caroline Figueres
- strategic consultant
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Technological change is an accelerant and acts on the social ills like pouring gasoline on a fire
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- Technological change is an accelerant and acts on the social ills like pouring gasoline on a fire
- author: Sowe Boyd
- consulting futurist on technological evolution and the future of work
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- In an uncontrolled hyper-capitalist society,
- the explosion in technologies over the past 30 years has only
- widened inequality,
- concentrated wealth and
- led to greater social division.
- And it is speeding up with the rise of artificial intelligence,
- which like globalization has destabilized Western industrial economies while admittedly pulling hundreds of millions elsewhere out of poverty.
- the explosion in technologies over the past 30 years has only
- And the boiling exhaust of this set of forces is pushing the planet into a climate catastrophe. -The world is as unready for hundreds of millions of climate refugees as it was for the plague.
- However, some variant of social media will likely form the context for the rise of a global movement to stop the madness
- which I call the Human Spring
- which will be more like
- Occupy or
- the Yellow Vests
- than traditional politics.
- I anticipate a grassroots movement
- characterized by
- general strikes,
- political action,
- protest and
- widespread disruption of the economy
- that will confront the economic and political system of the West.
- characterized by
- Lead by the young,
ultimately this will lead to large-scale political reforms, such as
- universal health care,
- direct democracy,
- a new set of rights for individuals and
- a large set of checks on the power of
- corporations and
- political parties.
- For example,
- eliminating corporate contributions to political campaigns,
- countering monopolies and
- effectively accounting for economic externalities, like carbon.
- In an uncontrolled hyper-capitalist society,
-
with new technologies come new crimes and criminals – opportunities for all!
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