from -search - Google - https://www.google.com/search?q=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&oq=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjQ1OTU2ajBqMTaoAgGwAgE&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#sbfbu=1&pi=Heidegger%20existential%20isolation%20Milarepa%20alone%20but%20not%20lonely

to - Nic Higham - https://hyp.is/trokCgCNEe-QGA_EuaiIPg/nisargayoga.org/

for - existential isolation - existential loneliness - existential isolation - Heidegger - Deep Humanity

from - Science and Nonduality article - https://scienceandnonduality.com/article/embracing-existential-loneliness-and-waking-up-to-non-dual-aloneness/

for - Deep Humanity - mortality salience

for - quote - multiscale competency architecture - quote - book - Emergent Strategy - Adrienne Maree Brown

• Cells may not know civilization is possible.
• They don’t amass as many units as they can sign up to be the same.
• No — they grow until
  • they split,
  • complexify.
  • Then they interact and intersect and discover their purpose
    • I am a lung cell!
    • I am a tongue cell!
  • and they serve it. And they die.
• And what emerges from these cycles are
  • complex organisms,
  • systems,
  • movements,
  • societies.

adjacency - between - Adrienne Maree Brown quote - Michael Levin - adjacency statement - Adrienne's quote is the subsumed under Levin's term of multi-scale competency architecture (MSCA)

adjacency - between - starling murmuration discovery of seven closest neighbors - cosmolocal impacts - cascading social tipping points - SIMPOL / SIMACT - adjacency statement - Could this finding of starling murmuration behavior also apply to collective human behavior, especially social tipping points?

follow up - book - Emergent Strategy - author - Adrienne Maree Brown

human murmurations - from - LinkedIn post - https://hyp.is/xHpumACHEe-9MfvNBLN4Cg/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7183258116195561472/ - then Youtube search for " starling murmurations Italy" - - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-GZV2Af5Fyo

• Stimulated by the Linked In post that came across my feed this morning and exploring adjacencies with my Living Cities Earth peers, Paul Hawken's book came to mind:
  • Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
• and began googling to explore the adjacencies between

adjacency - between - sparling murmurations - human murmurations - human potential - emergent collective whole system change

to - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fleemor.medium.com%2Fmesmerized-by-the-murmuration-on-human-potential-f4c9ffe06ffa&group=world - thinking about Living Cities Earth group projects, and many others who feel the need to - catalyze and - be part of - a species-wide, emergent response to our meta-poly-perma-crisis - stimulated me to entertain the adjacencies between this LinkedIn post and what Paul Hawkens termed "The Blessed Unrest"

backlink -search - Google - https://www.google.com/search?q=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&oq=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjQ1OTU2ajBqMTaoAgGwAgE&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#sbfbu=1&pi=Heidegger%20existential%20isolation%20Milarepa%20alone%20but%20not%20lonely

for - search term - Google

Search term - Google - Heidegger existential isolation Milarepa alone but not lonely - Google return results - https://www.google.com/search?q=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&oq=Heidegger+existential+isolation+Milarepa+alone+but+not+lonely&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjQ1OTU2ajBqMTaoAgGwAgE&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#sbfbu=1&pi=Heidegger%20existential%20isolation%20Milarepa%20alone%20but%20not%20lonely - websites visited from returned result -https://scienceandnonduality.com/article/embracing-existential-loneliness-and-waking-up-to-non-dual-aloneness/

source - my wife's WU post on isolation during COVID

for - beer waste - super insulation - aerogel competitor

for - super insulation - Rova - aerogel building products

for - super insulation - aerogel lime plaster

for - super insulation - aerogel lime plaster

for - DIY solar geyser

for - aerogel - lime plaster - TERMORASANTE AEROGEL - super insulation

for - open source construction - open source home building - cosmolocal home building - cosmolocal tinyhome construction - ownworld.org

summary - This is a cosmolocal tinyhone project to help people get off the grid.

reference - see video - https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2F8Va1inxaodQ%2F&group=world

for - open source tiny home - open source building - open source construction - open source house - cosmolocal building - cosmolocal home construction - cosmolocal tinyhome construction - Eutopia - Ownworld.org

for - earth species project - ESP - Earth Species Project - Aza Raskin - Ernest Becker - Book - The Birth and Death of Meaning

comment - what is it like to be that other organism? - Earth Species Project is trying to shed some light on that using machine learning processes to decode the communication signals of non-human species - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=earth++species+project - https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2FH9SvPs1cCds%2F&group=world

- In Ernest Becker's book, The Birth and Death of Meaning, Becker provides a summary of the ego from a Freudian perspective that is salient to Nagel's work
    - The ego creates time and humans, occupying a symbolosphere are timebound creatures that create the sense of time to order sensations and perceptions
    - The ego becomes the central reference point for the construct of time
- If the anthropocene is a problem
- and we wish to migrate towards an ecological civilization in which there is greater respect for other species, 
    - a symbiocene
- this means we need to empathize with other species 
- If our species is timebound but the majority of other species are not, 
    - then we must bridge that large gap by somehow experiencing what it's like to be an X ( where X can be a bat or many other species)

reference - interesting adjacencies emerging from reading a review of Ernest Becker's book: The Birth and Death of Meaning - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themortalatheist.com%2Fblog%2Fthe-birth-and-death-of-meaning-ernest-becker&group=world

• Epoche
  • https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=Epoche

for -: zombies - David Chalmers - UTOK - Unifed Theory of Knowledge - Gregg Henriques

• comment
  • As David Chalmer observes with the philosophical idea of "zombies", strictly speaking, we impute the existence of other consciousnesses, including other human consciousnesses
  • This construction of the "other consciousness" begins at birth with the socialization of the neonate and infant from its mother and father.
• To claim that other species display consciousness is an imputation.and based upon external signs, not internal experience.
  • See Gregg Henrique's Unified Theory of Knowledge (TOK) to understand how this statement reflects a mixing up of different types of consciousness
    • https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/
    • https://hyp.is/3MYWSP9AEe6L-Dsla9hnSA/www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/

for - cup half full

• If your culture says life is fulfilled only with
  • children,
  • travel
  • adventure, or
  • building something worthwhile,
• and you haven’t done any of those things…
  • maybe there isn’t anything wrong with you,
  • maybe your culture just doesn’t value the things that you do (and maybe, just maybe, the expectations are as unrealistic as they are arbitrary).

insight - smaller self vs greater self - or this could be thought in a cup-half-full perspective, - that ALL lives are sacred from the outset - The small self may forget, but the absence of any memories is perhaps the mark of the greater self

for - quote - culture is fictitious

quote - My take-away from this prescription is that - living in an illusion of your own creation is more stable than - living in an illusion created by others. - You’re better able to control your own fantasy than the cultural fiction you were born into. - I don’t doubt the logic of this, - but it’s still a cosmic cop-out. - Culture is - arbitrary, - contrived… - fabricated. - And if meaning is derived from our participation in the cultural hero-system, - then meaning is fictional too. \ -That doesn’t make meaning or culture superfluous – - indeed, they are deadly serious - but it does make them artificial. - Your sense of - inner worth and - importance, - your self-esteem and - self-assuredness, -rests entirely on make-believe.

for - quote - self esteem - self - adjacency - enlightenment - epoche - self-esteem - Ernest Becker

quote - The social environment is the only way we derive and validate our identities. The question may be “Who am I?” but the real question is “How are others supposed to feel about me?”

adjacency - between - Ernest Becker - epoche - self-esteem - enlightenment - Epoche - Epoche - phenomenological reduction - Symbiocene - Thomas Hagel - What's it like to be a Bat? - Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt - adjacency statement - It is fascinating intersection of adjacent ideas that the equivalency of these two questions brings up - These moments are as Gyuri talks about - having a dialogue with my old self - revisiting old ideas from a new perspective in which - more water has flowed under the bridge - The chain of discussions with my old selves began with a reading and physical annotation of Ernest Becker's physical book - The Birth ad Death of Meaning - It triggered a connection with Thomas Hagel's famous book - What's it like to be a bat? - But this connect-the-dot journey was kicked off by this morning's response to a Linked In discussion thread on the Anthropocene I've been having with Glenn Sankatsing of Rescue our Future: - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenn-sankatsing-7977711b8_anthropocentrism-paradox-or-theroot-of-activity-7185709152386654208-4E5t?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop - There the discussion focused on whether the Anthropocene is a term that is inherently biased since it is anthropomorphic. - Glenn used the example of a Rabbit's perspective of reality. This begged the question asked by Thomas Nagel. - Reading Becker's book and especially his discussion of human's cultural evolution of the ego construct being responsible for timebinding - creating a framework of time which we are all bound to, - it made me wonder about my perspective of reality vs my cat's perspective. Am I timebound and there are forever living in the present and always have a sense of timelessness? - If so, what are the implications? How do timebound organisms create an equitable symbiocene with other species that live in the eternal now? - What's also interesting is Husserl's phenomenological reductionism - the Epoche that suspends judgment - It raises these questions: - Does the Epoche also break timebinding? - Does it allow us to have a dreamlike experience during waking consciousness? - Does it allow us to enter timelessness and therefore share a similiar state to many other species?. - If we are able to enter such a timeless state, does it increase our empathy towards others fellow species?

reference - Phenomenological reduction - Epoche - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=Epoche

for - symbolosphere - individual / collective gestalt - Deep Humanity - quote

quote - self as social construction - our consciousness of self is a social construction. Symbolic self-representation is built from the outside in, which means our identities are, in essence, social products.

comment - good alignment and validation for Deep Humanity's individual collective gestalt

claim - Self is a social construct - Ernest Becker

for - book review - The Birth and Death of Meaning - Ernest Becker

comment - This kicked off an interesting sequence of thought vectors, directing me to adjacencies in different concept spaces, which ended up here: - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themortalatheist.com%2Fblog%2Fthe-birth-and-death-of-meaning-ernest-becker&group=world

• for: Michel Bilbot, transcendental, transcendental - Kant, awakening, non-dual, nondual, nonduality, non-duality, emptiness, epoche, Maurice Merle-Ponty, perspective shift, perspective shift - transcendental

• summary

  • Michel Bilbot gives an extremely important talk on two related themes
    • Kant's concept of the idea of transcendental
    • Husserl's concept of epoche / phenomenological reduction
      • definition here:
        • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiep.utm.edu%2Fphen-red%2F&group=world
    • comparison of two perspectives of science as
      • panpsychism where atomic theories of materialism are held to be theories of everything
      • Husserl's phenomenology of human experience
  • Bilbot points out the situatedness each individual is born into life with. Even acts such as visually seeing reveal our situatedness as a seer with clues such as perspective that reveals structures of the seer such as vanishing point.

• adjacency

  • between
    • Kant's transcendental
    • Husserl / Maurice Merle-Ponty / Heidegger's phenomenology and epoche / phenomenological reduction methodology
    • eastern mysticism and philosophical ideas:
      • nonduality - dissolution of the self / other dualism
      • awakening
      • enlightenment
      • emptiness
  • adjacency statement
    • Michel Bilbot establishes the important foundation of one of Kant's major life works on the transcendental, and how Husserl's phenomenology and related process of the phenomenological reduction (epoche) is critical to understanding Husserl and Kant.
    • He then applies it to an analysis and comparison of science seen from two contrasting perspectives, atomic theories of panpsychism vs phenomenology.
    • Bilbot reveals that Husserl was deeply influenced by Buddhist thought

for - enlightenment 2.0 - Gregg Henriques - UTOK - Unified Theory of Knowledge

summary - Gregg attempts to unify philosophy, psychology and neuroscience into one explanatory model he calls the "Unified Theory of Knowledge"

stats - 60% of Africa's food is composed of: - wheat - rice - maize

for - stats - Africa - main crops - Africa - main crops

TPF - potential collaboration

for - Extinction Rebellion - Vancouver - Extinction Rebellion - change of strategy - climate crisis - protests - Extinction Rebellion - moving away from public disruption - Unify Regional Extinction Rebellion

potential collaboration - opportunity - partnership - there is an opportunity to collaborate with them - as they enter this new phase of their work

for - deadline-ism

for - Vaclav Smil - Smil - adjacency - Smil - climate activism

key finding - body responses to music are universal

for - BEing journey

example - perspectival knowing - I am not a typo - campaign - perspectival knowing

for - progress traps - tree planting - climate change

• It’s not an exaggeration to say that
  • science has transformed our understanding of time.
• But as well in conjunction with this
  • it has transformed- the concept of who we are.
• From biology we have learned that
  • there is no such thing as race,
  • we are all fundamentally one species
    • (with contributions from a few other sister species, Denisovans and Neanderthals).
• And from physics we can say that
  • we are literally the space dust of the cosmos
    • experiencing itself in human form.

for - language - primacy of - symbolosphere - adjacency - language - science - multi-scale competency architecture - Michael Levin - complexity - social superorganism - major evolutionary transition - worldviews - scientific vs religious - Michael Levin - multi-scale competency architecture

adjacency - between - deep time - multi-scale competency architecture - Michael Levin - social superorganism - complexity - major evolutionary transition - complexity - adjacency statement - Deep time narrative has potential for unifying polarised worldviews - but citing purely scientific evidence risks excluding and alienating large percentage of people who have a predominantly religious worldview - Language, the symbolosphere is the foundation that has made discourse in both religion and science possible - Due to its fundamental role, starting with language could be even more unifying than beginning with science, - as there are large cultural groups that - do not prioritize the scientific worldview and narrative, but - prefer a religious one.<br /> - Having said that, multi-scale competency architecture, - a concept introduced by Michael Levin - encapsulates the deep time approach in each human being, - which withing Deep Humanity praxis we call "human INTERbeCOMing" to represent our fundamental nature as a process, not a static entity - Each human INTERbeCOMing encapsulates deep time, and is - an embodiment of multiple stages of major evolutionary transitions in deep time - both an individual and multiple collectives - what we can in Deep Humanity praxis the individual / collective gestalt

for - futures - deep time - Jose Ramos - deep time - Deep Humanity - deep time - Mutant Futures - temporal conscientization

summary - Jose's article introduces an important new framing that can help give deep insights into the current poly-meta-perma-crisis that civilization is moving through. - This article synthesizes a diverse source of salient knowledge in the social sciences to shape a futures perspective that contextualizes modernity in deep time. - The deep time perspective helps us to remove the temporal blinders we may have on that may give us a false sense of permanence of social constructions that have been dominant in our lives.

for - Joseph Campbell - outdated mythology - adjacency - Joseph campbell - myth - paradigm shift - gestalt switch - symbolosphere

adjacency - between - Joseph Campbell - myths - symbolosphere - gestalt switch - paradigm shift - adjacency statement - The grand myths that invisibly guide our collective, - and therefore individual - behavior remains invisible as long as there is no crisis sufficiently powerful to portend a paradigm shift - At that point, the existential crisis forces us to recognize the invisible narratives that have led to our demise - and forces us into take emergency measures to stabilize the situation - This transition period also makes us aware that we spend the majority of our lives inhabiting the space of the symbolosphere

for - Mutant Futures steps

steps - Mutant Futures - 1. List the issues and themes that are important and meaningful to us. - 2. Explore the issue or theme through a deep time perspective. - 3. Organically emerge - a story of change that is - inspiring, - dramatic and - compelling - This is a story that helps us to make sense of - where we’ve come from and - where we want to go. - 4. Practice telling the story - 5. Determine what kinds of roles we want to play in this story of change. - Our narrative and the future(s) it contains might be calling forth new selves from us. - 6. Determine what - new - methods - techniques or - technologies - are being called forth from these narratives of change. - As we deconstruct outdated social constructs, we need to - imagine - prototype - build - new social constructs. - 7. Emerge the communities required to undertake this journey.

for - definition - temporal conscientization - adjacency - temporal conscientization - Deep Humanity - poly-meta-perma-crisis - terror management - denial of death - Paolo Freire - denial of death - Ernest Becker - terror management - book - Critical Consciousness

definition - temporal conscientization - introduced by Paolo Freire n his book, temporal conscientization means becoming conscious of historical change, our - past, -present and - futures - For people to intervene in the movement of history, - people need to understand - how they got to where they are now, - the era that they are coming from, but as well to understand - the movements and potentialities of change that are leading to different futures.

adjacency - between - temporal conscientization - Deep Humanity - poly-meta-perma-crisis - terror management theory - denial of death - adjacency statement - Deep Humanity has always elevated the idea of knowing the past, present and future in order to frame meaning for navigating our future. - This is precisely the awareness of temporal conscientization. - Deep considerations of death, - and subsequently what meaning we can derive from life - is an integral part of the Deep Humanity exercise - A major theme of religions is the afterlife, or some continuation of consciousness after the process of death - In the context of temporal conscientization, - looking and - imagining - what our - individual and - collective future - looks like - the proposal of an afterlife is a terror management strategy to cope with our denial of death - Perhaps the emergence of the present poly-meta-perma-crisis is - a cultural indication to the collective intelligence of the human social superorganism that - the time has come to develop a mature theory of life and death that is - accessible to every member of our species so that - we can put the fragmenting, isolating existential question to rest once and for all

for - Richard Slaughter - transformation cycle - definition - transformation cycle - social norms - construction and deconstruction - social construction

definition - transformation cycleL - The transformation cycle shows how the social constructions that come to be seen as real - eventually lose their viability over time, - with new - social constructions and - meaning frameworks -emerging. - This process can be described in three steps: - 1. Analysis of the breakdown of inherited meanings. - 2. Reconceptualisation via new myths, paradigms, images etc. - 3. Negotiation and selective legitimation of new - meanings, - images, - behaviours etc.

for - Epic times - hypernormalization - definition - epic times - gestalt switch - Deep Humanity articulation - hypernormalization - epic times - Rapid whole system change - emptiness - epic times - adjacency - hypernormalization - epic times - Deep Humanity

definition - epic times - In contrast to hypernormalization, which is the normalization of a state of affairs which is dysfunctional or absurd, epic times is the opposite. - Employing a deep time and space framing, epic times re-situates each of us as an integral, intertwingled component of the universe a cosmic gestalt, woven into the multi scale competency architecture of reality itself invoking feelings of: - awe, - the sacred, - the remarkable

• In sharp contrast to hypernormalization,
  • where the absurdity or dysfunction of the present is
    • ignored,
    • obscured or
    • suppressed,
  • we can consider that we actually live in “Epic Times”.
  • The times we’re living in are in fact remarkable,
  • and we can play
    • a meaningful and
    • positive role
  • in this drama.
  • These Epic Times are calling forth
    • new ways of being and -new ways of doing
  • from us as
    • individuals and
    • communities.

adjacency - between - hypernormalization - rapid whole system change - Deep Humanity - adjacency statement - Hypernormalization characterizes the poly-meta-perma-crisis of the anthropocene. - The GESTALT SWITCH in articulating from a hypernormalization to an epic time worldview is the essential meta reframing required to motivate the unprecedented cultural evolution transition modernity must undergo if our species is to reach the next stage of evolution

reference - see the above annotation on "hypernormalization" - https://hyp.is/iO-mfuzLEe6SOON2-3dLqA/off-planet.medium.com/discovering-the-narratives-that-matter-to-us-327958a2daec

for - definition - hypernormalisation - definition - epic times - paradigm shift - eco-anxiety - Deep Humanity articulation - hypernormalization - epic times - Rapid whole system change - emptiness - epic times - gestalt switch - epic times - adjacency - hypernormalization - epic times - Deep Humanity - Alexi Yurchak - hypernormalization

definition - hypernormalization - the making normal of a state of affairs which is dysfunctional or absurd. - a term coined by the Russian scholar Alexi Yurchak

adjacency - between - hypernormalization - rapid whole system change - Deep Humanity - adjacency statement - Hypernormalization characterizes the poly-meta-perma-crisis of the anthropocene. - We can articulate the open source Deep Humanity praxis currently under development in the terminology of hypernormalization and epic times: - One way to understand the open source Deep Humanity praxis currently under development is that - Deep Humanity offers a framework to become aware of the Hypernormalization within modernity - Employing an epic times perspective can help provide the necessary GESTALT SWITCH ( a term introduced by Gyuri Lajos) that shifts the current growing eco-anxiety-laden affective landscape from - fear - hopelessness - inaction - confusion - to a broader context which can inspire awe, wonder and resilient meaning

unpack - decolonising temporality

question - why use it named this way?

for - rapid whole system change - Indy Johar - Dark Matter Labs

Summary - Indy points out many salient features of what it will take for humanity to undergo a rapid transition out of our current existential poly-meta-perma-crisis - This talk is full of meta-level insights of our current situation, especially the blind spots, and challenges us to find ways to transform them

for - polycrisis - Russian aggression - polycrisis - Russia - war - polycrisis - Peter Zeihan

summary - A good geopoliticial analysis of contemporary Russian aggression

for - resiliency - Africa - futures - Africa

resiliency - Africa - food production and becoming autonomous - Africa needs to become autonomous of global supply chains in order to become resilient in the next critical years

for - kinship - history of human kinship - evolution - extended to nuclear family

paper details - title: Family Institution and Modernization: A Sociological Perspective - author: Ilori Oladapo Mayowa - date: 2019

summary - A paper that describes the evolution of human kinship from extended familly to nuclear family in modernity.

for - adjacency - liberalism - ubiquity - invisibility - polycrisis - climate change - climate crisis - book - Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change

summary - This is an insightful interview with Dr. Christopher Shaw as he discusses his book, Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change.

adjacency - between - liberalism - ubiquity - invisibility - polycrisis - metaphor - fish in water, fish in the ocean - adjacency statement - Above all, this book points out that - liberalism is an idea that is - so ubiquitous and j - which everyone without exception is profoundly steeped within that, - like fish in water, a medium that is everywhere, the medium becomes invisible. - At the heart of - modernity's culture wars and - political polarization, - there is a kind of false dichotomy between - liberals and - conservatives, - as both are steeped in the worldview of liberalism - From the Stop Reset Go perspective, - Dr. Shaw's thesis aligns with - the Stop Reset Go Deep Humanity open source praxis, - whose essence is precisely to facilitate helping individuals to understand the powerful connection between - ubiquity and - invisibility. - via Common Human Denominators (CHD)

metaphor - liberalism and fish in the water - Christopher illustrates the relationship that often persists between - something that is ubiquitous and - its invisibility - He attributes this to David Foster Wallace's metaphoric story of - two young fish swimming in a body of water and - a school of older fish come by and ask them "how's the water?" - to which they respond "what's water?"

adjacency - between - ubiquity - invisibility - liberalism - the unintended consequences of liberalism - adjacency statement - An idea such as liberalism is so fundamental in the fabric of modernity that - everyone takes it for granted and - subsequently, it fades into invisibility - The main challenge of something that is invisible is that - if we cannot see it, - then we cannot really deal with it if there are any problems with it

adjacency - between - Deep Humanity - Common Human Denominators (CHD) - ubiquity - invisibility - adjacency statement - This often-cited metaphor also lies at the heart of Deep Humanity, - an open source praxis that also lay at the heart of Stop Reset Go, developed precisely to deal with - tacit awareness, - hidden assumptions - deeply held and unquestioned beliefs and - ubiquitous ideas that become invisible - In fact, the Common Human Denominators (CHD) of Deep Humanity - is precisely that set of ideas that are - ubiquitously known by all humans - to such an extent that their value becomes invisible - and their appreciation thereby lost - Deep Humanity's purpose is to recover this lost appreciation in order to facilitate a sufficiently powerful collective transition out of our current poly-meta-perma-crisis

for - liberalism - economic growth - adjacency - liberalism - economic growth

Adjacency - between - growth - liberalism - adjacency statement - Since researching the work of Christopher Shaw, and especially his book - Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change - I can see the adjacency between liberalism and economic growth - Laws are a cap on one type of behavioral liberty, and yet, there is no cap on consumptive liberty, which is what is causing us to collectively exceed natural limits

for - liberal blind spot - Chris Yates - book - liberalism and the challenge of climate change - adjacency - liberalism - individual liberty - progress - bond spot - political polarization - fuel for the right -hyperobjects

Summary - This short article contains some key insights that point to the right climate communication strategy to target and win over the working class - Currently, climate communications speak to elitist values and is having the opposite effect - The working class farmer protests spreading across the EU is a symptom of this miscommunication strategy - as is the increasing support and ascendency of right wing political parties - Researcher and author Chris Yates is in a unique position with one foot in each world - He articulates his insightful ideas and points is in the right direction to communicate in a way that reaches the working class

comment - the figure 4 graph is an example of carbon inequality

Example - carbon inequality - see figure 4

for - quote - working class - net zero - adjacency - working class - net zero - key insight - working class - net zero

quote - Chris Yates - within class - net zero - (see quote below)

• What is the most that a working-class person could hope for
  • from a net-zero future?
• At present,
  • in the vision being broadly promoted,
  • it’s
    • the same hard work,
    • the same exploitation,
  • but with
  • a heat pump instead of
    • a gas boiler.

quote - shared futures - climate crisis and appropriate language - (quote below)

• My belief is that
  • societies cannot organize effectively
  • to cope with
  • the impacts of climate change
  • without a shared understanding of
  • the future that awaits.
• Currently, representations of the net-zero future
  • don’t do that.
• They are a denial of the best of human nature.
• They shut down the possibility of
  • imagining something different
  • in favor of a fantasy of more of the same,
    • minus catastrophic climate change.
• With a better, shared understanding of the world we’re moving toward,
  • we can better organize ourselves to live in that world,
    • whatever that might mean,
    • whatever that might look like.

insight - hyperobjects

Comment - This of why a Deep Humanity approach that identifies and clarifies the fundamental issues is so important

key insight - of all about the venison of individual liberty that modernization had sold is a companion bill of goods on

for - cleantech - prototypes - Prototypes for humanity - innovation

for - multicellular evolution

for - Elon Musk Don Lemon interview - Elon Musk - cancels Don Lemon - Elon Musk - South Africa, early childhood trauma

Summary - Lemon points out Musk's consequential role in the world and that people who invest in his various projects have a right to know about the wellbeing of the leader of the company they are investing in. - Actions speak louder than words and his cancelation of Lemon's show demonstrates he was very uncomfortable with Lemon's questions. It was obvious from Musk's defensive body language.

Reference - https://fortune.com/well/2023/09/17/does-elon-musk-have-ptsd-walter-isaacson-biography/ - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html

C40 High Impact Accelerators - sustainable cities - downscaled planetary boundaries

progress trap - PFAS in blood

for - progress trap - microplastics - rain - progress trap - plastic

for - renewable energy - Rondo Energy - Thermal heat battery - sustainable industrial heating

for - Rondo Energy - Renewable energy - Industrial Heating thermal heat battery

Progress Trap - Ronald Wright - 2004 Massey Lecture Series - A Short History of Progress

progress trap - singularity

for - new civilization - Paddy Le Flufy

for - history - Russia and Siberia

for - boredom - factors - boredom - quote

quote - boredom - ( see below)

• If an activity is both meaningful and engaging, you’re golden,
• and if it’s neither you’ve got a one-way ticket to dullsville.

for - boredom - factors

for - boredom studies - Heidegger

for - adjacency - boredom - attention

adjacency - between - boredom - attention - adjacency statement - often, when we are forced to pay attention, - boredom emerges as a possibility<br /> - to express our desire to not be present

for - boredom studies

for - boredom - Deep Humanity - boredom - psychology - boredom - adjacency - boredom - insight - history - modernity

adjacency - between - boredom - insight - history - modernity - Adjacency statement - This is an insightful observation that - the affordances of a technologically sophisticated modernity - promotes boredom by providing a means to escape it, - rather than deal with it. - The notable decline of religiosity in the West also cuts off a traditional means of getting in touch with the wonder of existence - This could explain the tiffin popularity of meditation in the West as a non religious vehicle for centering in the here and now, - as boredom is a condition of avoiding the here and now

• Leisure was one precondition:
  • enough people had to be free of the demands of subsistence
  • to have time on their hands that required filling.
• Modern capitalism multiplied amusements and consumables,
• while undermining spiritual sources of meaning
• that had once been conferred more or less automatically.

for - TPV - thermo photo voltaic

for - innovation - tire pollution - tire pollution - tire collective

for - biomimicry - shock absorber - woodpecker

for - sustainable furniture - growing furniture - growing trees into furniture - Full Grown

question - can we grow and shape bamboo in the same way?

for - trees are stronger than steel

biomimicry - trees - (see below)

• strong tubular cells in
  • the trunk and
  • branches
• grow and knit themselves into concentric tubular layers one on top of the next, every season.
• That is why you can count the rings on a tree to determine its age.
• This concentric, circular structure is the reason, that for its weight,
  • wood is still the strongest building material on the planet.

for - living building - growing a building - living trees for building framework - living tree building - baubotanik

for - low cost CNC routers - Bobs CNC

for - hybrid solar PV and thermal - virtu solar PV and thermal

for - quote - roots of misinformation, quote - roots of fake news, key insight - roots of misinformation

key insight - roots of misinformation - (see below)

quote - roots of misinformation - we have a media that needs to survive based on - clicks and - controversy and - serving the most engaged people - so they both sides the issues - they they lift up - facts and - lies - as equivalent in order to claim no bias but - that in itself is a bias because - it gives more oxygen to the - lies and - the disinformation - that is really dangerous to our society and - we are living through the impacts of - those errors and - that malpractice -done by media in America

for - misinformation - media misinformation

for - progress trap

• Don't give them a problem to solve
• Ask them
  • to identify what the problem is and
  • what the context is and
  • what support is needed

comment - From a Deep Humanity perspective on - emptiness - progress and it's shadow accomplice - the progress trap - There needs to be an awareness of the siloing effect of even posing a problem - for that is the genesis of the progress trap

for - book - author - Kevin Kian

follow up - Kevin Kian? - get more info on author and book

for - similar to - hyperobject - Timothy Morton

for - quote - Alfred Bartlett - exponential function

quote - Alfred Bartlett - The greatest weakness of the human race is its inability to understand the exponential function

for - climate crisis - agricultural protest

for - wicked problem - immediate vs future survival - EU agricultural protests

for - definition - latent space

definition - latent space

adjacency - between - latent space - tacit awareness in the indyweb - adjacency statement - Latent space is similar to the concept of tacit awareness in the Indyweb

for - geothermal energy - Google - adjacency - Google geothermal - Cascade Institute

for - progress trap - graphene - safety study

for - urban planning - tools - sustainable cities - Next Generation Cities Institute - TPF - LCE

for - climate crisis - interview - Neil degrasse Tyson - Gavin Schmidt - 2023 record heat - NASA explanation

podcast details - title: How 2023 broke our climate models - host: Neil degrasse Tyson & Paul Mercurio - guest: NASA director, Gavin Schmidt - date: Jan 2024

summary - Neil degrasse and his cohost Paul Mercurio interview NASA director Gavin Schmidt to discuss the record-breaking global heating in 2023 and 2024. - Neil and Paul cover a lot in this short interview including: - NASA models can't explain the large jump in temperature in 2023 / 2024. Yes, they predicted incremental increases, but not such large jumps. Gavin finds this worrying. - PACE satellite launches this month, to gather important data on the state of aerosols around the planet. This infomration can help characterize more precisely the role aerosols are playing in global heating. - geoengineering with aerosols is not considered a good idea by Gavin, as it essentially means once started, and if it works to cool the planet, we would be dependent on them for centuries. - Gavin stresses the need for a cohesive collective solution, but that it's beyond him how we achieve that given all the denailsim and misinformation that influeces policy out there.

for - Tim Palmer - hot model - James Hansen - warrming in the pipeline

for - climate sensitivity - Sabine Hossenfelder - James Hansen

for - sustainable transportation - solar powered car - Aptera

for - progress trap - AI

for - adjacency - microscopic biology - macroscopic ecology - multi-scale competency architecture - Michael Levin - Jonas Wickman - micro-to-macro

paper details - title - Eco-evolutionary emergence of macroecological scaling in plankton communities - author - Jonas Wickman - Elena Litchman - date - feb 15, 2024 - publication - Science VOL. 383, NO. 6684

reference - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk6901

summary - This is a very interesting finding that links rules in the micro world to behavior in the macro. - It is relevant to Michael Levin's research on multi-scale competency architecture

question - how would this impact the micro relations between - the microscopic world of humans - the normal macroscopic world of humans

for - micro- to macro

• the team showed how
  • microscopic relationships in plankton
    • such as between
      • an organism's size and
      • nutrient consumption
    • scales up to predictably affect food webs.

climate change impacts - (see below)

• The effects of global warming could alter the lower-level physiological processes," Litchman said.
• "We could then use this framework to see how those effects
  • bubble up to different levels of organization."

for - dorsal light response - flying insects attracted to light - light pollution - progress trap - light pollution

for - dorsal light response - flying insects attracted to light - explanation

for - litigation terrorism - ISDS - corporate tribunal system - Michael Levin - multi-scale competency architecture - example - adjacency - evolutionary biology - corporate law - climate crisis

adjacency - between - corporate law - climate crisis - evolutionary biology - cultural evolution - adjacency statement - Biologist Michael Levin's multi-scale competency architecture of evolutionary biology seems to apply here - in the field of corporate law - Corporations can be viewed as one level of a social superorganism in a cultural evolution process - Governments can be viewed similiarly, but at a higher level - The ISDS is being weaponized by the same corporations destroying the global environment to combat the enactment of government laws that pose a threat to their livelihood - Hence, the ISDS has been reconfigured to protect the destroyers of the environment so that they can avoid dealing with their unacceptable externalizations - The individual existing at the lower level of the multi-scale competency architecture(the corporation) is battling to survive against the wishes of the higher level individual (the government) in the same multi-scale competency architecture

for - Inflation Reduction Act - bolstering to reach NDC

for - AI progress trap - bad actor - synthesize bioweapon - AI progress trap - Coscientist and cloud lab - bad actors

for - Coscientist AI - Science AI - AI lab partner

for - climate defiance - climate protest group

for - Deep Humanity - BEing journey

for - Deep Humanity - BEing journey

for - sustainable architecture - new stone age

story details - Title: Back to the stone age: the sustainable building material we’ve all been waiting for… - Author: Rowan Moore - Date: 2023, Aug 6 - Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/aug/06/back-to-the-stone-age-the-sustainable-building-material-weve-all-been-waiting-for-amin-taha-groupwork-webb-yates-the-stonemasonry-company

for - cement - process inefficiency

process inefficiency - cement (see below)

• The world over we crush rocks (like gabbro) into gravel. - We dig up and pulverise limestone.
• In gas powered factories we burn the limestone to make cement.
• We dig up a lot of sharp sand.
• At state-of-the-art batching plants we mix them with water to make liquid concrete.
• With sophisticated algorithms and just in time management principals
  • a fleet of wagons distributes it to building sites. - Meanwhile we’ve
  • laid out steel falsework and
  • timber formwork.
  • sprayed on releasing agent and
  • laid rebar on spacer blocks.
  • pour on the concrete
  • vibrate, level and float it and then wait.
• A week later we strip away the formwork;
  • after 28 days we remove the falsework.
  • Hey presto! Stone again!
  • In two months we’ve turned
    • a lump of 230N stone into
    • a lump of 40N concrete.

for - stats - carbon footprint of stone, steel, concrete

stats - carbon footprint - stone, steel , concrete - ( see below)

• The Inventory of Embodied Carbon and Energy 2019 says carbon footprint of the following building materials are:
  • ‘General stone’ - 0.079kg carbon per kg .
  • Concrete - 0.15kg carbon per kg and
  • Steel - 2.8kg carbon per kg.

for - stone availability - stats - stone availability

stone stats - rough calculation below

• Question: Is there enough stone?
• According to the Global Cement and Concrete Association,
  • annual worldwide concrete production is roughly 1.6 km3.
• Due to its higher strength its equivalent in stone would be about one quarter of that volume.
• To put this into context,
  • the volume of a small, Ben Nevis-ish mountain is about 30km3;
  • all the world’s buildings* would only make a 56km3 or two Nevis,
  • the Earth’s crust (rock) has a volume of 10 billion km3.
• Assumptions for above calculations:
  • 7bn people living in threes in
  • 120m2 live work units made of
  • 200mm slabs.

for - new stone age - stone age renaissance - stone architecture - practitioners - Amin Taha - Steve Webb - Pierre Bidaud

for - sustainable architecture - a new stone age - the return of stone - meme - a new stone age

story details - Title: Why the time is ripe for a return to stone as a structural material - Author: Steve Webb - Date: 2023, May 29 - source: https://www.ribaj.com/intelligence/stone-as-a-structural-material-embodied-carbon-sustainability

meme - new stone age

summary - Stone buildings have lasted millenia. Compared to steel, concrete and CLT, post-tensioned stone has the least embodied energy of all. - Could we also modernize ancient animal and human powered labor to create a low carbon stone building industry? -

for - open source - velocar - hypertrike - International Human Powered Vehicle Association

to - http://www.ihpva.org/home/ https://hyp.is/fqMYhsd9Ee6kGac7YpqNow/www.ihpva.org/home/

for - open source - velocar - international human powered vehicle association - IHPVA - human powered vehicle

from - https://hyp.is/I6XF-sd9Ee6WcSsdbA72AQ/www.hypertrike.org/

for - quote - Wittgenstein - like - Buddhist canoe metaphor

quote - Wittgenstein - like Buddhist canoe metaphor - (see below)

• My propositions serve as elucidations in this way:
• He who understands me
  • eventually recognises them as nonsensical, when he has used them
    • as steps to climb up over them.
• (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it)

Comment - The Buddhist canoe metaphor is - To accomplish the journey of awakening to your ultimate nature - We use techniques that are like a canoe to travel from the shores of Samara to the shores of Nirvana - When we arrive, we no longer need them

for - indyweb example - conversations with old self

Comment - this demonstrates how each individual consciousness is evolutionary and never the same river twice. - we are not a fixed thing, but a constantly churning cauldron of ideas

for - Nagarjuna - wittgenstein

Abstract - (see below)

• I propose that we understand Nagarjuna’s primary aim as ‘therapeutic’,
• that is, concerned with the dissolution of philosophical problems.
• However, this ‘therapy’ should
  • neither be confined to the psychotherapeutic metaphor
  • nor should it be taken to imply a private enlightenment only available to philosophers.
• Instead, for
  • Nagarjuna and
  • Wittgenstein,
• philosophical problems are cast as a source of disquiet for all of us;
  • what their work offers is a soteriology, a means towards our salvation.

for - BEing journey - Anil Seth - BEing journey - Dream machine

reference - https://dreamachine.world/about/

for - BEing journey - quote - Anil Seth - neuroscience - neuroscience - perception - neuroscience - constructed reality

quote - Anil Seth - bringing to light our inner diversity - could be as transformational for society - as recognition of our externally visible diversity has been

for - Unherd - Brexit founder - post-left

• UnHerd,
  • a U.K.-based ​“heterodox” opinion website
    • founded by a Brexit supporter,
  • covered the movement in a piece titled ​
    • “Twilight of the American Left.”
• To the post-left,
  • explained contributor Park MacDougald,
• the real U.S. ruling class is a Democratic oligarchy that uses
  • the threat of creeping fascism and
  • white nationalism
• to consolidate power, and deploys
  • “‘identity politics,’ -​‘antiracism,’
  • ​‘intersectionality’ and
  • other pillars of the progressive culture war” as ​
• “mystifications whose function is to
  • demoralize and
  • divide the proletariat.”
• Leftists, in this view, merely serve as that regime’s ​“unwitting dupes.”

unpack - very interesting to unpack from a Deep Humanity perspective.

for left-to-right sliders - complex reasons

“We’re seeing people turn right for a number of different reasons,” - argues journalist Eoin Higgins, - author of a forthcoming book on formerly left-wing journalists - who’ve aligned with reactionary tech billionaires. ​

• “There are
  • financial incentives, there are
  • attention incentives, there are
  • culture war differences as people are becoming more conservative on culture; there’s
  • a sense of being betrayed by progressives and the Left.
• There are so many different reasons that
• reducing this to people
  • going too far [left] and
  • going to the Right
• is an oversimplification.

for - Title: Losing the Plot: The "Leftists" Who Turn Right - Subtitle: What do we make of former friends who fell down the rabbit hole of the Right? - Author: Kathryn Joyce, Jeff Sharlet - Source: In These Times - Date: Dec 12,2023

Summary - Once leftist thought leaders - like reporter Matt Taibbi - are appearing to shift right - Once writing about Occupy Wall Street for the Rolling Stones and now - appearing in the right-wing Epoch Times. - Other examples are: - David Horowitz - Once a sponsor of In These Times magazine now author of the book: - Blitz: Trup Will Smash the Left and Win - Christopher Hitchens - Joined the religious nationalists he long derided - Comedians - Dave Chappelle - Roseanne - Russell Brand - who make fun of, traffic in and deride - Trans people, - pandemic <br /> - pedophille conspiracy theories - Robert Kennedy Junior

• Naomi Klein, in her latest book Doppleganger,
• chronicles the same subject.

for - left-to-right slider - Naomi Wolf

In similar fashion, Naomi Wolf ​’s path - from a liberal third-wave feminist writer of ​“big ideas” books - to - a regular guest on Steve Bannon’s War Room and - Fox News - began— or perhaps sped up — with a career humiliation. - As Naomi Klein recounts in her recent book Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World, - the premise of Wolf’s 2019 book Outrages collapsed on live air - over a misunderstanding of an archaic legal term. - By 2021, Wolf had emerged as a key purveyor of Covid-19 conspiracy theories, warning that - ​“vaccine passports equal slavery forever.

Summary - At the heart of the debate, - which is a major driver for the political polarization in politics around the globe, - especially in the United States between - liberals and - conservatives - is structural inequality inherited by colonialism centuries earlier - and how to deal with it today.

for - Critical race theory - key insight

key insight - The following passage gets to the heart of the matter: - (see below)

All these different ideas grow out of longstanding, tenacious intellectual debates.

Critical race theory emerged out of postmodernist thought, - which tends to be skeptical of the idea of - universal values, - objective knowledge, - individual merit, - Enlightenment rationalism, and - liberalism - tenets that conservatives tend to hold dear.

for - circular economy - design - furniture - circular economy - private - furniture

compare - Delft university - circular kitchen - Stykka

for - progress trap - Rome - lead poisoning

for + progress trap - traffic fumes - Alzheimer's

for - 2nd Trump term - 2nd Trump presidency - 2024 U.S. election - existential threat for climate crisis - Title:Trump 2.0: The climate cannot survive another Trump term - Author: Michael Mann - Date: Nov 5, 2023

Summary - Michael Mann repeats a similiar warning he made before the 2020 U.S. elections. Now the urgency is even greater. - Trump's "Project 2025" fossil-fuel -friendly plan would be a victory for the fossil fuel industry. It would - defund renewable energy research and rollout - decimate the EPA, - encourage drilling and - defund the Loss and Damage Fund, so vital for bringing the rest of the world onboard for rapid decarbonization. - Whoever wins the next U.S. election will be leading the U.S. in the most critical period of the human history because our remaining carbon budget stands at 5 years and 172 days at the current rate we are burning fossil fuels. Most of this time window overlaps with the next term of the U.S. presidency. - While Mann points out that the Inflation Reduction Act only takes us to 40% rather than Paris Climate Agreement 60% less emissions by 2030, it is still a big step in the right direction. - Trump would most definitely take a giant step in the wrong direction. - So Trump could singlehandedly set human civilization on a course of irreversible global devastation.

for - 2nd Trump term - regressive climate policy

for - 2nd Trump presidency - elimination of loss and damage fund - impact on global decarbonization effort

• While we have seen renewed leadership on climate by the Biden administration,
• other nations are wary of what a second Trump presidency could portend,
• particularly on climate
  • where they fear he will refuse to honor our commitments to the rest of the world
• and derail four years of progress on climate.

for - loss and damage fund - global impact

• That’s what the “loss and damage” agreement does,
• and it could lead to a greater willingness by India and other developing countries
• to ramp up their own commitments to decarbonization.