what I try to do is is kind of like what happened to the notion of numbers where we started out with very obvious very natural kinds of things and then progressively expanded them to to weirder and weirder uh other um other other concepts along you know along that same along that same continuum.
for - adjacency - cognitive spectrum - number system evolution - Michael Levin
for - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar - to - book - Brain Abstracted https://hyp.is/Pk3pylG9EfCJA-ent0tk-g/watermark.silverchair.com/book_9780262378628.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAygwggMkBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggMVMIIDEQIBADCCAwoGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMix-FIpy8sXHtTbl9AgEQgIIC20RZIlS1yaYHB2ymjcscJUN46IGDRankNDC3fCPGeuff7MJ6ZcjlCyNRQpGDkd5wZ1HO6ekLFmAxDsOGnaz_3SLpDgkqXGRWVLn7Y1cDpcZ3TQV_nQBTX4Fcj3iYzdmqq2kFoxlqaPOts563eydXLxsCIa7S8FbSBhqdvQgCg1lk0QBImp-SyWKLV5scbXV0FaAbRJmJeFCUKfANHsGfnSVzKvDWx77_lTh__SzxgxAqC74SKR4361Fy2I287u5plBQJwOXqbypumMnJIg_wiTzmhit6OLZhfoXMd84w5sYsCl7gnicPcWi48HzbqxD6WQyIjfNJRG2fBxJTMfq5ORFRVB7Cyfj0qhHG_9y0bxlsF9H5xNbRHyBfpttmxiPpikfi5y2j2FSu4PF4qtzQME_wtqJepiy_6cIA8PHX117aCQRHW2o4BJYq1WkERZcQta7-mNR8vDFUwV0dV3wDJazXVVG3sHhxjR1AyI8edOrM_00Og8-HUCtsNuzv_Swks1T3QsYMgwkCSX6u8RIPUbSEbzfcOXLN_KQy23lRf_zmCjRaj9EyxOPul9t0qADWkhwxlnlZ477xtPz7ePqYfCTLId5aMdSYHVBw-aYL874blz4mbgz-BXpjfni0pNpeAePVVQWRC16k6xpDHtyOpVix4nb8-SazTQuQEKRBLQgmmf76Z_oVmAtuG_Cnex0cM8G-GATTlL7hq_v7E0X5UQfnLli1tu7KHI9qY68ymaSKZXHhII5u3rQ6z7XtJxLDsEAEc9LiMRb-pC7ssE_BI6C37_6G1SvZBp0A3FKjIJ57tjM6Oku3mmvoCLDBs7DxoGMPn-EWEwDXBwGQXYOfkVUC66K-qRXp7hG8YCtztv_4CL5HxynskORGznC1y0B0IvBxCVHkWgMuBKgLOPOTzzMZVU32XZVdXy_WdKuw02k6nUhbMvH0TOvKZv1QLWypzMU0HlWuPbGttUX6
for - from - Youtube - Brain Inspired - interview - Brain Abstracted - https://hyp.is/3XW2ct8mEe-Fj79NfLEaZQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwNHW4otoJQ
integral or integrative worldview
for - synonyms - integral worldview - integrative worldview - evolutionary worldview - meta-modern worldview -complexity worldview
synthesis that integrates and yet transcends previous ways of seeing the world. This is a both/and, not an either/or shift
for - new integrative worldview - integrates and transcends - both / and, not - either / or
Following Mill
for - example - partial truth of each of - traditional - modern - postmodern worldview - traditional worldview - affirms - transcendental divine - sense of higher purpose - importance of social solidarity / national sovereignty - denies - this worldly - the individuall - modern worldview - affirms - reality - material - physical - objective - logic and reasoning - democracy / free speech - denial - immaterial - subjective and inner space - post-modern worldview - affirms - reality as constructed - inclusiveness - denial - reality as - material - physical - objective - agency of the individual - universal values and realities
John Stuart Mill once said, referring to the different sides in intellectual controversies, they tend to be “in the right in what they affirmed, though in the wrong in what they denied.”
for - quote - right in what is affirmed, wrong in what is denied - John Stuart Mill - adjacency - worldviews - metaphor - blind men and the elephant
Jean Gebser
for - Jean Gebser - annotations on him from Lisa Maroski's book: - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - https://hyp.is/MraNjBtZEfCHI7dtJEkt-w/ipfs.indy0.net/ipfs/bafybeihk6dcr7dfruu65z5e5ze2rkeiydkmgbbpadhyulckm4afnqbtdgy - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=jean+gebser
This worldview also has to restore the enchantment, communality, and connection to the sacred that is ubiquitous in pre-modern and indigenous worldviews, yet is severed in the process of modernization
for - key insight - new worldview must restore enchantment, community and connection
key insight - new worldview must restore enchantment, community and connection - This worldview also has to restore the - enchantment, - communality, and - connection - to the sacred that is - ubiquitous in pre-modern and indigenous worldviews, - yet is severed in the process of modernization — - resulting in the pervasive sense of - alienation and - meaninglessness - that characterize both modern and postmodern worldviews. - As research underscores, - a sense of - meaning, - inner purpose, and - community - are crucial for human well-being and cannot be replaced by high levels of economic prosperity.
Bernie Sanders and A.O.C — these days in the spotlight with their ‘fighting oligarchy’ rallies that draw massive crowds — may fit this profil
for - new worldview - example - Bernie Sanders and AOC - fighting oligarchy tour
Institute for Cultural Evolution develops policy recommendations on diverse issues, attempting to honor the central values and concerns of traditional, modern, and postmodern worldviews.
for - Institute for Cultural Evolution - new worldview - integrating values of - traditional - modern - postmodern
‘tech broligarchy
for - role reversal - tech bros - from left to right - role reversal - tech bros - from liberal to conservative
were driven to the right
for - definition - crunchy - postmodern electrorate that is anti-vaccine, pro-bodily autonomy, ecology and health conscious - role reversal - crunchy - to - MAHA
Ross Douthat argued:
for - quote - role reversal - left and right - Ross Douthat - quote - role reversal - establishment and antiestablishment - Ross Douthat
over the past few decades a profound reversal has taken place, with conservatives and progressives trading attitudes and impulses across a range of issues
for - role reversal - conservatives and liberals - role reversal - establishment and anti-establishment
projection tends to seize on, and exaggerate, an element that does exist, albeit subtly, in the other person.
for - projection - mechanics of - exploit partial truth of the other - to create the bigger lie
“our” side is virtuous and correct, and “their” side is wrong and flawed
for - adjacency - political splitting - us vs them - battle with ourselves
Freud believed that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors unacceptable to the ego were defended against by disowning and projecting them
for - definition - projection - Freud - disowning the internal
Jung referred to these disowned parts of self as ‘the shadow’
for - definition - the shadow - Jung
polarization-dynamics in the past decades have made the right and the left move in opposite directions, with the right becoming more traditionalist and the left becoming more postmodernist, thereby both moving away from the modern worldview while eroding the common ground between them.
for - polarization - postmodern - traditional - common ground of modernism rejected by both
While progressives have declared themselves shocked at how easily conservatives seem to have given up on democracy,35 that shock is mutual, as conservatives have been stunned by how willing progressives have been to sacrifice the biological reality of sex, and thus the foundation of life.
for - comparison - polarization - right - alternative facts - left - woke
Like a parent cannot care as much about other people’s children as about their own — and in fact, that would be a betrayal of their parental task — they can care about other people’s children while prioritizing their own
for - comparison - America first philosophy - vs - Parents caring for their own children first
Angus Deaton describing his ‘change of mind
for - Angus Deaton - article - Change of Mind - economist - Nobel Laureate - political views - shift - from Group other interest - to Group self interest
insiders rather than outsiders, America first
for - adjacency - America first - insider - outsider - irony - new idiom - REAL America First
adjacency - America first - insider - outsider - irony - The irony is, of course, that the "insiders" of MAGA are actually a constructed story that conveniently omits the genocide of the first people - From an indigenous perspective, "America first" would mean that the defenders of MAGA are actually the outsiders - They were here for millenia long before white european colonialists made claimsi on these lands - Perhaps this should be called "Real America First"
Casting aside the modern emphasis on the heroic individual, it became obsessed with group-based victimhood.
for - adjacency - modernism - postmodernism - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt
adjacency - modernism - postmodernism - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt - it comes back to the misunderstanding between the deep intertwingledness between - the individual and the collective, - the self and the other - a pith interpretation of the individual is that it is the INDIVISIBILITY of the DUAL (Gyuri Lajos)
The tendency to suppress or ignore the inconsistencies that challenge our worldviews is thus universal rather than partisan
for - adjacency - scientific paradigm shift - confirmation bias - universal behavior - liberal / conservative dynamics - progress
adjacency - scientific paradigm shift - confirmation bias - universal behavior - liberal / conservative dynamics - progress - It is a natural for humans to be both conservative and liberal - If we weren't liberal, there would be no progress - At the same time, we recognize the value of existing traditions - they worked and helped us to survive - Confirmation bias is conservative - why tamper with something that isn't broke? - Yet novelty is a behavior that even the staunchest conservative displays - It is nonsensible to think we have only one but not the other aspect, we have both
triggered’
for - adjacency - triggered - flight or flight response - higher cognitive function shut down
worldviews are inherently vulnerable to becoming ideological.
for - adjacency - worldview - worldview threat - ideology - transformation
Where a worldview values dialogue and deliberation, aligning with the fundamental principles of liberal democracy, an ideology imposes and dictates
for - comparison - worldview - vs ideology
with issues framed as having only two sides, and thus hardly any space for complexity or nuance.
for - polarization - challenge - false dichotomy - no room for moderates
when there’s no truth or value, it makes sense to opt for what is most gratifying in the moment or of greatest service to the self (or ego).
for - adjacency - postmodernism - post-truth - Buddhist problem of nilhism - emptiness
adjacency - postmodernism - post-truth - Buddhist problem of nilhism - emptiness - This is the warning that Buddhist teachers have warned about to their students, who have an incomplete "understanding" of emptiness - If nothing is solid or real, and there is no right or wrong, then the student can mistakenly fall into nilhism and do harm - If the concept of harm is construed as part of dualism but dualism is the illusion to be penetrated, then again there is the danger of falling into post-truth where nothing matters and anarchy reins. - In Buddhist philosophy, the concept of "appearance-emptiness" shows that there is still some reality, just not what we originally thought
while postmodernism thus represents a new awareness of how our paradigms construct our world, it appears markedly blind to its own worldview — its own postmodern metanarrative.
for - key insight - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - quote - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - Annick de Witt - observation - adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts
adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts - observation - also we are seeing the shadow side of postmodernism in the Trump era where "alternative facts" have become dangerously fashionable - obviously the complete denial of an objective reality is not tenable while the complete denial of constructed reality is also no tenable - what we need is an integration, as Annick contends
reflected an increased tolerance of
for - adjacency - progressives - postmodernism
Kant was also the first to coin the notion of Weltanschauung or worldview, in his Critique of Pure Reason in the late eighteenth century.
for - definition - worldview - Critique of Pure Reason - Kant - adjacency - Kant - post modernism
noumenon (the thing in itself) and the phenomenon (how we perceive it)
for - definition - noumenon - Kant - definition - phenomenon - Kant
James Davison Hunter
for - book - Culture Wars: The Struggle To Define America - James Davison Hunter
immigration flows, especially from lower-income countries, changed the ethnic makeup of advanced industrial societies.
for - adjacency - immigration - diversity of traditional worldviews
adjacency - immigration - diversity of traditional worldviews - This is another level of perspectival differences - Within the traditional worldview, modernity has, via - transportation technology - communication technology - made possible rapid mixing of traditional worldviews that had previously been geographically isolated - The modern worldview has thus impacted traditional worlldviews in profound ways
A cartoonish visualization of four contemporary worldviews as
for - worldviews - 4 major - traditional - modern - postmodern - integrative
postmodern thought has provided intellectual fuel for progressive movements
for - adjacency - postmodernism - progressive
substantial body of survey-based research
for - 3 major worldviews - citation
Three worldviews dominate our current cultural landscape
for - worldviews - major 3 contemporary - traditional - religion - modern - science - rational - materialism - 'clockwork universe' - postmodern - postindustrial - information society - critique of - progress - inequality of capitalism - ecological destruction - advocates for - justice - egalitarianism - pluralism - relativism - constructivism
Zeitgeist, the ‘ecosystem of worldviews’ that our cultural landscape consists of.
for - definition - Zeitgeist - adjacency - Zeitgeist - ecosystem of worldviews
each worldview brings forth new insights, solutions, and qualities, as well as more problematic aspects.
for - adjacency - worldview - perspectival knowledge
Weber conceived of different categories of worldviews as ‘ideal-types’
for - definition - ideal-types - categories of worldviews - Max Weber
World views create worlds
for - quote - worldviews create worlds - Richard Tarnas
observation - worldviews are invisible hyperobjects, w - we employ logical induction to infer them from a pattern we observe - from many visible behaviors
meaning-making satisfaction to be their central function
for - meaning-making satisfaction - is central
Weber argued that a worldview functions as an overarching system of meaning-making
for - definition - worldview - Max Weber - overarching sensemaking system of meaning making
Max Weber, a founding father of modern social science
for - Max Weber - founding father - modern social science
The Protestant Ethic
for - book - The Protestant Ethic - Max Weber - adjacency - worldview - Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic
the Spirit of Capitalism
for - book - The Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber - adjacency - worldview - Max Weber - The Spirit of Capitalism
These worldviews are the lenses through which people see and filter reality writ large, informing individual choices and group identities, lifestyles and political preferences.
for - adjacency - worldview - salience landscape
With far-right parties in power, it needs to present a real alternative — both to what the right offers, as well as to its past offering, which has failed to convince and inspire.
for - key insight - genuine alternative - past didn't work - neither does the present - the future must be intentionally designed to be different than the past or the present
Panel Debate: Urban Development in an Era of Geopolitical Change BLOXHUB
Annorations - live youtube event - Urban dev in era of geopolitical change - https://www.youtube.com/live/555ncdksVO0
Notes - Bloxhub is a consulting company working on the frontiers - panel debate with - Michela Magas (Director of Research and Innovation at the Industry Commons Foundation), - Helle Søholt (CEO, Gehl Architects) & - Indy Johar (Executive Director, Dark Matter Labs). Moderator is Andrew Dubber.
IJ - don't have copper infrastructure to electrify everything - we can only building 144,000 homes in all of EU but UK alone wants to build 350,000 homes - service and management processes that built our cities are no longer viable - probably looking at 3 Deg C GMT - 5 deg C higher on land - 8 deg C higher in city - if food prices are too high, the social contract is broken - we are living in a bubble of the idea of the city that is outdated - geoBIOLOGICAL factors - how radical can we get? - incremental change is not enough - what is the radical re-imagination required? - AI - 1-on-1 with energy, cognitive inequality = energy inequality = AI inequality - How do we operate in a post-labor economy? - Human economy is radically different - Need to operate between the philosophy and the technical
HS - polycrisis - addressing it is challenging - people are talking about the positive outcome - EU countries coming together - I'm spokesperson for new architecture policy of Denmark - cultural, planning and housing minister all meeting - unprecedented - Using what we already have: - idling resources of empty buildings - Urban nature / biodiversity - More urban green - re-imagine the future EU city - energy transition - localized - Inclusiveness - Bloxhub advocates the Copenhagen model - On US side, 1/3 of our revenues are from US - public sector - real estate dev - 25% of US malls closing down - philanthropy - recently, due to Trump govt policies: - 5 projects closed due to DEI - climate action plans in jeopardy
MM - translating philosophy into technology as per IJ but also - translating morality into technology - New European Bauhaus High Level Round Table - 18 experts - value mapping - justice is high priority - Quote - Alan X - Unless ideas are massaged into reality, they evaporate - Ecosystem Living
discussion HS - Copenhagen is the most livable city in the world now - but will it be the most resilient? - We need to think extremely long term - but we are searching for a new model - The infrastructure-led approach is not going to be enough to deal with the social and political crisis - We at Gail are searching for a more problem or culture led approach
IJ - Walked past a beautiful piece of jewelry but behind that visible beauty is invisible violence - Copenhagen as most livable city, is backed by invisible high carbon intensity - Have to think about the systems in which our human system exist within - There's a shadow behind a wellbeing city - We need a new theory of abundance - Regenerative supply chains - required but are difficult - If we consider externalities, we have to multiply by 10x - The future is not just infrastructure but multiple portfolios - City must go from representation to participation - perspective shift - from austerity to abundance - Edo period of Japan was already a circular economy - Need to construct the new politics of abundance and abundance economy is based on intangibles
MM - joining together many small groups is important
? What's the next steps?
HS - THere is innovation capacity at a neighborhood level - We need to find ways to give agency to citizens - Locating intermediate organizations to lead the way
IJ - Look at the shadow, don't run away from it - Book - In praise of shadow
MM - cities give us a template to look into public commons - state owned on one side, corporate on the other - public commons
rural commons
for - commons - rural - Alps
for - post LinkedIn - book - From Bacteria to AI - reminds me of Micheal Levin's cognitive light cones - adjacency - Micheal Levin's - Katherine Hayle - cognition
digital nomad
for - progress trap - digital nomad - modern colonizers
You can’t cut emissions without cutting inequality. New science proves it.
for - climate crisis - research study - luxury emissions must fall
Virtue
for - definition - virtuewash
what could AI do with everything I’ve shared? Could it blackmail me? Sell the information? Use it to manipulate me? Get me to buy something, vote a certain way, believe a certain story?
for - progress trap - AI - sharing intimate details with
New irrefutable research confirms what ancient cultures always intuited:Hair is biologically active.It’s a resonant antenna—wired to the nervous system, tuned to subtle fields, and capable of storing and transmitting signals.
for - post - LinkedIn - hair - is biologically active
for - language - construction
Nietzsche
for - adjacency - Nietzsche - Heidegger - source of far right politics
Science destroys the notion of a single, "authentic" self. What can we do with that knowledge?
for - post - linkedin - Deep Humanity - human INTERbeCOMing - example
for - climate model - anomaly - Pacific Cold Tongue
A 2023 piece from the New Republic
for - to - article - New Republic - Michelin Guide - When I Google, I can't find. It's drowned out by a sea of Michelin articles. Why can't I find it? - I emailed New Republic. They confirmed that no such article exists - article - New Republic - citation not valid
The Michelin Guide wasn't born in a restaurant. It was born in a garage. In 1900, the Michelin brothers, Edward and Andre, needed to sell tires in a country with fewer than 3,000 cars. So, they printed a travel booklet free of charge that listed gas stations, hotels, and restaurants.
for - history - Michelin Guide - Michelin tire company - article - New Republic - citation not valid - checked with New Republic. They said that they could not find the article cited by this video
Peergos
for - etymology - Peergos - from the Greek Pyrgos which means stronghold / tower. - The "y" is replaced by "ee" and substitutes the word "peer", creating a new portmanteau that means - peer-to-peer strongold
Anthropic researchers said this was not an isolated incident, and that Claude had a tendency to “bulk-email media and law-enforcement figures to surface evidence of wrongdoing.”
for - question - progress trap - open source AI models - for blackmail and ransom - Could a bad actor take an open source codebase and twist it to do harm like find out about an rogue AI creator's adversary, enemy or victim and blackmail them? - progress trap - open source AI - criminals - exploit to identify and blackmail victiims
for - progress trap - AI - Anthropic Claude 4 - blackmail - from - youtube - Kyle Kilinski Show - AI is completely out of control - https://hyp.is/GhDOzj0nEfCvHZdiUaw4gQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j1gjSoRt8Q
The researchers called the behavior “rare” and “difficult to elicit.
for - progress trap - AI - Anthropic Claude 4 - blackmail - rare behavior - but still possible! It only has to happen once!
anthropic's new AI model shows ability to deceive and blackmail
for - progress trap - AI - blackmail - AI - autonomy - progress trap - AI - Anthropic - Claude Opus 4 - to - article - Anthropic Claude 4 blackmail and news leak - progress trap - AI - article - Anthropic Claude 4 - blackmail - rare behavior - Anthropic’s new AI model didn’t just “blackmail” researchers in tests — it tried to leak information to news outlets
for - progress trap - AI - AI - blackmailing human creators - AI - autonomy
we saw this with Grock uh basically rebelling against Elon Musk
for - progress trap - AI - autonomy - example - Grok
for - adjacency - Michelin star - Michelin tires - I never made the connection until now! Wow! - key insight - Michelin stars - a scam
summary - This documentary was very eye-opening - As a foodie, I've always viewed the Michelin start system as representing the best and most creative culinary ideas - It's shocking and disappointing to see how exploitative it is - This expose does tie together many feelings of cognitive dissonance I've seen surrounding it - For example, I saw the cartoon character pose a few times but I never made the connection that it was the same avatar as the Michelin tire's avatar - Then when I saw the history and the two brothers who started the Michelin tire company, it suddenly made sense - It is a pay-to-play, Euro-colonialist system that performs cultural appropriation
alternative to - Michelin Guide - This revelation is disheartening as it destroys a myth I have long lived with - It also raises an opportunity in the form of a question - ? - Can we create a global open-source guide that is based on authentic, unbiased culture?
for - adjacency - fine dining - inequality - high carbon - fine dining is inherently based upon inequality and has a high carbon footprint
for - Agregore - Indyweb dev - Agregore
the issue that he kept raising or he raised prominently is the issue of genocide.
for - white genocide - South Africa - Ramaphosa response to Trump
for - Lorenz - Butterfly Effect - complexity - butterfly effect
Why has the 2024 election year, with countries with more than half of the world’s population going to the polls, resulted in such a harsh repudiation of the left?2
for - political trends - 2024 - populism - Although in 2025, due to Trump's radical policies, citizens all around the world affected by Trump's brutal and unjust policies are voting against populism: - Canada - Australia - Romania
for - new idea - cosmolocal commons replacement for Trump eliminated departments - create commons cosmolocal organisations that takes over all the functions of departments that Trump is eliminating
for - spiritual Revolution - Substack - article - Can and should we expect a "spiritual" revolution any time soon?
summary - This article provides an insightful historical framework that helps us to understand the next potential major human value and cultural paradigm shift - It draws upon academic work of metamodern and metameme theory to analyze the last few hundred thousand years of human history into a number of metameme epochs - It employs the concept of hard and soft metamemes to show the alternating historical epochs - Understanding these historical alterations helps us to foresee the transition human civilization is currently moving through - While "economics" can generally be considered to be the value generation "hard" metameme system and spirituality and cultural worldviews are the "soft" metameme, the article explores whether we are in the midst of the next soft metameme transition - It opines that we are just at the beginning of it and that the major shift is yet to come
mutual coordination (i.e. Stigmergy) is to commons-based peer production!
for - adjacency - mutual coordination - commons based peer production - soft metamemes
adjacency - between - mutual coordination - stigmergy - commons-based peer production - soft metameme - adjacency relationship - In my experience of working in many commons-based peer production groups, a new soft metameme is actually required to overcome the limitations of conditioning from the old soft metameme
these people do have political and spiritual values, but they are not uniform but pluralist, these are not in fact, spiritual movements, or spirit-centric movements. They are in effect people attempting to reinvent how we produce value, in different ways, whether they are urban commoners, rural permaculturists, or neo-nomadic crypto nomads.
for - adjacency - new ways of creating and distributing value - not spiritual movements - example - Indyweb - LCE - Deep Humanity - metacrisis / polycrisis singularity
adjacency - between - new ways of creating and distributing value - not spiritual movements perse - examples - Indyweb - LCE - Deep Humanity - metacrisis / polycrisis singularity - adjacency relationship - Reflecting on a few of the major projects I'm working and collaborating on there is another permutation in which ideas that are considered "spiritual" are being integrated into the foundational design of technical production and distribution systems - The Indyweb web 3 / web 4 people-centered, interpersonal information ecosystem is founded on the Eastern principle of Shunyata (Emptiness), and its two pillars: - change and - intertwingledness - which in turn corelate to biology via: - evolution and - ecology - The Living Cities Earth (LCE) project is founded on integral theory framework - Deep Humanity emerged out of observation that the historic inability of spiritual and material integration, - what might be here called the hard and soft metamemes - may be leading us into a metacrisis / polycrisis singularity - and that their integration now may be what is required to stave off the worst impacts of the fast approaching metacrisis / polycrisis singularity - Observations of the social dynamics of many small commons-leaning groups I've been involved with shows me that the deep cultural conditioning of the previous hard and soft metameme systems are extremely difficult to uproot and the soft metameme conditioning ends up poisoning collaborations
today is not the moment to expect a full scale spiritual revolution
for - spiritual revolution - timing - claim - we are in early stages - we are in the early stages of the spiritual revolution
That modality, as Freinacht suggests, will also already exhibit its own negative results and excesses, eventually needing a purification generator.
for - question - need for purification generator - Is it the case that the development of the hegeemonic phase of the new spiritual revolution overshoots and becomes harmful - Is this what makes it necessary for a purification generator?
thesis of Spengler
for - Spengler's thesis - civilizational endings create a new religiosity as coping mechanism to deal with the crises - but are not yet that form of spirituality that is needed to rejig towards a new civilizational form
One could say Trump’s MAGA movement is a last gap of such a political revolution, but it has a strong retro-romantic feel to it
for - political movements - last gasp - MAGA movement - typo - gap
some intellectuals are converting back to Christianity and other traditional religions that were born in the Axial Age
for - revivalist movements - neoplatonic revival - John Vervaeke - convergence of spiritual and material evolution - Graham Brendan Dempsey - orthodoxy for modernity - Jonathan Pageau
So the following quote makes perfect sense:
for - categories - metamemetic epochs - hard and soft metameme - Archaic - hard - hunter-gatherer - Animism - soft - hunter-gatherer + art - Faustian - hard - agrarian - Postfaustian - soft - organized, large-scale religions - Modern - hard - rationalism, scientific revolution, technology, industrial revolution, progress, global capitalism, materialism - Postmodern - soft - questioning rationalism, materalism, progress - Metamodern - hard - internet and digital information systems
First we have the emergence of a new way of production and governance, a new “hard” Coordination Engine
for - relationship - coordination engine - purification generator
coordination engine
for - definition - coordination engine - The coordination engine is - the underlying pattern of how people coordinate their actions with one another and - the material flows around them, through space and time. - It’s about the economy in a wide sense: about how human activities link up with one another. - An economy is basically a pattern of coordination of human agency over space and time.
Hunter-gathering preceded animism by hundreds of thousands of years
for - comparison - Hunter gatherer vs - animism
purification engine
for - definition - purification engine - a purification engine, such as the Postfaustian or Postmodern metamemes, are cultural re-organizations of a particular mode of extraction, but they do not reinvent the mode of extraction itself.
coordination engine
for - definition - coordination engine - A coordination engine is a way to create and distribute value, a way of extraction
difference between hard and soft metamemes
for - comparison - hard - soft - metameme
According to Hanzi Freinacht, before the emergence of Metamodernism, we can distinguish the following ‘Metamemetic Epochs’:
for - metamemetic epochs - Animistic metameme starts 50,000 ya - Faustian metameme starts 12,000 ya - Post-Faustian metameme starts 2,000 bce - Modern metameme starts 1500 ce - Post-modern metameme starts 1700 ac - Meta-modern metameme starts 1900 ac
Brendan Graham Dempsey explains metamemes as follows:
for - definition - metameme - Brendan Graham Dempsey - like worldview - Collective intelligence shapes meme networks — called “Metamemes” — which individual self-conscious minds “download” to better navigate their environment. - Dempsey's definition makes salient the related Deep Humanity idea of the individual / collective gestalt - adjacency - metameme - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt - to - Substack - article - Toxic polarization is killing us. Why a new worldview might save us - https://hyp.is/OChhXCvdEfC0MEOwIi_joA/annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us
Such people may live in the same objective physical space, but their subjective experience of it is entirely different, because the ‘read’ reality in a very different way.
for - edit - grammatical error? - "read"
metameme
for - definition - metameme - A network of ideas that fit together, and that forms a more or less coherence framework to view reality and thus, to organize or respond to the world.
matter was as sacred as the spirit and that labor was a salvific and ordering activity. That is what is meant by a value revolution.
for - origin - history - value revolution - After Christians disseminated the idea of the resurrection off the body in Hebrew communes, work was once again seen as divine.
Think of it this way
for - metamodernity frame - social reality with - value reality within - material reality
meta-modernism in contrast, as the ‘meta’ modifier indicates, is a step further, it is ‘beyond’ modernity. In other words, it does not merely critique modernity, but creates something that replaces or augments it.
for - definition - metamodernity - Hanzi Freinacht (a pseudonym for Daniel Görtz and Emil Ejner Friis), - while postmodernity questions modernity, metamodernity advocates something that replaces it - comparison - postmodernity vs - metamodernity
communism of consumption’ of their eastern Buddhist counterparts
for - question - communism of consumption - why did Buddhists only create this and not communism of production?
communism of production
for - definition - communism of production
productivity and time-keeping
for - origins of - productivity - timekeeping - Irony - timekeeping that originated for efficient prayer became coopted by industrial capitalism - When the Benedictine monasteries closed, the productivity and timekeeping techniques developed by the monks dispersed to the general population
ora et labora
for - Benedictine monks - work ethics - Latin - pray and work - perspective that treats work as sacred - advocated by the Benedictine monks - work - as sacred - The reasoning of founder St. Bernard was, that since they owed everything to God, - they had to pray as much as they could, and to achieve this and be self-sufficient, they also had to work
banausos
for - definition - banausos - blue collar workers in ancient Rome
the hegemonic idea for centuries was that work was unworthy.
for - history - work - as moral slavery
individua lpsycho-social-motivational rhythms with the collective ones
for - individual / collective gestalt
saturation hypothesis
for - definition - saturation hypothesis
Sensate from Ideate epochs in human history
for - definition - sensate epoch - materialistic definition - ideate epoch - spiritual
Pitirim Sorokin in his masterwork , “Social and Cultural Dynamics
for - book - Social and Cultural Dynamics - Pitirim Sorokin , societal transition - value transition
societal transitions are very often value transitions as well,
,> for - adjacency - societal transition - value transition
for - progress trap - AI - Grok - Elon Musk programs Grok to lie about South African refuges
Kama muta is a Sanskrit term meaning “moved by love.
for - deep listening - definition - Kama Muta - Deep Humanity - deep listening - paper - Harmonizing Hearts: High-Quality Listening and Kama Muta Among Listeners and Speakers
for - progress trap - Consilience Project - progress trap - Daniel Schmactenberger - from - LinkedIn post - https://hyp.is/twtPIDFaEfC-DCuswNHo5g/www.linkedin.com/posts/danielschmachtenberger_development-in-progress-the-consilience-activity-7222883365371191297-DCPX/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI
summary - Daniel is describing the condition known as a "progress trap",an unintended consequence of progress. - I provide a history of progress traps in my two Medium articles found in the annotation links above. - The idea of progress traps is a very important one, especially for modernity because it is a central and general organizing principle under which many disparate unintended consequences of progress can be subsumed. - As is common in paradigm shifts, it is only when a novel concept of sufficient generalization and relevance is introduced that numerous important problems that could not be explained sufficiently in an older model, can be explained more elegantly from a higher or deeper level perspective - Without recognizing a new category of "progress traps", the many different types of unintended consequences are treated in a fragmented and adhoc way.
This article explains how our current idea of progress is immature: it is developmentally incomplete. Progress, as we define it now, ignores or downplays the scale of its side effects.
for - progress trap - to - Stop Reset Go hypothesis annotations - progress trap - Ronald Wright - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=ronald+wright - General - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=progress+trap
for - Medium article - cogress - Part 1 - progress trap - James Gien Wong - definition - cogress - to - Medium article cogress - Part 2 - progress trap - James Gien Wong - https://hyp.is/t8FhpDGAEfC4J7f0NEFujg/medium.com/@gien_SRG/human-cogress-part-2-d6fd075a55c7 - to - Stop Reset Go hypothesis annotations - progress trap - Ronald Wright - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=ronald+wright - General - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=progress+trap
for - definition - cogress - Medium article - Cogress - Part 2 - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - James Gien Wong - from - Medium article - Cogress - Part 1 - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - James Gien Wong - https://hyp.is/_Nyg2DF_EfCBeu_iuDroYg/medium.com/@gien_SRG/human-cogress-part-1-5159a575e1c4 - to - Stop Reset Go hypothesis annotations - progress trap - Ronald Wright - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=ronald+wright - General - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=progress+trap
new article exploring the narrative of progress, where the current narrative falls catastrophically short, what authentic progress would entail and require, and specific suggestions for how it could be realized.
for - post - LinkedIn - progress trap - Daniel Schmatenberger - to - article - The Consilience Project - Development in Progress - https://hyp.is/E3HHGDFaEfCZErPpYGIONg/consilienceproject.org/development-in-progress/
I would argue that the shifts in consciousness and language that Ihave articulated are at the core of the emerging new world. Or shall we callit a “self world”—a world in which the self knows that it is distinct but notseparate from other selves and from the world? Indeed, in that world, it would
for - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt
Educational theorist Zak Stein differentiates the following four crisesof the metacrisis: the sensemaking crisis (what is so?), the capability crisis (howshould it be done?), the legitimacy crisis (who should do it?), and the meaningcrisis (why do it?)
for - metacrisis - Zak Stein - metacrisis - 4 categories - sensemaking crisis - capability crisis - legitimacy crisis - meaning crisis
A living systems] approach requires that the person applying this way ofthinking see what they are working on as a system of energies or life processes,rather than as things
for - noun vs verb
outside; they flow into each other. 274 Let’s use the Kleinian internal-externalrelationship as an explicit metaphor (model) for the concepts of internalizationand externalization of costs. Internalized costs are those borne by a company
for - example - Kleinian dynamics - economics - externalize costs
force has been held up as an ideal. Given the way our economic system has beenstructured, unmitigated growth is necessary for the whole system to functionwithout collapsing—that is, until it does finally collapse, because growthwithout destruction is unsustainable. It does not have to be this way, but it ishow our institutions and laws have been set up (by means of language). For
for - example - words - opposites - economic growth
The old form must bedestroyed (to a greater or lesser extent in different circumstances) to allow for
for - eating - life - death - incorporation of the other - example - kleinian dynamics - eating - life sustaining - coexists with - life taking - life = death - you must die so that I may live - When I eat you or you eat me, - You transform what was once a part of my body into your body, taking from me what you need, and getting rid of the rest - So in essence, we destroy others so that part of them can become part of us and vice versa
.All of those processes are , mu-ishi-wa, one side that serves as both sides
for - definition - mu-ishi-wa - one side - serves both sides - lots of examples follow - adjacency - individual / collective gestalt - self / other gestalt - mu-ishi-wa
meme - one side serves both sides
adjacency - individual / collective gestalt - self / other gestalt - mu-ishi-wa - The concept of mu-ishi-wa is similiar to the Deep Humanity concept of self / other gestalt and individual / collective gestalt - in the sense that a visibly autonomous-appearing self or individual is invisibly intertwingled with it's opposite, the other or the collective
enantiodromia
for - definition - enantiodromia - Heraclitean idea that sooner or later, everything turns into its opposite - example - life becomes death
Although the ideas of Abel and Freud have been discredited by linguistsand Egyptologists, 260 the linguist Laurence Horn takes up the notion ofGegensinn
for - linguistics - discredit Freud and Abel - definition - gegensinn (German) - enantionym (English - Laurence Horn - words that are their own opposites
Freud considered the con-cept of Urworte to support a similar bivalence that he observed in his patients’dream images, where a particular image in a dream might mean the oppositein waking consciousness.
for - adjacency - Freud - dreams - Urworte - opposites
was definitely familiar to the early Egyptians and Greeks. This is no longer
for - question - primal languages - early Egyptian - early Greek - others?
“so-called primal words (Urworte), for example, evidence two antithetic con-notations: Latin altus meant ‘high’ as well as ‘low’ [as in the mountain-valleyexample]; sacer meant ‘sacred’ as well as ‘cursed.’” 256 Greek
for - definition - primal words - Urworte - unitary words that contain two opposite poles
Karl Abel’s book Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words]
for - timebinding - Karl Abel - Sigmund Freud - Gebser - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words] - language construction - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words]
consider to be polarities. Differentiation of the poles of a polarity into separateconcepts, then, would emerge after the underlying form of experience (thetraversing of terrain or the passage of time, or, simply, ongoingness of expe-rience of a cyclical nature) was noticed and exploited for some purpose, suchas safety or ease. For example, it is easier moving through the forest by day,and it is cooler moving through the desert at night. There was survival valuein distinguishing different aspects of unified experience.
for - key insight - language - emergence of polarity - evolutionary fitness
vocal communication. Indeed, we learn to use language before we understandlanguage, as exemplified by a friend’s 2-year-old grandson who adeptly appliedwords he had heard his parents say and demanded that “someone change myfucking diaper!” We learn to understand language before we learn to questionlanguage. Rarely do we learn to question language itself.
for - key insight - language - unanswerable questions of the experienced language user - we learn to apply language long before we know what it is.
analysis - Language allows us to ask questions about our reality, but there are certain questions that are intrinsically unanswerable - As an experienced language user, we cannot know what our experience of reality would be like had we not learned a language
The creation of unity by a magical procedure meant the possibility of
for - quote - Carl Jung - diversity and ground of all being - adjacency - Jung on diversity and unity - Deep Humanity tree metaphor
quote - Carl Jung - diversity and ground of all being - The creation of unity by a magical procedure meant the possibility of effecting a union with the world - not with the world of multiplicity as we see it but - with a potential world, - the eternal Ground of all empirical being, <br /> - just as the self is the ground and origin of the individual personality - past, - present, and - future
comment - Deep Humanity strives for the same union of unity and diversity via a tree metaphor, a journey - from the diversity of multiplicity of branches of the tree - back to the common trunk of the tree
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
for - poem - William Blake - Auguries of Innocence - To see a world in a grain of sand - unus mundus - the hole in the whole - adjacency - Koan - the elbow does not bend backkwards - Willliam Blake - To see a World in a Grain of Sand - Indra's net - Carl Jung - Unus Mundus
, involves integrating conceptual opposites
for - definition - unio mentalis - Car Jung - first coniunctio - union of opposites - subject and object - masculine and feminine - the "HOLE" in the "wHOLE"
The next conjunction, called the coniunctio oppositorum, integrates theunio mentalis with the body
for - definition - coniunctio oppositorum - Carl Jung - second coniunctio - union of unio mentalis with the body - pysche and cosmos
comment - It seems like this should literally be the one that units opposites!
union leads us to the third coniunctio that Jung describes, called the unusmundus
for - definition - unus mundus - Carl Jung - third coniunctio - integration of all that is with all that is not
That expe-rience made it very clear to me that the ideas I am proposing could result ina similar experience for my readers. That is why any novel language, or evenmodifications to English or other languages, need to be built from the groundup by users themselves and be as transparent as possible.
for - adjacency - misinterpretation - Indyweb dev - symmathesetic fingerprint - salience mismatch
In this book, I am suggesting a unio mentalis of an atypical polarity—aunion of consciousness and language. The book is, through me, becomingitself
for - unio mentalis - as a union of consciousness and language
phase of individuating, which consists of a series of unions or conjunctions.Jung calls them coniunctio and describes three. 249 I mention them here briefly;however, knowing
for - definition - coniunctio (3 types) - Carl Jung
Individuation requires relativizing one’s ego in order to integrate increas-ingly comprehensive types of opposites, such as one’s persona characteristicsand one’s shadow characteristics, to realize one’s true Self. It is a vortical pro-
for - definition - individuation - working - integrating increasingly comprehensive types of opposites to realize ones true self - including and holding in tension projections and shadows - adjacency - individuation - integrating - projections - shadows - holding tension
Human individuation consists of more than a biological process of matura-tion; it is a spiral process of ongoingly integrating, dissolving, and re-integratingone’s psyche
for - indviduation - in humans
Individuating at the physical level occurs in all life. When a seed sprouts,it starts becoming the type of plant that it is—squash, lilac, redwood. Inflowering plants, for example, there is an identifiable continuum or cycle thatthe plant goes through, from sprouting to flowering to fruiting to reseeding.
for - example - individuate - plant life
In-dividuate means “not-divided.” According to Carl Jung, individuation is aprocess on one hand of becoming whole and on the other of circumambulating
for - definition - individuation - Carl Jung - process of becoming whole and circumambulating your life
individuation
for - definition individuation - Carl Jung - process of integration
Our time is a time for crossing barriers, for erasing old categories—for probingaround. When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised,put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
for - quote - Indyweb - adjacency - Marshal McLuhan
Jean Gebser (1905–1973), a German-born, naturalized Swiss citizen, is bestknown for his magnum opus The Ever-Present Origin
for - book - The Ever-Present Origin - Jean Gebser - to - youtube - The Integral Way of Jean Gebser with Jeremy Johnson - https://hyp.is/gnHv-izuEfCCBZObkKymvw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXf2jtl0ndc
comment - I hadn't heard of Gebser before and found this chapter difficult to understand - I found a good introductory video on Geber's work, especially the 5 stages and their meaning - Click on the youtube link above for a good introduction to Gebser's ideas
These five structures ofconsciousness—the archaic, magic, mythic, mental, and integral structures—
for - adjacency - consciousness - spirituality - Gebser's 5 structures of consciousness - archaic - magic - mythic - mental - integral
to what its purpose might have been. By looking at TPM and Gebser together,we can begin to get out of our linguistic ruts and use the ladder (ordinarylanguage) to see beyond the ladder.
for - meme - use the ladder to see beyond the ladder
described thus: “The key is to hold two perspectives simultaneously, to lookat the whole painting while seeing each brush stroke, to consider the wholebody when just the foot hurts, to be here now and to be everywhere every-when.” 204 This requires the ability to have both a local and a global perspectivesimultaneously. To live from that expanded awareness, we need to find ways
for - quote - cosmolocal - Lisa E. Maroski - aligned terminology - everywhere everywhen - example - individual / collective gestalt - expanded self -overcoming instinctive and learned othering quote - cosmolocal - Lisa E. Maroski - The key is to hold two perspectives simultaneously, - to look at the whole painting while seeing each brush stroke, - to consider the whole body when just the foot hurts, - to be here now and to be everywhere everywhen.” - This requires the ability to have both a local and a global perspective simultaneously.
comment - This requires a major gestalt switch - It is a radical deorientation to absorb the other into our expanded self - If we have othered our entire life, it is radical to absorb that which we have othered as our own self nature - We even have to overcome instinctive evolutionary adaptations of othering that enable individuals to survive
be nothing “out there” to refer to, only distinctions within my-expansive-self.
for - nondual re-interpretation - of "self" - expanded self
ivein paradox might be uncomfortable, even terrifying, at first, given our culturalabhorrence of it. To recategorize that which our current category structureconsiders an “object” (e.g., a tree, rock, or your computer) as a subject-object,we need to revise deeply held assumptions, beliefs, and ways of relating toall types of “others.” For example, we will need to understand the implicitassumption that, when I refer to “that X” (e.g., you, or that tree, or eventhat book), I am referring to an expanded sense of myself as subject-object.
for - gestalt switch - nondual language - deorient ourselves - true nature of mind practice - language shift - for this to work requires a gestalt switch paradigm shift - it goes beyond intellectual and requires full immersion, not to - re-orient ourselves, but to - de-orient ourselves
and live from the knowing of oneself as a difference-within-unity. To do
for - equivalency -difference-within-unity - Deep Humanity Individual / Collective gestalt
What Bohm perceived 40 years ago has since been magnified. To be freefrom the constraints of fragmentary worldviews, it is necessary to see how thelanguage we use, especially the father tongue, is deeply enmeshed with andexpressive of a fragmentary worldview
for - adjacency - question - Daivd Bohm - language - separation - dualism - question - is it at all possible to use language AND have a non fragmentary worldview? - If by fragmentary we mean dualistic, then I do not see how it is even possible.
Consider the consequences of remaining stuck using language that assumesand hence sustains a state of radical differentiation. Jung describes how thedevelopment of consciousness contributed to the corresponding radical dif-ferentiation within language:
for - quote - adjacency - Carl Jung - consciousness - language - dualism - loss of holism
for - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - book - review - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - adjacency - Lisa's conlanger - Deep Humanity BEing journeys - Indyweb - provenance - Deep Humanity - language BEing journey - author - Lisa E. Maroski - to - post - LinkedIn - Bayo Akomolafe - from 'belief' to 'apolief" - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2Fbayoakomolafe_i-am-against-worldview-the-term-seems-activity-7319799984663535616-fpVW%2F&group=world
new trailmark - summary to review - the word "review" may be a better trailmark word than "summary" - At this point, I will replace "summary" with "review" in the case of book or article reviews
review - Lisa's book is an insightful convergence of an important but ignored subject, the experiential intersection between language and consciousness. - Her understanding that language plays an important role in constructing our reality leads to a bold and novel proposal, especially salient at this time of global poly-meta-perma-meaning crisis. - She proposes that we individually and collectively experiment and explore creating new words and language structures that transcend the limitations of our existing language - If patterns of language usage traps us in outdated conceptual paradigms, then breaking out of these may be challenging, if not impossible, without the creation of new linguistic and language structures. - From a Stop Reset Go and Deep Humanity perpsective, Lisa's proposal for practical experimentation with constructing new languages to unleash new forms of expression is very aligned to Deep Humanity BEing journeys - As I read and annotate Lisa's book, any potential linguistic and language BEing journeys that her words inspired will be recorded for posterity
Addendum - note from journal - 2025, May 8 - reflections on Lisa's book - asynchronous communication is only one half of indyweb - the other half is asynchronous REFLECTION AND SYNTHESIS - Effective timebinding requires both - Annotation captures interpersonal shared ideas - journalling captures ours own unique synthesis only emerges from asynchronous reflections of our existent associative network of ideas and the newly ingested interpersonal ones - Annotations capture the novel and newly inputted interpersonal ones - but annotation currently only applies to hypothesis - it needs to expand to realtime meetings such as zoom calls, emails, socials media comments and socials media chats in order to be complete - Until now, there has not been a medium with sufficient set of affordances to unleash the affordances potential in language itself - While digital media has existed and rapidly developed for the past 5 decades, - employing and leveraging it to unleash the full potential of language itself has not ever been conceived of until the concept of Indyweb arrived - Indeed, we could make the claim that the indyweb is a foundational human technology on the same order as language itself because it completes language, revealing its empty ( shunyata) quality, thereby - uniting it with the universe itself - From the unlimited potential of the tacit, - the limited forms of words emerge, both are 2 sides off the same nondual coin - and unleashing the full , unrealized potential of language - It is the provenance aspect of the indyweb that provides an automatic trail of all our learning journey, making both the - individual and - intertwingled collective evolution of ideas available as records for. timebinding posterity
polar regions. The melting of sea ice and ice sheets is not palpable to most.” 201Climate change is invisible when we consider ourselves separate from Gaia
for - adjacency - hyperobject - language of separation - new trailmark format - adjacency
adjacency - hyperobject -- language of separation - There is another related reason that many people do not value climate crisis - these concepts are hyperobjects - objects so large that they are beyond the scope of evolutionarily evolved salience - language evolved within humans to deal with environmental events that were salient to our immediate survival - the climate crisis is steeped in complex science and applies to the entire planet, something that humans were never evolved to cognitively apprehend
Hence,those who do not inhabit our own information bubble are often invisibleto us, unless we are demonizing them (projecting our shadow onto them)
for - quote - othering
sense that who I think I am is not who I appear to be. Jung calls this act offacing and accepting of otherness in oneself “integrating the shadow.” One
for - adjacency - embracing paradox, evolving language! - Jung - integrating the shadow
For a sociocultural shift to happen, individual shifts must occur. Thus,it might be useful to turn to one’s own lived sense of paradox in order toappreciate it in the broader context. How does Kleinian awareness/intuition/comprehension/aperspectivity presentiate in your everyday life? Facing personal
for - embracing paradox, evolving language!
an ancient Gnostic wisdom text, The Thunder, Perfect Mind
for - book - The Thunder, Perfect Mind - reminds me of Thich Nhat Hahn's writing, or Rumi's poems
discussed above? In other words, how do we revise logic to grant paradox whereit is required? What new kinds of paradoxical concepts might better expressthe complexities of our ecological, economic, and other post-postmoderncontexts and systems? Is it possible to work them into the syntax of our exist-
for - adjacency - language - embedding paradox - my poem - To be or not to be, that is the question - To be AND not to be, that is the answer!
for Rosen’s ideas to be fully taken up linguistically would require, as I haveargued, not just semiotic innovation but full-scale sociocultural shift in world
for - language construction - nondual - Rosen
used to create the problem. To that I would add, can there be a new mindsetif it is necessary to use the language of the old mindset? I suspect that onewill encounter the same limitations of the old mindset. Who can build a new
for - adjacency - new mindset built on old? - like - scientific breakthrough by forming a new idea
coagulatio
for - definition - coagulatio - congealing ideas
Different types of leverage points are possible for each infra/exostructureof language. To the extent that each infra/exostructure has its particular way
for - adjacency - leverage point - language
congealing can take the form of an“aha moment” or a gestalt shift. New conceptual bonds form.
for - definition - gestalt shift - like - Gyuri - gestalt switch
To find ways to enable full-spectrum language to embrace paradox, itwill be necessary to move into the paradigm of both/and. However, there areno agreed-upon conventions for expressing categories, logic, concepts, andsign-vehicles that partake of both/and-ness. We will need to invent ways toconvey nonduality, interdependent co-arising, and paraconsistency in ordinarylanguage.
for - language - both / and-ness
For example, the ancient Chinesecharacter Te (Figure 11) is often translated as “virtue” or “integrity.”
for - language - chinese - character - Te - meaning - language - non-alphabetic - sign vehicle - chinese
ordinarysign-vehicles (words) cannot sufficiently represent an internally complex con-cept, such as Being, that integrates subject and object in a way that retainstheir uniqueness yet also acknowledges their transpermeability. B
for - question - Being - difficult to represent using normal words - are there examples?
Concept. The term “concept” has differing meanings in various contexts(psychology, linguistics, philosophy). I am using “concept” as an abstractionthat does not reference a thing; rather, a concept establishes a boundary in afield of meaning. One might say that concepts are agreed-upon set bound-aries.
for - adjacency - concept - boundary
assumptions. For example, “I/you (as a Kleinian unity) within field [love]”
for - example - I love you - nondual syntax
“Iam writing this chapter.” At the moment I wrote those words in the very first
for - example - language - assumptions - I am writing this chapter
The metaphors in the passage above are also familiar: RAIN IS AKNIFE that pierces drought. Although the content words that comprise themetaphors have changed a bit, the function words (italicized)—i.e., articles,prepositions, and conjunctions—have not changed through the centuries.184Function words establish the infrastructure of a sentence inside of which themain content words
for - language - function and content words
istoriography of a word (everyuse of a word and everything that has been said and written about it)
for - definition - word histiography - like semantic fingerprint / semantic folding - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=semantic+fingerprint - adjacency - word histiography - semantic fingerprint - semantic folding - symmathesetic fingerprint - symmathesetic folding - Indyweb - Indranet
adjacency - between - word histiography - semantic fingerprint - semantic folding - symmathesetic fingerprint - symmathesetic folding - Indyweb - Indranet - adjacency relationship - Word histiography is another way to describe a key feature of the Indyweb's Indranet, - semantic fingerprint and - semantic folding - gives rise to the Indyweb / Indranet terminology - symmathesetic fingerprint - symmathesetic folding - The Indyweb enables the Indyvidual to continuously update the word histiography using cluemarks - The key idea of the Indyweb / Indranet is that words are themselves impermanent and in constant flux, their meanings always changing - Until the conception of the Indyweb / Indranet, there has never been a media designed with the capability to reflect that continuous flux, a feature we might denote with the new - neologism - variverbum - words that have constantly changing meaning - adj. variverbilis
the writer/speaker–reader/listener dyad.This is where the implicit sorting of subjects and objects (as
for - adjacency - writer/speaker - reader/listerner dyad - Indyweb transmitter - receiver
Experience takes the lead but it is anexperience widened by speech. One can thereby identify a basic tension within thephenomenological treatment of language: on the one hand, phenomenology subordinates speechto experience; on the other, phenomenology identifies the reciprocity of speech and experience.Heidegger’s signature if enigmatic formula, “Language is the house of being,” expresses just thisreciprocity (Heidegger 1998a, 39
for - to - book Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Lisa argues that language and consciousness are two sides of the same coin - adjacency - Heidegger - Symbolosphere - to - symbolosphere annotations - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=Symbolosphere adjacency - between - Heidegger's position on language - the symbolosphere - adjacency relationship - The symbolosphere is an individual or group's world of symbols - Modern humans inhabit the symbolosphere, - in fact, we spend the majority of our lives in the symbolosphere
Experienceenriches language by rooting its structures in the robust structures of perceived things(perceiving the skin as sunburned fills out the meaning of “My skin is sunburned”)
for - key insight - language - induction leads to general categories - neonates experience reality as a continuous, unbroken stream of consciousness - To form objects required object permanence - which in turn requires us to impute general categories first, - which is constructed upon a process of induction - based on the raw material of particular, remembered gestaltic experiences - ideas ( and therefore words) are essentially constructed categories that allow us to unite entire series of remembered, gestaltic experiences of phenomenological reality - Consider the author's example of sunburned skin: - Suppose the is an infant for whom the word 'skin' does not have a meaning. - The infant may have experienced many separate pre-linguistic, gestaltic experiences involving his skin: - sunburned skin - itchy skin - skin scalded by hot water - skin that is cold - dirty skin from playing in the dirt - clean skin after waking the dirt off - cut skin from a knife cutting it accidentally in the kitchen - bandaged and healed skin - All of these gestaltic experiences, when accompanied by the appropriate vocalisations of the caretaker who is present that use the word 'skin' help the infant to construct the category meaning of the word 'skin' - Early language training is an induction-intensive process - Unless we learn how to construct abstract categories at a young age, we cannot become proficient abstract language users as adults - By abstract, I mean the category nature of word s and ideas, which give them their flexibility and modularity
this is something very common in G upstairs language to associating um tracing the etymology of language
for - adjacency - Gebser - tracing etymology of language - Indyweb / Indranet - provenance
for - youtube - The Integral Way of Jean Gebser with Jeremy Johnson - from - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Lisa E. Maroski - https://hyp.is/_Omm2iwzEfCfBt9GThVUqg/ipfs.indy0.net/ipfs/bafybeihk6dcr7dfruu65z5e5ze2rkeiydkmgbbpadhyulckm4afnqbtdgy
he represents this in his writing with the point um it's it's the uh everything is a portal to everything else everything is in relationship with everything else there is nothing that is not in relationship with everything uh one point is a doorway to All Points
for - quote - one point is a doorway to all points - Jean Gebser - adjacency - Gebser's point - Indyweb's dot - Indranet's dot
multidirectional links
for - question - multidirectional links - like tree ? Indranet?
To “switch worldviews” then is not like changing glasses. Or running the privileged finger down the golden fonts of a fine restaurant's menu. It is more like entering another ecology entirely. Or being entered. And such an entry can only ever happen with cracks, displacements, hauntings.
for - adjacency - apolief - Bayo - Automatic Language Growth - ALG - J. Marvin Brown - David Long - This statement is aligned with the Automatic Language Growth school of language learning developed by linguist J. Marvin Brown and continued by David Long - ALG takes the view that language is a happening, an experience and the best way to learn is to engage in the experience the way that an infant of native language does, with no prior experience or knowledge - to - J Marvin Brown - Automatic Language Growth - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w
apolief
for - definition - apolief - Bayo
analysis - apolief - Example - apolief from belief - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language
What if your sense of self, your seeing, your feeling, your very intelligibility as a “someone” are not possessions within a worldview, but part of an accommodation process issued from it, co-conditioned, emergent, and entangled?
for - quote - Sense of Self - worldview - Bayo - critique - worldview - Bayo - new trailmark - analysis
quote - Sense of Self - worldview - Bayo - What if, instead, worldviews are - not views from worlds - but the ways worlds come into view? - What if your sense of self, - your seeing, - your feeling, - your very intelligibility as a “someone” - are not possessions within a worldview, - but part of an accommodation process issued from it, - co-conditioned, - emergent, and - entangled?
analysis - Bayo juxtapositions - the normative subject/object dualistic view of a Self having an experience with objects with - a nondualistic view in which self and other, subject and object are two sides of the same seamless coin - The aggregate experience of "many diverse appearances" is imputed to be a "self" that is having these many diverse experiences of appearances - rather than apprehending the totality as an unbroken continuum<br /> - Are we not imaginative enough to break our deep conditioning of Self and other / subject and object and experience the totality of phenomena, instead imputing a self? - The individual "self" is indeed a compelling story because the biological individual inherently - has a distinct, and identifiable though dynamic boundary with its environment - has been bestowed with the evolutionary trait of instinct for survival - and therefore prioritizes securing resources required for its biological continuation - To see beyond this pyscho/physical appearance requires a high level of integration
for - source - Donna Nelham - @Fellowship of the Commons Telegram group zoom meeting - 2025, May 6 - article - Linkedin - Bayo Akomolafe - I am against "worldview" - to - article - Substack Annik De Witt - Toxic Polarization is killing us. A new worldview can save us - https://hyp.is/OChhXCvdEfC0MEOwIi_joA/annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us
I am against 'worldview'.
for - critique - worldview - Bayo
for - youtube - CNBC - rise and fall of Beyond Meat
for - youtube - Breaking Point - Yanis Varoufakis reveals Trump Tariff strategy - Trump's trade and deficit strategy - analysis - Yanis Varoufakis
summary - Good economic analysis of what Trump is trying to do with his Tariff strategy - Varoufakis points out that Trump's strategy is similar to Nixon's strategy many decades ago but he does not think Trump's strategy will succeed because he cannot completely eliminate the US deficit because it is how the US rentier class makes its huge profits: - Other countries export into US market and use the recycle the US dollars back into US Treasury bonds
in the classroom you want to focus you we're earlier talking about what do you what do you tell students when they first show up right yeah you want to focus on meaning not on language focus on what's happening not on words and phrases and pronunciation all right
for - natural language acquisition - teaching - focus on meaning, not words - Latest Annotation
science tells us that kids learn better from one from zero from the birth to five years old they're the fastest they're the best at learning model them then just do what they do you can't get better than that
for - stats - natural language acquisition - 1 to 2 year old is age of fastest and best learning
comment - ALG philosophy - replicate the experiences that 1 to 2 year olds have
show me any other program that that tries to teach you language for a one to two-year-old that's what we're doing it doesn't compare to teaching a language to a five-year-old we're not there yet
for - natural language acquisition - age - 2 year old is right age to aim to learn at
comment - 2 year old age is when an infant learns to hear and speak a spoken language first - reading and writing does not happen until about 5 years of age - When we are learning a new second language, it is therefore appropriate to aim for the same goal as a native 2 year old language user
a wrong guess is a hundred times better than a right answer yeah that's just giving you the reason is a right answer closes your mind a wrong guess you're still open and that's the vital characteristic
for - quote - natural language acquisition - wrong guess - right answer - adjacency - natural language acquisition - open mind
patience and tolerance for ambiguity
for - natural language acquisition skills - patience - tolerance for ambiguity - constructing good guesses to meaning
that was the biggest challenge i think we had and still have within uh alg is teachers think they've got to explain the language and they're short cutting the process they're short circuiting the process and they're cheating the student out of a otherwise good experience
for - adjacency - Socratic method - ALG - natural language acquisition - explanation - infants learning native language
adjacency - between - Socratic method - natural language acquisition - ALG - explanation - adjacency relationship - When the teacher explains the meaning to the student, - it actually robs the student of the active learning experience of guessing the right meaning - Infants learning their native language for the first time are necessarily in the "deep end" and face discomfort - They (we) are constantly forced to guess and actually actively construct meaning out of the universe of symbols we are being exposed to in a multitude of contexts
that discomfort is a tough one that's the first part you gotta face that and if you're not facing it then you've learned to walk with crutches
for - natural language acquisition - important role of discomfort