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.

for - Paris Agreement - U.S. commitments - contribution from IInflation Reduction Act

Paris Agreement - U.S. commitment - contribution from Inflation Reduction Act - U.S. committed to 60% emissions reduction by 2030 - If Inflation Reduction Act is fully implemented without GOP-stacked court blocking it - it achieves 40% - Biden 2024 win is necessary, but not sufficient - Trump 2024 win will be a step in the wrong direction

for - quote - Michael Mann - quote - 2024 U.S. elections - future of civilization - quote - existential threat of 2024 Trump win - polycrisis - politics - inequality - climate

quote - Michael Mann - date: May 11, 2023 - source: The Hill - Op Ed - https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4290467-trump-2-0-the-climate-cannot-survive-another-trump-term/ - (see below)

• It is not an overstatement to say, one year out, that
  • we face an American election unlike any other.
• It will determine
  • not only the course of the American experiment
  • but the path that civilization collectively follows.
    • On the left is democracy and environmental stewardship.
    • On the right is fascism and planetary devastation.
• Choose wisely.

for - book - If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decades and the Missing Revolution - author: Vincent Bevins

for - mass movements - how they fail - The Ecologist

Summary - A good article exploring why mass movements fail, work for a journalist who has spent years writing about such movements. - In a nutshell, his observations are that modern history shows that leaderless movements are destined to fail because (social) nature abhors a vacuum.

for - semantic folding - semantic fingerprint - natural language processing - NLP - cortical.io - Numenta

• annotate

for - title: A unifying Framework

for - definition - partnership-domination scale - definition - unified regressive frame

• 1. Neuroscience shows that children’s early
  2. observations and
  3. experiences
• directly affect the structure of our brains, and with this, how we
  • think,
  • feel, and
  • act

• including how we vote.

• 1. These
  2. observations and
  3. experiences
• are very different depending on the degree that our early environments orient to the
  • partnership or
  • domination
• end of the partnership-domination social scale.

for - worldwide backward push - unified regressive agenda

for - epiphany - money is the only lens that business sees reality through

epiphany - money is the only lens that business sees reality through - Just hit me how economics is the dominant and only metric that seems to matter to much of the business community - even in most research papers, we have to keep translating environmental into economic, as if the only people that matter are business people - it is indicative that we DO NOT KNOW HOW TO INTRINSICALLY VALUE NATURE

for - combined heat stress and heavy precipitation events - CHPE

for - ESP application - animal feedback

for - research - ESP application

for - perspectival knowing - John Verveake

for - book - Thomas Metzinger - The Ego Tunnel

for - adjacency - self construction - judgment as simplification - imagination is hard work

adjacency - between - self construction - judgment as simplification - imagination as hard work - adjacency statement - We construct the self of others because we are lazy. - It takes hard work to construct a complex picture of another human being. - It's easier to just pass simple judgment and create a label for the other.

for - definition - fundamental attribution error

definition - fundamental attribution error - a psychological condition in which an individual attrbutes a human behavior to an internal characteristic instead of environmental circumstances

for - quote - Sarah Stein Lubrano - quote - self as cultural construction in WEIRD culture - sense of self

quote - (immediately below)

• It's just a weird fascination of our weird culture that
  • we think the self is there and
  • it's the best and most likely explanation for human behavior
• Other people in other cultures do not think this
• and that suggests that our sense of self is largely culturally constructed

discussion - sense of self is complex. See the work of - Michael Levin and - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=michael+levin - Major Evolutionary Transition in Individuality - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=major+evolutionary+transition+in+individuality

for - definition - Weird - stats - Weird countries - greatest sense of self - inspiration - introduce - Sarah Stein Lubrano - Rachell - Indyweb - Indranet

definition - Weird - Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic

inspiration - introduce Rachel and Sarah to Indyweb / Indranet - As soon as I heard Rachel and Sarah talk about the prominent and unique WEIRD feature of sense of self, - I immediately thought that we must introduce them to our work on the Indyweb / |ndranet as our system is designed based on the epistemology that - we are not a thing - we are a process - we are evolution in realtime action - the very use of the Indyweb / Indranet reinforces the reality that we are a process and not a fixed entity - so deconstructs the social construct of the self

for - Linked In discussion - harm caused by neoliberalism on food system

• for: annotate, Michael Mann - critique of James Hansen 2023 paper, climate crisis - James Hansen - Michael Mann, suggestion - debate - james hansen - michael mann, question - has Hansen responded to Mann yet?

suggestion - can we arrange an online debate between James Hansen and Michael Mann?

for - Biden vote - Gen z factors - adjacency - 2024 U.S. elections - Trump vs Biden - Gen Z is an important demographic

adjacency - between - 2024 U.S. elections - Trump vs Biden - Gen Z is an important demographic - adjacency statement - Gen Z can play a critical role in the 2024 U.S. elections. - Pro - they care about environment - Con - not many of them may bother voting - Challenge - reaching them with the right message

for - progress trap - sexually explicit AI deepfake - Taylor Swift - sexually explicit AI deepfake

for - climate crisis - 2023 U.S. poll - demographics - climate communication - 2023 U.S. poll - demographics - climate change - 2023 U.S. poll - demographics - U.S. Hispanic / Latinos - 2023 - high concern about climate crisis - U. S. African American - 2023 - high concern about climate change - U.S. Gen Z - 2023 - high concern about climate change

for - climate crisis - 2023 U.S. poll - climate communication - 2023 U.S. poll

for - silver economy - stats - silver economy

stats - silver economy - 2024 - 7 trillion yuan ($982 billion USD) - 6 % GDP - 2035 - 30 trillion yuan ($4.2 trillion USD) - 10% GDP

question - silver economy - climate change impacts? transition impacts?

for - 2024 U.S. elections - polycrisis - 2024 U.S. elections - existential threat to civilization- climate crisis

summary - Some good points: - importance of Black and Latino voters - importance of a third party that can spoil the vote

for - carbon emissions - flying to every country

comment - Exactly how is this justified with 5 years on the climate clock left?

for - quote - Michael Mann - quote - a Second Trump presidency - polycrisis - politics and climate crisis - climate mitigation strategy - voting in 2024 U.S. election - adjacency - Michael Mann - 2nd Trump presidency - exceeding planetary boundaries - exceeding 1.5 Deg C - Gen Z voting

adjacency - between - Michael Mann - 2nd Trump presidency - exceeding planetary boundaries - exceeding 1.5 Deg C - Trump's presidency is existential threat to humanity - Gen Z voting - 2024 election - adjacency statement - Michael Mann's quote " A second Trump term is game over for the climate - really" applies to the 2024 election if Trump becomes the Republican nominee. - Trumps dismal environmental record in his 2016 to 2020 term speaks for itself. He would do something similiar in 2025 if he were the president. G - Given there are only 5 years and 172 days before we hit the dangerous threshold of burning through all the carbon budget for humanity, - https://climateclock.world/ - It is questionable whether Biden's government alone can do enough, but certainly if Trump won the 2024 election, his term in office would create a regression severe enough to put the Paris Climate goal of staying within 1.5 Deg C out of reach, and risk triggering major planetary tipping points - A Biden government is evidence-based and believes in anthropogenic climate change and is already taking measures to mitigate it. A Trump government is not evidence-based and is supported by incumbent fossil fuel industry so does not have the interest of the U.S. population nor all of humanity at heart. - Hence, the 2024 U.S. election can really determine the fate of humanity. - Gen Z can play a critical role for humanity by voting against a government that would, in leading climate scientists Michael Mann's words, be game over for a stable climate, and therefore put humanity and unimaginable risk. - Gen Z can swing the vote to a government willing to deal with the climate crisis over one in climate denial so voting activists need to be alerted to this and create the right messaging to reach Gen Z - https://hyp.is/LOud7sBBEe6S0D8itLHw1A/circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/41-million-members-gen-z-will-be-eligible-vote-2024

for - Gen Z influence on 2024 US election - Trump 2024 win - an existential threat to humanity - stats - Gen Z - 2024 U.S. election

comment - Gen Z can play a role in determining the future of human civilization. How? Their vote in the upcoming 2024 U.S. election. If Donald Trump wins, it can pose an existential threat to human civilization - https://hyp.is/mwqwpsA-Ee6bAd9C2MLeKg/www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-2024-presidency-climate-change-rcna131928

stats - Gen Z - 2024 U.S. election

• In the next presidential election, 40.8 million members of Gen Z (ages 18-27 in 2024) will be eligible to vote,
  • including 8.3 million newly eligible youth (ages 18-19 in 2024)
  • who will have aged into the electorate since the 2022 midterm election.
• These young people have tremendous potential to
  • influence elections and to
  • spur action on issues they care about
• if they are adequately reached and supported by parties, campaigns, and organizations.

for - dream theory - dreaming as default state of brain

• Dreaming can be seen as the "default" position for the activated brain
• when it is not forced to focus on
  • physical and
  • social reality by
    • (1) external stimuli and
    • (2) the self system that reminds us of
      • who we are,
      • where we are, and
      • what the tasks are
    • that face us.

Question - I wonder what evolutionary advantage dreaming would bestow to the first dreaming organisms? - why would a brain evolve to have a default behaviour with no outside connection? - Survival is dependent on processing outside information. There seems to be a contradiction here - I wonder what opinion Michael Levin would have on this theory?

for - dream research

Summary - This presents a new theory of dreams that challenge Freud and Jung's interpretation of dreams. - It is intriguing, as it posits that the dream state is the default state of the brain. - it makes more sense to me.

source - google search - does dreaming allow cognitive during waking state to be possible?

• https://dreams.ucsc.edu/Library/domhoff_2010a.html

for - validation - alternative to Freud's explanation of dreams - dream cognition - dream research

Validation - I've never subscribed to the Freudian interpretation of dreams and this seems to make more sense

• Four very different types of unexpected research findings from inside and outside the sleep laboratory since the 1950s
• make it possible to suggest a new cognitive approach to
  • dreaming and
  • dream content,
• an approach that has the potential to be extended into a neurocognitive theory as well.
• These findings, which are discussed throughout this article,
• cast doubt on the
  • Freudian,
  • Jungian, and
  • activation-synthesis theories
• that dominated thinking about dreams in the twentieth century.
• Those three theories all began with the idea that
• there were major differences between
  • waking cognition and
  • dreaming,
• but the findings presented in this article suggest that
• there are far more parallels between
  • dreaming and
  • waking thought
• than they realized (Domhoff, 2003b).

for - multi scale competency architecture - Michael Levin - evolutionary biology - rapid whole system change - adjacency - multi scale competency architecture - rapid whole system change - stop reset go - Deep Humanity - Indyweb - Indranet - major evolutionary transition in individuality - MET - superorganism - cumulative cultural evolution of individuality

adjacency - between - multi scale competency architecture - rapid whole system change - progress trap - stop reset go - Deep Humanity - Indyweb - Indranet - major evolutionary transition in individuality - MET - superorganism - cumulative cultural evolution of individuality - adjacency statement - The idea of multi scale competency architecture can be extended to apply to the cultural level. - in the context of humanity's current existential poly /meta/ perma crisis, - rapid whole system change - (a cultural behavioural paradigm shift) - is required within a few short years - to avoid the worst impacts of - catastrophic, - anthropogenic - climate change, which is entangled with a host of other earth system boundary violations including - biodiversity loss - fresh water scarcity - - the driver of evolution through major evolutionary transitions in individuality has given rise to the level of cultural superorganisms that include all previous levels - progress and its intended consequences of progress traps play a major role in determining the future evolutionary trajectory of our and many other species - our species is faced with a few choice permutations in this regard: - individually regulate behaviour aligned with a future within earth system boundaries - collectively regulate behaviour aligned with a future within earth system boundaries - pursue sluggish green growth / carbon transition that is effectively tinkering at the margins of rapid whole system change - BAU - currently, there doesn't appear to be any feasible permutation of any of the above choices - There is insufficient worldview alignment to create the unity at scale for report whole system change - individual incumbent state and corporate actors still cling too tightly to the old, destructive regime, - creating friction that keeps the actual rate of change below the required - Stop Reset Go, couched within the Deep Humanity praxis and operationalized through the Indyweb / Indranet individual / collective open learning system provides a multi-dimensional tool for a deep educational paradigm shift that can accelerate both individual and collective upregulation of system change

for - CAR T cells - anti aging - eliminate senescent cells in mice. - quote - anti aging - CAR T cells

quote - (see below)

• If we give it to aged mice, they rejuvenate.
• If we give it to young mice, they age slower.
• No other therapy right now can do this,
• author: Amor Vegas

for - CAR T cells - research - anti aging - adjacency - CAR T cells - Michael Levin - Cold Spring Harbor Lab - Corina Amor Vegas - senescent cells - fountain of youth

for - quote - whole system change - bottom up whole system change - open function SRG/ Deep Humanity/ Indyweb / Indranet / TPF framework - definition - transformation catalyst

quote - (see below) - A transformation catalyst is an actor who - brings together numerous initiatives and actors around a shared and co-defined set of interests - with an action agenda in mind. - The TC stewards these actors through a set of three general (dialogue- and action-based) processes that can be adapted - to the unique context, needs, and interests - of each system and its players. - So organized, initiatives can collectively co-evolve and co-emerge - into a purposeful transformation system - oriented towards whole system change in a given context (which could happen - locally, - regionally, - bioregionally, or even more broadly - depending on the actors and orientations involved

for - key insight - movement of movements - What's missing - transformation catalyst - indyweb / Indranet

• What is more lacking, however,
• are approaches to transformation
• that can be applied in and adapted to
• multiple (and necessarily unique) contexts
• to provide a framework for building such action strategies.
• Here I would introduce the concepts of transformation catalysts
• who build effective, purposeful transformation systems
• using three general processes of
  • connecting,
  • cohering, and
  • amplifying.

for - polycrisis - uniting change actors

for - key insight - global movement requirements - new organising system - indyweb /Indranet - people-centered - interpersonal - individual collective gestalt - a foundational idea of indyweb / Indranet epistemology - Deep Humanity - epistemological foundation of indyweb / Indranet

• The world cannot wait
• for us to learn or know everything that we need to know
• for bringing about purposeful system change
• towards desired and broadly shared aspirations
• for a more
  • equitable,
  • just, and
  • ecologically flourishing
• world.
• The key question before us is
  • how to become transformation catalysts
  • that work with numerous associated
    • initiatives and
    • leaders
  • to form
    • purposeful and
    • action-oriented
  • transformation systems
  • that build on the collective strength inherent
  • in the many networks already working towards transformation.
• Doing that requires new approaches
• to organizing for transformation
• where multiple initiatives
  • connect,
  • cohere, and
  • amplify
• their
  • individual and
  • collective
• transformative actions

Comment - indyweb / Indranet is ideally suited for this - seeing the mention of individual and collective in a sentence surfaced the new Deep Humanity concept of individual collective gestalt that is intrinsic to the epistemological foundation of the Indyweb / Indranet - This is reflected in the words to describe the Indyweb / Indranet as people-centered and interpersonal

for - World Social Forum - failure to reach action consensus

for - Bee and Flower Logic - subconscious unity? - uniting without consciously uniting - agreement through actions, not words

• Identify the types of strategic congruences
• that do not require
  • people or organizations to be or
  • think the same: “bee-and-flower logic.”
• The bee does not consciously know it is “exchanging a service for a product” (my pollen distribution for your pollen).
• The flower does not know it is exchanging a product for a service (my pollen for your transport).
• However, they sustain each other despite never entering into an agreement.
• Cosmolocalism, for example, relies on this logic,
• as people do not need to agree on an analysis or vision to share in the fruits of the virtuous cycle.
• Let us look for all the places this bee-and-flower logic can be enacted.

for - question - uniting amongst diversity - GCM - global citizens movement

• How do we support the emergence of a powerful GCM
• that expresses
  • strategic and
  • relational congruences (of - analysis and - action)
• within a GCM where diversity (
• ontological and
• epistemological)
• is inherent?

Comment - Deep Humanity, with Common Human Denominators could be proposed as a unifying framework

for - common human denominators - CHD

for - aspectualization

for - new SRG definition of global and local North or South respectively could be helpful here - https://medium.com/@gien_SRG/more-nuanced-terminology-for-post-colonialist-inequality-af2f1609635c

for - key insight - polycrisis - solving - postmodernism alone if insufficient

definition - postmodernism - worldview that champions decentralization, diversity, leaderless coalitions, horizontal networks, etc., etc. author: John Bunzl

claim - post modernism alone is no match for the dynamics of hierarchical Destructive Global Capitalism (DGC) - unity of required amongst the fragmented postmodern movements

for - major evolutionary transitions in individuality - MET in individuality - https://hyp.is/3CqphlpHEe6yUmfDjm_p5A/www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1421402112

for - building - material - earth - Elisabetta Carnevale - BC Materials - Cycle Terre - Joseph Colzani - Center of the Earth

summary - A good outline of contemporary earth building techniques.

to - Cycle Terre - https://hyp.is/p2mdqLuTEe6W0XcNljBbWA/www.cycle-terre.eu/mise-en-oeuvre/les-materiaux/ - BC Material - https://hyp.is/BY5_nLuVEe6v4-dubnc59A/bcmaterials.org/ - BC Material Studies - https://hyp.is/BY5_nLuVEe6v4-dubnc59A/bcmaterials.org/ - Joseph Colzani and Center of the Earth - https://hyp.is/YvQIeLu4Ee6DACOMT1xOdw/www-centredeterre-fr.translate.goog/le-centre-de-terre/?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

for - research - poured earth

research -poured earth - pourable like cement into formwork, but without stabilizers in the future

for - architectural school - earthen building - Grenoble Architecture School - https://www.grenoble.archi.fr/#

for - earth building - stigmatized - historical reasons

for - adobe - forgotten earthen technique in contemporary architecture

for - adobe earth project - Saudia Arabia

for - earth construction hot spot - Inner Catalonia , Spain

for - stats - % of people inhabiting earthen buildings

for - Cycle Terre - https://www.cycle-terre.eu/en/ - https://circulareconomy.europa.eu/platform/en/good-practices/cycle-terre-excavated-soil-urban-areas-becomes-construction-raw-material - https://www.sme-enterprize.com/sustainability-stories/environment/cycle-terre/

description - The Cycle Terre project shifts perspectives - excavation material is no longer treated as waste to be disposed of, - but as a new raw building material for - compressed earth bricks - earth wall panels - earth coatings - https://www.cycle-terre.eu/mise-en-oeuvre/les-materiaux/ - The excavation of kilometers of tunnels to extend the Paris mass transit system will produce enormous amounts of raw feedstock for the Cycle Terre manufacturing plant.- 400 million tons!

for - circular economy - building - excavation waste - circular economy - construction - excavation waste - key insight - repurpose excavation waste as building material

key insight - She makes an pretty important observation about the inefficiency of current linear construction process - The excavation part requires enormous amounts of energy, and the earth that is excavated is treated as waste that must be disposed of AT A COST! - Instead, with a paradigm shift of earth as a valuable building resource, the excavation PRODUCES the building materials! - This is precisely what BC Material's circular economy business model is and it makes total sense!<br /> - With a simple paradigm and perspective shift, waste is suddenly transformed into a resource! - waste2resource - waste-to-resource

new meme - Waste-2-Resource

for - BC Materials - https://bcmaterials.org/ - building cooperative - circular construction - earth - Belgium - building cooperative

for - helioterra - building - material - earth - phase change

from - IAAC Lecture Series - Architecture made of Earth with Elisabetta Carnevale - https://hyp.is/A279UruNEe6A7E_2XRTNRQ/docdrop.org/video/IxrmA9dli1Q/

for - Tools for the Commons

for - flipping the institutional web - Tools for the Commons - to create regenerative institutions

from - Linked In - Michel's substack Linked In post - https://hyp.is/mFzOArocEe6De5dtN_2tMw/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7155134664343441408/?updateEntityUrn=urn:li:fs_feedUpdate:(V2,urn:li:activity:7155134664343441408)

for - interview - alternative types of sovereignties - interview - Hugo Mathecowitsch - Michel Bauwens substack article

from - IAAC Lecture Series - Architecture made of Earth with Elisabetta Carnevale - https://hyp.is/A279UruNEe6A7E_2XRTNRQ/docdrop.org/video/IxrmA9dli1Q/

for - healthy eating - Dr. William Li - nutrition - healthy food - inflammation - angiogenesis

summary - A good interview about human health and healthy diet. William Li begins by talking about angiogenesis as a key aspect of human health - and how pathology of angiogenesis is at the root of many major diseases. - The interviewer then asks Dr. Li about the connection between another keystone disease, and angiogenesis. - Dr. Li then describes some healthy foods and good dietary practices including extra virgin olive oil.

adjacency - between - angiogenesis - inflammation - Micheal Levine's work - evolutionary biology - adjacency statement - they all seem related, as evolutionary biology has created legacy subsystems within the human body

for - extra virgin olive oil - good ingredients

benefits - extra virgin olive oil - the meat of the olives contain beneficial polyphenols - 3 tbsp a day max

healthiest olives - look for mono varietal olive oil - picual is highest - greek olive oil - coroniki highest - Italian - moriolo from Umbria

for - William Li - personal philosophy - healthy food strategy - begin by asking about favorite foods

personal philosophy - William Li - what food do you eat that already brings you joy? - find out which ones are healthy - show them it's not heavy lifting

for - William Li influences - Bruce Lee - know yourself - key question to ask people - what do they really enjoy?

for - adjacency - cancer - inflammation - angiogenesis

adjacency - between - cancer - angiogenesis - inflammation - adjacency statement - if a tumor is kind of like a wound - it can hijack blood vessels - if you have some form of chronic inflammation - and cancer causes inflammation - it makes it easier to access blood supply - making cancer growth more likely

for - diseases with chronic inflammation - lupus - rheumatoid arthritis - diabetes

for - chronic disease - usually chronic is not a good sign - too much of a good thing turns out to be bad - it means too much of something, like inflammation will cause harm - when inflammation knob is stuck on high, it becomes a problem

metaphor - inflammation and forest fire - If you are camping in the forest, a small fire keeps you warm and you can cook - Inflammation is like that small fire going out of control and burning the whole forest down

for - example - relationship between inflammation and angiogenesis

example - relationship between inflammation and angiogenesis - when you cut your finger and start bleeding, your wound will swell up - that's inflammation, your bodies immune system russhing in to fight bad bacteria - after a day or so, inflammation stops and it sends a signal to your body to begin creating new blood vessels - angiogenesis begins. - after awhile that stops as well and your body returns to the normal setpoint

for - relationship - inflammation and angiogenesis

for - question - angiogenesis and inflammation

for - adjacency - food - angiogenesis - cancer

for - avascular (bloodless) cancer - angiogenesis creates malignancy - stats - angiogenesis and avascular cancer

stats - angiogenisis and avascular cancer - During research, the research lab that William Li worked in discovered that once blood vessesl touch a harmless avascular (bloodless) cancer - it transforms it into a deadly, malignant tumor that grows 16,000x in two weeks

for - cancer without disease - microscopic cancer

definition - cancer without disease

• biologically we are actually all forming cancers in our body all the time
• because all it takes for our 40 trillion cells to do is
• to make those little mistakes
• I told you 10 000 mistakes are fixed every day
• A few of those sneaking through
• will turn into a microscopic tumor microscopic cancer
• and this is called cancer without disease
• because as tiny little mutant cancer can grow up to the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen
• and then it's frozen like a pimple can't go any bigger
• because it doesn't have
  • a blood supply
  • no oxygen
  • no food
  • nothing to feed it and so
• those little microscopic cancers sit there
• until another one of our defense systems our immune system wings by like a cop on a beat and sees this abnormal cell sitting on that street corner in a good neighborhood and then says
  • "get in the car we're taking you away"
• and so our immune system destroys these microscopic cancers
• but some microscopic cancers are able to hijack our body's regular angiogenesis defense system
• and selfishly grow blood vessels to feed themselves.

from - IAAC Lecture Series - Architecture made of Earth with Elisabetta Carnevale - https://hyp.is/A279UruNEe6A7E_2XRTNRQ/docdrop.org/video/IxrmA9dli1Q/

from - IAAC Lecture Series - Architecture made of Earth with Elisabetta Carnevale - https://hyp.is/A279UruNEe6A7E_2XRTNRQ/docdrop.org/video/IxrmA9dli1Q/

from - IAAC Lecture Series - Architecture made of Earth with Elisabetta Carnevale - https://hyp.is/A279UruNEe6A7E_2XRTNRQ/docdrop.org/video/IxrmA9dli1Q/

from - IAAC Lecture Series - Architecture made of Earth with Elisabetta Carnevale - https://hyp.is/A279UruNEe6A7E_2XRTNRQ/docdrop.org/video/IxrmA9dli1Q/

from - IIAC Lecture Series - Architecture made of Earth with Elisabetta Carnevale - https://hyp.is/A279UruNEe6A7E_2XRTNRQ/docdrop.org/video/IxrmA9dli1Q/

for - circular economy - kitchen - circular economy - furniture - circular kitchen - Stykka - modular furniture

comment - sadly, it's not open source, but this is to be expected with most mainstream businesses. - the problem is in trying to protect one's IP and look after self-interest, it scales very slowly. - we need open-source, circular economy, open-source, circular furniture and open-source circular kitchen

for - human diet - early - majority plant-based

for - alignment with Stop Reset Go

for -: quote - Glenn Sankatsing

quote - You can’t transform hell - while the devil brings more coal. - We’ve given in to system-maintenance gimmicks like - clean energy for a dirty system, - recycling the ever-increasing waste of perpetual growth, and - war as the guardian angel of peace, - and evil has run rampant.

for - rapid whole system change - Rescue the future - Glenn Sankatsing

Summary - A well written piece

for - circular kitchen - TU Delft - circular kitchen

for - open source furniture

for - circular furniture - Stykka

comment - I only wish it were OPEN SOURCE!

for - Biofold - circular economy - bio-furniture - Space10

for - open source - biomaterials - Materiom

for - Badgir - passive cooling - passive air conditioning - passive HVAC - sustainable architecture

for - de-silo examples

examples - de-silo - Battle of Seattle - Occupy Wallstreet - Keystone XL - Labour and Climate

for - globalization from below - anti-globalization movement - global justice movement

for - de-silo - grassroots listening project

for -globalization from below - example - World Social Forum

for - globalization from below - example

globalisation from below - example - Battle of Seattle - World Social Forum

for - de-silo purpose

• a crucial reason for movements to de-silo, cooperate, and converge is
• from a perception of the possibility of - gaining power to affect problems
  • through greater cooperation and
  • mutual support

for - Great Transition Initiative - GTI - GTI - How to de-silo movements

title - How to De-Silo Movements author - Jerry Brecher date - Jan 2024

for - global movement - global citizen's movement - GCM - glocal citizen's movement - movement of movements - rapid whole system change - blessed unrest - Tipping Point Festival - TPF - Indyweb - Indranet - polycrisis - metacrisis

for - heating rooms with steam - hvac low tech - home improvement - steam heating

to - Michel's Substack - Translation of interview with Hugo Mathecowitsch on the topic of - A system of sovereign bonds but for alternative types of sovereignties? https://hyp.is/RBLQirocEe6eoeeG2hk_Sw/4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/a-system-of-sovereign-bonds-but-for?showWelcome=true

for - interview - Hugo Mathecowitsch - Michel Bauwens - substack article - interview - alternative types of sovereignties

To - PNAS article - https://hyp.is/VDrRlLoVEe6D4SsvWEe2tg/www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301531121

for - planetary commons

from - Linked In post - https://hyp.is/RqdNCroVEe68NrvfZsETqw/www.linkedin.com/posts/jurajsvajda_the-planetary-commons-a-new-paradigm-for-activity-7155512475939930113-JOEj/

for - planetary commons

for - key insight - Whitehead's fallacy of misplaced concreteness - adjacency - fallacy of misplaced concreteness - climate denialism - mistrust in science - polycrisis - Deep Humanity

• the worry for Goethe and whitehead is that
  • we forget sometimes with the typical scientific method that = we can only ever apply concepts derived from our empirical experience
• and so if we're trying to understand experience as if it were really
  • an illusion produced by
    • collisions of particles or
    • brain chemistry or
    • something that we can never in principle experience
• what we're doing is
  • applying concepts derived from our experience
  • to an imagined realm that
    • we think is beyond experience
• but it's not
• This is Whitehead's fallacy of misplaced concreteness.

key insight - Whitehead's fallacy of misplaced concreteness - This helps explain the rising rejection of science from the masses. I didn't realize there was already a name for the phenomena responsible for the emergence of collective denialist behavior

adjacency - between - fallacy of misplaced concreteness - increasing collective rejection of science in the polycrisis - adjacency statement - Whitehead's fallacy of misplaced concreteness exactly names and describes - the growing trend of a populus rejection of climate science (climate denialism), COVID vaccine denialism, exponential growth of conspiracy theory and misinformation - because of the inability for non-elites and elites alike to concretize abstractions the same way that elite scientists and policy-makers do - Research papers have shown that the knowledge deficit model which was relied upon for decades was not accurate representation of climate denialism - Yet, I would hold that Whitehead's fallacy of misplaced concretism plays a role here - This mistrust in science is rooted in this fallacy as well as progress traps - Deep Humanity is quite steeped in Whitehead's process relational ontology and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness requires mass education for a sustainable transition - This abstract concreteness is everywhere: - Shift from Ptolemy's geocentric worldview to the Copernican heliocentric worldview - Now we are told that the sun is not fixed, but is itself rotating around the Milky Way with billions of other galaxies - scientific techniques like radiocarbon dating for dating objects in deep time - climate science - atomic physics - quantum physics - distrust of vaccines, which we cannot see - Timothy Morton's hyperobjects is related to this fallacy of misplaced concreteness. - "Seeing is believing" but we cannot directly experience the ultra large or ultra small. So we have scientific language that draws parallels to that, but it is not a direct experience. - - Those not steeped in years or decades of science have the very real option of feeling that the concepts are fallacies and don't hold as much weight as that which they can experience directly, even though those concepts have obviously produced artefacts that they use, like cellphones, the internet and airplanes.

for - Alfred North Whitehead - philosophy - process

Summary - This is a very insightful presentation of Whitehead's process philosophy. It's the first time I was introduced to it via Gyuri but I can see why he wanted to. I could identify many parallels with SRG and Deep Humanity ideas.

for - definition - God - Whitehead - definition - initial aim - Whitehead

definition - God - Whitehead - The primordial creature is called "God" by Whitehead - by "creature", Whitehead means creativity, not a literal organism

definition - initial aim - Whitehead - Every moment of the life history of any aspect of reality is inheriting God's primordial nature. - This inheritance gives each finite creature the filtered realm of infinite relevant possibilities

for - example - concrescence - castle rock of Edinburgh

example - concrescence - castle rock of Edinburgh - rocks ingress but have much less capacity than living organisms

for - key insight - concrescence - definition - concrescence - Whitehead - definition - The many become the one - Whitehead - definition - Res Potentia - Tim Eastman - definition - superject - Whitehead - definition - moment of satisfaction - Whitehead - definition - dipolar - Whitehead - definition - ingression - Whitehead definition - CONCRESCENCE - is the description of the phases of the iterative process by which reality advances from the past into the present then into the future - this definition is metaphysical and applies to all aspects of reality

• Concrescence is the process by which

  • THE MANY BECOME THE ONE and
  • THE MANY ARE INCREASED BY ONE
    • The "many" here refers to the past
    • the perished objects in the past environment

• There's another domain that whitehead makes reference to

  • He's a platonist in this sense, though he's a reformed platonist
  • He makes reference to this realm of eternal objects which for him are pure possibilities
  • i was mentioning Tim Eastman earlier
    • He calls this domain "RES POTENTIA", the realm of possibilities which have not yet been actualized
• And so for Whitehead
  • the realm of possibility is infinite
  • the realm of actuality is finite
• In the realm of actuality, there's a limited amount of certain types of experience which have been realized
  • but the realm of actuality draws upon this plenum of possibility and
  • it's because there is this plenum of possibility in relationship to the realm of actuality that
  • novelty is possible
  • new things can still happen we're not just constantly repeating the past

• Whitehead describes the process of concrescence or each drop of experience as DIPOLAR, having two poles:

  • a physical pole and
  • a mental pole

• Each concrescence or drop of experience begins with the physical pole

  • where the perished objects of the past environment are apprehended or felt and
  • these feelings of the past grow together into this newly emerging drop of experience
  • and then in the process of their growing together
    • the actualized perished objects of the past environment
    • are brought into comparison with eternal objects or pure potentials possibilities and
    • these possibilities INGRESS so there's
      • INGRESSION of eternal objects and
    • PREHENSION of past actualities
    • INGRESSION of potentials PREHENSIONS of past actualities

• and what the ingression of eternal objects do is provide each occasion of experience, each concrescence with

  • the opportunity to interpret the past differently
• to say maybe it's not like that maybe it's like this
• and so these ingressions come into the mental pole

• If the physical pole is what initiates the experience of each concrescing occasion

  • the mental pole is is a subsequent process that compares
    • what's been felt in the past with
    • what is possible alternatives that could be experienced that are not given yet in the past

• The subjective form is how the occasion fills the past

• The subjective aim is what draws the many feelings of the past towards the unification and the mental pole
  • where
    • the ingression of eternal objects and
    • the feelings of past actualities
  • are brought together into what Whitehead calls this MOMENT OF SATISFACTION
• it's the culmination of the process of concrescence
  • where a new perspective on the universe is achieved - This is the many have become one
• They are increased by one when the satisfaction is achieved
• It's a new perspective on the whole
• As soon as this new perspective is achieved
  • it becomes a SUPERJECT which is not a subject enjoying its own experience anymore
  • it's a perished subject
• The superject is the achieved perspective that has been experienced
  • but then perishes itself int a superject-hood to become
  • one among the many that will be inherited by the next moment of experience, the next concrescence and
• This superject has objective immortality in the sense that
  • every subsequent concrescence will inherit the satisfaction achieved by the prior concrescences

• And so this is the most general account in Whitehead's view that we can offer

  • of the nature of reality
  • the nature of the passage of nature
  • the movement
    • out of the past
    • through the present and
    • into the future

• Experience is always in the present and the satisfaction that is achieved by each moment of concrescence is enjoyed in the present

  • but as soon as we achieve that
  • it perishes and the next moment of concrescence arises to inherit what was achieved
  • and this is an iterative process
  • it's repeating constantly and it's cumulative
• It's a process of growth
  • building on what's been achieved in the past

for - quote - Whitehead - quote -creativity

quote - Creativity is what reality is made of and it's not a substance, it's a process

for - definition - objectively immortal - Whitehead

definition - objectively immortal - Whitehead - the effect of large scale events that occurred in deep time are with us today - because the universe is evolutionary in nature, building upon the past

for - definition - actual occasion of experience - Whitehead - definition - society - Whitehead - Whitehead - process relational ontology - adjacency - Whitehead's philosophy - morphic resonance

definition - actual occasion of experience - Whitehead question - does Whitehead mean that reality itself is intrinsically evolutionary in nature and that it is constantly metamorphosizing? Is he making a claim similiar to Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance? Or we might say Sheldrake follows Whitehead

Explanation - Whitehead's Process Relational Ontology - Passage below is explanation of Whitehead's Process Relational Ontology

• There's always a little bit of novelty with each new drop of experience and so
• There's a kind of reality
• At its fundamental basis is a kind of evolving relationship among all of these
• Whitehead's technical term again actual occasions of experience and
  • as they co-evolve new habits emerge and these habits allow nature at various scales to form what Whitehead calls societies
• An example of a society of occasions or experiential events would be hydrogen atoms
• The first hydrogen atoms which emerge i think a few hundred thousand years after the big bang represent the growing together of what had been distinct processes
  • protons and electrons
• to form this relationship that would be enduring which we call the hydrogen atom
• That's a society of actual occasions of experience that has formed
• and then hydrogen atoms continue this evolutionary process and collect together into the first stars
• and a star would be another example of a society of actual occasions of experience
• and as these new forms of social organization are emerging over the course of cosmic evolution
  • what physics describes in terms of laws begin to take shape
• but again for Whitehead these are not eternally fixed laws imposed on the process of evolution that's unfolding
• Rather what we call laws
  • emerge from out of that process itself
  • as a result of the creative relationships being formed by these actual occasions of experience
• So rather than speaking of laws imposed from outside,
  • Whitehead understands uh physical law
  • in terms of the habits which emerge over the course of time
    • as a result of relationships
• So for Whitehead, the task of philosophy is really
  • to situate us in our experience
• His is a is an experiential metaphysics and
  • as we've seen in our study of Goethe
  • the idea here is not to look behind or beyond experience for something which might be the cause of experience
  • The participatory approach to science that Goethe and Whitehead were both attempting to articulate
    • requires that we stay with experience
      • so metaphysics then
        • is not an effort to explain away our common sense experience
        • it's really the effort to bring logical coherence and consistency to experience
          • to find the all-pervasive relationships among various aspects of experience
• And so science becomes the search for those relationships within experience
  • rather than the search for some mechanical explanation which would be
    • before,
    • behind or
    • beneath experience

for - Whitehead's philosophy - Whitehead - limitations of language - Indra's Net - Whitehead - process relational ontology

• Whitehead says that

  • philosophy is an attempt to express the infinity of the universe
    • in terms of the LIMITATIONS OF LANGUAGE

• And i think this image of the spiderweb with the dewdrops each reflecting the others is the perfect analogy for whitehead's ontology

• You may have heard of indra's net from madhyamaka buddhism
  • the idea of dependent co-origination of all things
    • that nothing has independent abiding existence
      • but is rather caught up in a network of
        • relations or
      • causes and conditions
    • and so you can't remove any of the nodes in the network without destroying the node and totally changing the rest of the network that it was embedded within
• This is the key to what a process RELATIONAL ONTOLOGY is trying to reveal to us about the nature of reality
• Dependent co-origination or you could say
  • the inter-penetration of all things
• though in Whitehead's cosmology there really are no things
  • if by thing you mean an inert isolated entity
• Whiteheads ontology is really composed of events or processes
• You could say and these processes for whitehead are
  • drops of experience
• So for whitehead, there's no node in the network of reality that is not there for itself
• It is not enjoying some degree of experience or subjectivity or has some degree or capacity for feeling

for - definition - drop of experience - Whitehead

for - adjacency - Whitehead - emptiness

adjacency - between - Whitehead's philosophy - emptiness - adjacency statement - Whitehead's philosophy is similiar to the Buddhist concept of emptiness

for - definition - prehension - Whitehead

definition - prehension - defined by Alfred North Whitehead - the feeling that each node of an idea network have for one another

• Think of it as short for comprehension
• Comprehension usually implies more of a conscious sort of rational reflective understanding

• When Whitehead shortens that to prehension

  • he's trying to get at something that is not yet conscious

  • certainly not self-reflective

  • but more of an aesthetic feeling of being permeated by the presence of the other beings
  • in an environment without yet reflecting on the fact

pre-linguistic - see epoche as well, seems related - like the word-less intuition before a precise word is formed to capture the new permutation of salient defining experiences

• So apprehension or feeling is a kind of unconscious apprehension
• So our conscious forms of apprehension or comprehension
  • are a further elaboration upon a much more basic form of apprehension / feeling
  • that Whitehead argued pervades the universe at every scale

for - outsider advantage - fresh eyes - outsider advantage - autodidactic - Whitehead - philosophy - paradigm shift

• He would teach at harvard from 1924 until 1937
• This is when most of his major philosophical books were written
• He reports in 1924 in the fall when he began teaching his first philosophy course to these students at harvard that
  • it was also his first philosophy course
• Of course he'd been studying philosophy but he'd never had formal education in it
• So as is often the case with major paradigm changes
  • someone from outside the discipline within which they provide some new paradigmatic understanding
  • is looking at the old problems with fresh eyes
  • They don't have the disciplinary training that would tend to leave one stuck in the existing concepts and categories
• Whitehead is coming into philosophy with fresh eyes

for - book - Aims of Education

Followup - book - Aims of Education - author: Alfred North Whitehead - a collection of papers and thoughts on the critical role of education in determining the future course of civilization

epiphany - adjacency between - Lifework and evolutionary nature of the individual - - people-centered Indyweb -- Alfred North Whitehead's ideas and life history - adjacency statement - Listening to the narrator speaking about Whitehead's work from a historical perspective brought up the association with the Indyweb's people-centered design - This is especially salient given that Whitehead felt education played such a critical role in determining the future course of humanity - If Whitehead were alive, he would likely appreciate the Indyweb design because it is based on the human being as a process rather than a static entity, - hence renaming human being to human INTERbeCOMing, a noun replaced by a verb - Indyweb's people-centered design and default temporal, time-date recording of ideas as they occur provides inherent traceability to the evolution of an individual's consciousness - Furthermore, since it is not only people-centered but also INTERPERSONAL, we can trace the evolution of ideas within a social network. - Since individual and collective intelligence are both evolutionary and intertwingled, they are both foundational in Indyweb's design ethos. - In particular, Indyweb frames the important evolutionary process of - having a conversation with your old self - as a key aspect of the evolutionary growth of the individual's consciousness

for - history - King Philip II - El Escorial - polycrisis - religion - history - adjacency - polycrisis - war - religion - epoche - CHD

Adjacency - between - polycrisis - war - religion - epoche - CHD - history - adjacency statement - King Philip II is an interesting historical figure who left behind this enormous physical artefact of El Escorial. - So much of history has revolved around the religious beliefs of leaders, and how those beliefs are entangled and enacted in wars, enslavement, politics and power. - Phillip's fervent Catholicism drove him to expand his empire, fight wars with the Ottoman empire and Protestants and build the sprawling El Escorial complex. - The building was designed to express his Catholic beliefs - from the monastery to the Basilica, secret relic room, to library and mausoleum. His beliefs were responsible for driving his behaviour, which influenced much of humanity during his rule. - religion's power have influenced many powerful people of history, resulting in mass influence on society, including perpetuating inequality, extractionism, colonialism and violence - all in the name of a concept of apprehending the great mystery of life. - The desire to understand the great mystery of life and death has been hijacked to perpetuate great harm instead. What is needed now is a wisdom commons for the entire species that can help elevate, deepen and interconnect all the legacy belief systems before it. For in spite of the great variety of belief systems, they are fundamentally united through a common humans denominator - they all require human beings. - It is a deficiency in any existing systems that can justify offering and violence against other belief systems and claim the throne of THE one and only, true belief system. Indeed, the claim of "the truth" is itself already a poison since it is never achievable. An epoche for the common person is necessary to penetrate the weak link of the argument itself, the linguistic social conditioning which enables storytelling itself. - the inability to collectively grasp the symbolosphere, the noosphere compells us towards beliefs, out of which self- righteousness, self- reification and othering blossom.