• Aerosol progress trap
  • a devil’s bargain:
  • Aerosols
    • are necessary for normal weather and
    • help moderate rising temperatures,
  • but they’re also killing us.
  • Turns out we have been unwittingly geoengineering for decades,
  • and just like in the movies, it’s gone off the rails.

• Air pollution impacts
  • 5.5 million people die each year of air pollution from
    • burning coal
    • driving cars
    • burning fires to clear land
      • and forest fires

• Title
  • Devil’s Bargain: Why Aerosols Pose a Deadly Climate Change Threat
• Author
  • Eric Holthaus
• Date
• Feb 8, 2018
• Source
  • https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/devils-bargain-why-aerosols-pose-a-deadly-climate-change-threat-126855/

• Title
  • ‘Out of time’: Temperature records topple around the world
• Source
  • https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/30/out-of-time-temperature-records-topple-around-the-world

• statistic
  • 75% of young people surveyed said that they think their future is frightening

• Title
  • Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey
• Authors
  • Hickman et al.
• Date
  • Dec 31, 2021
• Source
  • https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/climate-anxiety-in-children-and-young-people-and-their-beliefs-ab

• question
  • how to we split the burden of collectively staying within the PBs?
  • To know if e.g. a person or a company is absolute environmentally sustainable,
    • we need to know that person’s or the company’s assigned SoSOS.
  • How to determine a person’s or a company’s assigned SoSOS is not only normative,
    • but essentially a question of distributive justice.

• Definition
  • sharing principles
    • synonyms
      • allocation principles
      • distributive principles

• Definition
  • share of the safe operating space
    • SoSOS

• Title
  • Downscaling the planetary boundaries in absolute environmental sustainability assessments – A review
• Authors
  • Morten W. Ryberg
  • Martin Marchman Andersen
  • Mikotaj Owsianiak
  • Michael Z. Hauschild
• Date
  • Dec 2020
• Source
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652620333321
• Abstract
  • Excerpt
    • To ensure choices concerning sharing principles in absolute environmental sustainability assessments (AESA) are deliberate,
      • there is a need for understanding the distributive justice theory underlying the sharing principles. -This study provides a framework for determining and communicating the distributive justice theories that underlie the choice of sharing principles in AESA

• Title
  • How to solve complex problems using systems thinking
• Author
  • Gino
• Date
  • July 4

• Two methods of approaching problems differently
  • 1) How do I choose to be in relationship to this problem?
  • 2) What opportunity is presenting itself through my problem?

• Title
  • Moving Beyond Problem Solving: A Potential-Based Approach
• Author
  • Rosalie Puiman -Date
  • Dec 6, 2017
• Source
  • https://www.huffpost.com/entry/moving-beyond-problem-sol_b_7277644
• Description
  • Introduction to Alan Seale's approach to problem solving
    • Center for Transformational Presence
      • http://transformationalpresence.org/

• Title
  • Addressing the Climate Crisis: An Action Plan for Psychologists
• Date
  • Feb 2022

• Title
  • Psychology and Global Climate Change: Addressing a Multi-faceted Phenomenon and Set of Challenges A Report by the American Psychological Association’s Task Force on the Interface Between Psychology and Global Climate Change
• Authors
  • Janet Swim
  • Susan Clayton
  • Thomas Doherty
  • Robert Gifford
  • George Howard
  • Joseph Reser
  • Paul Stern
  • Elke Weber

• Title
  • A crucial year for understanding how ocean warming affects marine life
• Author
  • Alison Snyder
• Date
  • June 18, 2023
• Source
  • https://www.axios.com/2023/06/18/ocean-heatwaves-marine-life

• Title
  • Visualizing freely available citation data using VOSviewer
• Author
  • Nees Jan van Eck
  • Ludo Waltman
• Date
  • Oct 23, 2017
• Source
  • https://www.cwts.nl/blog?article=n-r2r294
• Description
  • Today we released version 1.6.6 of our VOSviewer software for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks.
  • The most important new feature in this version is the support for working with Crossref data.
  • Recently, the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) managed to convince a large number of scientific publishers to make the reference lists of publications in their journals freely available through Crossref.
  • Thanks to I4OC, Crossref has become a valuable data source for VOSviewer users.
  • In this blog post, we discuss how users of the new version 1.6.6 of VOSviewer can benefit from Crossref data.

• Title
  • Visualizing a Field of Research With Scientometrics: Climate Change Associated With Major Aquatic Species Production in the World
• Authors
  • Mohamad N. Azra
  • Mohn Iqbal Mohd Noor
  • Yeong Yik Sung
  • Mazlan Abd Ghaffar
• Date July 13, 2022
• Source
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2022.905428/full
• Abstract
  • Climate change research on major aquatic species assists various stakeholders (e.g. policymakers, farmers, funders) in better managing its aquaculture activities and productivity for future food sustainability.
  • However, there has been little research on the impact of climate change on aquatic production, particularly in terms of scientometric analyses.
  • Thus, using the
    • bibliometric and
    • scientometric analysis methods,
  • this study was carried out to determine what research exists on the impact of climate change on aquatic production groups.
  • We focused on
    • finfish,
    • crustaceans, and
    • molluscs.
  • Data retrieved from Web of Science was
    • mapped with CiteSpace and
    • used to assess
      • the trends and
      • current status of research topics
    • on climate change associated with worldwide aquatic production.
  • We identified ocean acidification as an important research topic for managing the future production of aquatic species.
  • We also provided a comprehensive perspective and delineated the need for:
    • i) more international collaboration for research activity focusing on climate change and aquatic production in order to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal by 2030;
    • ii) the incorporation of work from molecular biology, economics, and sustainability.

• Title
  • The landscape of biomedical research
• Authors
  • Rita González-Márquez,
  • Luca Schmidt,
  • Benjamin M. Schmidt,
  • Philipp Berens
  • Dmitry Kobak
• Date
  • April 11, 2023
• Source
  • https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.10.536208v1.full
• Abstract
  • The number of publications in biomedicine and life sciences
  • has rapidly grown over the last decades,
  • with over 1.5 million papers now published every year.
  • This makes it difficult to
    • keep track of new scientific works and
    • to have an overview of the evolution of the field as a whole.
  • Here we
    • present a 2D atlas of the entire corpus of biomedical literature, and
    • argue that it provides
      • a unique and
      • useful overview
    • of the life sciences research.
  • We base our atlas on the abstract texts of
  • 21 million English articles from the PubMed database.
  • To embed the abstracts into 2D, we use
    • a large language model PubMedBERT, combined with
    • t-SNE tailored to handle samples of our size.
  • We use our atlas to study
    • the emergence of the Covid-19 literature,
    • the evolution of the neuroscience discipline,
    • the uptake of machine learning, and
    • the distribution of gender imbalance in academic authorship.
  • Furthermore, we present an interactive web version of our atlas that
    • allows easy exploration and
    • will enable further insights and facilitate future research.

• Title
  • Curtis A. Deutsch (homepage) -Source
  • https://geosciences.princeton.edu/people/curtis-deutsch
• Description
  • Research focus on climate change impacts on ocean and marine ecosystems

• Title
  • Multiple ecosystems in hot water after marine heatwave surges across the Pacific
• Date July 13, 2023
• Source
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230713142059.htm

• quote
  • "Policymakers need to win public support for energy demand reduction mechanisms. -The reality is decarbonisation on the supply side, where energy is generated and distributed, will not be enough to deliver the emission reductions that are needed. -So, energy demand will have to be reduced. That is the inescapable reality."
• Author
  • Milena Buchs
• Experts on the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimate that
  • reducing energy demand could produce between 40% and 70% of the emissions reductions that need to be found by 2050.

"Our research is indicating that public support for energy demand reduction is possible if the public see the schemes as being fair and deliver climate justice."

• comment
  • aligned with Kevin Anderson's findings from 2013 that
    • it takes decades to build out supply-side infrastructure that can replace fossil fuel systems
    • therefore, significant demand side reductions are necessary to delivery the reductions in carbon emissions needed now
    • https://hyp.is/lOljjiV1Ee65J2N_QMPZhw/kevinanderson.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Edinburgh-presentation-Oct-2013.pdf

• One energy demand reduction strategy
  • Cap the top 20% of energy users
  • while allowing those people
    • who use little energy and
    • have poverty-level incomes
  • to be able to
    • increase their consumption levels and
    • improve their quality of life.

• lead researcher
  • Milena Büchs,
• Position
  • Professor of Sustainable Welfare
• Institution
  • University of Leeds

• Title
  • Cap top 20% of energy users to reduce carbon emissions

• Publication

  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230717175940.htm

• Summary -Consumers in the richer, developed nations will have to accept restrictions on their energy use

  • if international climate change targets are to be met, warn researchers.
  • The big challenge is to identify the fairest and most equitable way
  • that governments can curtail energy use,
    • a process known as energy demand reduction. -The research team analyzed several scenarios to identify a potential solution.

• energy demand side reduction
  • too early for supply side infrastructure to fully scale
  • therefore, only significant demand-side reductions can keep us safe

• quote
  • "When their antennae become clogged with pollution particles,
  • insects struggle to
    • smell food,
    • smell a mate, or
    • smell a place to lay their eggs,
  • and it follows that their populations will decline,"
• Author
  • Prof Mark Elgar

• Title
  • Air pollution particles may be cause of dramatic drop in global insect numbers
• Date
  • July 12, 2023
• Publication
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/07/230712124747.htm

• comment
  • Disney is an ardent wealth and climate reformer and was protesting the 1%'s use of carbon intensive jet planes.

• Title
  • Abigail Disney Arrested During ‘Private Jet’ Protest

• Source

  • https://insidethemagic.net/2023/07/abigail-disney-arrested-during-protest-emd1/?taid=64b2e5af9f67e300011a350c

• Description

  • She is the heiress to the Walt Disney empire but is a climate activist.
  • She performed this action to bring attention to the carbon intensive activity of the 1%
  • She stated the carbon inequality fact that the wealthiest 1% are responsible for carbon emissions equal to the bottom 50% of humanity.

• THE PATHWAY TO EMERGENCE

  • Human viability depends on advancing Emergency action
  • in ways that facilitate Emergence of the
    • culture,
    • institutions,
    • technology, and
  • infrastructure
  • of an Ecological Civilization
  • guided by the maps of a 21st century eco-nomics.

• These are some action steps on the path to Emergence that follow from the Ubuntu Principle and its corollaries

  • Break up concentrations of corporate power, including private banks.
    • Restructure the individual pieces to support equitable, locally rooted participation in ownership.
    • Assure that every business is dedicated to and ultimately accountable for fulfilling a public purpose beneficial to the communities in which it does business. -Take democracy to the next level as a participatory process of community self-organization, not just a competitive voting contest between two or more candidates from opposing political parties funded by wealthy patrons. Replace GDP as the primary measure of economic performance with measures of the health and wellbeing of people, communities, and nature—giving priority to equality, material sufficiency, and spiritual abundance for all.
    • Eliminate financial speculation and free individuals, community businesses, and governments from perpetual debt bondage.
    • Transform our relationship to nature to restore and enhance its regenerative health and beauty as we learn to nurture ourselves in ways that nurture all.
    • Organize bioregionally defined political jurisdictions around urban hubs with strong rural-urban links that
      • seek to optimize regional environmental and labor self-reliance.
      • Eliminate inefficient land use by converting suburbs to rural-urban use.
    • Eliminate gas powered vehicles and redesign infrastructure
      • to minimize dependence on private cars in all but remote rural areas.
    • Minimize air travel by
      • vacationing locally within local rural-urban jurisdictions and
      • organize all but local meetings and conferences as web conferences.
    • Strengthen non-monetized relationships
      • between people and
      • between people and the lands and waters that sustain them.
    • Encourage responsible community-centric parenting and child development consistent with a just and prosperous future for all.
    • Invest in life sciences research advancing understanding of the organizing principles, structures, and processes of healthy living systems.
    • Accelerate
      • social innovation,
      • adaptation, and
      • learning by
        • nurturing cultural diversity and
        • removing intellectual property rights impediments to the free and open sharing of beneficial knowledge and technology. • Transform economics and management educa- tion to provide future leaders with the knowl- edge and skills needed to lead institutional transformation and the creation of resilient self-governing communities.
    • Organize material processes around
      • continuous circular flows and
      • minimize movement of
        • physical and
        • energy resources
          • both within and
        • between self-reliant bioregional communities

• quote
  • "“We will prosper in the pursuit of life, or we will perish in the pursuit of money. The choice is ours.”
• Author
  • David Korten

• quote
  • "We see virtually no prospect that the Wall Street system will transform itself from within.
  • Change depends on citizen’s working from outside the establishment
    • to create from the bottom up a New Economy based on new values and institutions."
• Author
  • David Korten

• seven trillion dollars in toxic subsidies

• Title
  • Detox Development: Repurposing Environmentally Harmful Subsidies
• Author
  • World Bank

• Title
  • Hiding in plain sight: The missing trillions for climate change
• Author Axel Van Trotsenburg
• Date
  • June 15, 2023
• Publisher
  • World Bank

• Title
  • Big Oil v the World Series 1 03 Delay
• Author
  • BBC

• Title
  • Big Oil v the World Series 1 02 Doubt
• Author BBC

• Title
  • Big Oil v the World Series 1 01 Denial
• Author BBC

• title
  • The Great Turning
• Author
  • David Korten
• Description
  • David Korten describes "the great unraveling" as a multi-dimensional ecological, social and economic crisis

• Third great separation

  • industrial agricultural revolution

    • Farming was a community affair, by necessity.
    • Nearly everyone in the United States lived on a farm, had lived on a farm, or knew someone who lived on a farm.
    • There was still a sense of connectedness to the land, the earth, through food and farming.
    • But ​“times changed” in rural America.

    • The industrialization of agriculture removed the necessity for community-based farming.

    • Farmers eventually lost their sense of connectedness to

      • their land,
      • to each other and
      • to their communities.
    • Consumers no longer know
      • who produces their food,
      • where it was produced, or
      • how it was produced.
    • What happens to food between the earth and the eater has become largely a mystery.
    • Food for family gatherings and religious holidays are of economic importance to the food industry,
      • but have little social or spiritual significance beyond following cultural traditions.
    • The dependence of humanity on the Earth for food is no less than during the early times of hunting and gathering,
      • but the sense of connectedness between the eater and the Earth has been lost.

• quote

  • Farming was a community affair, by necessity
  • What happens to food between the earth and the eater has become largely a mystery.

• Second great separation
  • Industrial Revolution
    • The early enclosure movement during the 1600s
      • separated people into farmers and non-farmers
      • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.parliament.uk%2Fabout%2Fliving-heritage%2Ftransformingsociety%2Ftowncountry%2Flandscape%2Foverview%2Fenclosingland%2F&group=vnpq69nW
    • Prior to the enclosures, land was held in common for public use, not owned by individuals.
    • The rise of capitalism also occurred during this time.
      • Adam Smith wrote his landmark book, The Wealth of Nations, in 1776.
      • Land was privatized so the most efficient use of land could be determined
        • by market competition rather than
        • community consensus.
      • Labor then also had to be ​“commodified,” or bought and sold,
        • so non-farmers could work for wages and buy food and the other necessities of life they had been getting from the land.
      • With reliance on working for wages, buying, and selling
        • the necessity for personal relationships were diminished.
      • With the diminished necessity for personal relationships,
        • the social cohesion within families, communities and society began to diminish as well.
    • The persistence of chronic poverty and malnutrition, even during times of tremendous economic growth and individual wealth, are direct consequences of a growing sense of disconnectedness from each other that was nourished by the industrial era of economic development.

• Machine learning
  • will learn all our bad habits
  • and become supercharged, amplified versions of them
• The antidote to apocalyptic machine learning
  • is human happiness and wisdom

• Title
  • One Billion Happy

• Author

  • Mo Gawdat

• Description

  • Mo Gawdat was former chief business officer at Google X, Google's innovation center.
  • Mo left Google after seeing the rapid pace of AI development was going to lead to a progress trap in which
    • the risk of AI destroying human civilization is becoming real because AI will be learning from too many unhappy people whose trauma AI will learn and incorporate into its algorithms
  • Hence, human happiness becomes paramount to prevent this catastrophe from happening
• See Ronald Wright's prescient quote
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fwork%2Fquotes%2F321797-a-short-history-of-progress&group=Q2X5j1pR

• quote
  • 2029 - AI will surpass human intelligence
  • 2049 - AI will be one billion X more intelligent than us

• Singularity
  • will happen within the next few decades

• follow up

  • work on stress and happiness

• References

  • https://www.unstressable.com/about-us
  • https://www.amazon.com/Solve-Happy-Engineer-Your-Path/dp/1501157558
  • https://www.onebillionhappy.org/

• Mo Gawdat shares about the death of his son

• It is the immoral human being that is the real problem
• they will teach AI to be immoral and with its power, can end up destroying humanity

• bad actor will teach AI to be immoral
• this also creates an arms race as "good" actors are forced to develop AI to counter the AI of bad actors

• AI Arms race is premised on
  • whoever controls AI has enormous powers over everyone else
  • All the world's competing super powers are developing it but with the aim of weaponizing it against its enemies
  • It will be difficult to regulate when so many actors are antagonistic towards each other

• Alphago
  • first version took months of Google UK software developers to program. It won the world Go championship.
  • Alphago Master played itself without ever watching a human player. It beat the first Alphago version after 3 days of playing itself.
  • In 21 days, it beat Alphago version one a thousand to zero.

• three boundaries that industry should have abided by but have been violated:
  • don't put them on the open internet until you solve the control problem
  • don't teach them to code because that enables them to learn and develop on their own
  • Don't allow other AI's prompting them, other AI agents working with them

• quote
  • "There is a greater danger from artificial intelligence if we allow it to become self-designing for then it can improve itself rapidly when we may lose control"
• author
  • Stephen Hawking

• Title
  • Mo Gawdat Warns the Dangers of AI Are "Happening As We Speak"
• Author
  • Piers Morgan Uncensored

• comment
  • answer with an experience, not an idea

• question

• has ANYONE ever experienced consciousness emerging from matter?

• comment

  • what Spira is getting at is that there is a fundamental category confusion
    • deep down, matter is an abstract concept
    • matter is NOT a phenomenological experience
    • from this perspective, a phenomena cannot emerge from a concept
    • in fact a concept ALWAYS emerges from consciousness, not the other way around
    • the claim that consciousness emerges from brains is a fundamental category error that makes an impossible claim
      • that phenomena emerges from a concept

• Title
  • consciousness is not in the brain
• Author
  • Rupert Spira
• Description
  • Rupert Spira takes the interviewer on a BEing journey to experience awareness directly and answer the question
    • how does consciousness emerge from brains?

• Title SOS d'un terrien en detresse
• This is a famous French song that is covered by Dimash Kudaibergen
• The original was written by Daniel Bolavoine, who tragically died in a helicopter crash as he was going to Africa to help with a development project
• Balavoine made it famous on his rock opera performance on the French "Starmania" show. There is another orchestral recording Balavoine did afterwards:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fms-RDCURSU
  • https://youtu.be/9kZuDhuTkxE
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kZuDhuTkxE
• This video is Dimash performing the famous song for the French people. Dimash sings it with pristien vocal expression, even beyond the original
• The history of how Dimash adapted this song is shown in this youtube video, which shows his famous Chinese reality show performance
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf_UIAOWfAU
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYPAjmWP140
  • https://youtu.be/AUARjexCTlQ
  • https://youtu.be/0vn_kI4-otQ
  • 26 min. of this concert: https://youtu.be/zmEaxCg6_8k
• The opening lyric of the song
  • why do I live, why do I die? is a perfect BEing Journey to discuss mortality salience

• last sentence read.

• comment
  • in fact, the mental world and the physical world can be seen both as expressions of patterns

• comment
  • A Deep Humanity analog to the word "structure" is the word "pattern"
  • Hence we have the equivalency:
    • platonic form = structure = pattern
  • and the author's prior statement that
    • These mental and subsequently materialized ideas then
    • have the potential to
      • influence the physical world and to
        • feedback into the mental world to produce additional structure and
        • physical material
  • is equivalent to Indyweb / Deep Humanity statement that
    • individual and collective learning are deeply entangled
    • cumulative cultural evolution is mediated through this entanglement
    • that is best represented by the idea of dependent origination
    • individuals articulate ideas and externally present them to other consciousnesses
    • a multi-meaningverse exists whenever social learning occurs and
      • multiple perspectives, multiple meaningverses converge
    • each individual perspective surfaces their own adjacencies of ideas drawn from their own salience landscape
      • which in turn emerge from their own respective unique lebenswelt
  • We might also say that to the degree that internal patterns of the symbolosphere correlate with external patterns of the physiosphere, then
  • that is the degree to which the universal pattern manifests in both nature nature and in human nature
  • since humans (human nature) are an expression of nature (nature nature), we should not expect otherwise

• insight
  • regardless of attempts to explain the relationships between these two,
    • everyone on all sides of the debate can agree that these two worlds coexist

• claim

  • ideas or images that are generated in the mental realm
  • become organized into verbal structures
  • which then can be materialized
    • in print or
    • in an electronic medium
  • These mental and subsequently materialized ideas then
  • have the potential to
    • influence the physical world and to
      • feedback into the mental world to produce additional structure and
      • physical material

• comment

  • in Indyweb / Deep Humanity terminology, we would say
    • internal, private ideas
      • intellect
      • information
    • externalized, shared, public ideas
      • extellect
      • exformation

• claim
  • the nonmaterial
    • constitutes a domain of existence with its own characteristics and
    • with the ability to exert downward influence on the material domain

• claim
  • we inhabit a world that is both material and nonmaterial
• comment
  • this is where their terminology physiosphere and symbolosphere originates from

• claim
  • the nonmaterial domain is located most profoundly in symbolic relationships
  • where signs accrue meaning by reference to other signs

• Title
  • Three levels of the symbolosphere
• Authors
  • Mark Burgin and John H. Schumann

• Abstract

  • This paper attempts to understand the coexistence of the
    • material and
    • non-material
  • aspects of our lives.
  • By synthesizing ideas about
    • structures,
    • physical entities,
    • mental phenomena, and
    • symbolic relations,
  • we argue that
    • the nonmaterial can emerge from the material, and
    • then the nonmaterial may mediate the production of material entities.
  • Finally, this cycle is applied to notions of creativity and invention.

• Comment

  • the authors are situated in materialism that explains non-materialism as an epi-phenomena

• potential progress trap

  • in vivo, an animal body has a mechanism to turn off stem cells when they are growing in the wrong place in the body. This regulates the body to grow properly.
  • in lab grown meat, an artificial in vitro environment is created for the stem cells and they are encouraged to keep growing continuously (some critics compare this to cancerous growth)
  • for UNKNOWN REASONS, FSB seems to prevent the mechanism from turning off cell growth, no matter what animal food species.
  • the worrying thing here is that the scientific community does not know why FSB has this behavior.

• Question

  • What are the views of the regulatory agencies that have passed Lab grown meat on this subject?

• potential progress trap
  • FBS
    • Fetal Bovine Serum

• This is used for the growth of all kinds of stem cells, not just those from cows

  • We do not know the full implications of mixing FBS from cows with all other species

• Question

  • What are the views of the regulatory agencies that have passed Lab grown meat on this subject?

• FBS volumes needed for a single lab grown burger are impractical
  • an estimated 50 liters of bovine serum is needed
  • a single cow fetus can yield between 150 and 550 milliliters of serum
  • this means that to create a single burger you need the blood of between 90 and 333 cow fetuses until a synthetic or plant-based alternative to fbs is found

• potential progress trap
  • if the seed stem cell has some unknown problem
    • it will potentially be inherited by all descedents

• Title
  • Lab grown meat
• Author
  • Real Science
• Publication
  • Youtube video

• Question
  • where are the progress traps?
  • It's already meeting approvals in SIngapore and FDA in USA.
  • Where are the hidden problems? -
  • This article highlights some of the issues
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencealert.com%2Flab-grown-meat-has-a-big-problem-very-few-people-know-about&group=world

• target volume for lab grown meat in USA
  • 40 million pounds of meat across USA

• Title
  • Eat Just To Scale Up Cultured Meat Production On Gaining New Regulatory Approval In Singapore
• Author
  • Douglas Yu
• Publication
  • Forbes

• Date

  • Jan 18, 2023

• Description

  • This story updates what is happening in the lab brown meat industry.

• Comment

  • What progress traps might present themselves here?
  • Immediately, one presents itself
    • Centralization of global meat production to a few technological silos
    • Significant job loss in the meat industry

• Overall demand for meat is expected to jump more than 70 percent by 2050
• livestock farming currently represents about 15 percent of all current human greenhouse gas emissions (UN FAO).
• To reduce meat consumption now requires a familiar dual approach:
  • provide alternatives available now
    • plant proteins are still the most viable alternative
  • degrowth
    • reduce our meat consumption rather than eliminate it entirely,

• The researchers say that
  • it would make more sense to invest in increasing the efficiencies of existing livestock farms
    • to limit their environmental footprint,
  • which may provide greater emissions reductions sooner that this fledgling industry of lab-grown meat can.

• sustainability life cycle assessment impacts
  • University of California, Davis (UCD), Holtville researchers performed a life-cycle assessment of current meat-growing processes
    • has not yet been peer-reviewed
    • findings are that cultured meat production could emit between four to 25 times more carbon dioxide per kilogram than regular beef and all its hidden costs, depending on the techniques used.
    • Pros
      • cultured meat uses less land than herds of cattle or flocks of sheep,
      • cultured meat uses less water and antibiotics,
    • Cons
      • laboratories to extract growth factors from animal serums,
      • growing crops for sugars and vitamins.
      • energy required to purify all of these broth ingredients to a high standard before they can be fed to the growing meat lumps.
        • energy-intensive, extreme level of purification is needed to prevent introducing microbes to the culture.
          • "Otherwise the animal cells won't grow, because the bacteria will multiply much faster,

• Title
  • Lab-Grown Meat Has a Big Problem Very Few People Know About
• Author
  • Tessa Koumoundouros
• Publication
  • Science Alert
• Date June 2, 2023

• Question
  • Pssibilianism - is a philosophy suitable for the Anthropocene?

• suggestion
  • we should make an official calendar

• Question
  • What does supervising mean? Give some concrete examples please.

• Question
  • Is there any clauses for liabilities if kits or equipment we manufacture are incorrectly built or used, or not maintained correctly and an accident happens?

• suggestion
  • explicitly write down the entrance fee

• suggestion
  • Perhaps explicitly state this number

• Suggestion
  • Add this to the glossary of terms at the beginning of the constitution

• Question
  • Could the cooperative also provide education to neighboring communities with the purpose of assisting other communities to form their own cooperatives and spread the cooperative model across the country?
  • Also, could the cooperative form partnerships or other business relationships that benefit the cooperative?

• This definition is not so clear to JGW.

• Title

  • Constitution Muizenberg Electricity Co-operative Limited

• Description

  • Muizenberg is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa

• quote
  • "“Pandemic or not, I will still lie awake each night with the persistent and unpleasant thoughts of my certain death, but I will choose not to smother this existential dread or anxiety. Instead, I want to explore it, befriend it. I have learned that the only way to conquer the darkness is to venture through it,”
• Author
  • Jenna Lasky

• quote
  • "For many, Covid-19 was the rude awakening that death was not a long-distance relationship so much as a close neighbor."
• Author
  • Allison Hope

• due to death of so many young people, covid has shifted mortality salience into center focus for many young people

• Restraint is exercised by End of Life Doulas - it's like counseling
• Asking open-ended questions is ok.

• Three components of End of Life Doula Training

  • Imagine you have three months left to live
  • Practice deep, active listening -Legacy projects in the here and now

• Comment

  • these could be used as Mortality Salience BEing Journeys

• key observation

• Title
  • An end-of-life doula’s advice on how to make the most of your time on earth
    • Life is short. Here’s how to cherish every day of it.

• Author

  • Rachel Friedman

• Description

  • Story on an end-of-life Doula's journey to become an end-of-life doula, and how that enriched her life

• insight

• there is a transcendental need for reason as the vehicle of itself undermining

  • the only way to understand that
    • reason isn't self-justifying
    • there is knowledge that transcends reason
  • is to use reason to reach a stage where you think reason might need to be abandoned,
    • reason becomes most necessary
  • Understanding the limits of reason requires reason
    • that is the essence of Madhyamaka

• comment

  • when reason is turned upon itself, when consciousness studies itself, that is where paradoxes emerge - at the limits of thought and the limits of conceptualization

• Answer

  • No.
  • we end up with a non conceptual insight that:
    • we can then communicate
    • that we can discuss
    • that we can articulate
    • that requires that reason be present at:
      • the beginning like the seed
      • in the middle when we're performing the analysis
      • like the rain that nourishes the crops and
      • in the end in the harvest
    • because non conceptuality is really easy to achieve all you need is a very large rock,
      • just bang right on your head and non conceptuality is there
    • but that's a mute inert non-conceptual
    • Non-conceptuality needs to be enriched by the conceptual insight that allows you to actually make something of it

• The Middle Way

  • using the conceptual to reach a deeper appreciation of the state of non-conceptuality,
  • in other words, using dualistic thought and language to reach insights about the nondual

• Critical question
  • if we achieve this non conceptual understanding of knowledge,
  • then rational analysis succeeds in subverting itself
  • Do we end up completely non conceptual completely mute?
• Answer
  • No.

• definition
  • probative
  • https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/probative
    • 1: serving to test or try : EXPLORATORY
    • 2: serving to prove : SUBSTANTIATING

• David Hume
  • in the section of the treatise of human nature on skepticism
  • https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4705

• western analog to Nagarjuna's use of reason to undermine itself
• references
  • https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sextus-empiricus/#YesSceHasBel
  • https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/sextus-empiricus-against-the-logicians/

• Title
  • Madhyamaka: Jay Garfield
• Description
  • Jay Garfield talks about why Nagarjuna's technique employts reason to undermine itself to achieve peace in a nonconceptual state.
    • He humorously points out how its easy to achieve nonconceptual states in many ways, such as a large rock to the head, but that kind of nonconceptual state is not really insightful for penetrating the deep philosophical questions we all have.
    • He clarifies why Nagarjuna's process is called the Middle Way,
      • it employs (conceptual) analysis to achieve wisdom of the nondual (nonconceptual) state

• claim with evidence

  • Consciousness does not become annihilated just because a person has just died
  • Consciousness appears to continue at least in the first period the early period of death the first minutes or hours after death
  • Explanation
    • death is a biological process
    • when you stop blood flow to brain cells they undergo certain changes and will eventually become damaged
    • however the first thing that happens is that you stop oxygen delivery to the areas inside the core of the brain that modulate your sense of being awake and alert
    • the reticulate activating system various other parts and so it's very similar to the effect of giving a general anesthetics to somebody
    • if you give a high enough dose of general anesthetic to a patient or person then you basically shut down those areas of the brain
    • the person's consciousness looks like it's lost
    • it flips out of sight but we wouldn't say that person's Consciousness has become annihilated forever
    • we just realize it's gone temporarily and so when people first die what's happening is that oxygen is stopping to those parts of the brain and it's essentially taking Consciousness out of you and making it disappear but it doesn't necessarily disappear Forever

• comment

  • could this be the reason in Tibetan Buddhism, there is the Thukdam meditation practice as well as dream yoga practice?

• growing stem cells from cadavers
  • Cadaveric Stem Cells: Their Research Potential and Limitations -https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8727551/

• (cell) life after death
  • cells within the body still remain alive after what a physician would normally deem a person dead.
  • cells (including brain cells) go into a hibernation state for many hours after death.

• Title

  • Sam Parnia -what do near v death experiences mean?

• Description

  • Sam Parnia is an intensive care physician who has performed research that shows clinically dead people had awareness.

• Evan Thompson book title
  • Waking, Dream, Being; Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation and Philosophy

• comment
  • look for any research on this from the Russian scientists at the Human Brain Institute in St. Petersberg

• comment
  • the study could not find any detectable EEG signal in the deceased monks practicing Thukdam
  • Philosopher Evan Thompson commented that this does not disprove the existence of consciousness in the Thukdam state, merely that the instruments used may not have been where the critical signals reside

• Title
  • The Thukdam Project Inside the first-ever scientific study of post-mortem meditation
• Author
  • Daniel Burke
• Publication
  • Tricycle
  • https://tricycle.org/article/thukdam-project/

• Tibetan medical doctor would like to validate the claim:
  • signs of consciousness persist beyond the brain
• A number of Tibetan monks have gone to the US for western medical training so that they can bring that back to India to study the Thukdam and other phenomena that can shed light on this issue.

• Title
  • The strange case of the dead-but-not-dead Tibetan monks
• Author
  • Robby Berman
• Publication
  • The Big Think (website)
  • https://bigthink.com/health/thukdam-study/
• Subject
  • The physiological study of Thukdam, the post death meditation of Tibetan Buddhism of monks who have died and display lack of decay (delayed decomposition) in the body many weeks after post mortem.
  • The study was headed by neuroscientist Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Healthy Minds.
  • Study Title
    • No Detectable Electroencephalographic Activity After Clinical Declaration of Death Among Tibetan Buddhist Meditators in Apparent Tukdam, a Putative Postmortem Meditation State
    • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7876463/

• Title
  • Corporations can't be greened

• Author Erin Remblance

• Description

  • The author argues that corporations cannot be greened.
  • In other words, by definition, they cannot put nature ahead of profit and this inherent flaw means they will never do enough, and will never transcend greenwashing
  • The real question then is this
    • Can we transition to a green capitalist economy within planetary boundaries in time to avoid planetary tipping points?

• Title
  • Is carbon tunnel vision real?

• author Martin Daniel

• This article introduces the concept of Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) as a way to validate if carbon tunnel vision is real

• in other words
  • we are writing for the reader
  • we need to know what is salient in the reader's world and synchronize to that

• fundamental problem of research writing / reading

  • researchers write to think in one way
  • and read and process information in another
  • we interfere with the reading comprehension process of the reader by writing to think

• there are three reactions to reading text we do not understand

  • we reread - it slows us down
  • we don't understand
  • we feel frustrated

• a researcher writes to help the thinking process

• Title
  • Climate misinformation in a climate of misinformation

• quote -“If you can’t read or understand the ‘peer-reviewed science’ then you are open to being intimidated into fearful silence by those who can, or claim they can. And those people - drawn, as all green ‘thought leaders’ are, from the upper strata of society - will bring with them a worldview which treats the mass of humanity like so many cattle to be herded into the sustainable, zero-carbon pen.”

• comment

  • The problem can be extrapolated into language itself
  • Any word is just an abstraction and oversimplifies a complex reality
  • if we generalize this argument, it leads to the general claim that
    • abstraction leads to harmful conclusions as well

• Fixating on only the easily quantifiable
• at the expense of a planet full of things
• that are inherently resistant to reductionistic measurements
• is the same industrialized, monoculture thinking
• that got us into this climate crisis in the first place.

• measuring methane and showing it is a problem
  • cow farts become an enemy
• how do we cope with a rewilded world?
  • when all the other animals will also release methane?

• the coastline paradox
  • measured length of coastline varies with the scale at which the measurement is taken

• Title
  • What gets measured, gets…manipulated.
• Subtitle
  • The impossible business of quantifying a planet resistant to quantification.
• Author
  • Meg Chatham

• The practice of citizen science

• Title
  • The hero of the Anthropocene has 8 billion faces — one of them is yours
• Subtitle -The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity's place in the world. Citizen science can help.

• Title
  • Climate Majority Project
    • Helps projects to grow, get funding, and connect as many willing hands as possible

• title

  • When it comes to climate, beware the "calm down" guy

• good article to show a calm down guy!

• comment
• key insight

• quote
  • "paper enforces single sequence and there's no room for digression"
• author
  • Ted Nelson
• comment
  • Ted is alluding to the fact that our written text reflects SPOKEN text
  • Since spoken text is phonetic and produced by our vocal cords, and our vocal cords inherently only produce one sound at a time,
    • any written language that is built upon spoken language will reflect the same linear, sequential, temporal structure
  • with the advent of computing, and especially HTML, this becomes an UNNECESSARY LIMITATION

• quote
  • "when I was a teen, it seemed to me that paper was a prison"
• author
  • Ted Nelson

• How an A.G.I. rollout will look like:
  • 1. charm offensive of heavily subsidized services
  • 1. retrenchment with overdependent users and agencies tasked with the cost of making it profitable
  • 1. Silicon Valley leaders downplay the markets role:
    2. the people own and control AI

• Case study of market bias
  • Uber self-driving cars

• the three biases of A.G.I-ism
  • market bias
  • adaptation bias
  • efficiency bias

• There are people who are designing systems to prioritize augmenting human intelligence and use machines to assist us
• For instance, it was the vision of Doug Engelbart

• comment
  • we need to have a Deep Humanity dive on
    • quality of life vs quantity of life
    • if we acknowledge and face our mortality,
      • how would that change the QUALITY of our life?

• AI accelerates the left hemisphere view and impacts in the world

• the sense of something sacred

• comment

  • Deep Humanity alignment

• quote
  • "we are now like Sleepwalkers whistling a Happy tune as we amble towards the abyss"
• author
  • Ian McGilchrist

• Definition
  • Dunning-kruger effect
    • the less you know, the more you think you know
    • the more you know, the less you think you know
  • the left hemisphere doesn't know what it doesn't know so it thinks it knows everything

• In his book, The Master and his Emissary,
  • McGilchrist explains what happens when left and right hemisphere are out of balance and the left hemisphere takes over
    • namely, disaster
  • this will be the third time the imbalance manifests

• right hemisphere qualities:
  • sees not the representation but the living presence
  • bringing broad open sustained Vigilant attention to bear on the world
  • it sees what is fresh unique
  • never fully known
  • never finally certain
    • but full of potential
  • it understands all it is and
  • must remain implicit
  • humor poetry art narrative music
  • The Sacred indeed everything we love
  • it understands that nothing is ever merely static and unchanging
  • but flowing
  • and radically interconnected
  • that parts of the left hemisphere's invention and that
  • what we are seeing as parts are already wholes
  • at another level this is a free world
  • an animate universe
  • and a bureaucrat's nightmare
  • it has all the richness and unfathomable complexity of the world

• left hemisphere qualities
  • using narrow beam scattered attention to one detail after another
  • use what is already:
    • familiar
    • certain
    • static
    • explicit
    • abstract
    • decontextualized
    • disembodied
    • categorized
    • general in nature
    • reduced to its parts
    • all is predictable and controlled
    • this is an inanimate universe and
    • a bureaucrat's dream
    • it is like a map in relation to the world
    • is mapped useful to the degree that it leaves almost everything out
    • and its only value is utility
    • finally, it is a RE-PRESENTATION - not fresh, but regurgitated

• comment
  • great metaphor!
  • so many people are tuned into the harmful channel

• comment
  • Deep Humanity addresses this

• comment
  • extreme financial wealth
    • is often not only accompanied by, but actually CREATES
    • extreme poverty of MEANING
  • this is the equation:
    • extreme financial wealth = extreme meaning poverty

• simulacrum -
  • definition
    • an unsatisfactory imitation or substitute.

• Somewhere along the way,
• the ability to write has become completely identified with intellectual power,
• creating a graphocentric myopia
  • concerning the very nature and transfer of knowledge.

• Title
  • The Neurobiology of Sentence Comprehension
• Authors
  • Lee Osterhout
  • Albert kim
  • Gin Kuperberg
• Year
  • 2006

• finite time singularity

  • when the mathematical solution to the growth equation becomes infinitely large at some finite time

• comment

  • this is also salient for the accumulation of unresolved progress traps
  • the Anthropocene can perhaps be viewed as the occurence of finite time singularities due to unresolved problems arising from progress traps that innovation is too slow to solve

• Title

  • West // Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms…j

• Comment

  • good exerpts from the book

• Julian Huxley's biology work was to lay the seed of
  • how one individual organism transforms over many generations
    • into a new higher-level individual organism
  • he called this the "movement of individuality"
  • It has also come to be known as
    • major transitions
    • major evolutionary transition (MET)
    • evolutionary transitions in individuality
  • grandson of Thomas Huxley
  • brother of Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
  • wrote The Individual in the Animal Kingdom (1912)
  • advocated for closed, independent systems with harmonious parts
  • endorsed gradients of individuality
  • "closure is never complete, the independence never absolute, the harmony never perfect"

• Herbert Spencer fully developed Digby's concept into the modern concept of functional integration
  • Spencer introduced the term "survival of the fittest"
  • ‘He tried to unite complex new findings about metabolism and organismic development with evolution and the seeming correspondence of organisms to their environments.
    • In The Principles of Biology (1864), Spencer wrote
      • a biological individual is one in which
      • the interdependence of the parts allows it to function and
      • respond to environmental change as a whole.
    • That is: ‘any concrete whole having a structure which enables it,
      • when placed in appropriate conditions,
  • to continuously adjust its internal relations to external relations, - so as to maintain the equilibrium of its functions.’

• Digby’s answer to the fundamental question:
  • What is it that unites the parts of a system into a living individual? was the precursor to the biological concept of functional integration:
  • wholeness comes from the system being functionally interdependent and integrated.
    • the activities in one part of the system are brought about
    • by a cause external to the part where it occurs (interdependence);
    • and the mutual workings of the parts account for the behaviour of the system as a whole,
    • making this activity internal to the entire system (integration).
    • Here is an example using an Elephant
      • An elephant’s heart pumps blood only because it’s supplied with
        • energy from the digestive system,
        • oxygen from the respiratory system, and
        • support from the skeletal system.
      • All those bits working in tandem is what makes it possible for an elephant to walk around doing elephant things.

• Kenelm Digby
  • was an obscure 17th century English naturalist and polymath who was also
    • natural philosopher
      • Two Treatises (1644) - is the title of his important work which was an attempt to wed the emerging mechanical philosophy advocated by Newton to the existing tradition of Aristotle
      • In his book, he tried to answer the question: what is it that unites the parts of a system into a living individual?
    • alchemist
    • swordsman
    • privateer
    • courtier
    • brewer
    • inventor of the modern wine bottle

• A research paper "What are dadelions and aphids?
  • Biologist Daniel Janzen argues that
    • Much like the strawberry,
    • both dandelions and
    • aphids can (all) alternate between asexual and sexual reproduction.
  • Most of the dandelion clusters that you come across in the yard are clones resulting from asexual reproduction.
  • So from the perspective of evolution, Janzen argued, all these clones are part of the same scattered individual.
  • On this view, a single dandelion is not actually the familiar small plant;
    • it’s more akin to ‘a very large tree with no investment in trunk, major branches, or perennial roots.
  • It has a highly diffuse crown.’ -

• The problem of individuality is composed of two problems:
  • identity
    • what does it mean for a thing to remain the same thing if it changes over time?
    • what makes tow entities the same kind of thing?
    • identity is fundamentally about the nature of sameness and continuity
  • individuation
    • how do we tell two things apart?
    • what are the boundaries of an object?
    • indivduation is about differences and breaks
• These two properties are abstractions and are really two sides of the same coin
  • One can often reframe one in terms of the other to suit your focus.
  • To pick something out in the world you need to know both what
    • makes it one thing, and also
    • what makes it different than other things – identity and individuation,
      • sameness and difference.