- Oct 2024
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www.pnas.org www.pnas.org
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for: Major Evolutionary Transitions in individuality, MET, MET in Individuality
- Abstract
- The evolution of life on earth has been driven by a small number of major evolutionary transitions.
- These transitions have been characterized by individuals that could previously replicate independently, cooperating to form a new, more complex life form.
- For example,
- archaea and eubacteria formed eukaryotic cells, and
- cells formed multicellular organisms.
- However, not all cooperative groups are en route to major transitions.
- How can we explain why major evolutionary transitions have or haven’t taken place on different branches of the tree of life?
- We break down major transitions into two steps:
- the formation of a cooperative group and
- the transformation of that group into an integrated entity.
- We show how these steps require
- cooperation,
- division of labor,
- communication,
- mutual dependence, and
- negligible within-group conflict.
- We break down major transitions into two steps:
- We find that certain ecological conditions and the ways in which groups form have played recurrent roles in driving multiple transitions.
- In contrast, we find that other factors have played relatively minor roles at many key points, such as
- within-group kin discrimination and
- mechanisms to actively repress competition.
- More generally, by identifying the small number of factors that have driven major transitions, we provide a simpler and more unified description of how life on earth has evolved.
- Abstract
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- Jan 2024
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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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
Tags
- evolutionary biology
- Indranet
- rapid whole system change
- Deep Humanity
- Major Evolutionary Transition
- Michel Levin
- Indyweb
- MET
- multi scale competency architecture
- Facilitating Evolutionary Transition
- Stop Reset Go
- 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
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greattransition.org greattransition.org
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Every coherent entity in the world is held together by some form of governance, whether it be an atom, a cell, your body, or a nation.
for - major evolutionary transitions in individuality - MET in individuality - https://hyp.is/3CqphlpHEe6yUmfDjm_p5A/www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1421402112
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- Nov 2023
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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- for: microbiome, gut health, MET in Individuality - microbiome, complexity - human microbiome, fermentation - health
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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I 01:00:30 think that a proper version of the concept of synchronicity would talk about multiscale patterns so that when you're looking at electrons in the computer you would say isn't it amazing that these electrons went over here and 01:00:42 those went over there but together that's an endgate and by the way that's part of this other calculation like amazing down below all they're doing is following Maxwell's equations but looked at at another level wow they just just 01:00:54 computed the weather in you know in in Chicago so I I I think what you know I it's not about well I was going to say it's not about us and uh and our human tendency to to to to pick out patterns 01:01:07 and things like but actually I I do think it's that too because if synchronicity is is simply how things look at other scales
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for: adjacency - consciousness - multiscale context
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adjacency between
- Michael's example
- my idea of how consciousness fits into a multiscale system
- adjacency statement
- from a Major Evolutionary Transition of Individuality perspective, consciousness might be seen as a high level governance system of a multicellular organism
- this begs the question: consciousness is fundamentally related to individual cells that compose the body that the consciousness appears to be tethered to
- question: Is there some way for consciousness to directly access the lower and more primitive MET levels of its own being?
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- Jul 2023
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Julian Huxley
- 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"
- how one individual organism transforms over many generations
- Julian Huxley's biology work was to lay the seed of
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