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Our individuality is our greatest asset.
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the supervisormust therefore be prepared to carry the system a step furtherwhenever occasion arises. There is therefore an opportunity tobring individuality into play. If we are not prepared to assert ourindividuality within and without the limits set by the system, wemay depend upon it that our collaborators or subordinates willassert theirs, consciously or unconsciously, and we shall find inthe end that our system has been distorted in all directions, withoutnecessarily transgressing our rules, although the latter will be buta matter of time.
This advice also generally applies to one's one personal zettelkasten, much less a group version.
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- Feb 2024
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other cultures do not think this and that suggests that our sense of self is largely culturally constructed
for - quote - Sarah Stein Lubrano - quote - self as cultural construction in WEIRD culture - sense of self
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- 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
- It's just a weird fascination of our weird culture that
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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
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- rapid whole system change
- Major Evolutionary Transition
- Indranet
- evolutionary biology
- multi scale competency architecture
- Facilitating Evolutionary Transition
- Stop Reset Go
- MET
- Deep Humanity
- 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
- Michel Levin
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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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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.
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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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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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this is a cancer uh approach that we work on which is to not to kill those cells but to force them to re reconnect to their neighbors and when they reconnect to the 00:31:24 neighbors they once again become part of the collective that's working on making nice skin nice muscle they stop being metastatic and they they go back
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for: quote - Michael Levin, quote - MET of individuality, quote - memory wipe, quote - cancer therapy - MET of individuality
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quote: Michael Levin
- this is a cancer approach that we work on which is to not to kill those cells but to force them to re reconnect to their neighbors and when they reconnect to the neighbors they once again become part of the collective that's working on making nice skin nice muscle they stop being metastatic and they they go back
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- Michael refers to cancer as a "memory wipe" where they have forgotten the normative programmed narrative of bodily / collective / multicellular unity
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when we work on cancer what you see is that when when 00:30:18 individual cells electrically disconnect from the rest of the body they their cognitive light cone shrinks they're back to their amoeba tiny little e gos and as far as they're concerned the rest of the body is just environment to them
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for: MET of individuality - examples of breakdown - cancer
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paraphrase
- cancer is an example of when some part of the evolutionary program that coheres multicellularity into a cohesive whole goes faulty
- then some subset of cells lose their coherence programming / story / narrative, the unity is lost and that cellular subset no longer identifies as part of the higher order collective individual, but return to a much more evolutionarily primitive state of pre-MET of individuality
- this means that the MET individuality coherence program has weaknesses that can cause groups of cells to lose sight of the unifying logic and return to the primitive state
- cancer demonstrates that these primitive programs still exist in all cells in our bodies and when the regulating coherence program is faulty, they can return to these more primitive states
- cancer is an example of when some part of the evolutionary program that coheres multicellularity into a cohesive whole goes faulty
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for: social superorganism, MET, major evolutionary transition, MET of individuality, Michael Levin, Roy Baumeister, Adam Omary
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insight
- this talk inspired an insight:
- The contrast occurred to me with this talk especially, due to the respective areas of the two guests and Michael Levin's own interest of whether the signaling and policies within the collectives within a physiological body generalize in any way to larger social collectives that are outside of those physiological bodies. Rob Baumeister, being a social scientist is the perfect person to have such a conversation with.
- In this case, those policies are composed of informational signals and it would seem the signals currently have nowhere near the cohesion that millions of years of evolution have resulted in within the biological body of a multicelllular organism
- this talk inspired an insight:
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- Rob Baumeister
- cancer therapy - evolutionary approach
- MET
- MET of Individuality - cancer therapy
- Adam Omary
- Michael Levin
- quote - Michael Levin
- adjacency - Michael Levin's example and consciousness as a governance system of the multicellular body
- MET of Individuality - example of breakdown - cancer
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- Sep 2023
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inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net
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for: social tipping point, multi-scale competency architecture, MET, major evolutionary transition of individuality
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Title: Using emergence to take social innovation to scale
- Author: Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze
- publisher: The Berkana Institute
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Emergence is how lifecreates radical change and takesthings to scale
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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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- Mar 2023
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royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org
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The human species may be undergoing an evolutionary transition in individuality (ETI) [1–6]. The evolutionary transitions framework explains how new levels of biological organization (such as multicellularity, or eusociality) emerge from subsidiary units (such as cells or individuals) through the formation of cooperative groups [6–10]. First proposed by Maynard Smith & Szathmáry [3], evolutionary transitions are thought to unfold via a shift in the dominant level of selection from competitive individuals to well-integrated functional groups [8,11]. These transitions exhibit a common set of patterns, including new divisions of labour, the loss of full individual autonomy and reproductive control, and the rise of new routes of information transmission [6,7,10].
Definition : Evolutionary Transition in Individuality - This is a very good definition of ETI - A new individual is a new level of biological organization - The new individual emerges out of an integration of subsiduary units as competitive individuals synergize and form well-integrated functional groups
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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As she saw it, thinking is not something that one person can do alone. It takes two people to have a thought.
I tend to agree with this.
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- Jan 2023
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humansandnature.org humansandnature.org
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autonomy can shed the problematic individualism with which it has been saddled in the era of liberalism and carbon capitalism and can be reconceptualized as a practice of recognition that is dialogic and critically self-reflexive. As such, autonomy is a practice that recognizes and supports individuality but does not rest on an ontological foundation of individualism. And, needless to say, it does not rest on a foundational collectivist or totalizing ontology, either. Whereas other practices of recognition such as solidarity and care are directed outward toward right relationships with others, autonomy, I suggest, is a practice of recognition directed inward. Autonomy is reflexive: it affirms and attends to the moral standing of oneself. The autonomy of the person is required by both the concept of agency (acting for reasons rather than being forced to act by causes) and the concept of responsibility (neither praise nor blame are attached to behavior that is beyond one’s control). My working notion is thatautonomy is the recognition and authentication of one’s own capability to assume moral agency and responsibility in an interdependent world.
!- distinction : between individuality and individualism
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- Oct 2022
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archive.org archive.org
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Goutor indicates that "a certain amount of individual in methods is commendable, and indeed necessary." but that "it soon becomes apparent that there are some ways of doing things more efficient and ultimately more productive than others". But he goes on to bemoan that how to manuals offer little help.
(p3, Introduction)
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- Sep 2022
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royalsocietypublishing.org royalsocietypublishing.org
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human long-term GCC is characterized by an evolutionary transition in inheritance (from genes to culture) which entails a transition in individuality (from genetic individual to cultural group).
!- for : Cultural Evolution - the findings of this paper point to culture is displacing genetic adaptive potential as the main driver of evolution. This is a very profound finding!
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- Jul 2022
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there was an interesting paper that came out i cited in the in my in my in paper number one that uh was 01:15:53 looking at this question of what is an individual and they were looking at it from an information theory standpoint you know so they came up with this they came up with this uh uh theory uh and i think do they have a name for 01:16:09 it yeah uh information theory of individuality and they say base it's done at the bottom of the slide there and they say basically that uh you know an individual is a process just what's 01:16:20 what we've been talking about before that propagates information from the past into the future so that you know implies uh information flow and implies a cognitive process uh it implies anticipation of 01:16:33 the future uh and it probably implies action and this thing that is an individual it is not like it is a layered hierarchical individual it's like you can draw a circle around 01:16:45 anything you know in a certain sense and call it an individual under you know with certain uh definitions you know if you want to define what its markov blanket is 01:16:57 but uh but you know we are we are we are our cells are individuals our tissues liver say is an individual um a human is an individual a family is an 01:17:12 individual you know and it just keeps expanding outward from there the society is an individual so it really it's none of those are have you know any kind of inherent preference 01:17:24 levels there's no preference to any of those levels everything's an individual layered interacting overlapping individuals and it's just it's just a it's really just a the idea of an individual is just where 01:17:36 do you want to draw your circle and then you can you know then you can talk about an individual at whatever level you want so so that's all about information so it's all about processing information right
The "individual" is therefore scale and dimension dependent. There are so many ways to define an individual depending on the scale you are looking at and your perspective.
Information theory of individuality addresses this aspect.
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- Oct 2021
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bauhouse.medium.com bauhouse.medium.com
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accountability, reparations, and radical social change
The mechanisms of our compliance with the dominant system are designed into the system:
- Social: learned helplessness (individuality)
- Economic: trained incapacities (specialization)
- Political: bureaucratic intransigence (authoritarianism)
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- Oct 2020
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icla2020b.jonreeve.com icla2020b.jonreeve.com
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No, it was too difficult. “I’ll—I’ll go with them, and write to William later. Some other time. Later. Not now. But I shall certainly write,” thought Isabel hurriedly.
Once again we see themes of neglect, and of becoming ones own person. The ambiguity of Mansfield's stories, leave us to our own subjective interpretations. This is the kind of writing that I love, because it challenges our own sensibilities, forcing the reader into making up their own minds, without anymore meaningful a measure for right or wrong, than the readers own life experience. In this way her stories successfully imitate real life. We go around imperfect machines, interpreting life through a murky lens, with feelings that are complicated, dull, sharp, definite... I know this story is a sad one. I feel sad for William, but I'm not sure I should.
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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- 14:20 Pan's Labyrinth
- Moral parable with "think for yourself; don't just blindly obey" as its message.
- 14:20 Pan's Labyrinth
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- May 2016
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christmind.info christmind.info
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In the Eternal there is no Time, or Space, or Individuality, and it is only by reason of thephenomenon of Thought being born from the womb of Mind into the world of Matter that theillusions of Time, Space and Individuality occur; the thought, or Creature, acquiring theconsciousness of separateness from its Thinker or Creator
Time and space were created for individuality to occur, for creature to have a consciousness that it is separate from its Creator....
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