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    1. No one's going to care. And does that mean that I'm I'm worthless? I'm pointless. I'm I'm meaningless. No,

      for - adjacency - existential isolation - footprints in the sand - noone will care for us a thousand years from now - Milarepa - alone vs loneliness - Donald Hoffman - I've often thought about this on walks in nature - plants sit next to each other, - some just sprouting, - others in full, vibrant maturity, - some withering, - and others dead and decayed - life and death are juxtapositioned - A blade of grass may live and die without the rest of the world knowing anything about it - When a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? - To live a life embodying the sacred, it doesn't matter if no-one knows anything about you - and yet, in contrast, biology and psychology tells us e are social beings, INTERbeings by nature - How do we reconcile these opposites? - Milarepa - the yogi living in solitude mountain retreat - in a yogic song I wrote, there's a difference between being alone and loneliness - How do we flip the loneliness of existential isolation of being human - to the fullness of the boundless wisdomin the aloneness of one particular headset in this lifetime?

      New meme - the fullness of being alone - the Fullness of Emptiness

    2. That's me in a different headset. And when I really then then I ask, well, how would I want to treat me? I get the right answer. That's love. How would I if that's me, how how how would I treat me if that were me? Well, when you get the right when you do that, you're acting in love.

      for - key insight - if that person is me, hope would I treat me? - Donald Hoffman - adjacency - if that person is me, how do I treat me? - Good Deep Humanity BEing journey

    3. If if your religion is love and that's it and that's then that's how you act. You don't really need to add anything more to that. That's that's all you really need. Love your neighbor as yourself. You're done.

      for - quote / key insight - If if your religion is love and that's it and that's then that's how you act, you don't really need to add anything more to that. - That's that's all you really need. Love your neighbor as yourself. You're done.

      • adjacency - love is all you need - love yourself - love your neighbor - my yogic song lyrics - Donald Hoffman
        • Makes me think of the llyric I wrote for a Yogic song:
          • Love
            • is the force of attraction
            • of the universe with itself
    4. it's an awareness that can create all this in an instant and it can let it go.

      for - adjacency - awareness creates - awareness destroys - change - life coexists with death each moment - Donald Hoffman - Interesting perspective - that awareness constructs this reality and destroys it (lets it go) - This emerged the association with another idea I've often thought of: - how each moment embodies both life and death - A new moment cannot arise - unless the previous moment is let go of

    5. We will each die. That's incontrovertible. So any attachments I have to this world will cease. There's no doubt. The question is can I let go of the attachments now or will they only go for my cold dead hand?

      for - quote / key insight - die before we die - Donald Hoffman - We will each die. That's incontrovertible. - So any attachments I have to this world will cease. - There's no doubt. - The question is can I let go of the attachments now - or will they only go for my cold dead hand?

      • adjacency - example - cliche - die before we die - Donald Hoffman
    6. if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear.

      for - adjacency - letting go - of knowledge - of theories - Donald Hoffman - I've often felt as he does - it's a conundrum of letting go of that (knowledge) we've invested so heavily into - quote / key insight - letting go of theories of science and self - Donald Hoffman - Science is great, but don't believe any theory. <br /> - Theories are just tools. They're not the truth. - No scientific theory, my theories included, are the truth. - And so also is my theory about who I am not the truth. - So to really let go of any theory, if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear

    7. The issue is then when I look at that fear response, can I look at it and accept it or do I identify with it? Do I identify with the fear response or can I step back and be the observer that watches the fear response?

      for - key insight / quote - Do I identify with my fear or step back and be the observer that watches the fear response? - Donald Hoffman? - adjacency - calmness - in the face of death - fear of death - Donald Hoffman

    8. t keeps you from just talking abstractly about this stuff and and and and being real about it is what do I really feel about it?

      for - key insight - adjacency - fear - near death experience - experiential knowledge vs abstract knowledge - Donald Hoffman - He articulates a very important point, that many of us, are only partially there on the journey of journey of discovery - Belief only takes you part way there, - Embodiment is the real proof - We need to have the experience to be certain

    9. what the Bible is basically saying, love God with all your heart. That it's loving yourself. You are God. And loving your neighbor as yourself is just recognizing that your neighbor is yourself under a different avatar.

      for - adjacency - Christian teaching - infinite intelligence - loving God - loving your neighbor - loving yourself - all the same - Donald Hoffman

    10. I don't have a brain and you don't have a brain until we actually look inside and render a brain

      for - adjacency - subjective vs objective reality - examining our most fundamental assumptions of reality, self and other Donald Hoffman - This is a difficult one for many people who reify objective reality to understand - It requires deep analysis and insight into our fundamental assumptions of how we employ anguage, learned while we were in our child development stage - Donald Hoffman is asking us to take that journey to uproot these most fundamental assumptions of self and other, long forgotten, but thoughtlessly projected into the present moment like an automaton

    11. The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because your neighbor is yourself just with a different headset.

      for - key insight / quote - the reason to love your neighbor - Donald Hoffman - The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because - your neighbor IS YOUR (TRUE) SELF, just with a different headset. - And the only reason we have problems is - we don't realize how incredible you are. - So you are that which is creating this VR simulation with all of its beauty, all of its complexity. - All the complexity is you and you're doing it effortlessly.

      adjacency - infinite intelligence - hologram metaphor - your neighbor is your (true) self - Deep Humanity motto - Join together (instead of Join us) - face behind the mask - Reflecting on this, it occurred to me that the Deep Humanity motto of "Join together, NOT join me/us" is deeply connected to what is being discussed in this annotation. - The problem with "joining me" is that it reflects we are still stuck in the ego reification paradigm while "join together" reflects awareness that the boundless intelligence is the true face behind the mask of each different species and each different individual of each species

    12. All the egoic stuff that we do that causes all the problems in the world because you don't know who you are

      for - key insight / quote - the reified ego is the root cause of all the problems in the world - we reify because we don't know who we REALLY are - Donald Hoffman - All the egoic stuff that we do causes all the problems in the world because - you don't know who you are. - You're creating this whole thing. - You're not a little player. - You're the inventor of this whole thing. - You have nothing to prove and - you don't need to be better than anybody else. - They're also master creators. - They're creating entire universes that they perceive as well. - And my own take on on this is that - you and I are really the same one reality - just looking at itself through two different headsets, - two different avatars and having a conversation. - And maybe that's what is required for this one infinite intelligence to sort of know itself.

      • adjacency - poverty mentality - ego - problems of the world - samsara - nirvana - hologram model - Alan Watts - God playing hide and seek - Donald Hoffman
      • When we don't believe we can be this, we limit ourselves
        • That is, we suffer from self-inflicted poverty mentality
      • When he says we are the one same reality,
        • he is echoing the common spiritual teaching of the holographic metaphor where
          • the one nameless is distilling itself in so many separate identities to know itself,
        • Similiar to many spiritual teacher's teachings
          • Alan Watts referred to it as God playing Hide and Seek with itself
    13. I'm now rendering a cup. that the cup that I rendered is no longer there. You might render your cup. You might say, "Well, no, Don, you're wrong. The cup is still there. I can see it." No, you're rendering your cup. And so you you're you're not rendering my cup. I rendered my cup

      for - adjacency - perspectival knowing - rendering - learned in child development - language usage - This is an interesting use of the word "render" to demonstrate how even shared human experiences are still uniquely seen from different perspectives - We impute objective reality, for instance of the cup, even though we are each uniquely rendering it in different ways - It is a direct result of our child development in which we learned how to employ words to label such social contexts - We establish rules for word usage at an early age, but we forget the original conditions which gave rise to them - When we remind ourselves of the original motivation, it is a bit of a shock to the system how strange this reality is

    14. if we actually understood that all of this that I'm seeing right now I'm making it up on the fly. This cup that I'm seeing, it only exists when I create it.

      for - adjacency - constructed reality - umwelt - species perspectival knowing - misunderstanding - sensory signals - map and territory - Donald Hoffman - We have to be careful how we interpret his claim here, as it is often easily misunderstood. - He means that evolution itself, reality itself has constructed this unique set of sense organs, that creates a unique human umwelt in which - the sensory signals give us a very specific map of reality, NOT reality itself - In this way, our sensory signals construct a very unique map of reality, which is different from the way all other species construct their maps

    15. what's interesting about this now is if I think I'm just this little body and I'm nothing but this body and and my conscious experiences are nothing but what my brain does. So, so that's my theory and that's that's all I am. I don't feel very big. I don't feel very important. Um, and so I'm going to probably need to do something to make myself feel a little bit better and I'm going to need to compete with you.

      for - example - poverty mentality - adjacency - poverty mentality - ego reification - othering - competition - If I believe my own spacetime story that - I am this body - thoughts are simply epiphenomena of the brain - then I don't feel very empowered or spacious - instead, I feel small and insignificant - and it motivates me to compete with others to make myself feel better - In this way, my own poverty mentality, based on the wrong-headed belief that I am the map (not the territory) - leads to identity and ego reification and othering

    16. if you want to understand the truth of who you are beyond just this headset description of you then you have to lay aside all concepts period and just know yourself by being yourself not by putting a concept between you and yourself.

      for - quote - who you are beyond your headset - Donald Hoffman - If you want to understand the truth of who you are beyond just this headset description of you - then you have to - lay aside all concepts period and - just know yourself by being yourself, - not by putting a concept between you and yourself. - adjacency - headset - perspectival knowing - Donald Hoffman - unquestioned assumption of other perspectives - imputation - external observable proxy - to private, inner world - As I read Hoffman's use of the word "headset", it brought up some associations with the idea of "perspectival knowing" - There is the perspectival knowing of a species, - but also of the individual of a species - For humans, perspectival knowing must be contextualized within an imputation: - that other perspectives exist - in other words, that other private worlds exist - and ultimately, this is a widely accepted imputation of an inner private world - based upon public, external observable behavioral proxies - This imputation of the other is a fundamental imputation and assumption of the human condition which we all take for granted, - but because it is so foundational, never question

    17. There is another way that you can appreciate that

      for - adjacency - spirituality - science - silence of thoughts in meditation - descriptions of reality - map and territory - Donald Hoffman - nice adjacency - if our thoughts are dependent on and built upon inputs from our senses - and our senses only provide us with a map, and not the territory, - then thinking will only ever keep us in the map world

    18. learning by ostensive definition.

      for - definition - learning by ostensive definition - adjacency - ostensible definition - parents - external proxy - children's private experiences - This is a very deep insight and important point - Parents are stewards of culture and they lead their children into a world of shared names - It is important to note that - the parent who teaches the child the name for some aspect of reality - only ever has a proxy to the child's private experience of reality - That proxy is the externally observed behaviour of the child - In fact, we fundamentally only ever have public external proxies to the private, "inner" lives of others

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  2. Aug 2025
    1. this system that actually tells you which one is you which one is not you is the self is not the self yeah so the immune system

      for - adjacency - brain - identity - immune system - immune system involved with identity at a microscopic level - which molecule is part of "you"? - which moleculev is NOT part of you - immune system preceded neural system

      ? - maybe there is similarity between neural processing and immune system response?

    1. today, ‘constructive translocal productive networks’, which will hopefully be the format for post-civilization

      for - adjacency - translocal productive networks - cosmolocal - deep Humanity - trans-spiritually, trans-religion - in other words, these translocal productive networks are cosmolocal networks and - can Deep Humanity be framed as a 'universal spirituality or - trans-spirituality or - trans- religion - that compliments the translocal productive network?

    2. we cannot just go ‘back’ to indigenous social systems

      for - adjacency - cannot go back - spiral -progress - progress trap - This can also be seen as the complexity emerging from the continuous oscillation between progress and progress traps - while we are a timebinding species, the unintended consequences of progress require us to undo the unintended harm by revisiting a corner time to remember the beneficial qualities so they we may decouple the harmful qualities in the future

    3. Civilization as a master-slave paradigm regarding nature.

      for - new definition - biosphere-scale inequality - adjacency - metaphor - master-slave - resources - externalisation - Michel articulated an insightful metaphor to describe our modern relationship with nature - To see nature as a resource is a species-selfish (anthropomorphic) perspective - which enables - resource extraction - exploration - externalization and ultimately - the climate crisis - Humans are seem as the master and all of nature our slave - This transcends human-scale inequality - it is biosphere-scale inequality

    4. our environmental crisis which is a fundamental crisis of our relation with our lifeworld

      for - adjacency - environmental crisis - sensory bubble - hyperobjects - evolution - progress traps

      Adjacency - between - environmental crisis - sensory bubble - hyperobjects - evolution - progress trap - adjacency relationship - ? - Why does capitalism framework externalise climate impacts? - The climate is a hyperobject that transcends our evolved sensors for danger - A crisis that threatens the (global) climate therefore also transcends our innate ability to sense danger - We will react immediately when a predator like a bear is rubbing after us - because we have evolved to respond to that with a fight out flight response - The bear is perceived as a real threat, while the climate crisis, bring a hyper object is not - Science reveals that invisible, but depends on complex reasoning chains of inference - Our sensory bubble is always only a small part of the world - even though media can give us images of the entire world, it is indirect and cannot compete with our evolved, innate danger sensing mechanisms

  3. Jul 2025
    1. at some point the FBI called me in uh for unrelated reasons and the first thing I told them before I cooperated with them um is just just to let you guys know if I ever find out that uh you were complicit in running a covert operation that used children to do anything in terms of state craft, all bets are off

      for - Epstein as part of state-sponsored child abuse Kompromat? - Eric Weinstein - adjacency - Epstein - CIA - FBI - state-sponsored pedophilia

    1. It was very important to get Nobel laureates and some of the smartest people on earth to come to the Virgin Islands and talk about gravity. Steven Hawkins was there. David Gross was there. Lawrence Krauss was there. Lisa Randall was there right before his conviction. And I'm telling you, he was very focused on the Harvard math department. and he knew all about me in ways that he wasn't supposed to.

      for - adjacency - Jeffrey Epstein mystery - gravity - Harvard Math dept - Eric Weinstein - Stephen Hawkins

    1. liberation often arrives not by fighting harder, but by thinking sideways

      for - adjacency - Euler's Identity - book - Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense - to - Google Books - Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense - https://hyp.is/62BFDGCrEfCrMjc4k92e5g/books.google.com/books/about/Why_the_World_Doesn_t_Seem_to_Make_Sense.html?id=tMDvKl8anacC - This book takes a similar approach and makes use of duality represented by real numbers on the real number line, embedded within the complex plane

  4. Jun 2025
    1. learning is is a is a free gift from uh the mathematics of networks

      for - myth - learning is a property of nervous systems - Michael Levin - salience - high - learning is a property of molecular networks - adjacency - learning - myth - molecular networks - it is a primitive property of molecular networks<br /> - patterns of learning such as habituation, pavlovian response, etc are observable in molecular network - This is a pretty profound claim - learning isn't even a property of the biotic world!

    2. he reason I call it a memory is because once you do this once you convert that network to store the the that electric circuit to store a two-headed pattern it's permanent.

      for - adjacency - morphological memory - permanent - progress trap - progress trap - programmable morphological memory - Nature has obviously altered the bioelectrical patterns through natural evolution, - while humans now understand the mechanism and can alter it artificially to suit our own wants and needs - Hence, it can become a future progress trap

    3. it has a different representation of what to do if it gets injured in the future. It's a latent memory. It doesn't do anything until it gets injured. It just sits there and you would have no idea that it's there by looking at the at the anatomy. But if it's get if it gets injured, this is what its idea of a correct worm.

      for - adjacency - stored latent memory of future morphology - can be altered - Michael Levin - potential progress trap

    4. This is where your brain got all of its cool tricks. It's from from much more ancient developmental roles of channels, gap junctions, and and neurotransmitters. It's a it's it's not just an analogy or a um or a metaphor. It's actually evolutionarily homologous.

      for - adjacency - brain - learned from ancient cells (the body) - ion channels - gap junctions - ancient bacterial biofilms - the brain is built upon these and they are ancient and found in all cells, developed billions of years ago in bacterial biofilms

    5. all intelligence is collective intelligence in the sense that every agent is made of parts, all of us. And what you want is for the agent to have a causal power uh that is not the same as uh simply tracking the microates, the particles

      for - quote - consciousness vs cellular level intelligence - Michael Levin - key insight - high level governance (consciousness) vs low level intelligence adjacency hierarchical control - high level consciousness - low level micro intelligence quote - consciousness vs cellular level intelligence - Michael Levin - all intelligence is collective intelligence in the sense that - every agent is made of parts, all of us. - And what you want is for the (high level) agent to have a causal power that is not the same as simply tracking the microstates, the particles.

      key insight - high level governance (consciousness) vs low level intelligence - This is a very important observation - It says that a multi-cellular being such as a human being can have consciousness that has agency for the entire organism and governs at that high level, and it must have this beyond just the cognition and intelligence at the lower cellular and subcellular level

    6. we have a system that um that we developed that you can go to this website and basically it will just very simply translate papers in neuroscience into developmental biology papers. It's very easy. You just swap a few words and and and everything carries over. There are deep deep symmetries between cognition and morphagenesis which um I think Alan Turing for example recognized

      for - adjacency - cognition and morphogensis - Michael Levin - tools - website - translates neuroscience papers into morphogenesis papers - Michael Levin - adjacency - Alan Turing - intelligence - embryogenesis

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    1. John Stuart Mill once said, referring to the different sides in intellectual controversies, they tend to be “in the right in what they affirmed, though in the wrong in what they denied.”

      for - quote - right in what is affirmed, wrong in what is denied - John Stuart Mill - adjacency - worldviews - metaphor - blind men and the elephant

    2. insiders rather than outsiders, America first

      for - adjacency - America first - insider - outsider - irony - new idiom - REAL America First

      adjacency - America first - insider - outsider - irony - The irony is, of course, that the "insiders" of MAGA are actually a constructed story that conveniently omits the genocide of the first people - From an indigenous perspective, "America first" would mean that the defenders of MAGA are actually the outsiders - They were here for millenia long before white european colonialists made claimsi on these lands - Perhaps this should be called "Real America First"

    3. Casting aside the modern emphasis on the heroic individual, it became obsessed with group-based victimhood.

      for - adjacency - modernism - postmodernism - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt

      adjacency - modernism - postmodernism - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt - it comes back to the misunderstanding between the deep intertwingledness between - the individual and the collective, - the self and the other - a pith interpretation of the individual is that it is the INDIVISIBILITY of the DUAL (Gyuri Lajos)

    4. The tendency to suppress or ignore the inconsistencies that challenge our worldviews is thus universal rather than partisan

      for - adjacency - scientific paradigm shift - confirmation bias - universal behavior - liberal / conservative dynamics - progress

      adjacency - scientific paradigm shift - confirmation bias - universal behavior - liberal / conservative dynamics - progress - It is a natural for humans to be both conservative and liberal - If we weren't liberal, there would be no progress - At the same time, we recognize the value of existing traditions - they worked and helped us to survive - Confirmation bias is conservative - why tamper with something that isn't broke? - Yet novelty is a behavior that even the staunchest conservative displays - It is nonsensible to think we have only one but not the other aspect, we have both

    5. when there’s no truth or value, it makes sense to opt for what is most gratifying in the moment or of greatest service to the self (or ego).

      for - adjacency - postmodernism - post-truth - Buddhist problem of nilhism - emptiness

      adjacency - postmodernism - post-truth - Buddhist problem of nilhism - emptiness - This is the warning that Buddhist teachers have warned about to their students, who have an incomplete "understanding" of emptiness - If nothing is solid or real, and there is no right or wrong, then the student can mistakenly fall into nilhism and do harm - If the concept of harm is construed as part of dualism but dualism is the illusion to be penetrated, then again there is the danger of falling into post-truth where nothing matters and anarchy reins. - In Buddhist philosophy, the concept of "appearance-emptiness" shows that there is still some reality, just not what we originally thought

    6. while postmodernism thus represents a new awareness of how our paradigms construct our world, it appears markedly blind to its own worldview — its own postmodern metanarrative.

      for - key insight - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - quote - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - Annick de Witt - observation - adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts

      adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts - observation - also we are seeing the shadow side of postmodernism in the Trump era where "alternative facts" have become dangerously fashionable - obviously the complete denial of an objective reality is not tenable while the complete denial of constructed reality is also no tenable - what we need is an integration, as Annick contends

    7. immigration flows, especially from lower-income countries, changed the ethnic makeup of advanced industrial societies.

      for - adjacency - immigration - diversity of traditional worldviews

      adjacency - immigration - diversity of traditional worldviews - This is another level of perspectival differences - Within the traditional worldview, modernity has, via - transportation technology - communication technology - made possible rapid mixing of traditional worldviews that had previously been geographically isolated - The modern worldview has thus impacted traditional worlldviews in profound ways

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  5. May 2025
    1. for - adjacency - Michelin star - Michelin tires - I never made the connection until now! Wow! - key insight - Michelin stars - a scam

      summary - This documentary was very eye-opening - As a foodie, I've always viewed the Michelin start system as representing the best and most creative culinary ideas - It's shocking and disappointing to see how exploitative it is - This expose does tie together many feelings of cognitive dissonance I've seen surrounding it - For example, I saw the cartoon character pose a few times but I never made the connection that it was the same avatar as the Michelin tire's avatar - Then when I saw the history and the two brothers who started the Michelin tire company, it suddenly made sense - It is a pay-to-play, Euro-colonialist system that performs cultural appropriation

      alternative to - Michelin Guide - This revelation is disheartening as it destroys a myth I have long lived with - It also raises an opportunity in the form of a question - ? - Can we create a global open-source guide that is based on authentic, unbiased culture?

    1. these people do have political and spiritual values, but they are not uniform but pluralist, these are not in fact, spiritual movements, or spirit-centric movements. They are in effect people attempting to reinvent how we produce value, in different ways, whether they are urban commoners, rural permaculturists, or neo-nomadic crypto nomads.

      for - adjacency - new ways of creating and distributing value - not spiritual movements - example - Indyweb - LCE - Deep Humanity - metacrisis / polycrisis singularity

      adjacency - between - new ways of creating and distributing value - not spiritual movements perse - examples - Indyweb - LCE - Deep Humanity - metacrisis / polycrisis singularity - adjacency relationship - Reflecting on a few of the major projects I'm working and collaborating on there is another permutation in which ideas that are considered "spiritual" are being integrated into the foundational design of technical production and distribution systems - The Indyweb web 3 / web 4 people-centered, interpersonal information ecosystem is founded on the Eastern principle of Shunyata (Emptiness), and its two pillars: - change and - intertwingledness - which in turn corelate to biology via: - evolution and - ecology - The Living Cities Earth (LCE) project is founded on integral theory framework - Deep Humanity emerged out of observation that the historic inability of spiritual and material integration, - what might be here called the hard and soft metamemes - may be leading us into a metacrisis / polycrisis singularity - and that their integration now may be what is required to stave off the worst impacts of the fast approaching metacrisis / polycrisis singularity - Observations of the social dynamics of many small commons-leaning groups I've been involved with shows me that the deep cultural conditioning of the previous hard and soft metameme systems are extremely difficult to uproot and the soft metameme conditioning ends up poisoning collaborations

    2. Brendan Graham Dempsey explains metamemes as follows:

      for - definition - metameme - Brendan Graham Dempsey - like worldview - Collective intelligence shapes meme networks — called “Metamemes” — which individual self-conscious minds “download” to better navigate their environment. - Dempsey's definition makes salient the related Deep Humanity idea of the individual / collective gestalt - adjacency - metameme - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt - to - Substack - article - Toxic polarization is killing us. Why a new worldview might save us - https://hyp.is/OChhXCvdEfC0MEOwIi_joA/annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us

    1. Experience takes the lead but it is anexperience widened by speech. One can thereby identify a basic tension within thephenomenological treatment of language: on the one hand, phenomenology subordinates speechto experience; on the other, phenomenology identifies the reciprocity of speech and experience.Heidegger’s signature if enigmatic formula, “Language is the house of being,” expresses just thisreciprocity (Heidegger 1998a, 39

      for - to - book Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Lisa argues that language and consciousness are two sides of the same coin - adjacency - Heidegger - Symbolosphere - to - symbolosphere annotations - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=Symbolosphere adjacency - between - Heidegger's position on language - the symbolosphere - adjacency relationship - The symbolosphere is an individual or group's world of symbols - Modern humans inhabit the symbolosphere, - in fact, we spend the majority of our lives in the symbolosphere

    1. .All of those processes are , mu-ishi-wa, one side that serves as both sides

      for - definition - mu-ishi-wa - one side - serves both sides - lots of examples follow - adjacency - individual / collective gestalt - self / other gestalt - mu-ishi-wa

      meme - one side serves both sides

      adjacency - individual / collective gestalt - self / other gestalt - mu-ishi-wa - The concept of mu-ishi-wa is similiar to the Deep Humanity concept of self / other gestalt and individual / collective gestalt - in the sense that a visibly autonomous-appearing self or individual is invisibly intertwingled with it's opposite, the other or the collective

    2. The creation of unity by a magical procedure meant the possibility of

      for - quote - Carl Jung - diversity and ground of all being - adjacency - Jung on diversity and unity - Deep Humanity tree metaphor

      quote - Carl Jung - diversity and ground of all being - The creation of unity by a magical procedure meant the possibility of effecting a union with the world - not with the world of multiplicity as we see it but - with a potential world, - the eternal Ground of all empirical being, <br /> - just as the self is the ground and origin of the individual personality - past, - present, and - future

      comment - Deep Humanity strives for the same union of unity and diversity via a tree metaphor, a journey - from the diversity of multiplicity of branches of the tree - back to the common trunk of the tree

    3. That expe-rience made it very clear to me that the ideas I am proposing could result ina similar experience for my readers. That is why any novel language, or evenmodifications to English or other languages, need to be built from the groundup by users themselves and be as transparent as possible.

      for - adjacency - misinterpretation - Indyweb dev - symmathesetic fingerprint - salience mismatch

    4. Individuation requires relativizing one’s ego in order to integrate increas-ingly comprehensive types of opposites, such as one’s persona characteristicsand one’s shadow characteristics, to realize one’s true Self. It is a vortical pro-

      for - definition - individuation - working - integrating increasingly comprehensive types of opposites to realize ones true self - including and holding in tension projections and shadows - adjacency - individuation - integrating - projections - shadows - holding tension

    5. What Bohm perceived 40 years ago has since been magnified. To be freefrom the constraints of fragmentary worldviews, it is necessary to see how thelanguage we use, especially the father tongue, is deeply enmeshed with andexpressive of a fragmentary worldview

      for - adjacency - question - Daivd Bohm - language - separation - dualism - question - is it at all possible to use language AND have a non fragmentary worldview? - If by fragmentary we mean dualistic, then I do not see how it is even possible.

    6. for - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - book - review - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - adjacency - Lisa's conlanger - Deep Humanity BEing journeys - Indyweb - provenance - Deep Humanity - language BEing journey - author - Lisa E. Maroski - to - post - LinkedIn - Bayo Akomolafe - from 'belief' to 'apolief" - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2Fbayoakomolafe_i-am-against-worldview-the-term-seems-activity-7319799984663535616-fpVW%2F&group=world

      new trailmark - summary to review - the word "review" may be a better trailmark word than "summary" - At this point, I will replace "summary" with "review" in the case of book or article reviews

      review - Lisa's book is an insightful convergence of an important but ignored subject, the experiential intersection between language and consciousness. - Her understanding that language plays an important role in constructing our reality leads to a bold and novel proposal, especially salient at this time of global poly-meta-perma-meaning crisis. - She proposes that we individually and collectively experiment and explore creating new words and language structures that transcend the limitations of our existing language - If patterns of language usage traps us in outdated conceptual paradigms, then breaking out of these may be challenging, if not impossible, without the creation of new linguistic and language structures. - From a Stop Reset Go and Deep Humanity perpsective, Lisa's proposal for practical experimentation with constructing new languages to unleash new forms of expression is very aligned to Deep Humanity BEing journeys - As I read and annotate Lisa's book, any potential linguistic and language BEing journeys that her words inspired will be recorded for posterity

      Addendum - note from journal - 2025, May 8 - reflections on Lisa's book - asynchronous communication is only one half of indyweb     - the other half is asynchronous REFLECTION AND SYNTHESIS - Effective timebinding requires both     - Annotation captures interpersonal shared ideas     - journalling captures ours own unique synthesis only emerges from asynchronous reflections of our existent associative network of ideas and the newly ingested interpersonal ones - Annotations capture the novel and newly inputted interpersonal ones     - but annotation currently only applies to hypothesis - it needs to expand to realtime meetings such as zoom calls, emails, socials media comments and socials media chats in order to be complete - Until now, there has not been a medium with sufficient set of affordances to unleash the affordances potential in language itself - While digital media has existed and rapidly developed for the past 5 decades,     - employing and leveraging it to unleash the full potential of language itself has not ever been conceived of until the concept of Indyweb arrived - Indeed, we could make the claim that the indyweb is a foundational human technology on the same order as language itself because it completes language, revealing its empty ( shunyata) quality, thereby     - uniting it with the universe itself -  From the unlimited potential of the tacit,     - the limited forms of words emerge, both are 2 sides off the same nondual coin     - and unleashing the full , unrealized potential of language - It is the provenance aspect of the indyweb that provides an automatic trail of all our learning journey, making both the     - individual and     - intertwingled collective evolution of ideas available as records for. timebinding posterity

      • when we feel in a good state of health and wellbeing and absent of any disease
        • we feel when everything is within harmony in our temporary state of being alive
      • Any disease shows us how the diseases-free state is so fragilely constructed
      • disease-free is an and condition of many subsystems working together harmoniously -aspectualizing is creating
        • a perspective,
        • a word
        • an idea
      • the greatest freedom of afforded when we are free of all perspectives
        • for that is when a new perspective can emerge
      • When we cling to words and ideas, we cling to perspectives and aspects of the whole
      • The teaching of one taste is the highest and most subtle teaching - equal taste - and easiest to be misinterpreted
        • because we are anchored in the world of many different tastes and of measurement and scale,
          • where some things are greater than others on our scale
      • Bayo Akomolafe does some language construction - conlangering on his LinkedIn post on the derivation of the word "apolief" from "belief"
    7. polar regions. The melting of sea ice and ice sheets is not palpable to most.” 201Climate change is invisible when we consider ourselves separate from Gaia

      for - adjacency - hyperobject - language of separation - new trailmark format - adjacency

      adjacency - hyperobject -- language of separation - There is another related reason that many people do not value climate crisis - these concepts are hyperobjects - objects so large that they are beyond the scope of evolutionarily evolved salience - language evolved within humans to deal with environmental events that were salient to our immediate survival - the climate crisis is steeped in complex science and applies to the entire planet, something that humans were never evolved to cognitively apprehend

    8. discussed above? In other words, how do we revise logic to grant paradox whereit is required? What new kinds of paradoxical concepts might better expressthe complexities of our ecological, economic, and other post-postmoderncontexts and systems? Is it possible to work them into the syntax of our exist-

      for - adjacency - language - embedding paradox - my poem - To be or not to be, that is the question - To be AND not to be, that is the answer!

    9. Concept. The term “concept” has differing meanings in various contexts(psychology, linguistics, philosophy). I am using “concept” as an abstractionthat does not reference a thing; rather, a concept establishes a boundary in afield of meaning. One might say that concepts are agreed-upon set bound-aries.

      for - adjacency - concept - boundary

    10. istoriography of a word (everyuse of a word and everything that has been said and written about it)

      for - definition - word histiography - like semantic fingerprint / semantic folding - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=semantic+fingerprint - adjacency - word histiography - semantic fingerprint - semantic folding - symmathesetic fingerprint - symmathesetic folding - Indyweb - Indranet

      adjacency - between - word histiography - semantic fingerprint - semantic folding - symmathesetic fingerprint - symmathesetic folding - Indyweb - Indranet - adjacency relationship - Word histiography is another way to describe a key feature of the Indyweb's Indranet, - semantic fingerprint and - semantic folding - gives rise to the Indyweb / Indranet terminology - symmathesetic fingerprint - symmathesetic folding - The Indyweb enables the Indyvidual to continuously update the word histiography using cluemarks - The key idea of the Indyweb / Indranet is that words are themselves impermanent and in constant flux, their meanings always changing - Until the conception of the Indyweb / Indranet, there has never been a media designed with the capability to reflect that continuous flux, a feature we might denote with the new - neologism - variverbum - words that have constantly changing meaning - adj. variverbilis

    11. Rosen emphasizes that, if Being surpasses the split between sub-ject and object (as brought out by phenomenology), we cannot meaningfullyexpress Being through a form of writing that implicitly enforces this split.

      for - language - intrinsically dualistic - adjacency - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt - language's dualistic nature - adjacency - Rosen - language dualism

      comment - Rosen points out the dualistic nature of language - Like individual living organisms, each word, like each individual organism, splits reality into an inner and an outer - Deep Humanity terminology of the individual / collective gestalt suggests that even though an individual is visibly separate from others, it is nonetheless connected to others invisibly in numerous ways - The visible individual is always only a part of the greater individual / collective gestalt - The individual / collective gestalt terminology applies equally to words as it does to living individuals

    12. perceived by oneself “in here.” In this sense, the world consists of objects outthere in space (the container that holds them) before me as the perceivingsubject.

      for - adjacency - Indyweb dev - natural language - timebinding - parallel vs serial processing - comparison - spoken vs written language - what's also interesting is that spoken language is timebinding, sequential and our written language descended from that, - in spite of written language existing in 2D and 3D space, it inherited sequential flow, even though it does not have to - In this sense, legacy spoken language system constrains written language to be - serial - sequential and - timebound instead of - parallel - Read any written text and you will observe that the pattern is sequential - We constrain our syntax it to "flow" sequentially in 2D space, even though there is absolutely no other reason to constrain it to do so - This also reveals another implicit rule about language, that it assumes we can only focus our attention on one aspect of reality at a time

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    1. he represents this in his writing with the point um it's it's the uh everything is a portal to everything else everything is in relationship with everything else there is nothing that is not in relationship with everything uh one point is a doorway to All Points

      for - quote - one point is a doorway to all points - Jean Gebser - adjacency - Gebser's point - Indyweb's dot - Indranet's dot

    1. To “switch worldviews” then is not like changing glasses. Or running the privileged finger down the golden fonts of a fine restaurant's menu. It is more like entering another ecology entirely. Or being entered. And such an entry can only ever happen with cracks, displacements, hauntings.

      for - adjacency - apolief - Bayo - Automatic Language Growth - ALG - J. Marvin Brown - David Long - This statement is aligned with the Automatic Language Growth school of language learning developed by linguist J. Marvin Brown and continued by David Long - ALG takes the view that language is a happening, an experience and the best way to learn is to engage in the experience the way that an infant of native language does, with no prior experience or knowledge - to - J Marvin Brown - Automatic Language Growth - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w

    1. that was the biggest challenge i think we had and still have within uh alg is teachers think they've got to explain the language and they're short cutting the process they're short circuiting the process and they're cheating the student out of a otherwise good experience

      for - adjacency - Socratic method - ALG - natural language acquisition - explanation - infants learning native language

      adjacency - between - Socratic method - natural language acquisition - ALG - explanation - adjacency relationship - When the teacher explains the meaning to the student, - it actually robs the student of the active learning experience of guessing the right meaning - Infants learning their native language for the first time are necessarily in the "deep end" and face discomfort - They (we) are constantly forced to guess and actually actively construct meaning out of the universe of symbols we are being exposed to in a multitude of contexts

  6. Apr 2025
    1. Assumptions: Implicit and ExplicitIn our inquiry into language, this is a fundamental paradox we need toacknowledge: it is impossible to write about the implicit assumptions of ourlanguage system without simultaneously invoking those very assumptions.

      for - adjacency / insight - language - circularity of - paradox

      adjacency / insight - between - language - circularity - adjacency relationship - I've always strongly felt this inherent paradox of investigating language, that - by invoking language to investigate language, we are already trapped in a circular argument

    2. If we want to participate with Gaia in her grand adventure, then we mightneed to be able to communicate with the trees and the birds and the microbes

      for - inter-species communication - to - Earth Species Project (ESP) - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKIJpIaZfg - adjacency - interspecies communications - symbiocene - Deep Humanity interspecies communication BEing journey

    3. he processby which those previously independent organisms came together to form neworganisms is called endosymbiosis. The process of endosymbiosis was first pos-tulated in the early 20 th century but verified later by Lynn Margulis, who wasalso instrumental in developing the Gaia theory with chemist James Lovelock.

      for - definition - endosymbiosis - to - explainer video on Major Evolutionary Transitions - https://hyp.is/zXozbCT8EfCSIF_rc_6riQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUfNEHl44hc - adjacency - major evolutionary transition - endosymbiosis

    4. cultural practices and beliefs. “Mastery of Indigenous epistemology (ways ofknowing) demands being able to see beyond the object of study, to seek aviewpoint incorporating complex contextual information and group consensusabout what is real

      for - definition - high-context culture - adjacency - seeing beyond the focal object - Deep Humanity - complexity - stitch in the weave - individual collective gestalt - Deep Humanity BEing journey - high context BEing journey

      adjacency - between - indigenous epistemology - seeing beyond the focal object - Deep Humanity - stitch in the weave - adjacency relationship - This indigenous epistemology in which we go beyond what appears before our eyes - is a perspective that honors complexity, the unseen forces that have played a role in the creation of the seen object - In Deep Humanity, we also honor this as metaphors: - the "stitch in the entire weave" or - the tip of the iceberg - in which what is visible and appears immediately before us - has an entire unseen history that has brought it into the here and now - Each person we meet is the result of an entire lifetime of experiences that living being has experienced, - hundreds of thousands to many millions of different incidents have shaped that being into the shape (s)he takes today - The individual that is visibly bound by a layer of skin - is also unbound by all the phenomena throughout the entire world that has been in relationship with him/her - This enormous network of past influences span not just across the entire spatial world, but across eons of time as well - The individual/collective gestalt is the stitch in this complex woven fabric

    5. Spatiosubobjectivity pertains to the commingling or fusion of subject, object, andspace.35 Rosen characterizes it as a dynamic process, or dialectical interplay, oneevident even at microdimensions. It is not an amalgamated “thing.” It is notlike me or you in a box with some other people or things. Rather, it embodiesthe inherent paradoxical movement of Möbial and Kleinian surfaces.

      for - definition - spatiosubobjectivity - Steven M. Rosen - a dynamic fusion of subject, object and space as a unified psychophysical reality - adjacency - Llisa's experience - spatiosubobjeectivity - Tibetan true nature of mind teaching - Deep Humanity BEing journey - spatiosubobjectivity BEing journey to induce a gestalt switch - to - wikipedia - Steven M. Rosen - https://hyp.is/twLEciIKEfCh2fulOW4D8A/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Rosen - to - homepage - Steven M. Rosen at CUNY - https://hyp.is/48yh8CJxEfCReN_MXjnJ4w/embodyingcyberspace.com/

      adjacency - between - Lisa's experience - spatiosubobjectivity - Tibetan True Nature of Mind - adjacency relationship - Lisa's experience and the word "spatiosubobjectivity" that it led to remind me of Tibetan teachings on the true nature of mind - It says essentially the same thing, that the totality of phenomena is the true nature of mind. That is, - the subject (inner) - the intervening space, and - the objects (outer) - together constitute the true nature of mind

    1. The student-led movement is resilient partly because it is leaderless by design - it is not so easy to ‘cut off the head’ of a regenerative organism that does not depend on any single person or even a small group of figureheads.

      for - example - decentralized movement - Serbia 2025 - example - decentralized movement - pros - no head to decapitate - Serbia protests 2025 - same applies to decentralized web - no central server to shut down - adjacency - decentralized movement - decentralized web - no single server to shut down - cannot decapitate

    1. One moment you’re flying high and everything is as clear as it can be. You’re experiencing a surge of unadulterated pleasure, a burst of sheer delight. But then, all of a sudden, the situation flips and you’re down in the dumps feeling the nagging necessity for another game, another sweet, another hit, another shot.

      for - adjacency - cyber ghosts - hungry ghosts - the hunger is temporarily satisfied, but the hunger pangs start again - cycling in samsara - consumerism - David Loy - inability for consumerism to fill our sense of lack - https://hyp.is/WuaFQCKZEfCFA-eSTwduzg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRA4cUCid8

    2. I crave sweet closure and am averse to uncontained ambiguity, there are those moments of proprioceptive insight that can bring the bittersweet flavor and “contained uncontainment” of the soul.

      for - proprioception - adjacency - proprioception - contained uncontainment - bittersweet (w)holeness - Zen Koan - The elbow does not bend backwards

      adjacency - between - proprioception - contained uncontainment - bittersweet (w)holeness - nonduality - Zen Koan - The elbow does not bend backwards - adjacency relationship - These ideas of proprioception, contained uncontainment, bittersweet (w)holeness - bring to surface the Zen Koan that the elbow does not bend backwards - There is freedom in limitation - Every morphic form of a living organism's body constrain it to be adapted to a specific environment - Every human cultural artefact that we produce, for instance in engineering, constrains its use - Yet there is a freedom in that limitation - The nondual includes the dual itself

    1. there are people in the Trump administration orbit who actually view the dollar's role as the world's reserve currency, as bad for the U.S. economy, not an exorbitant privilege, but something that undermines our export competitiveness

      for - adjacency - US reserve currency - Some in Trump admin see it as a bad thing - question - Does Trump admin want to intentionally devalue US dollar and US reserve currency status?

      comment - They want to devalue the US dollar so that US goods are more competitive - lower cost

    2. for - adjacency - US reserve currency - treasury bonds - US national debt - Trump tariffs - youtube - Bloomberg - Trump presses China to Make Tariff Offer to Calm Trade War

      adjacency between - US reserve currency - treasury bonds - US national debt - Trump tariffs

      Summary - Professor Edward Fishman gives a very good explanation about the relationship between the US national debt, treasury bonds, US reserve currency and the Trump tariffs. - Watching youtubes on these topics recently has been quite enlightening and primed me for this video - I really appreciated the interviewer asking the question on behalf of the viewers

    1. As Buckminster Fuller anticipated in ‘I Seem to be a Verb’[23] ... who I am encompasses a constant flux of informational diffusion and intermixing, interfacial constructions and experiences, continuously revised narratives, arrangings and organizings.[24]

      for - human INTERbeCOMing (etymology) - Deep Humanity evolution of this term: - Human being (noun) to - Human INTERbeing (still a noun - relational - Thich Nhat Hahn) to - Human INTERbeCOMing (verb process - Deep Humanity)

    1. China, however, can be expected to return fire. Already it has halted imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US for 40 days – a move attributed to trade tensions. This may seem like good news for emissions reduction. However, China, like all other nations, needs energy. With less gas from the US, it may resort to burning more coal – which generates more CO₂ when burnt than gas.

      for - adjacency - tariff - substitution - coal for LNG - higher carbon emissions

    2. The COVID experience provides a cautionary tale. The unstable economic outlook and higher interest rates meant banks were more cautious about financing some renewable energy projects. And according to the International Energy Agency, small to medium-sized businesses became more reluctant to invest in renewable energy applications such as heat pumps and solar panels.

      for - adjacency - economic slowdown - COVID - less investment in renewables

    3. nations focus on making goods where they have a competitive advantage – in other words, where they can manufacture the item more cheaply than other nations can. That includes making them using less energy, or creating fewer carbon emissions. If the US insists on manufacturing everything it needs domestically, we can expect many of those goods to be more emissions-intensive than if they were imported.

      for - adjacency - higher carbon emissions - made in US

  7. Mar 2025
    1. From Eco-Grief to Climate Action

      for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - From Eco-Grief to Climate Action - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - TPF - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Aligning Profit and Purpose - inner - Outer - Transformation - adjacency - mortality salience - ecogrief - terror management theory - Ernest Becker - Deep Humanity

    2. Redefining Progress: New Frontiers for the Field of Social In

      for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Redefining Progress: New Frontiers for the Field of Social Innovation - Stop Reset Go - Progress traps - Cosmolocal production - commons - Deep Humanity - TPF - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Aligning Profit and Purpose - adjacency - progress trap - Deep Humanity - Cosmolocal production - social innovation

    3. Delegate Led Discussion - The Changing State of AI, Media

      for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 2-3:15pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - The Changing State of AI, Media - Indyweb - Stop Reset Go - TPF - Eric's project - Skoll's Participatory Media project - relevant to - adjacency - indyweb - Stop Reset Go - participatory news - participatory movie and tv show reviews - Eric's project - Skoll's Particiipatory Media - event time conflict - with - Leadership in Alien Times

      adjacency - between - Skoll's Participatory Media project - Global Witness - Indyweb - Stop Reset Go's participatory news idea - Stop Reset Go's participatory movie and TV show review idea - Eric's media project - adjacency relationship - Participatory media via Indyweb and idea of participatory news and participatory movie and tv show reviews - might be good to partner with Skoll Foundation's Participatory Media group

    1. for - doughnut economics - interactive diagram - adjacency - epiphany - combine sankey diagram and interactive doughnut diagram at all scales - biomimicry model - circulatory system - fractal splitting

      adjacency - between - epiphany - combine - sankey diagram - interactive doughnut diagram - biomimicry model - circulatory system - fractal splitting - multi-scale competency architecture - adjacency relationship - Just as our body's circulatory system is fractal at multiple scales, resource flows through the doughnut could be represented in the same way - Sankey diagram at multiple scale can be a biomimicry of fractal geometry of circulatory system of resource flows in doughnut economies - biomimicry

    1. City building, according to a sacred civics, is transformational work, as it recognizes the persistent paradigms of colonialism5 and imperialism

      for - adjacency - cities - imperialism - colonialism - inequality - perpetuation

      adjacency - between - cities - imperialism - colonialism - inequality - perpetuation - adjacency relationship - Large cities have structural inequality baked into them through centuries of legacy practices. - The urban spatial planning of cities are centuries-old patterns that perpetuate intergenerationally - In broad strokes, the centuries of exploitation, extractivism and colonial genocide of the global north upon the global south created the great structural wealth of cities in the global north, and the great structural poverty of cities of the global south - As colonialism receded and global south countries attained autonomy, they were left with deep scars of inequality, exasperated by the IMF and the World Bank, keeping them trapped in cycles of debt - Global north cities also suffered a local north / local south phenomena as well as global industrial capitalism made inequality democratic around the globe - Due to the effect of integenerational wealth and intergenerational poverty inheritance, it is exceedingly difficult to make structural changes in the current political-social-economic system.

    2. where local residents shape what the city can become

      for - adjacency - civics - local agency

      adjacency - between - civics and - local agency - adjacency relationship - Exactly what is the threshold of participation and governance by local community members? - There is an entire spectrum of participation - In a representative democracy, participation is usually quite low

    1. for - inner development for sustainability - existential sustainability - adjacency - mindfulness - inner development goals- sustainabililty - individual / collective gestalt - Deep Humanity - Prof. Christine Wamsler

      definition - existential sustainability / inner development for sustainability - the science that studies the interface between inner development, behavior, culture and system transformation

    2. the aim of this particular event is to review the evidence for how mindfulness supports sustainability

      for - adjacency - mindfulness - sustainability - climate action - inner development goals - SDGs - individual / collective gestalt

      adjacency - between - mindfulness - sustainability - climate action - inner development goals - SDGs - individual / collective gestalt - adjacency relationship - mindfulness is to sustainability and climate action - as inner development goals are to SDGS and - as individual is to the collective gestalt

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    1. We don’t know how to shift our focus from these narrow self-interest or entrepeurial goals to building a truly collaborative, collective and, in some sense, anonymous project for humanity’s future.

      for - adjacency - Trump totalitarianism threat - shifting - from individualism - to collectivism - native american genocide - to - native american genocide - https://hyp.is/k-wdTAHDEfC5o3MaWCAlmw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ddjSbnzS4

      adjacency - between - Trump totalitarianism threat - shift - from individualism - to collectivism - native american genocide - adjacency relationship - The shift now required from individualism to collectivism is going to be difficult - The anglo-american model of society adopted by the US is one of individualism - The theft of land and genocide of native americans is based on destroying thousands of years of their cultural norms of collectivism and assimilating them into a foreign culture of individualism

    1. for - adjacency - commons - funding. - how to communities can become self-sustaining - Will Ruddick - community economics - adjacency - funding the commons - Will Ruddick - Michel Bauwens - cosmolocal Summary - Will Ruddick articulates a way to use money more wisely that follows the " teach a man to fish" cliche in order to build self-sustaining communities - To mobilize a global transition requires careful analysis at multiple scales - employing cosmolocal strategy would accelerate and make Ruddick's proposal more resilient

    1. when you constantly Supply your body with animal protein it never fully switches on its recycling system this doesn't mean you need to become vegetarian but considering having a few meat-free days each week might actually help help boost your body's natural cleaning process

      for - adjacency - autophagy - transition to planet based diet - validation for flexitarian diet - TP cafe

  9. Feb 2025
    1. there's an immediate goal which seems worth a lot more than the long-term goal and so you blow it off whether you're going to be out of money out of whether your girlfriend's going to leave you whether you're going to get in trouble with the cops whether you're going lose your job those are future events and all you can really think about is whether or not I'm going to get high tonight

      > for - adjacency - delay discount - addiction

    1. with the Trump anomic budget cutting funding to Farms to snap with the closing of usaid well it means that rural communities are going to go hungry and these small to midsize Farms that are already struggling are going to go bankrupt and then they're going to be forced to sell for pennies on the dollar to huge investment firms under trumponomics ma andpa Family Farms are going to be wiped out rural communities are going to go hungry and billionaires are going to be walking away counting the cash

      > / hypothesis problem - trying to insert "greater than" key and it is replaced with ">"

      • adjacency
      • between
        • Trump policy
        • bankruptcy of rural farmers
        • big ag land grab
        • big ag takeover of small rural farms
        • emergency fnancing for regenerative farming
      • adjacency relationship
        • Trumps defunding of critical agricultural support programs will result in large scale bankruptcy of small rural farms
        • Big ag will swoop in and buy up these farms for pennies on the dollar
        • There needs to be a national plan for emergency financing for regenerative, community-owned farming businesses to prevent this huge wealth transfer to the elites
  10. Jan 2025
    1. individual reflexivity is rarely traced through to a collective influence on the broader transdisciplinary research process

      for - adjacency - individual reflexivity is rarely traced to a collective influence - Indyweb provenance - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

      adjacency - between - individual reflexivity is rarely traced to a collective influence - Indyweb provenance - adjacency relationship - Indyweb provenance can allow granular tracing of individual contributions to collective knowledge work - so can assist in the use of reflexivity in transdisciplinary work

    2. In the context of transformative transdisciplinary research, such reflexive processes are meant to open-up epistemic and solution spaces that elevate marginalized perspectives and challenge the status quo.

      for - adjacency - reflexive processes elevate marginalized perspectives and challenge status quo - diversity of Indyweb perspectival knowing - mitigates progress traps that emerge from myopism - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

    3. avigating the diverse and sometimes conflicting perspectives of researchers and participants in transdisciplinary processes raises challenges

      for - adjacency - challenges of harmonizing multiple perspectives - SRG complexity mapping - Deep Humanity - embedded in Indyweb - intrinsic perspectival knowing - facilitates high resolution perspectival complementarity - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

    4. Transdisciplinary sustainability science is increasingly applied to study transformative change. Yet, transdisciplinary research involves diverse actors who hold contrasting and sometimes conflicting perspectives and worldviews. Reflexivity is cited as a crucial capacity for navigating the resulting challenges

      for - adjacency - reflexivity - tool for transdisciplinary research - indyweb - people-centered interpersonal information architecture - mindplex - concept spaces - perspectival knowing - life situatedness - SRG transdisciplinary complexity mapping tool - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10

      adjacency - between - reflexivity - tool for transdisciplinary research - indyweb - people-centered, interpersonal information architecture - mindplex - concept space - perspectival knowing - life situatedness - SRG transdisciplinary complexity mapping tool - adjacency relationship - This paper is interesting from the perspective of development of the Indyweb because there, - the people-centered, interpersonal information architecture intrinsically explicates perspectival knowing and life-situatedness - Indyweb can embed an affordance that is a meta function applied to an indyvidual's mindplex that - surfaces and aspectualizes the perspective and worldview salient to the research - The granular information that embeds an indyvidual's perspectives and worldviews is already there in the indyvidual's rich mindplex

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    1. The web brings that back. It creates an open signaling system where everybody can say, "Oh, I can do that. I want to do that." They're passionate from the beginning. It's meaningful from the beginning

      for - adjacency - re-establish meaningful work - meaning crisis - to - meaning crisis - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/YxbmAM6AEe-SkCv8ilEAww/www.meaningcrisis.co/all-transcripts/

    2. trans-financial capital. Now we cannot regulate market anymore, and that's why everybody is so frustrated with politics because it doesn't matter whether you vote left or right. The power is not there. The power is in the power of capital to move around and to basically punish you if you do anything that goes against their interest.

      for - adjacency - trans-financial capital - political polarization - powerlessness of two party politics - culture wars distraction - Yanis Varoufakis - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2

    3. Jordan Hall calls this the Civium, right? Civilization is place-based, and the civium is not place-based. You can still learn.

      for - definition - Civium - Jordan Hall - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2 - adjacency - Civium - Tipping Point Festival - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2

      adjacency - between - civium - Tipping Point Festival - Civiums are the terminology that applies for the vision of the TIpping Point Festival, where twice a year, - solstice - equinox - People gather and converge at a central temporary, cosmolocal event to mutually exchange ideas, network, seed new projects and review the past years successes and failures - This is an event also used to operationalize a planetary framework for restoration and regeneration that is syncrhonized to earth system boundaries, but contextualized to each locality, - but needs to be done at the scale of thousands of cities to have planetary-scale impact - It is, by design, a cosmolocal event

    1. Sacredness puts us into contact with the Numinous, which basically exposes us to what is horrifying. At least at the limits of us, because it has an aspect of awe with a little bit more which is to remind us - humiliation in the original sense of the word - to keep us, to give us humility to remember that as we are feeling that sense of expansiveness with awe that we are precisely, ultimately, limited creatures

      for - adjacency - coexistence of the infinite and the finite - Daisetz Suzuki and the Zen Koan "The elbow does not bend backwards" - Meaning crisis episode 35 - The Symbol, Sacredness, and the Sacred - John Vervaeke

    1. how central Relevance Realisation is. We did arguments around the nature of problem solving.

      for - adjacency - relevance realisation - problem solving - source - Meaning Crisis - episode 29 - Getting to the Depths of Relevance Realization John Vervaeke

      adjacency - between - problem solving - relevance realisation - adjacency relationship - Relevance Realisation is very central to the meaning crisis - It plays an important role in the nature of problem solving - in the Search Space, as proposed by Newell and Simon, they are two important issues: - Combinatorial Explosion - Problem Formulation or Problem Framing is required to avoid combinatorial explosion by zeroing in on relevant information - problem of Ill-Definedness - very often a problem formulation is needed in order to determine what the relevant information is and what the relevant structure of that information

    1. if you go to another culture and you don't go through the participatory transformation, right? If you don’t, and you're just experiencing culture shock - domicide - the agent arena relationship isn't in place! Then none of those other meaning systems can work for you. There'll be absurd. They won't make sense. That's what he means by it being a Meta-Meaning system.

      for - adjacency - culture shock - example of domicide - when the agent-arena relationship is not in place - participatory knowing - meta-meaning system - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    2. NO! You didn't get me because (changes Framing to another Framed and draws another arrow outside the bigger box, connecting to it) what's outside here still is… what is framing that? You cannot have this… You can't have it as a focal object. It is mysterious. It is phenomenologically mysterious. James pointed to this in a wonderful distinction between the I and the Me (I: Me).

      for - adjacency - I-me relationship - William James - subject-object dualism - experience vs conceptualisation of experience - finger pointing to the moon - subject / I am phenomenologically mysterious - Indyweb annotation vs Innotation - object-of-study focal shift - definition - potential vs kinetic adjacencies

      adjacency - between - I-me relationship - William James - subject-object dualism - the eye cannot see itself - self consciousness - experience vs conceptualisation of experience - Indyweb annotation vs Innotation - object-of-study focal shift - definition potential adjacencies - definition kinetic adjacencies - adjacency relationship - William James's I-me relationship is about the paradox of self consciousness - modern humans distinguish themselves through excelling in cognitive abilities - but what happens when we turn this cognitive abilities onto ourselves? - Self consciousness is what results - reasoning about the reasoner - Just as the eye cannot truly see itself, the reasoner who reasons about him/her self cannot really do so because the "I" is NOT really the same as the "me" - the subject is not the object, - the act of framing is not the frame - the qualia is NOT the same as the idea that represents the qualia - the moon is not the finger pointing to the moon - hence the I, the act of framing the subject is phenomenologically mysterious - In contrast, in indyweb, we can replace annotation with Innotation, an inline version of annotation - This is because of the recursive nature of learning of ideas - When we digest an idea, that has an externalised (re)presentation, and it triggers the emergence of a new idea, - We can capture the newly inspired idea a an inline Innotation instead of a side bar annotation. - The reason why we would do this is because this is more homeomorphic to how knowledge context switches its role - from an active new insight - to an existing cultural artefact / object that can be digested by another mind - The difference is the idea - as a spontaneous emergent, embodied, enactive real-time , LIVING experience, which then becomes, post experience, an idea that is - a DEAD cultural artefact that is ready to be digested and potentially evoke a new strong LIVING response in another consciousness - The idea as a linguistically constructed cultural artefact is DEAD - until it interacts with another consciousness, - and at such time, the cultural artefact can deliver upon itz intended promise and potential, and trigger a LIVING learned experience. - Innotation converts the once LIVING experience of the idea at the moment of birth / Inception to the form of existing, timebound knowledge test to do the same in the future, when new minds may stumble upon it - Learning from linguistic cultural artefacts is thus - the act of conversion of - potential adjacencies into - kinetic adjacencies

    3. But what is precisely not inside the frame is the framing process

      for - adjacency - framing process is outside of ANY frame we create -- eye cannot see itself - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    4. the death example actually points to something more primordial! It points to the fact that I can never make a focal object of my framing, my capacity for Relevance Realization. I mean, Perspectively. What I mean by that is whenever I am thinking or doing anything, [-] it's always framed because if I'm unframed, I'm facing combinatorial explosion, which is not intelligible to me.

      for - key insight / adjacency - relevance realization - I can never make a focal object of my framing, my capacity for relevance realization - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke - adjacency - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize - - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

      adjacency - between - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize

      adjacency - between - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize

      adjacency - between - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize - adjacency relationship - As soon as we give attention to one aspect of our gestalt reality, we aspectualize, we frame - All of the below involve framing / aspectualizing - thinking - language use - design

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    1. there’s an admirable motivation behind Dreher’s ethical project of reenchantment: He wants to help people find meaning

      for - definition - reenchantment - source - book - Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age - Rod Dreher - adjacency - reenchantment - Meaning crisis - John Vervaeke

    1. for - Youtube - Digital Drip: The Imperceptible Flows of E-Waste - Filip Vedra - WS23 Planet B UMPRUM - 2025, Jan - adjacency - Deep Humanity - sensory bubble - social norm of producer-consumer split and alienation - spread by Industrial Revolution - hyperobjects - source - Youtube - Digital Drip: The Imperceptible Flows of E-Waste - Filip Vedra - WS23 Planet B UMPRUM - 2025, Jan

      // - comment - An insightful documentary that examines the social norm amplified by the Industrial Revolution, - the producer-consumer split and resulting alienation - Globalization has further exasperated this as global supply chains are hyperobjects which no individual can truly sense the scale of

    1. what science does is undermining or kind of challenging everything we believe to be right or all of our preconceptions about the world are challenged and sometimes completely reversed or revolutionised.

      for - adjacency - Deep Humanity - physiosphere - symbolosphere - language - science - preconceptions - hyperobjects - scientific model - prediction - YouTube - Beyond the perceptual envelope - Royal Institution - Deep Humanity BEing journeys - And, not or - example adjacency - between - preconceptions - concepts - scientific model - prediction - Deep Humanity - symbolosphere - physiosphere - language - science - adjacency relationship - Paradoxically, science overlays phenomenological reality with a constructed, symbolic layer - From a Deep Humanity perspective, the physiosphere is overlaid with the symbolosphere - The science narrative of - the deposition of animal remains over hundreds of millions of years make up - the cliffs we experience phenomenologically today - assumes the existence of hyperobjects we have no capacity to directly sense - Science is a process that - pays attention to our phenomenological reality - construct a story using specific concepts to explain the observed general class of phenomena in a consistent and repeatable - and most importantly, can predict new observable phenomena using the symbolic model Hence, science is a predictive activity which - begins in phenomenological reality, - the physiosphere - maps to symbols reality in a scientific model - the symbolosphere - makes new symbolic, predictions about phenomenological reality - and finally makes observations ink our phenomenological reality of the symbolically predicted phenomena to validate or refute - This process alternates between the two parallel worlds we seamlessly inhabit, - the physiosphere and - the symbolosphere - and this explains why achieve is - not either constructed OR discovered, but - is both constructed AND discovered

  11. Dec 2024
    1. for - Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20 - adjacency - web 3 and Blockchain / crypto technology - communities engaged in regeneration and relocalization - tinkering at the edge - missed opportunity - cosmolocal strategy as leverage point - safe and just cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Tipping Point Festival - Web 4 - Indyweb

      Summary adjacency between - web 3 and crypto / Blockchain technology - communities engaged in regeneration and relocalization - tinkering at the edge - missed opportunity - cosmolocal lens and framework as a leverage point for synthesis - cosmolocal projects as leverage points - cross scale translated safe and just earth system boundaries as necessary cosmolocal accounting system - meme: sync global, act local - new relationship - This article explores the untapped potential and leverage point offered by recognising a new adjacency and concomitant synthesis of - globalising Web 3 and crypto/Blockchain technology - communities engaged in regenerative and relocation interventions - The fragmentation between these areas keeps activists working in each respective one - tinkering at the edge - severely constraining their potential impact - This is a case of the whole Berlin car greater than the sun of its parts - By joining forces in a global, strategic and systemic way, each can achieve fast more through their mutual support - A cosmolocal lens offers a perspective and framework that makes joining forces make sense<br /> - Projects that recognize that the adjacency between - the globalizing technologies of web 3 and Blockchains and - interventions at the local community level - offer a significant leverage point to bottom up efforts to drive a rapid transition are themselves a leverage point - In this regard, incorporation of an equitable accounting system such as safe and just earth system boundaries that can be cross scale translated to - bioregional, - city and - community, district and ward scale - are an important cosmolocal component of a system designed for rapid transition - Global bottom up community scale events such as the Tipping Point Festival can help rapidly advocate for a cosmolocal lens, framework and strategy - At the same time, Web 4 technology that's goes beyond decentralising into people-centered can contribute another dimension to humanizing technology

      Addendum - 2024, Dec 26 - added a comment to the actual substack page - My substack comment makes commenters of the article aware that we have a public hypothes.is discussion going on in parallel. - This makes the hitherto invisible discussion visible to them

    2. To put it bluntly, Web3 and the crypto economy is still largely an ‘exit’ play for financial and coding elites, practicing the arbitrage of nation-states, but without much connections to local communities and resilient production; Similarly, local communities engaged in relocalized and regenerative production are not in sync with the mutual coordination capacities developed in the crypto/web3 context.

      for - quote - silos - web 3 and crypto silo - localization silo - desiloing can bring about significant empowerment to people everywhere - from Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20 - adjacency - desilo web 3 / Blockchain and localisation - educate cud events such as - Tipping Point Festival - from Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20

      quote - silos - web 3 and crypto silo - localization silo - desiloing can bring about significant empowerment to people everywhere - (see quote below) - To put it bluntly, Web3 and the crypto economy is still largely an ‘exit’ play for financial and coding elites, - practicing the arbitrage of nation-states, - but without much connections to local communities and resilient production; - Similarly, local communities engaged in relocalized and regenerative production - are not in sync with the mutual coordination capacities developed in the crypto/web3 context.

      // - We need to create opportunities such as events and workshops to bring these two spheres into dialogue - Tipping Point Festival, as a cosmolocal event can do this by - holding locally organized events hosted by - local community activists at their community level, and - in larger urban centers, at ward and district level - thec internet can be used to facilitate the emergence of trans-national alliances

    3. Reinforced planetary care: localism on its own cannot resist globalized pressure, nor solve planetary and global thermo-dynamic issues.

      for - adjacency- localism alone cannot solve planetary scale issues ( like climate crisis) - cross scale translated planetary boundaries / earth system boundaries - from Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20 quote - constructing

    1. for - polycrisis - crime - drug cartel - source: Endvr - The Netherlands - A Failed Narco State? Mocro Mafia - The Netherlands - The New Cocaine Mafias - 2024, Dec

      // - Summary - This documentary makes one thing clear, the solutions for the drug problem are inadequate because they are failing to address the root causes - The most insightful part of the entire documentary is near the end when the political leaders in Antwerp are discussing the problem - The leader of the conservative right hints at the right direction to look when he said that - there is a huge cognitive dissonance between - the drug users and - the drug suppliers - The meaning crisis is at the root of the drug crisis and until that is addressed in a systemic and meaningful way, it won't go away

    1. Europeans need a transnational movement that links local movements together into a pan European force that holds this slide into a new version of the 1930s. This movement already exists. This movement is already here. It is DiEM25

      for - adjacency - Yanis Varoufakis - DIEM25 - allocating for cosmolocal movement for Europe - from YouTube - Yanis Varoufakis: Urgent message for 2025

    1. for - adjacency - curiosity of the other - polarization - Common Human Denominator - the sacred - TED Talk - Can curiosity heal division? - Scott Shigeoka - 2024 Dec - othering - self and other - adjacency - deep curiosity - Deep Humanity Common Human Denominators (CHD) - awakening to the sacred - a good transition - social tipping points for complex contagion - wide bridges

      • Summary / adjacency
      • between
        • deep curiosity
        • Deep Humanity Common Human Denominators (CHD)
        • social tipping points for complex contagion
      • new adjacency relationships
        • Scott Shigeoka is a researcher on social divisions.
        • He is also queer and embarked on an adventurous, embedded, courageous and personal research project to venture into Trump country
          • to apply his academic training and curiosity to see if he could
            • find a way to form authentic relationships with people he had always considered 'the other'
          • What the one year experiment taught him was that deep and authentic curiosity is a valuable tool for learning the ubiquitous othering now prevalent in our modern world
          • Out of this experience, he wrote a best selling book called
            • Seek: How curiosity can transform your life and change the world
        • Curiosity is a powerful technique to mitigate othering and is aligned with Deep Humanity Common Human Denominators, which are fundamental qualities all humans share which are.
          • important for navigating the rapid transition our species of going through
          • whose appreciation remind each of us that we are sacred
        • Social TIpping Points of complex contagion requires building wide bridges to diverse groups early on
        • Scott's experiement illustrates building wide bridges
        • Indyweb information infrastructure is open source and supports diversity as it increases the efficacy of collaboration
    2. the more you come into contact with people who are different from you, the less likely it is that you'll feel threatened by them

      for - quote - the more you come into contact with people who are different then you, the less likely it is that you will be threatened by them - adjacency - finding commonality - shared humanity - Deep Humanity - Common Human Denominators - from TED Talk - Can curiosity heal division? - Scott Shigeoka - 2024 Dec

    3. could I actually call them in, and connect with them rather than cancel them? Could there be a way where I could even find commonalities and a shared humanity?

      for - adjacency - finding commonality - shared humanity - Deep Humanity - Common Human Denominators - from TED Talk - Can curiosity heal division? - Scott Shigeoka - 2024 Dec

    1. I answered Dr. Sacks’s question casually, saying that I believed that I knew what it was like to see in 3D. After all, I was a neurobiology professor and had read plenty of scientific papers on stereopsis.

      for - association - person with 2D vision - trying to imagine what it's like to see in 3D - What's it like to be a bat? - from Psychology Today website - article - What Oliver Sacks Taught Me - Susan R. Barry - 2024 - Jan. 23 - adjacency - seeing in 2D - then in 3D - Deep Humanity BEing journey - from Psychology Today website - article - What Oliver Sacks Taught Me - Susan R. Barry - 2024 - Jan. 23

    1. improvisation, to me, is something that some people are very fearful of, when they think about going up and just speaking on the fly. But in actuality, you're doing it all the time. A conversation that you're having with a friend is improvisation, unless it's scripted, and that would be a weird friendship

      for - adjacency - improvisation - conversation - from TED Talk YouTube - Everything is Improvisation - Reggie Watts

    1. I reject both pure Rousseau-ism, i.e. humans would be good and equal if not for unequal structures, and Hobbesian-ism, i.e. people are bad and are only kept good by forceful institutions. What matters most I believe, is the right balance between cooperation and competition, both are real, at the individual and collective level, and we as humans are a mixed and complex bag.

      for - Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt - adjacency - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt - Somewheres, Nowheres and Everywheres - from P2P Foudation Wiki - Somewheres, Nowheres and Everywheres - Michel Bauwens, 2022

      adjacency - between - somewheres, nowheres and everywheres - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt - new relationship - Michel begins the essay by doing away with simple, absolute assumptions about society. - We are each and collectively a mixture of - cooperative and - competitive tendencies - This echoes the evolutionary description of an individual as a distinct living system that is demarcated from its environment so is - in competition with other individuals for resources in order to survive as an individual organism - at the same time that it cooperates with other types of individuals that can enhance its individual and collective (species) survival - In other words - competition and collaboration are often intertwingled phenotypes necessary for evolutionary fitness - The irony of the individual (human being) is that (s)he is - a multi-cellular organism - so is biologically simultaneously both an individual AND a collective. - furthermore, since the individual - eats a diverse variety and number of once living organisms and - inputs and integrates a very large number of ideas from other individuals - is the biological and psychological assimilation of artefacts from a large number of other living and once living organisms.