• for: adjacency - debt - growth

• adjacency between

  • debt
  • growth
• adjacency statement
  • in the current different of endless growth, debt requires growth to pay off the debt
  • we borrow money to open a new business and have to GROW our market shares to service the debt
  • multiplier millions and billions of times the world over, we have too brief our markets and sell more stuff too post back our loans

• for: money - enabling transaction with strangers, adjacency - money - othering

• adjacency between

  • money
  • othering
  • competition
  • sacred
• adjacency statement
  • in exchange for MY labour, I have access to the fruits of others
  • how much money your can get used how much resource produced by others you can get
  • we accumulate money for ourselves and don't share much with others
  • othering is built into the use of money ,- the artificial scarcity of money puts us all in competition with each other for a scarce resource
  • competition is othering
  • by default, the economic game is about grabbing the most resources for self
  • hence it is facing a direction AWAY from the sacred
  • it intrinsically does not treat all others a equally sacred
  • it promotes an every-person-for themselves attitude

• for: adjacency - Satoshi Nakamoto white paper - bitcoin - P2P Foundation Ning forum

• adjacency between

  • Satoshi Nakamoto white paper
  • bitcoin
  • P2P Foundation Ning website
• adjacency statement
  • I didn't realize that Satoshi Nakamoto first published his paper on the P2P Foundation Ning website.

• for: critique - language

• question: navigating without language

• critique: language
• adjacency between
  • kariotic flow
  • word intent
  • epoche
  • is the author sayng that we can and must navigator without language and ideas? If so, I don't see how that is possible, since language shapes the way we experience reality. Decades of languages training has become a part of the way we experience reality now and I don't see how it can become undone.
  • I've explored my entire life, in fact to determine it's itt is possible to undo this deep linguistic conditioning
    • my latest explorations of epoche are towards this direction

• for: insight - history - complexity, bad metaphor - chain of events

• insight: complexity and history

  • chain of events is a bad metaphor for things that occur in history
  • the complexity of history is that many causes come together too being about an event
  • likewise, when that event occurs, it is the cause of many different consequences

• adjacency between

  • history
  • emptiness
  • Indra's net
• adjacency statement
  • history reflects emptiness
  • Indra's net extended into historical events

• for: adjacency - Jared Diamond - Yuval Noah Harari

• for: quote - social constructs - liberals and conservatives, social norms - liberals and conservatives, insight - social norms

• in other words

• insight

  • the tug of war between liberals and conservatives is one of the difference in pace of accepting new social norms

• adjacency between

  • social norms
  • liberal vs conservative
  • stories
• adjacency statement
  • When stories are different between different cultural groups, the pace of accepting the new social norm can need quite different due b to the stories being very different

• for: Thomas Theorem, The definition of the situation, William Isaac Thomas, Dorothy Swain Thomas, definition - Thomas Theorem, definition - definition of the situation, conflicting belief systems - Thomas theorem, learned something new - Thomas theorem

• definition: Thomas Theorem

• definition: definition of the situation
  • "The Thomas theorem is a theory of sociology which was formulated in 1928 by William Isaac Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas:

If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.[1]

In other words, the interpretation of a situation causes the action. This interpretation is not objective. Actions are affected by subjective perceptions of situations. Whether there even is an objectively correct interpretation is not important for the purposes of helping guide individuals' behavior.|

• comment
• learned something new

• key insight: polarization

  • Behaviors subsequently are enacted out of a set of beliefs.
  • If there are a multitude of conflicting belief systems emerged from different cultures, then real conflicts can emerge out of the disharmony of conflicting beliefs
  • This is a very important insight into the polarization we see in the world today

• adjacency between:

  • polarization
  • Thomas Theorem

• adjacency statement

  • polarization can be explained by the Thomas Theorem

• reference

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_theorem#:~:text=The%20Thomas%20theorem%20is%20a,This%20interpretation%20is%20not%20objective.

• for: self awareness of no-self, adjacency - evolution - no-self - Fransisco Verella, quote - Fransisco Verella, quote - evolution - solidified self, question - awakening to no-self

• quote: Fransisco Verella

  • Evolution has designed you so that you just want to hurry on with your solidified self. They is what the sense of being a separate organism is about.

• date: 1999

• comment

  • Verella claims evolution has designed us to have no self awareness of no-self, the origins of the self.
  • even this phrase seems like an oxymoron 'self awareness of no-self!'
• question
  • how would a less complex, more primitive life form even have self awareness? What does that mean biologically? At that most rudimentary level, I suppose it would mean sensory feedback signals,
• question
  • Does this imply that (emotionally or affectively) awakening to your origins of self leads to second guessing ourselves as well? From observation of the behaviour of awakened individuals, this does not seem to be the case. Rather, authentically awakens individuals appear to be associated with much higher levels of wisdom and compassion, which would seem to confer evolutionary fitness

• for: evolution - forgetting our non-self nature, adjacency - evolution - non-self - Fransisco Verella, adjacency - evolution - no-self - Fransisco Verella

• adjacency between

  • evolution
  • non-self
  • Francisco Verella
• adjacency statement
  • Verella makes the interesting claim that evolution designer is to be blind to our lack of self
  • in fact, major evolutionary transitions in individuality embed the creation of a new higher order individual at each major stage of transition.
  • More fundamentally, major evolutionary transitions to individuals at each level need to define a biological self through a new physiological boundary between what constitutes a new unitary individual "self" (our inner world) and the rest of the environment ( our new outer world)
  • It will be interesting to see how Verella's claim reconcile with that

• for: insightful - Husserl, adjacency - Husserl - Eastern philosophy

• for: adjacency - epoche - enlightenment - awareness

• comment

  • it is this deeper sense of the epoche which is salient to use potential as a tool for deep transformation in Deep Humanity or other open transformation praxis'.

• for: adjacency - objectivity - imputation of the other

• adjacency between

  • objectivity
  • imputation of the other
• adjacency statement
  • there is a subtle assumption behind objectivity, namely that at least one other consciousness exists which can experience something the phenomena in a sufficiently similar way.
  • this is not a trivial assumption. Consider Thomas Nagel's "What is it like to be a bat?" Another human subject is typically required when "objectivity" is invoked. Certainly a bat could not experience the same phenomena objectively!
  • This also begs the question: to what extent can another human experience the phenomena the same way? We are assuming that two human beings who agree on the objectivity of a fact know what it is like to be the other in some salient way.

• for: adjacency - emptiness - phenomenology

• adjacency between

  • emptiness
  • phenomenology
• adjacency statement -phenomenology has much in common with the Eastern, Buddhist philosophical concept of emptiness

• for: adjacency - consciousness - multiscale context

• adjacency between

  • Michael's example
  • my idea of how consciousness fits into a multiscale system
• adjacency statement
  • from a Major Evolutionary Transition of Individuality perspective, consciousness might be seen as a high level governance system of a multicellular organism
  • this begs the question: consciousness is fundamentally related to individual cells that compose the body that the consciousness appears to be tethered to
  • question: Is there some way for consciousness to directly access the lower and more primitive MET levels of its own being?

• for: embryo development

• comment

  • where do I begin and the outside world begin?
  • these experiments raise some very fundamental questions about who the individual being is. If all the cells of the blastdoderm normally form a single individual, but by a simple mechanical process as a scratch can restart the "individual" program and create more embryos (future individual human beings), then where would the boundary be between self and other (conjoined twins)?

• question

• adjacency between
  • multiple beings can simultaneously emerge from the same cellular soup (blastoderm) - twins, triplets, etc
  • phenomena of synchronization between twins

• adjacency question

  • is there a relatoinship between these two facts?

  • Could this

• for: Deep Humanity, DH, Jessica Denson, David Rothkopf, ethno-nationalism
• summary
  • good interview with writer David RothKopf exploring the ethno-nationalist parallels between ethno-nationalist authoritarian leaders, in particular Trump and Netenyahu and the continuous attempt to subvert democracy. The discussion also explores the dangers of attempts to inject religion into government and the historical background and reason why the founders of the United States explicitly separated church from state.
  • it's important to understand all perspectives, and how people define "right" and "good" from their perspective
  • EVERYONE wants a good life, but these definitions may vary greatly. We need to map out the nuances
  • adjacency between
    • Trump
    • Israel-Hamas conflict and Benjamin Netenyahu

• adjacency
  • between
    • policymakers
    • social norms
    • social tipping dynamics
• adjacency statement
  • researchers have advocated that policymakers should direct their attention to social norms and social tipping dynamics to accelerate adoption of policies to stabilize the earth's climate.

• for: definition, definition - double bind

• definition: double bind

  • the definition of a double bind is that you have a problem (a bind) in one context and you can't actually solve it in that context because it's caught in another context
  • Gregory Bateson defined the double bind as an evolutionary trait of species due to their changing nature.
    • Since individuals of a species are constantly changing, there comes a day when all that it knows what to do in order to survive is outdated due to the changing environment. When it repeats the old behavior that served its survival in the past, it dies.

• comment

  • adjacency
    • between
      • double bind
      • progress trap
  • adjacency statement
    • progress traps are related to double binds because in a progress trap, an implemented solution to a problem in one context gives rise to a new problem in another context.
    • the original problem (bind) in one context appears to be resolvable but actual isn't. Future unfolding of the implemented solution unfold a future unexpected problem.
    • The two problems are not simultaneously occurring as in a double bind, but time-delayed
    • both double bind and progress traps emerge from the same root of violating holism
    • in not grasping the implications of the emptiness of phenomena, we ignore intertwingled nature of reality, we circumvent Indra's meet of jewels at our own peril

• for: reductionism, emptiness, Nora Bateson, complexity, reductionism - Nora Bateson, adjacency, adjacency - reductionism - emptiness

• global liberal order, common human denominators, CHD, adjacency, adjancency - global liberal order - common human denominators - Deep Humanity, Yuval Noah Harari

• adjacency

  • between
    • global liberal order
    • common human denominators (CHD)
    • Deep Humanity
• adjacency statement
  • Yuval raised an interesting perspective I've never thought about with respect to the global liberal order
  • He points out that the essence of the global liberal order is that all humans share fundamental features
  • This aligns with Deep Humanity's Common Human Denominators (CHD)
  • The name 'global liberal order' has come to have a polarizing impact (liberals vs conservatives).
  • As pointed out in other places, liberal and conservative polarization is inherently partial truths and unreal abstractions.
    • Most human beings are both liberal AND conservative
  • Given the intractability of the problem, humanity is insufficient to deal with it
    • Nonlinear, alternative ways may have better success, including Deep Humanity, that looks at the Common Human Denominators as the foundational layer we all share as humans

• for: science - awakening wonder, Deep Humanity, adjacency, adjacency - science - religion

• for: key insight, climate movement, biodiversity movement, adjacency, adjacency - climate movement - biodiversity movement

• key insight

  • We currently have
    • a climate movement and
    • a biodiversity movement.
  • These are for the most part, two separate movements.
  • As our understandings grow and spread of how important biodiversity is to climate,
    • these two movements can merge and synergize.

• for: biodiversity regulated climate, adjacency, adjacency - biodiversity - climate

• for: sensory ecology, conservation biology, adjacency, adjacency - sensory ecology - conservation biology, anthropogenic sensory pollutants

• title: Why conservation biology can benefit from sensory ecology

• author Davide M. Dominoni et al.
• date: Mar. 2020
• abstract
  • Global expansion of human activities is associated with the introduction of novel stimuli, such as
    • anthropogenic noise,
    • artificial lights and
    • chemical agents.
  • Progress in documenting the ecological effects of sensory pollutants is weakened by sparse knowledge of the mechanisms underlying these effects.
  • This severely limits our capacity to devise mitigation measures.
  • Here,we integrate knowledge of animal
    • sensory ecology,
    • physiology and
    • life history
  • to articulate three perceptual mechanisms—
    • masking,
    • distracting and
    • misleading
  • that clearly explain how and why anthropogenic sensory pollutants impact organisms.
  • We then
    • link these three mechanisms to ecological consequences and
    • discuss their implications for conservation.
  • We argue that this framework can reveal the presence of ‘sensory danger zones’, hotspots of conservation concern
    • where sensory pollutants overlap in space and time with an organism’s activity, and
    • foster development of strategic interventions to mitigate the impact of sensory pollutants.
  • Future research that applies this framework will provide critical insight to preserve the natural sensory world.

• for: adjacency, adjacency - Locke's real essences - Kant's Noumena

• for: adjacency, adjacency - John Locke - Isaac Newton

• adjacency

  • between
    • John Locke
    • Isaac Newton
• adjacency statement
  • Locke was the elder, Newton was the younger
  • When Robinson describes Locke as conceptualizing an "ultimate reality", he means that Locke was thinking of Newton's corpuscular (atomic) theory

• for: adjacency, adjacency - epoche - enlightenment, epoche, question, question - epoche and enlightenment

• adjacency between

  • epoche
  • enlightenment
• adjacency statment:
• question
  • Is epoche the same as an enlightenment experience?
  • Did Husserl develop any techniques or trainings in epoche?

• for: adjacency, adjacency - epoche - Buddhist meditation

• paraphrase

• adjacency between
  • epoche
  • Buddhist meditation
• adjacency statement
  • Epoche is derived from the Greek and means suspension, cessation.
  • Epoche is the practice of suspending verbal judgment and comes from the Stoics and the Greek thinkers such as Pyrrho, who learned it from his travels in India accompanying Alexander the Great
  • Epoche in phenomenology also suspends pre-verbal judgments and results in a radical self-transformation

• for: adjacency, adjacency - Husserl - Buddhism
• adjacency between
  • Husserl's transcendental and phenomenology
  • Buddhist philosophy and practice
• adjacency statement
  • Husserl was influenced by reading, then writing the preface to the German translation of the 1924 Sutt Pitaka

• for: definition, definition - multiscale competency architecture of life, multiscale competency architecture of life, superorganism, MET, major evolutionary transition, question, question - multiscale competency architecture
• definition: multiscale competency architecture of life

• paraphrase

  • The multiscale competency architecture of life is a hypothesis about the scaling of cognition, seeing complex system-level behaviors in any space as the
    • within-level and
    • across-level
  • competition and
  • cooperation
  • among the various
    • subunits and
    • partitions
  • of composite agents (i.e., all agents).
  • The generalization of problem spaces beyond the traditional 3D space of “behavior” into other, virtual problem spaces is essential for understanding evolution of basal cognition.
  • Living things
    • first solved problems in metabolic space, and evolution then pivoted the same kinds of strategies to
    • solve problems in
      • physiological,
      • transcriptional, and
      • anatomical space,
    • before speed-optimizing these dynamics to enable rapid behavior in 3D space.
  • Since every cognitive agent is made of parts, it is essential to have a theory about how
    • numerous goal-seeking agents link together into
    • a new, larger cognitive system that is novel and not present in any of the subunits.

• comment

• adjacency between:
  • multiscale competency architecture
  • superorganism

• adjacency statement

  • The concept of multiscale competency architecture is a useful one for considering and organizing the effects of Major Evolutionary Transitions (METs) over evolutionary timescales.
  • It links and locates the normative scale in which human consciousness exists to the lower scales of cells and subcellular life below, and to society as a social superorganism above.
  • it shows that each human INTERbeing / INTERbeCOMing is not isolated, but is part of a multiscale nexus / gestalt
  • I've incorporated this into my SRG presentation.

• question

  • is there research on signaling mechanisms exist between different levels?
    • in another part of the paper, there is discussion of gap junctions as a way to cohere individual cells into group functionality
    • in particular, is there a way for humans consciousness to communicate with lower levels of its body? ie. to tissues, cells or subcellular structures?
  • Could the Bodhisattva vow be extended not only at the level of the social superorganism of groups of individual multicellular beings, but also downwards in the multiscale competency architecture to all the trillions of cells and microbes that inhabit each multicellular planetary body?
    • if it can, it can be interpreted as taking care of your body through
      • healthy exercise
      • healthy sleep
      • healthy diet
      • healthy thoughts and emotions
      • no self-harm
      • self love but not conceit
  • what are the exact biological and evolutionary mechanisms that allow for coherence of individual organisms at the various levels of the multiscale competency architecture and can they be extended to apply to the scale of humans within a social superorganism scale?
  • could love be another word for care drive that applies to all the different scales of the multiscale competency architecture?
  • do feelings of love and compassion propagate downwards through the multiscale competency architecture and find analogous expression in the appropriate spaces?
• reference
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8988303/

• for: gap junctions, multicellular cohesion, multicellular unity, MET, major evolutionary transition, group to individual, group glue

• comment

  • gap junctions play a critical role in cohering a group of cells together
  • hence they might be considered a kind of "cellular glue" which fosters evolutionary fitness by incentifying individual organisms to beneficially socially interact with other individual organisms

• question

  • do gap junctions play a role in major evolutionary transition (MET)?

• adjacency between

  • gap junction
  • cancer
  • MET
  • individual to group
• adjacency statement
  • gap junctions may play a role in major evolutionary transition, enabling individual cells to unite into a group, leading to the evolution of multicellular organisms. Investigate and do literature review to see if this is the case.

• for: quote, quote - Michael Levin, quote - self as control agent, self - control agent, example, example - control agent - imperfection, spontaneous thought, spontaneous action, creativity - spontaneity

• quote: Michael Levin

  • the Bodhisattva vow can be seen as a method for control that is in alignment with, and informed by, the understanding that singular and enduring control agents do not actually exist.

• comment

  • adjacency between
    • nondual awareness
    • self-construct
    • self is illusion
    • singular, solid, enduring control agent
  • adjacency statement
    • nondual awareness is the deep insight that there is no solid, singular, enduring control agent.
    • creativity is unpredictable and spontaneous and would not be possible if there were perfect control
• example - control agent - imperfection: start - the unpredictability of the realtime emergence of our next exact thought or action is a good example of this

• example - control agent - imperfection: end

• triggered insight: not only are thoughts and actions random, but dreams as well

  • I dreamt the night after this about something related to this paper (cannot remember what it is now!)
  • Obviously, I had no clue the idea in this paper would end up exactly as it did in next night's dream!

• for: adjacency: adjacency - monotheistic religions and maerialism
• adjacency between
  • monotheistic religion
  • materialist / physicalist scientific theories
• adjacency statement:
  • Good observation of an adjacency, although not all religions hold those views, and even in those religions, those are those views are held by less critical thinkers.
    • In the more contemplative branches of major world religions, there is a lot of deep, critical thinking that is not so naive.

• for: definition, definition - triple bottom line, triple bottom line
• adjacency: definition, John Elkington, triple bottom line
• definition: triple bottom line
• author: John Elkington

• for: adjacency - urban decay, suburbs, history- suburbs, history - car culture, urban decay - economics

• paraphrase

  • as the suburbs expanded they need more and more roads highways Bridges infrastructure to stay afloat
  • but because the nature of the suburb is spread out single-family housing as opposed to the densely packed City Apartment dwelling the suburbs have too few people to be able to fund this infrastructure
  • subsequently, they so they have to keep expanding in order to fund themselves and even then they still can't fund themselves
  • so they often rely on tax dollars from City dwellers to subsidize their Suburban excesses
  • who lives in the cities because of white flight ?... people of color

  • when it comes to housing, people of color have been screwed over in literally every way in imaginable

  • so we have this self-perpetuating cycle

    • the growth of suburbs leads to more suburban sprawl
    • this increases the need for cars
    • this leads to the building of more highways and Roads
    • this leads to not enough income to pay for the suburbs
    • this leads to black and brown communities being forced to subsidize Suburban Lifestyles at the expense of the beautification of their own communities leading to the degradation of inner city neighborhoods

• for: polycrisis, Trumpism, Chaos, distraction, climate crisis, climate communication, complexity, adjacency climate change fossil fuel industry, adjacency climate change big oil, adjacency climate change politics big oil, quote adjacency climate change fossil fuel industry, quote adjacency climate change big oil
• key insight
  • claim
    • One big reason that big oil is funding GOP to keep the chaotic Trump story as the main headline is to foster distraction from climate change impacts
    • big news story in the US is Donald Trump and the election, climate change impacts of extreme weather is minimized
    • the distraction of politics from a chaotic GOP is perfect distraction for the masses to ignore climate change and for big oil to continue BAU
• paraphrase
• quote
  • when you take a step back and look at that part of the distraction and the chaos that Trump and these GOP trolls deliver
  • it's it's a wonderful Boon for the oil and gas industry and the Koch brothers and the guys that fund these campaigns and the federal Federalist Society that's owning the Supreme Court
  • they want to keep doing business as usual and the easiest way to do that is
    • to have this big chaotic GOP that ignores climate change and
    • to play into what they want
      • the mainstream media not focusing more on climate change let alone making those two connections
    • a lot of mainstream media is scared to make that connection because oil companies are paying the bills of CNN and every other network
• author
  • Noel Casler

• for: animal decision-making
• adjacency
  • animal herding behavior and
  • direct democracy
• claim
  • herds and flocks of many other animals (other than human) use a form of direct democracy in making decisions
  • Alphas do not alone make decisions, as leadership often rotates
  • The law of "two feet (or four" tests the group's readiness for consensus and the "first follower" principle
  • dissenters and unpersuaded group members are free to go off and look for another group
    • except at critical times such as
      • breeding season
      • under threat

• for: adjacency

• for: caste system, caste, inequality, carbon inequality,

• quote

  • "The surplus of life’s labor
  • is not sufficient to continue bearing the burden of a caste system
  • devoted to controlling the many so a few can indulge in egotistical displays of privilege on a dying Earth. -The more of humanity’s labor we devote to maintaining the system of domination (by the few),
  • the less that is available to secure life’s wellbeing (for all) and the more rapid the living system’s collapse."
• Author
  • David Korten

• parantheses

  • Stop Reset Go

• new adjacency

  • articulating inequality as a caste system

• comment
  • the Zen mindfulness practices demonstrated in the rest of the paper depend on one assumption
    • that the scientific narrative employed are within the salience landscape of the reader
  • if they are not aligned to these narratives (ie, if they are religious fundamentalists) then these practices will fail to be effective
  • this suggests that we may need to appeal to an even more fundamental human quality that IS shared by all of us, the creation of narratives

• The ecologist David Barash (1973) discussed the parallels between Zen Buddhism and ecology.
  • interdependence and unity of all things was fundamental to both
    • the practice of Zen and
    • the science of ecology
• adjacency
  • ecology
  • Zen
  • interdependency and unity are fundamental to both Zen and ecology
  • both share a common nondualistic view of the fundamental identity of subject and surrounding
  • a bison cannot be understood in isolation from the prairie
    • understanding requires studying the bison-prairie unit
• quote
  • "The very study of ecology is the elaboration of Zen's nondualistic thinking".

• author

  • David Barish

• comment

  • adjacency
    • indyweb treats words and ideas as empty,
      • that is, they are selfless, and have no meaning except in relation to all other words / ideas

• adjacency
  • ecology
  • Indra's net of jewels -translation
  • of Indra's Net story
  • “Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra,
    • there is a wonderful net which has been hung by some cunning artificer
    • in such a manner that it stretches out infinitely in all directions.
  • In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities,
    • the artificer has hung a single glittering jewel in each “eye” of the net,
    • and since the net itself is infinite in dimension,
      • the jewels are infinite in number.
  • There hang the jewels, glittering like stars in the first magnitude,
    • a wonderful sight to behold.
  • If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for inspection and look closely at it,
    • we will discover that in its polished surface there are reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number.
  • Not only that, but each of the jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewels,
    • so that there is an infinite reflecting process occurring"
    • Author
      • Cook, F. H. (1977). Hua‐Yen Buddhism: The jewel net of Indra. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. [Google Scholar]

• The Buddha taught that everything is
  • connected and
  • constantly changing.
• These fundamental observations of the world are shared by
  • ecology and
  • evolution.
• We are living in a time of unprecedented rates of extinction.
• Science provides us with the information that we need to address this extinction crisis.
• However, the problems underlying extinction generally do not result from a lack of scientific understanding,
  • but they rather result from an unwillingness to take the needed action.

• I present mindfulness and meditative aspects of Zen practice that provide the deeper “knowing,” or awareness that we need to inspire action on these problems.

• comment

  • emptiness is interdependency and change
  • in Deep Humanity praxis, it is equivalent to
    • human INTERbeing and
    • human INTERbeCOMing

• Title
  • Zen and deep evolution: The optical delusion of separation
• Author
  • Fred W. Allendorf
• Date
  • 2018

• Source

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6099813/

• Abstract

  • The Buddha taught that everything is connected and constantly changing.
• These fundamental observations of the world are shared by ecology and evolution.
  • We are living in a time of unprecedented rates of extinction.
• Science provides us with the information that we need to address this extinction crisis.
  • However, the problems underlying extinction generally do not result from a lack of scientific understanding, -but they rather result from an unwillingness to take the needed action.
  • I present mindfulness and meditative aspects of Zen practice
    • that provide the deeper “knowing,” or awareness that we need to inspire action on these problems.

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