• for: MST, MET

• comment

  • This paper introduces major system transitions (MST) to the existing definition of METs.

• for: MET, METs, METs - more inclusive terminology

• paraphrase

  • the authors
    • Introduce a more inclusive set of terminology to improve future discourse on major transitions, and
    • explore how major ecosystem transitions arise within broad frameworks that can include
      • multiple Fusions and Information Leaps,
      • morphological innovations,
      • catalytic actors and events, and
      • variation in the selective processes involved.

• for: definition, definition - fusions, definition - information leap, organismal complexity, fusions, information leap, traditional METs

• paraphrase

  • there are two classes of adaptations that qualify as gains in organismal complexity and constitute traditional METs:
    • definition start: fusion
      • a process whereby independently reproducing entities are incentivized into combining into higher, integrated levels of obligate reproductive cooperation, due to factors such as:
        • selective advantages of division of labor and mutual dependence.
        • maximization of inclusive fitness
        • ability to punish cheaters
    • definition end
    • definition start: information leap
      • novel forms of information storage or transmittal across individuals, ranging from
        • genes
        • symbolic writing
    • definition end

• 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: quote, quote - Andrew Wood, quote - dynamic equilibrium, daisyworld

• paraphrase

  • Many daisy, rabbit, and fox types were first brought together by Lovelock to create a numerical model for biodiversity.
  • In the real world, biological systems are continually being perturbed by the cycles of
    • day and night,
    • the turn of the seasons,
    • changes in the climate, and
    • innumerable other factors.
  • When a Daisy-world in equilibrium is perturbed
    • by
      • the introduction of a herbivore or
      • a sudden change in solar input,
  • a transient burst of different daisy types appears - until the system restabilizes, with new types dominant

• for: predator / prey oscillation

• paraphrase

  • As the predator eat a lot of the prey,
    • they increase in number while
    • the prey numbers go down.
  • Then when there are not enough prey to feed all the predators,
    • the predator number goes down too.
  • With less predators
    • the prey numbers go up.
  • As prey numbers goes up,
    • predator numbers can go up again.
• These population dynamics are expressed in the Lotka-Volterra equations
  • What is curious here is that the oscillation in population doesn’t translate into more oscillation of the climate,
  • instead it can translate into more stability of the climate

• for: quote, quote - James Lovelock, quote - biodiversity loss, daisyworld

• 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: sensory ecology, sensory ecology - beauty of
• annotate

• for: good explanation: empiricism, empiricism - knowledge gap, quote, quote - Dan Robinson, quote - philosophy, quote - empiricism - knowledge gap, Critique of Pure Reason - goal 1 - address empiricism and knowledge gap

• good explanation : empiricism - knowledge gap

• quote

  • on the traditional empiricist account
    • we do not have direct access to the facts of the external world
    • that is we do not experience externality directly but only MEDIATELY, not immediately but MEDIATELY
      • because between us and the external world are those what do you call them oh yes, sense organs
    • and so the question is how faithfully they report what is going on out there
    • To raise the question how faithful is the sensory report of the external world
      • is to assume that you have some reliable non-sensory way of answering that question
    • That's the box you can't get out of and so there is always this gap between
      • reality as it might possibly be known by some non-human creature and
      • reality as empirically sampled by the senses
        • whose limitations and distortions are very well known
          • but not perfectly classified or categorized or or measured

• Comment

  • Robinson contextualizes the empiricist project and gap thereof, as one of the 4 goals of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
  • Robinson informally calls this the "Locke" problem, after one of the founders of the Empiricist school, John Locke.
  • Robinson also alludes to a Thomas Reed approach to realism that contends that we don't experience reality MEDIATELY, but IMMEDIATELY, thereby eliminating the gap problem altogether.
  • It's interesting to see how modern biology views the empericist's knowledge gap, especially form the perspective of the Umwelt and Sensory Ecology

• for: Critique of Pure Reason - motivation

• 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: critique of pure reason - goal - provide metaphysical foundation for science

• paraphrase

  • Another goal of the Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is to provide a metaphysical foundation that
    • respects the achievements of science and
    • provides a grounding so that science itself understands the basis upon which its claims ultimately depend

• for: Kant, quote, quote- Kant, Kant - critique of pure reason - difficult to understand

• quote: on reading the Critique of Pure Reason

  • a disagreeable task because the work is dry obscure opposed to all ordinary notions and long-winded as well

• author: Immanuel Kant

• comment

  • Now I don't feel so bad! :D

• for: Kant, Kant - misunderstood

• comment

  • Kant was misunderstood as soon as he published

• for: Kant, quote, quote - metaphysics, quote - Kant, critique of pure reason, Dan Robinson, philosophy, quote - metaphysics - ubiquity

• quote

  • the human mind will ever give up metaphysical research is as little to be expected
  • as that we should prefer to give up breathing all together to avoid inhaling impure air
  • there will therefore always be metaphysics in the world
  • nay everyone especially every man of reflection will have it and for want of a recognized standard will shape it for himself after his own pattern
• author: Immanuel Kant

• for: quote, quote - metaphysics

• quote

  • even as you set out to ignore metaphysics, you're probably engaged in some form of metaphysical speculation.
• author: Dan Robinson
• date: 2011

• for: definition, definition - sensory ecology

• definition: sensory ecology

  • The field of sensory ecology is based on studying the sensory systems of animals in order to understand
    • what they perceive in their environments and
    • how that is going to affect their interactions with that environment

• reference: Dangles et al. 2009

  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcore.ac.uk%2Freader%2F30694936%3Futm_source%3Dlinkout&group=world

-title: VARIABILITY IN SENSORY ECOLOGY: EXPANDING THE BRIDGEBETWEEN PHYSIOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY - author - Olivier Dangle, - Duncan Irschick, - Lars Chittka, - Jerome Casas - date: 2009

• abstract
  • Sensory organs represent the interface between
    • the central nervous system of organisms and
    • the environment in which they live.
  • To date, we still lack a true integration of
    • ecological and
    • evolutionary perspectives
  • in our understanding of many sensory systems.
  • We argue that scientists working in sensory ecology should expand the bridge between
    • sensory and
    • evolutionary biology, and,
  • in working toward this goal, we advocate a combination of
    • the experimental rigor of the sensory physiologist with
    • population-based as well as
    • evolutionary views

• for: sensory ecology, umwelt, Dangle et al. 2009,

• comment

  • this is a seminal paper in the field of sensory ecology

• annotate

• summary
  • can we program AI to give a damn?

• for: transcendent, transcendental, definition - transcendental, Kant - transcendental, phenomenology

• definition: transcendental

  • not what is BEYOND appearances (the usual colloquial meaning of transcend) but what is BELOW appearances
  • in other words, it is the condition of possibilities of these appearances, it is from where appearances appear

• perspective shift: transcendental

  • Until encountering this explanation, I battled with and puzzled over the explanation of the transcendental given by all other authors. I found them overly complex and unintelligible without understanding many other major hidden assumptions
  • In my view, this proves Bilbot's mastery as a an educator on the most profound ideas in philosophy
    • Above all, he has a deep understanding of the salience landscape of his audience, something which almost all other author's and educators miss

• for: Kant's transcendental - in history, quote, quote - Upanishad, quote - Ernst Cassirer, quote - Michel Henry, quote - Giovanni Gentile, quote Edmund Husserl

• paraphrase

  • The transcendental cannot be an objective thought but is the condition for any objective thought
  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
    • Kant's transcendental is equivalent to the Braham
      • it is never seen but is a seer
      • it is never heard but is a hearer
      • it is never thought but is the thinker
      • it is never known but is the knower
      • it is the source of things and the source of knowledge
  • Ernst Cassirer
    • Consciousness is a goal to which knowledge turns its back
  • Michel Henry Consciousness cannot be shown, for it is the power to show.
  • Giovanni Gentile
  • Edmund Husserl
    • transcendental turn
      • the world is a sense for the transcendental ego
      • the transcendental ego is presupposed by the senses

• for: scientific revolution, incremental science, science - epoche

• quote

  • So whatever problem you have in your knowledge, and suddenly you think, oh, that doesn't fit, there is a problem, and so on, what do you do?
  • You stop projecting your attention onto the set of theoretical object you have, and you come back where you are.
  • Where are you? In the laboratory observing dots on the screen.
  • And then you think, is my picture adequate to the dots I'm seeing now in the screen?
  • That's what occurs at each scientific revolution.
  • Suddenly, if things, scientists say, poof, finished, all this theory,
  • I have to think everything again from what is given to me.
• author: Michel Bitbol

• for: key insight, science - key insight, science - epoche

• key insight

• quote
  • Electrons, protons, quarks, and so on, what they turn out to be is just inferences that we do from marks on the screens of our apparatuses in the laboratory essentially.
• author: Michel Bitbot

• for: quote, quote - Michel Bitbol, quote - science - epoche, quote - science - aware spot, aware spot

• quote

  • The missing element in science is precisely the realization that all these objects are seen from somewhere.
  • So, from somewhere in a very elusive sense, namely, from this famous aware spot, but also, in a very concrete sense,
    • all these things are seen from our everyday world, the life world.

• for: epoche - Jean Paul Satre, epoche, question, question - epoche - symbolosphere, Jean-Paul Satre - Nausea
• paraphrase
  • Jean-Paul Satre
    • The Transcendence of the Ego
    • Nausea (book)
  • both the subject and object are cocreated and emerge simultaneously
• definition start
  • Bitbol calls this "symmetrical effort"
• definition end
  • it takes symmetrical effort to
    • extract invariance from experience (objectification and object permanence)
    • stabilize an experiencing pole (construction of self)
  • when some event causes
• example: epoche
  • reading a book on history
  • you suddenly realize there is no past, no medieval events, just black marks on paper (or on a screen)
• question
  • Is realizing the epoche the same as realizing the symbolosphere?

• for epoche - enlightenment, epoche - ease of performing
• comment
  • the epoche is easy to perform
  • whereas it appears from the philosophical considerations difficult to perform
  • is it analogous to enlightenment, where the perception of it's difficulty is what makes it difficult?

• for: epoche, quote, quote - epoche, quote - Michel Bitbol

• quote

  • when you have lost the world by the epoche, you can conquer it anew in a universal self-examination.
  • What does it mean? It just means that when you analyze what is left after the epoche, you see all the processes by which we tend to reconstruct our belief in and extend in the world
• author: Michel Bitbol

• 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: quote, quote - Michel Bilbot, quote - circularity of materialism, scientific materialism - circularity

• quote

  • He (Galileo) concealed the origin of this knowledge by trying to show how you can derive the life of the nowhere out of the nowhere's intellectual byproduct.

• author: Michel Bilbot

• comment

  • This is a very pith observation. It illustrates the circularity inherent in panpsychic scientific theory.
  • In a sense, we are putting the cart before the horse by using theory, which is the nowhere's intellectual byproduct, to derive the life of the nowhere.

• for: quote, quote - Galileo, quote - hiding the origin of knowledge, physical theory - hiding origin of knowledge

• quote

  • According to Husserl, Galileo was the one who performed the trick. Who suddenly was hiding the origin of knowledge.
• author: Michel Bitbol

• 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: experience replaces objects, nondual replaces dual, Heidegger, situatedness

• comment

  • there is a parallel between objective reality and the private experience
    • visual field
      • vanishing point indicates presence of the seer
    • interior, first person experience
      • situatedness indicates presence of experience being had from somewhere (specific) - situatedness

• definition start

  • this is called by Heidegger and Husserl the transcendental deduction
• definition end

• for: visual field, visual field - clues of a seer, nondual, non-dual, nonduality, non-duality, science - blind spot, science - subject
• question
  • does the visual field reveal anything about the eye?
• answer: yes
  • vanishing points indicate that the world is being seen from one perspective.

• for: blind spots, science - blind spots, aware spot, Wittgenstein, Nishada Kitaro, Douglas Harding, BEing journey, finger pointing to the moon, the man with no head

• paraphrase

  • blind spot by vacancy
    • ie. black area in visual field.
    • contrast with the rest of the visual field
    • easy to see
• further research start
  • pure blind spot
    • I did not understand
• further research end
  • aware spot
    • Douglas Harding ( Man without a head) exercise
    • Wittgenstein also commented on this
      • Nothing in your visual field leads you to infer that it is seen by an eye
      • BEing journey
        • point finger to objects in your visual field
        • then point to yourself
        • what do you see? There's no object there
        • it is empty but is the source of awareness
    • Nishada Kitaro
      • As soon as you adopt the stance of objective knowledge, the knower doesn't enter the visual field

• for: quote, quote - Nietzsche, duality, nonduality, nondual, non-duality, non-dual

• quote

  • The creator wanted to look away from himself. That's why he created the world

• author: Nietzsche, Zarathustra

• comment

  • Bitbol's work is to invert this and explore how we can become aware of the blind spot of science that creates the objective world to study, whilst ignoring the subject..

• for: Edmund Husserl, the Mother of Knowledge, nondual, nonduality, non-dual, non-duality, the ground of existence
• definition: the mother of knowledge
  • the dynamics of lived embodied experience
• author: Edmond Husserl

• for: nondual, nonduality, ground of existence, transcendental, Kant - transcendental, non-duality, non-dual, quote, quote - Michel Bitbol, quote - nonduality, quote - transcendental

• quote

  • What can you say about the transcendental?
  • Can you speak of it?
  • Can you use words to describe it?
  • Can you characterize the condition of possibility of it?
  • And Kant says no.
  • This, namely, the transcendental, cannot be further analyzed or answered because it is of such condition that we are in need for all our answers and for all our thinking about objects.
  • So, the transcendental itself cannot be an object of thought.
• author: Michel Bitbol
• comment
  • Michel Bitbol explains Kant's definition of transcendental that makes sense to me for the first time!
  • It is really quite similiar to the defintion of the nondual.

• definition: phenomenological reduction (aka epoche)
  • There is an experience in which it is possible for us to come to the world with no knowledge or preconceptions in hand;
  • it is the experience of astonishment.
    • The “knowing” we have in this experience stands in stark contrast to
    • the “knowing” we have in our everyday lives, where we come to the world with
      • theory and
      • “knowledge” in hand,
      • our minds already made up before we ever engage the world.
  • However, in the experience of astonishment,
    • our everyday “knowing,” when compared to
    • the “knowing” that we experience in astonishment,
  • is shown up as a pale epistemological imposter and is reduced to mere opinion by comparison.
  • The phenomenological reduction (aka epoche)
  • is at once
    • a description and
    • prescription
  • of a technique that allows one to voluntarily sustain the awakening force of astonishment
    • so that conceptual cognition can be carried throughout intentional analysis,
    • thus bringing the “knowing” of astonishment into our everyday experience.

• for: symbiocene, ecozoic, ecocivilization, eco-civilization, animal communication, inter-species communication, Azi Raskin, Earth Species Project, umwelt

• summary

  • Very interesting talk given by Aza Raskin, founder of:
    • https://www.earthspecies.org/
    • cofounder of https://www.humanetech.com/
  • on two main themes:
    • how AI is being used to decode language communication of many different plant and animal species, including inter-fauna, inter-flora and fauna-flora cross communication
    • how AI used to study human languages has detected a universal meaning shape between all languages.

• reference

  • https://www.earthspecies.org/

• for: humpback whale - saying hello, animal communication, whale communication

• for: animal motion and language

• for: AI - everything is one thing - language

• comment

  • Has importance for the Indyweb / Indranet

• for: unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics, emptiness, emptiness - unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics

• comment

  • everything is an expression of emptiness

• source
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F364689654_BEANS_The_Benchmark_of_Animal_Sounds&group=world

• for: accelerating foundation models in non-human communication, non-human communication - anthropogenic impacts, species extinction - AI communication tools, conservation - AI communication tools

• comment

  • imagine the empathy we can realize to help slow down climate change and species extinction by communicating and listening to the feedback from other species about what they think of our species impacts on their world!

• for: making the invisible visible, decoding the language of the biosphere

for: quote, quote Aza Raskin, quote - progress, quote - scientific progress and expanding perception

• quote
  • science progresses generally not because of a thing that we see
  • but because we increase our ability to perceive
• author
• Aza Raskin
• date: 2023

• for: animals getting high, animals seeking altered state of consciousness, lemurs - getting high, dolphins - getting high, apes - getting high

• for: CLD, Common Life Denominators, Mother whale carrying her dead child

• for: quote, quote - age of whale and dolphin languages

• quote

  • whales and dolphins have had culture passed down vocally for 34 million years
  • humans have only been speaking vocally impacted on culture for like 200 000 years tops and
  • that which is oldest correlates with that which is wisest
• author - Aza Raskin
• date: 2023

• for: question, question - universal meaning shape for animal communication

• comment

  • this would be an amazing project for TPF and BEing journeys. Could we actually talk to animals and plants to ask them about how we humans are treating them?

• for: language, quote, quote - Aza Raskin, quote - universal language shape, quote - universal meaning shape, CHD, CHD - language - universal meaning shape

• quote

  • pretty much every human language that's been tried ends up fitting in a kind of universal human meaning shape
  • which I think is just so profound especially in this time of such deep division that there is a universal hidden structure underlying us all

• for: key idea, key idea - language research , AI - language research - semantic to geometric

• for:AI - language research, AI - language research - semantic invariancy

• for: example - animal-plant communication, bee-flower communication, bee - primrose flower communication, communication - animal - plant, communication - bee - flower, 2019 University of Tel Aviv study

example, example - communication - plant, tobacco plant communication

• annotate
• comment
  • explore potential collaboration for TPF education and BEing journeys

• for: animal communication, AI - animal communication, bioacoustic

• title: BEAN: The Benchmark of Animal Sounds

• author

  • Masato Hagiwara
  • Benjamin Hoffman
  • Jen-Yu Liu
  • Maddie Cusimano

• Abstract

  • The use of machine learning (ML) based techniques has become increasingly popular in the field of bioacoustics over the last years.
  • Fundamental requirements for the successful application of ML based techniques are curated, agreed upon, high-quality datasets and benchmark tasks to be learned on a given dataset.
  • However, the field of bioacoustics so far lacks such public benchmarks which cover multiple tasks and species to measure the performance of ML techniques in a controlled and standardized way and that allows for benchmarking newly proposed techniques to existing ones.
  • Here, we propose BEANS (the BEnchmark of ANimal Sounds), a collection of bioacoustics tasks and public datasets, specifically designed to measure the performance of machine learning algorithms in the field of bioacoustics.
  • The benchmark proposed here consists of two common tasks in bioacoustics:
    • classification and
    • detection.
  • It includes 12 datasets covering various species, including
    • birds,
    • land and marine mammals,
    • anurans, and insects.
  • In addition to the datasets, we also present the performance of a set of standard ML methods as the baseline for task performance.
  • The benchmark and baseline code is made publicly available at
    • \url{https://github.com/earthspecies/beans}
  • in the hope of establishing a new standard dataset for ML-based bioacoustic research.

• for: quote, quote - progress trap - internet, quote - progress trap - social media

• quote

  • Addiction, distraction, disinformation, polarisation and radicalisation; all these "hurricanes", Mr Raskin and Mr Harris argue, have one common cause. -They come from the fact that we now spend large portions of our lives inside artificial social systems, - which are run by private companies for profit.

• for: progress trap, progress trap - Aza Raskin, progress trap - internet, quote, quote - Aza Raskin, quote - progress trap, quote - progress trap - internet

• quote

  • Unless you've felt it, unless you've cried over the fact that we really thought we were making the world a better place with the internet... We 100 per cent believed that.

• for: animal communication - dolphins, animal communications

• for: example - animal-plant communication, bee-flower communication, bee - primrose flower communication, communication - animal - plant, communication - bee - flower, 2019 University of Tel Aviv study, education, education - climate change, education - climate departure, education - species extinction

• for: communication - plants, education, education - climate change, education - climate departure, education - species extinction
• question: climate change education, climate departure education

• for: umwelt

• for: DIRMBI

• for: superorganism, social superorganism, bottom-up movement,

• comment

  • this model of nested structures and the major evolutionary transition of individuality suggests a metaphor for the great transition of civilization:
    • apply SIMPOL to fragmented change agents around the globe and apply leverage points, idling resources and social tipping points to organize individuals at one scale to create a MET of individuality at another higher scale
    • this becomes the construction / evolution of a new individual
      • the social superorganism for rapid whole sysem change

• for: desalination

• for: desalination

• for: climate change - false binary, jobs vs environment, example, example climate change - false binary, climate departure, leverage point

• example: false environmental binary

  • activists need to better communicate the false binary that climate denialists keep using to pull the wool over people's eyes.
  • jobs vs environment ignores the short term threat of environmental degradation
  • this is where participatory climate departure can show the threat in a visceral, concrete way that is far more compelling you the average person than any intellectual attempt to explain the differences example - climate change - false binary

• annotate
• for: TPF, LCE

• for: Johan Rockstrom - Time magazine
• Title: What the latest health check tells us about the state of our planet
• date: Sept., 2023
• author: Johan Rockstrom
• summary
  • Johan Rockstrom provides an update to clarify what our civilization must do and how rapidly in order retain a safe and just operating space for humanity

• for: quote, quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - Johan Rockstrom - Industry greenwashing

• quote

  • It is a major mistake in the current climate action debates,
    • when big actors with interests in the oil, gas, and coal industry,
  • use investments in
  • nature based solutions or
  • technologies for carbon dioxide removal (CDR),
  • as “offsets” for the inability to phase out fossil-fuels.
  • This will not work. Science is clear on this point
  • We need to
  • phase out fossil-fuels AND
    • restore nature to secure carbon sinks in soils and forests, AND
    • to invest in CDR technologies.
  • Additionality is the word of the day, not substitution.

• for: .5 deg c - chances
• comment
  • In Johan’s interview with Kevin Anderson, he articulates that when we account for:
    • the conservative nature of IPCC, which means it doesn’t account for much outlier, cutting edges research and is already outdated ( ie doesn’t contain tipping point elements, latest research in Antarctica and Greenland (Jason Box)
    • only a 50% chance
    • low likelihood of scaling NET in a meaningful way
    • when just is added to safe boundaries, 1 deg C is the real threshold
  • it already implies that we have at small chance of staying under 1.5 deg C

• for: quote, quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote greenwashing

• quote

  • We cannot continue with double standards on fossil-fuels and renewable energy,
  • or as a majority of countries are doing today –
    • continue to sit on the fence, with green rhetoric but grey actions,
  • which adds to the perception of widespread greenwashing.

• for: synergies

-comment - already many groups with same idea. Let’s converge then all.

-for: quote, quote - David Bollier, call to action, meme, meme - subterranean republic of commoners

• quote

  • The subterranean Republic of Commoners needs to step into the light of day.

• meme: subterranean republic of commoners

• comment

  - catchy!

• for: quote, quote - David Bollier, quote - silos of communities
• quote
  • The problem is that this pluriverse of system-change players remains largely disorganized. -They are marginalized and eclipsed by the raw power of the market/state system.
• Author: David Bollier

• for: cosmolocal, cosmolocal parallel polis
• comments
  • apply cosmolocalism to nework

• for: TPF
• comment
  • TPF has same goal
  • can use the language of parallel polis

-for: parallel polis, parallel alternative society, Vaclev Havel, definition, definition - parallel polis

• definition: parallel polis
  • a community-created safe space in which people can mutually support each other, directly produce what they need, and build a kind of shadow society – outside of the machinery of the dominant political system.

• annotate

• for: Open source, Open source district heating models

• question: could they be applied to residential scale projects?

• for: energy - biomimicry

• annotate

• for: social tipping point, multi-scale competency architecture, MET, major evolutionary transition of individuality

• Title: Using emergence to take social innovation to scale

• Author: Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze
• publisher: The Berkana Institute

• for: multi-scale competency architecture, MET, major evolutionary transition of individuality

• for: Google search - dustcrete

• salient search results

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  • https://www.matec-conferences.org/articles/matecconf/pdf/2019/07/matecconf_scescm2019_01015.pdf
  • https://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/good_wood/sawment.htm
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  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9605626/

• for: MET - conditions
• paraphrase
  • two conditions for MET
    • 1. living forms that were capable of independent replication before the replication can only replicate as part of a larger unit after the MET
    • 1. there is a lack of within-group conflict such that the larger unit can be thought of as a fitness-maximizing individual in its own right.
  • When these 2 conditions are met, evolution lea a new higher level organism.
  • The new individual acts with a single purpose where the interests of the previously independent individuals are now aligned.

• for: key question, key question - multi-scale competency architecture, MET, major evolutionary transition

• for: annotate, annotate - social media, progress trap - social media

• source: connectathon 2023 09 23

  • session on social media

• for: unintended consequences, progress trap, progress trap - toothpaste, progress trap - fluoride

• annotate

• annotate

• comment
  • Michael does not know what the format of the answer to the hard problem would be
  • Attempting to explain the experience of consciousness begs the question
    • what is explanation?
  • The explanation often attempts to rely on measurable 3rd party observations and the scientific theories and models behind those observations
  • However, as Michel Bitbol points out, the models themselves emerge from the same awareness of consciousness
    • https://hyp.is/gQt0wlg_Ee6ftXcrEi3Z-g/docdrop.org/video/bzPu_USZ-0o/
  • In spiritual teachings, it is often claimed that the observer is actually an expression of the universe that see's itself
  • Seeing itself - what does this mean in scientific terms? Could it mean resonance, like the kind used by musicians to tune string instruments like guitars?
  • Do all the patterns that we sense become sensible precisely because they are all an intrinsic part of us, and vice versa?

• paraphrase
  • Karl Friston takes Andy Clark's perspective
    • the real problem is a meta problem
      • why do we spend so much time trying to make sense of our sense-making?
  • Karl talks about futures and different pathways to the futures
  • Humans seem to have this unique property to plan futures, some of which are counter-factual

• for: hard problem of consciousness

• for: Michael Levin, Michel Bitbol, Karl Friston, Chris Fields

• comment

  • Recommend adding Michel Bitbol to the next talk between these researchers.

• reference

  • https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2FbzPu_USZ-0o%2F&group=world

• for: progress trap, progress trap - REP, progress trap - Renewable Energy Prosumerism

-progress trap - commercialization - exclusion - instrumentation - projectification - Responsibilization and overburdening - Hidden systemic repurcussions

• for: acronym, acronym - REP, Renewable Energy Prosumerism

• acronym: REP

  • Renewable Energy Prosumerism

• annotate

• annotate

• for: Indyweb test
• title:Sweden Poised to Miss the Long-Term Climate Target It Pioneered
• comment
  • for an indyweb test on mapping thought vectors in idea space
  • various perspectives on this thread

• for: open source - science, open science, sci-hub

• for: example, example - human umwelt

• example: human umwelt

• for: question, question - hard problem of consciousness, question - Micheal Levin - Michel Bitbol

• question

  • What would Michel Bitbol think of what Michael Levin claims here?
  • What does Michel Bitbol think about Michael Levin's research and the hard problem of consciousness?

• for: carbon inequality

• comment
  • Johan Rockstrom does not believe that a Marshall plan is feasible. He cites the rapid pace of development in India and China as a reason a Marshall plan would not work.
  • To unpack this further, China and India were both countries on the other side of (white) colonialism and now are trying to catch up. Whereas historical, white colonialism marginalized both non-white, indigenous populations as well as nature, now these countries are marginalizing nature.
  • To determine whether a Marshall plan by these large emitting countries would be feasible or not depends on the answer to another question:
    • Can these countries pivot to a Marshall plan of a disruptive rate of 15% ?
  • We must remember, as Kevin Anderson reminds us, it is uneven. Only a small minority of the population must undergo radical decarbonization rates, namely the small minority of high carbon, elite emitters.
  • What would a global Marshall plan even look like? We don't know - because the conversation is being discouraged. That's the point Kevin Anderson is making.

• for: quote, quote - Kevin Anderson, quote - Kevin Anderson - Marshall plan, discussion - Johan Rockstrom / Kevin Anderson, perspectival knowing

• quote

  • Our choice to fail over the last 30 years has brought us to this position.
  • And a way out of that, a way out of the Marshall Plan, is to say we can have these negative emissions
  • I think we need to say that, okay that's one way out of it – if they work.
  • Another way out of it is the Marshall Plan.
  • And so we need to open that that dialogue up. but we've... in effect, I think the IAMs have closed that dialogue,.
  • Which is one of the reasons, going back to... It would be interesting to see other parts of the world looking at this, because, I would have a guess,
    • when we say 'that's not feasible', many people elsewhere in the world are saying 'well of course it's feasible, we've been doing... we've been living like that for years!'

• comment

  • In rebuttal to Johan's perspective on Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs),
    • Kevin is addressing the issue of perspectival knowing, and
    • its implications on what solutions we entertain as a global society.
  • The example he cites is Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) illustrates two major perspectives:
    • Johan includes NETs as he see's that without them, the transition goes from manageable to unmanageable
    • Kevin questions the inclusion of the NETs as potentially shutting down discussion about what Johan would consider an unmanageable situation
  • Kevin brings up a valid point for inclusion of other voices, especially those indigenous ones who are still institutionally marginalized not only in economic and cultural spaces, but also academic and intellectual ones.
  • The decolonization of academia takes on a concrete form here. Both the global and local south have lived under severe economic repression for centuries. Anderson's contention is that making do with less is something that billions of people have had to contend with for centuries as a social norm forced upon them by colonialist then post colonialist institutions.
  • Inclusivity of a greater diversity of voices does play an important role in shaping the future direction of humanity.
  • We should be having an open discussion about a Marshall plan and should not be afraid to go there.
    • We had it in WWII, which, while more direct threat, is not as great as the threat of climate change on all life on earth in a slightly greater time scale.
  • The global and local south has a lot to teach the global and local north. For this great transition of humanity to occur likely simultaneously requires
    • radical amounts of resource transfer from the global / local north to the global / local south,and
    • radical degrowth

• for: quote, quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - Johan Rockstrom - NET

• stats

• quote
  • We're increasing emissions today between 1 and 2% per year.
  • Now, to reduce emissions even in the global model runs we have, with optimistic I mean, overly optimistic negative emission technologies – assume mitigation pathways, as you know, between 5 and 7% per year.
  • So that is three times revolution pace, at the current modeling runs.
  • If you take away negative emission technologies, you would exceed 10% very rapidly.
  • You would be more the 10 to 15%.
  • I would call that... That's not revolution, that is a complete disruption of the global economy.
  • It's like a pace that is beyond... I mean then you need to bulldoze down coal-fired plants, basically.
  • You would be in a complete global Marshall Plan. It's a war zone agenda.

• for: quote, quote - Kevin Anderson, quote - silence - activism for the status quo, Stop Oil

• quote

  • There is a risk that we end up being activists for the status quo by being silent

• comment

  • I would agree with Kevin. Silence is making a statement, it's not neutral
  • the "activists" are doing the dirty work of critiquing the top down actors

• for: scientist activism, idling resources - scientist activism, leverage point - scientist activism
• comment
  • Both Johan and Kevin provide personal stories of how few scientists are out there doing societal engagement.
  • Hence, this is truly a idling resource that needs a space that will attract them to engage in impactful ways.
  • This is where citizens and communities can provide the support that scientists need to take on their societal responsibilities at this time

• for: leverage points, quote, quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - motivating the silent majority, climate change - priority, social tipping point
• quote
  • In a normal distribution,
    • from over here you have the denialists and
    • over here you have the environmental activists.
  • But in between you have a lot of different types of people.
  • And the majority are actually
    • we know this from opinion polls
  • very supportive of science.
  • They're very supportive of and concerned about climate change.
  • They want climate action.
  • It's just that they live their normal lives, they have many preoccupations in life.They have
    • children,
    • health,
    • school,
    • financing,
    • incomes.
  • You know, many, many things to be worried about.
  • But that's the question:
    • how do we get this majority, the silent majority, to join us?
  • I don't think that the way to make them join us is to
    • scare them and
    • fight with the denialists.
  • I think the way to make them join is to show that this pathway can get a better life.
• author: Johan Rockstrom

• date: Sept., 2023

• comment

  • in other words
  • the silent majority does not yet hold climate change activism to be sufficiently high on their list of priorities yet to warrant the necessary scale of action

• for: Johan Rockstrom - wellbeing economy, wellbeing economy, green growth, degrowth, question, question - Johan Rockstrom - green growth or degrowth?
• question
  • Does Johan Rockstrom advocate for a green economy or degrowth?
  • He would seem to be arguing for green growth as degrowth, if not done extremely carefully, can result in a drop in wellbeing.
  • How does he see this taking place when the elites perceive that they have the most (at least materially) to give up? Is there a contradiction here?

• for: leverage points - top-down actors
• comment
  • they are top-down leverage points

• for: climate science - citizen engagement, johan rockstrom - advocacy for citizen engagement, scientist - activism
• comment
  • supporting the previous comment, Johan Rockstrom see's scientists having a much more active role engaging with the public.

• for: quote, quote - Kevin Anderson, quote - academic support for bottom-up actors, bottom-up actors - academic support

• quote

  • We have been happy to engage with CEOs, with the senior policy makers, with the 'Davos set'.
  • We've been happy to engage with them – across, generally, the sort of more senior climate change academics. But they haven't delivered for 30 years.
  • But what we haven't... Who we very seldom engage with – the balance, to me, is wrong – with citizenry groups.
  • We haven't engaged... with the climate parliament group. Our support has been biased towards a group who are very much in favor of the status quo.

• comment

• Kevin is tuning into a potential idling capacity and leverage point that academic community has by-and-large missed.
  • Academic support of bottom-up and citizen groups could yield the kind of top-down and bottom-up partnership that could really accelerate climate policy action

• for: top-down and bottom-up partnerships, top-down and bottom-up climate action
• comment
  • as the polycrisis accelerates, this is only going to get worse so we have to find a new, nonlinear way for politicians to actually work in partnership with bottom-up actors

• for: Swedish climate report, cidtizen action, bottom-up climate action, top-down and bottom-up partnership

• future research

  • study the Swedish parliament climate policy model and citizen's roles in achieving it and see if it can be replicated in all countries

• question

  • is there anyone studying this with the object of scaling to other countries?

• for: quote, quote - Kevin Anderson, quote - bottom-up and top-down partnership, IPCC AR6 WGIII demand side reduction and bottom-up actions
• quote
  • I hope that there will be some sort of partnership between bottom-up and top-down that will provide guidance to leaders to put the right things in place.
• author: Kevin Anderson

• date: Sept., 2023

• comment

  • The last IPCC report, AR6, WGIII described the important role that bottom-up, societal actors can play
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Freport.ipcc.ch%2Far6wg3%2Fpdf%2FIPCC_AR6_WGIII_FinalDraft_Chapter05.pdf&group=world

• for: bottom-up action, top-down and bottom-up, TPF
• comment
  • Kevin Anderson makes a good point. He agrees with Johan that a parliament of 8 billion people is not realistic. However, small vociferous and strategic bottom-up groups are needed to prod the top-down actors into action.
  • He makes the observation that the elite actors, the so called "Davos set" have effectively delayed any real climate action for the past 3 decades and if left to them alone, will do the same thing.
  • Anderson hopes for some kind of partnership between top-down and bottom-up actors to provide guidance to leaders to choose the most appropriate policy.
  • In fact, the last IPCC report actually reports on the important role of bottom-up action from societal actors

• for: Johan Rockstrom - top down strategy, quote, quote - Johan Rockstrom, quote - climate top down strategy

• quote

  • we have a crisis and things have to change at the global level so fast that we need to correct big system failures at a very large scale. And I'm convinced that that can only be done top-down not bottom-up.
• author: Johan Rockstrom
• date: Sept., 2023

• for: quote, quote - net zero by 2050
• quote
  • reaching zero by 2050 won't take us there
• author: Johan Rockstrom
• date: Sept. 2023

• for: more aggressive target, question, question - fossil fuel phase out

• comment

  • the current approach sets a target of 1.5 Deg C to reach,
  • the science needs to continuously update the policy.
  • Unfortunately, this means our target will need to be LESS THAN 1.5 Deg C

• question

  • if there is no budget left anymore, that puts politicians in a bind in how to achieve an orderly phase out.
  • nobody seems to have the answer
  • what do we do?

• for: carbon sinks, carbon sinks - oceans, carbon sinks - forests, stats, stats, forest carbon sink, stats - ocean carbon sink, question, question - when do carbon sinks turn into carbon sources?

• stats

  • forests are absorbing 25% of carbon dioxide emissions
  • oceans are absorbing 50% of carbon dioxide emissions
  • these are stressing these carbon sinks

• question

  • how much longer can they absorb without unintended consequences playing out?

• for: carbon budget - underestimate, IPCC - underestimate, 1.5Deg C - underestimate, question, question - revise 1.5 Deg C target downwards?

• highlight

  • the 1.5 Deg C target does not account for cascading tipping points. In fact the cascading tipping point research is not accounted for in any of:
    • current climate models
    • global carbon estimates
    • IPCC
  • the implications are that the carbon budget is even smaller than the current number.
  • the implications are that 1.5 Deg C is not the threshold we should be aiming for, but even less. We are now at 1.2 so it has to be 1.3 or 1.4.

• question

  • Given the underestimates, should the target actually be revised downwards to 1.3 or 1.4 deg C?

• for: precautionary principle, fossil fuel phase out, carbon budget - uncertainties, carbon budget - underestimate
• highlight
  • the precautionary principle dictates that the uncertainties in:
    • soil carbon
    • ocean carbon
    • ocean heat
    • ice melt
    • biodiversity loss
    • biome tipping points
  • implies that the any one of these can easily bring our remaining carbon budget down to zero.

• for: cascading tipping points, cascading tipping points - Greenland - AMOC - Antarctica

• highlights

  • latest research at PIK shows that the two poles are connected via the AMOC current.
    • Greenland ice sheet melt releasing cold fresh water is slowing down the North Atlantic overturning of heat.
    • The slowdown is keeping more warm saline water in place in the Southern Ocean, accelerating melting of the Antarctic ice sheet.

• for Linked In post, social commentary - video

• comment
  • this video animation is a social commentary on the many failings of modernity

• for: climate change policy hypocrisy, fossil fuel lobby, EU climate policy, Hoekstra, Fox guarding the henhouse, Linked In post

• comment

  • What does it say about the EU's authenticity to deal with the global boiling crisis when they put a fox in charge of the henhouse?
  • this seems awfully similar to the choice for positioning an oil man to head COP28.
  • The fossil fuel lobby is EXTREMELY busy in the opaque back end of politics. We need more light to shine and bring the back end fossil fuel lobby activity out of the shadows to pre-empt future leadership betrayals.

• future research

  • uncover future fossil fuel lobby’s game plan and future attempts to coopt climate change policy leadership
  • needed in order to proactively preempt the next attempt at coopting climate leadership. It’s difficult when we are simply reacting

• for: TPF
• comment
  • Hamburg climate futures outlook 2023 report supports need for something on the scale of the planned TPF

• fresh perspective

  • cancer can be interpreted as a breakdown in the bodies multiscale competency architecture causing cancerous cells to lose their higher level synchronizing signals and revert to their more evolutionarily primitive forms as individuals that see the body as simply an external environment

• adjacency between

  • gap junction coupling
  • cancer
  • healthy tissue coherence
  • multiscale competency architecture
• adjacency statement
  • gap junction coupling appears to be an evolutionary means of cohering individuals together to form a larger group
  • hence, they seem to play a critical role in the continued evolution of more complex multicellular organisms
  • their pathologies within multicellular beings destroy multicellular structures and create disease, reverting the organism, or competent multicellular structures of the organism such as tissues and organs back to individualistic behavior, as in cancers

• 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: bio-buddhism, buddhism - AI, care as the driver of intelligence, Michael Levin, Thomas Doctor, Olaf Witkowski, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, care drive, care light cone, multiscale competency architecture of life, nonduality, no-self, self - illusion, self - constructed, self - deconstruction, Bodhisattva vow
• title: Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence
• author: Michael Levin, Thomas Doctor, Olaf Witkowski, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, AI - ethics
• date: May 16, 2022

• source: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/5/710/htm

• summary

  • a trans-disciplinary attempt to develop a framework to deal with a diversity of emerging non-traditional intelligence from new bio-engineered species to AI based on the Buddhist conception of care and compassion for the other.
  • very thought-provoking and some of the explanations and comparisons to evolution actually help to cast a new light on old Buddhist ideas.
  • this is a trans-disciplinary paper synthesizing Buddhist concepts with evolutionary biology

• for: progress trap, unintended consequences, progress trap - new life forms, progress trap - bioengineering
• comment
  • this opens up a big can of worms. A general theory of progress traps (https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=progress+trap) is urgently needed to systematically study the unintended consequences of progress.

• for: progress trap, AI, AI - care drive
• comment
  • the precautionary principle needs to be observed with AI because it has such vast artificial cognitive, pattern-recognition processes at its disposal
  • AI will also make mistakes, but the degree of power behind the mistaken decision, recommendation or action is the degree of unintended consequences or progress trap
  • An example nightmare scenario could be:
    • AI could decide that humans are contradicting their own goal of a stable climate system and if it's in control, may think it knows better and perform whole system change that dramatically reduces human induced climate change but actually harms a lot of humans in the process, for reaching the goal of saving the climate system plus a sufficient subset of humans to start all over.

• for: self construct - misperceptions
• in other words
  • if the self is no longer strongly reified, but experienced nakedly as a construction, then the misperceptions that are tethered to the solidification of self cannot survive, namely:
    • hesitation
    • fear
    • disappointment
    • attachment
    • etc...

• for: mistake - wow
• mistake
  • I think that the word should be "vow", and not "wow"

• comment
  • this is definitely seeing evolution through a Buddhist lens!
  • mara - maintain status quo
  • bodhisattva - infinite transformation

• for: bodhisattva - infinite care drive, tilopa - liberation of fish
• comment
• example: care drive - bodhisattva
  • an exemplary story comes to mind, that of the Tibetan yogi named Tilopa
    • There are stories of the master Tilopa liberating fish by biting their heads off
  • To an ordinary being, this would seem to be the direct opposite of liberation. Indeed, the story of his student Naropa's seemingly blind faith in Tilopa can easily be interpreted as abusive in modern society: https://thrangumonastery.org/about/kagyu-lineage/naropa/#:~:text=As%20he%20got%20closer%2C%20he,for%20taking%20it%20to%20market.

• for: analog, analog - human development
• analog: human development
  • Buddhist teachings on illusory nature of the self often make use of the example of our use of the same name for a body that is ever changing - it started as a sperm/egg united, then an embryo, fetus, neonate, newborn, infant, child, adolescent, young adult, adult, finally elderly.
  • the early stages of human development are just as radical as caterpillar to butterfly.
  • As adult humans, we take memories for granted, but such meta-level features do not even exist in the earlier parts of our development, such as just after the sperm inseminates the egg and we are just a collection of rapidly dividing cells
  • In this case, it is indeed insightful to apply more universal ideas of life and intelligence, since we ourselves have been through many different types of intelligences in our own individual human development

• for: cellular collaboration, gap junction, bioelectrical networks, bioelectric network

• interesting fact: multicellular mechanisms to create coherence in competent constituent subunit cells

• more research
  • very interesting mechanisms that mediate benefits of collective behavior of competent subunits within the biological body.

• for: bio-buddhism - stress, bio-buddhism, duhkha, question, question - enlightenment and stress, bio-buddhism - suffering, bio-buddhism - enlightenment
• question
  • If enlightenment is defined as the ultimate awareness that penetrates the self-illusion, and therefore subject / object dualism is what brings peace, and the cessation of suffering due to the cessation of seeking, then how does this relate to the idea of goal-seeking, homeostatic efforts to attain a specific setpoint?
    • Do we attain the setpoint by awareness that stops the suffering in a unique way?

• for: stress - satisfaction, lack project, poverty mentality, David Loy
• comment
  • what is interesting is that there is strong emphasis on Buddhist and other contemplative teachings on acceptance of the present state and cessation of searching.
  • In Buddhist teachings, desire is an expression of a dissatisfaction of some aspect of the present and drives change
  • and last but perhaps most importantly, Buddhist teachings teach that the source of the desire is indicative of attachment to the constructed self narrative
  • hence, at first read, it would seem the goal-oriented nature of the definition is at odds with Buddhist teachings.
  • David Loy refers to desires as a way to fulfill something we feel is missing. He refers to this as a "Lack project"
    • When we feel incomplete, we are motivated to strive towards those things that we perceive to make us feel more complete. This is also referred to in some branches of Buddhism as poverty mentality: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=poverty+mentality
  • If we penetrate the self construct and see it's constructed, provisional nature, then we also expose the greater already existent reality that we already are.
  • It seems paradoxical. While we are strongly reifying the self-construct, we will be goal-seeking and a priority goal may be to experience the self as a construct, which has the effect of ending root level goal seeking.

• for: bodhisattva's compassion, nondual compassion, non-dual compassion, compassion
• insightful: bodhisattva's compassion
• unpacking: bodhisattva's compassion
  • to understand what it is to experience the world free of (object, agent, action) triplet, it is necessary to understand what it means to experience the world from the (object, agent, action) perspective.
  • Buddhism's starting assumption is that experience from the (object, agent, action) perspective is the pathological but normative one.
  • It cannot be simply intellectual understanding, that is not enough for deep transformation. It must be quite deep, to the core of how we experience the world - as a seeming subject moving through a field of seeming objects.
  • This is accompanied by a feeling of alienation. The subject is separated from the field of objects.
  • David Loy has good insights on this subject of the mundane feeling of emptiness that accompanies our meaning crisis: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=david+loy
  • Of course if you are able to penetrate the illusory nature of your own self construct in a meaningful way, it also gives you insight into the other perceived selves outside of you. Even this sentence is paradoxical to say, since there is no inside / outside in a nondual realization that penetrates the self.
  • So then, it does make sense to value all aspects of reality, not just yourself and others, but treating it as one unbroken gestalt
  • The concept of poverty mentality is useful here, David Loy refers to this as the "Lack project": https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=poverty+mentality

• for: bodhisattva - compassion
• comment
  • When we understand how we construct then reify the (psycho-social) self, then we can let it go and see it as a pragmatic construct
  • If we see how we ourselves mistakenly took the constructed, reified self to be solid, then we can also see the same mistake being made in others.

• for: deconstructing self, self - deconstruction, object agent action triplet, deconstructing cognition
• comment
  • this is a necessary outcome of the self-reflective nature of human cognition.
  • English, and many other languages bake the (object, agent, action) triplet into its very structure, making it problematic to use language in the same way after the foundations of cognition have been so deconstructed.
  • Even though strictly speaking the self can be better interpreted as a psycho-social construct and an epiphenomena, it is still very compelling and practical in day-to-day living, including the use of languages which structurally embed the (object, agent, action) triplet.

• for: definition, definition - self, compassion, science - compassion, self-illusion, self-illusory, nilhism
• definition
  • Self is an illusory modelling construct created by perceptual systems of Agents

• paraphrase

  • Self is an illusory modelling construct created by perceptual systems of Agents
  • Agents construct models of causal Selves for others, and for ourselves, using the same machinery.
  • The same mechanisms that cause an agent to act toward stress reduction in itself
    • (even though the beneficiary of those actions is in an important sense impermanent)
  • can be expanded to extend to other Selves.
  • In this way, while our focus is on understanding and formulating Self in a way that is applicable to a broad range of scientific contexts,
    • we also see ourselves as here contributing to the treatment of perennial issues in contemporary Buddhist philosophy
      • such as the feasibility of genuine care in a world without real individuals

• comment

  • the last statement has always been a paradox for me
  • Buddhist teachers often warn of how mistaken, immature views of emptiness can lead to harmful action
    • Indeed, if no selves exist, then over can easily mistaken nilhism as the logical behavioural conclusion
    • yet, teaching texts make clear that there is something critical the student has missed it they come to that conclusion
  • the transformation is missing its most important element of that false conclusion persists

• for: emptiness, shunyata, non-existence of self, no-self, illusory self, deconstructing self
• comment
  • this short description of the reasoning behind deconstructing the self is quite fresh and insightful, especially relating it to cognition.

• for: wisdom and compassion, intelligence as care
• comment
  • the slogan "intelligence as care" seems parallel to the Buddhist slogan of "wisdom and compassion" where:
    • care is analogous to compassion
    • insight is analogous to wisdom

• for: illusory self, non-self, lack of self, organism - as process, human INTERbeCOMing, bio-buddhism, biology - buddhism

• for: common denominators, in other words - common denominators

• in other words

  • there is a need to find a common denominator of intelligence and cognition amongst this great diversity

• for: definition, definition - stress, stress
• comment
  • this is a generalized definition of stress that includes basal cognitive organisms
• definition: stress
  • In the context of a generalized definition of intelligence applied beyond the traditional definition that applies only to organisms with neurons and nervous systems to include organisms that display basal cognition,
    • stress is defined as the delta between
      • current state and
      • optimal state,
    • or the difference between the goals at different subsystems’ levels
  • Reduction of this stress parameter is a driver that keeps the system exerting energy in action to move and navigate within the problem space.
  • The authors note that stress can be seen as the inverse of “satisfaction”, and is relative to a contextual and non-stationary target.

• for: key question
• key question
• paraphrase
  • Given that
    • intelligent behavior does not require traditional brains, and
    • can take place in many spaces besides the familiar 3D space of motile behavior, for example
      • physiological space,
      • metabolic space,
      • anatomical space, and
      • other kinds of problem spaces,
    • how can we develop rigorous formalisms for
      • recognizing,
      • designing, and
      • relating
    • to truly diverse intelligences?

• for: basal cognition, definition, definition - basal cognition
• definition
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Fcollections%2Faacdfgjegj&group=world
  • https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-023-01780-3
  • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1007%2Fs10071-023-01780-3&group=world