I was betrayed by physicalism
for - hard problem of consciousness - Federico Faggin
I was betrayed by physicalism
for - hard problem of consciousness - Federico Faggin
a big part of the book and a big part of your previous book as I've read both of them is your joury because you describe your life going into different phases
for - Federico Faggin - personal journey - profound awakening experience - reorientation of consciousness - from materialist - to idealist
when the body dies you are gone because you are the body in this other theory on the other hand we are the field that controls the body so when the drone dies don't go anywhere you stay where you were and you continue to live
for - comparison of death in - material vs idealist theories
Consciousness is the perfect instrument to explore the inner reality which is exactly what we have been done all our lives when we think and when we understand the meaning and so on we are actually doing that in that Quantum reality we are not doing that in the brain
for - consciousness - takes place in quantum reality
in your book one of the quotes was Free Will is the ultimate cause of reality
for - quote - free will is the ultimate cause of reality - Frederico Faggin
fed Rico new book called irreducible
for - book - Irreducible - author - Federico Faggin - to - book Irreducible
to - book - Irreducible - https://hyp.is/0J8C4lo8Ee-WxX-r7RiEHw/www.collectiveinkbooks.com/essentia-books/our-books/irreducible-consciousness-life-computers-human-nature
what you call CIP B which is the Consciousness information and physicality and how it links to opt which is operational probabilistic Theory
for - definition - Consciousness Information and Physicality (CIP) - definition - Operational Probabilistic Theory (OPT)
it's evolution of this state of this Quantum state in hilber space which then will allow us to compute the probabilities of what you might measure in space and time it will not tell you generally what you will measure he only tells you the probability what you can measure and that's crazy in a sense right because classical objects you can actually described trajectory so that at any point in time you can tell position momentum and so on but not for Quantum Quantum system so so this fundamental difference will will see that is essential to describe why the Consciousness and Free Will must be must be Quantum phenomena
for - consciousness - quantum explanation depends on - difference between - quantum physics - and classical physics
consciousness - quantum explanation depends on - difference between - quantum physics - and classical physics - quantum state evolves in Hilbert space - enables computation of probabilities of what one measures in space-time - but doesn't tell you what you will measure - This difference is critical for describing consciousness as a quantum phenomena
for - from - interview - Federico Faggin
from - interview - Federico Faggin - https://hyp.is/Bmcmblo_Ee-cuC8QnSOAYw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSn4t6fP_dc
As a result we reach a quantum-information-based panpsychism, with classical physics supervening on quantum physics, quantum physics supervening on quantum information, and quantum information supervening on consciousness.
for - quantum-information-based-panpsychism - consciousness - relationship - quantum information - to consciousness
consciousness - relationship - quantum information - to consciousness - classical physics supervenes on quantum physics - quantum physics supervenes on quantum information - quantum information supervenes on consciousness
We also see how the same purity of state and evolution allow one to solve the well-known combination problem of panpsychism.
for - follow up - combination problem of panpsychism
for - Hard Problem and Free Will - an information-theoretical approach - consciousness research - Federico Faggin - Giocomo Mauro D'Ariano
when we ask these huge metaphysical questions and we all forget that we were one's children and that we may have been experiencing this in a very very different way
for - perspectival knowing - children - analytic idealism
analytical idealism
for - definition - analytic idealism
definition - analytic idealism - reality itself is this field of subjectivity
the wonderful thing about children is that they are natural philosophers
for - Deep Humanity - children as natural philosophers - children - are naturally philosophers
for - Dr. Donna Thomas - book - Children's unexplained experiences in a post materialistic world - analytic idealism - children perspective of reality - adjacency - children as natural philosophers - Deep Humanity as reminder of our philosophical nature
adjacency - between - Children as natural philosophers - Deep Humanity - adjacency relationship - At time 59 minute of that interview, Dr Thomas makes a very insightful observation that - children are naturally philosophers - and ask deeply philosophical questions - Another way to look at Deep Humanity is that it is reminding us of these deeply philosophical questions the see all had when we were children - but we stopped asking then as we grew out of childhood because nobody could answer them for us
for - mindfulness researcher - John D. Dunne
for - IHPVA - membership - International Human Powered Vehicle Association - membership page
for - sustainable transportation - velocar sources - IHPVA - international human powered vehicle association - branches
for - The roundtable on the human future - Club of Rome - Roundtable
for - Call for world action on multiple threats - Roundtable on the Human Future
for - climate change impacts - marine life - citizen-science - potential project - climate departure - ocean heating impacts - marine life - marine migration - migrating species face collapse - migration to escape warming oceans - population collapse
main research findings - Study involved 146 species of temperate or subpolar fish and 2,572 time series - Extremely fast moving species (17km/year) showed large declines in population while - fish that did not shift showed negligible decline - Those on the northernmost edge experienced the largest declines - There is speculation that the fastest moving ones are the also the one's with the least evolutionary adaptations for new environments
for - thermal battery - off-the-shelf
for - Cities 1.5 podcast - guests - Xuemei Bai - earth system boundaries downscaled to cities - cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries
for - futures - transition - social commons design
for - food system transition - 2022 paper - 6 case studies
Summary - This paper gives a good complexity-based framework for characterising for system transition - It could be useful for facilitation of participatory community futures workshops - such as Stop Reset Go workshops
Degradation ofecosystem services could be significantly slowed down or even reversed if the role ofbiodiversity and its full contribution to economic production were an integrated part ofdecisions made by governmental entities, companies, and other stakeholders (Paul et al2020)20
for - biodiversity - impact of monoculture diet
biodiversity - impact of monoculture diet - FAO study done before 2000 and often cited shows that 75% of the global diet comes from 12 plant and 5 animal food sources
to - stats - progress trap - monoculture - table of 12 plant and 5 animal species that make up 75% of world's diet - https://hyp.is/iznepFWoEe-umbNyOGVqrg/thefuturemarket.com/biodiversity
IPBES (2019) identifies 18 NCPs
for - definition - Nature's Contribution to People - 18 categories
definition - Nature's Contribution to People - 18 categories
Regulating Contributions -These are the services provided by nature that regulate environmental conditions.
Material Contributions - These are the tangible products obtained from nature.
Non-material Contributions - These are the intangible benefits derived from nature.
cosystem services can beclassified as
for - ecosystem services - classification
ecosystem services - classification - provisional - fibre - textiles - construction - paper products - packaging - food - pollination - direct harvest - freshwater purification - medicine - regulative - disease management - climate regulation - freshwater purification - supportive / processes - nutrient cycling - pollination - soil formation - cultural / religious / spiritual - aesthetic - educational - recreational
Inventories of species remain incomplete – mainly due to limited field sampling –to provide an accurate picture of the extent and distribution of all components ofbiodiversity (Purvis/Hector 2000, MEA 2003).
for - open source, citizen science biodiversity projects - validation - open source, citizen science climate departure project - validation
open source, citizen science biodiversity projects - validation - Inventories of species remain incomplete - mainly due to limited field sampling to provide an accurate picture of the extent and distribution of all components of biodiversity - Purvis/Hector 2000, MEA 2003
whichecosystem services are most relevant for the re/insurance industry – for risk assessment,underwriting and investment allocation? Figure 1 shows those services we identified as mostrelevant to re/insurance
for - biodiversity ecosystem services - most relevant for insurance industry
biodiversity ecosystem services - most relevant for insurance industry - Intact habitat - respiratory disease claims are one of the key driver of insurance claims worldwide. Intact forests are a key air purifier - Pollination - stats - global annual economic cost of insect pollinators - 235 to 577 billion USD - OECD 2019 - Air quality and local climate - (see above) - Water security - Water quality - Soil fertility - Erosion control - coastal / river-bordering forests / mangroves provide key erosion protection. - roots build a natural bulwark against waves and can store water during heavy rainfall - where forests (and mangroves) have disappeared, landslides and storm surges are more common and can move further inland, causing property losses covered by insurance - Coastal protection - (see above) - Food provision - Timber provision
question - valuable ecosystem services identified for insurance industry - what about minerals?
The global annual market value of animalpollinated crops is estimated between USD 235–577 billion(OECD 2019)
for - stats - global annual economic cost of insect pollinators - 235 to 577 billion USD - OECD 2019
The loss of the Amazon forest impacts (micro)climate,water supply, carbon storage and soil integrity.Deforestation affects water supplies in Brazilian cities andneighboring countries. It also impacts the actual farmsdriving deforestation, causing water scarcity and soildegradation. Further deforestation may also impact watersupply globally
for - question - economic impact of loss of Amazon Rainforest
question - economic impact of loss of Amazon Rainforest - If the Amazon rainforest breaches its tipping point, it seems this study does not consider the impacts of such a large scale impact?
for - planetary emergency - economic cost of nature - from an insurance perspective - natural capital valuation - from insurance industry perspective - biodiversity - natural capital valuation - from insurance industry perspective - Swiss RE - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) metric - from insurance industry perspective
The study analysedindirect dependencies on ecosystem services and concluded that EUR510 billion, or 36% ofthe EUR 1.4 trillion in investments held by Dutch financial institutions, is highly or very highlydependent on one or more ecosystem services.
for - stats - ecosystem disruption and financial losses study - Dutch investors risk 510 billion EUR or 36% of the Dutch 1.4 trillion EURO investment is at risk
. for - progress trap - monoculture - instead of agrobiodiversity
from - Swiss RE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) index report - https://hyp.is/Jqw9MlWpEe-DhnehMbtbjA/www.swissre.com/dam/jcr:a7fe3dca-c4d6-403b-961c-9fab1b2f0455/swiss-re-institute-expertise-publication-biodiversity-and-ecosystem-services.pdf
for - stats - table of 12 plants and 5 animal species that make up 75% of the world's food (FAO)
from - Swiss RE Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) index report - https://hyp.is/Jqw9MlWpEe-DhnehMbtbjA/www.swissre.com/dam/jcr:a7fe3dca-c4d6-403b-961c-9fab1b2f0455/swiss-re-institute-expertise-publication-biodiversity-and-ecosystem-services.pdf
for - stats - table of 12 plants and 5 animal species that make up 75% of the world's food (FAO)
for - agrobiodiversity - examples of monoculture failures
for - adjacency - ecology of communications - Nora Bateson -:indyweb - Deep Humanity
Summary - A good summary of the common thread of an ecology of communication between 4 systems thinkers
adjacency - between - ecology of communications - Nora Bateson -:Indyweb - Deep Humanity - adjacency relationship - The author summarised the salient points of a Nate Hagen Great Simplification interview with Nora Bateson on the subject of an ecology of communications - It addresses the need to use language to speak on to multiple contexts of the conversants. - The epistemologically-foundational ideas of - people centered and - interpersonal information - of the indyweb / Indranet architecture are based on the Deep Humanity ideas of - individual / collective gestalt - each individual's unique lebenswelts - the multi-meaningverse inherent in any group - symmathesetic fingerprint - perspectival knowing - salience mismatch inherent in communication due to - encoding meaning from one unique meaningverse/ lebenswelts to common language code - deciding meaning from another unique meaningverse / lebenswelt
Nora reminds us, is be attentive to not what has been said but what the relationship is between what has and has not been said. Life happens in between the stories, not in them.
for - warm data - the silence between words
the genuinely ecological communication, he argues, requires the capacity for attunement that might transform what authentic means not in the subjective but transjective sense (terminology borrowed from John Vervaeke)
for - further research on - authentic communication - in the transjective sense
to pursue a self-serving goal at the expense of any other creature or ecosystem would be insane because it would mean harming and debasing that on which I depend. A cancer cell metastasises throughout the
for - self / other - nuance of word self-serving
Self / other - self serving - and yet, we eat - nature eats itself - individual selves must eat other individual selves in order to maintain life - what is more self serving - then killing another individual self - forfeiting it's life for my own
Considering oneself as separate from the rest of life is one example of such upsetting. If I imagine myself not as an “I” but as an emergent property of my ecosystem, I realise that I am (sub-ject) only insofar as we are (trans-ject).
for - Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt
Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt - subject / transect similar to - individual / collective gestalt
boundaries between cells, creatures and ecosystems are real but permeable. The bi-directional exchange of energy, information and matter across these boundaries is the communication that makes life possible.
for - adjacency - multi scale competency architecture - communication between levels - intrinsic to natural flows of life
Anglophonic monoculture which renders certain dimensions of life invisible and therefore impossible to address
Shifting our linguistic habits towards ecological communication would require learning to pay attention to “motion and mystery of the interrelatedness and entanglement of everything” which entails deactivating the old habits and reactivating “capacities that have been exiled by these habits.”
for - rapid whole system change - salience of shifting language habits - planetary emergency - salience of shifting language habits - question - shifting language habits
question - shifting language habits - from industrial, goal oriented - to ecological - how? Watch Great Simplification Interview
relationship to language and how it might lead to miscommunication
for - language - miscommunication
Vanessa Andreott
for - book - Hospicing modernity - author - Vanessa Andreotti - Dean of education - U of Victoria
Rex Weyler
for - Rex Weyler - ecology of communication
while our predicament is eco-logical (“let it live”), our thinking remains techno-logical (“fix it”). The monoculture's fixation on what I call algorithmic rationality (linear, sequential, goal-oriented problem-solving),
for - adjacency - ecology of communication - progress traps - intentionality - language
adjacency - between - ecology of communications - progress traps - intentionally - language - emptiness - adjacency relationship - human intentionally focuses it attention on only a few select aspects of the entire gestalt of any moment of our phenomenological reality - It creates our salience landscape - What we choose to focus on and know more about it always coupled with and complimented by a vast ignorance of what we choose NOT to know - Indeed, the use language itself is the telling of a very specific story - Of all the stories we can tell, - Of the infinite stories we can construct now, -we settle on one - So the use of language already betrays the complexity inherent in each and every one of our ecological moments - We plant the seeds for progress traps as soon as we - manifest an intention - attempt to communicate - Hence, it is not avoidable and the best we can do is - recognize our situation - manage it - It is the relationship between - human nature (perceived as limited) - nature nature (infinite) - What springs to mind if the Zen koan - The elbow does not bend backwards
The question entails the recognition of unintended consequences of any action informed by the insufficient linear first-order thinking of many wannabe world-improvers
for - progress traps - intentionality - (see previous annotation)
ecology of communication'
for - definition - ecology of communication
monoculture of communication
for - definition - monoculture of communication
speak with an awareness that our words "land in multiple contexts" determined by various discourses that other people live in.
for - indyweb / Indranet symmathesetic fingerprint
for - AI - website simulator - websim.ai
self-link - https://websim.ai/
for - Indyweb dev - large language model for - constructing causal loop diagrams - System Dynamics Bot - large language model - constructing causal loop diagrams
according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report (AR6), US$384 billion has so far been spent on climate action in urban areas, representing just 10% of what is necessary to build low-carbon and climate-resilient cities.
for - stats - planetary emergency - 2024 - still low investment in cities
stats - planetary emergency - 2024 - still low investment in cities - IPCC 6th Assessment Report - US $384 billion invested globally in urban areas - This is 10% of what is necessary to build low-carbon and climate resilient cities
urban policy common sense now increasingly sees dense urbanism as the more sustainable choice.
for - definition - dense urbanism
Ernest Callenbach’s influential novel Ecotopia (2009 [1975]
for - book - Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach - 1975 - 2009 - futures dismantling capitalist-driven growth and suburban sprawl
two decades ago, the influential environmentalist Herbert Girardet (1999) was still posing the relationship between the two as a potential ‘contradiction in terms’. What happened? Why does everyone think cities can save the planet, and why now?
for - question - sustainable cities - how did the contradiction of sustainability and cities posed by Herbert Girardet in 1999 get resolved?
for - question - can cities save the planet? - a critical analysis
we know from previous large transitions in history that you never change the world by having everyone on board. You change the world by having large enough minorities that can tip quite inert majority to move in the right direction
for - social tipping points - quote - Johan Rockstrom
quote - social tipping points - Johan Rockstrom - (see below) - We know from previous large transitions in history that - You never change the world by having everyone on board.. - You change the world by having large enough minorities<br /> - that can tip quite inert majority to move in the right direction. - When you look at the world of sustainability. - in many societies in the world, we are actually a double digit penetration - on sustainable solutions, - on people's awareness, - on willingness to even politically vote for green or, sustainable options. - So we're very close to that positive tipping point as well. - and that's another reason why it's not the moment to back down. - Now is the moment to just increase momentum.
the number one issue is to get world leaders immediately to sit down together and, recognize that we need to urgently get back into the safe space of planetary boundaries.
for - planetary emergency - top priority task - get world leaders to meet and develop a plan to return to the safe operating space
So, not only is it on our generation's watch that everything has occurred, it's on our generation's watch that we will determine the future. So, so it's, in our hands. to now determine the future for humanity on earth. So yes, it's an intergenerational justice, fundamentally.
for - quote - our generation caused the problem and must solve it - Johan Rockstrom
quote - Our generation caused the problem and must solve it - Johan Rockstrom - (see below) - So, not only is it on our generation's watch that everything has occurred, - it's on our generation's watch that we will determine the future. - So it's in our hands to now determine the future for humanity on earth. So yes, it's intergenerational justice, fundamentally.
So either you're back into the future in a dead end, and you hit the wall, and it gets dark. or you transition towards this more attractive future. And I think we need to start talking about that attractive future
for - planetary emergency - narrative shift required - from lack to building a better world
often I get the question, what should we do? And they expect me to talk about um, mobility and, um how to reduce flying and all forms of consumer choices. And they get surprised when I say that the number one issue is talk to your friends.
for - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom - advice - top leverage point - talk to people about the emergency - quote - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom - top advice - top leverage point - talk about it
quote - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom - top advice - top leverage point - talk about it - (see below)
the conclusion must of course be, okay, so this is the risk assessment we have. Let's, then we have to apply precaution. Precautionary principle. Exactly. Uncertainty in science, which will always be there, should in my view, always be. connected with a risk assessment.
for - adjacency - precautionary principle - risk assessment - progress traps
adjacency - between - precautionary principle - risk assessment - progress trap - adjacency relationship - Precautionary principle is really stating that we don't have enough knowledge and there can be a high risk - Even if there is low probability of occurrence, we must apply precautionary principle to avoid a progress trap
we go from not understanding it to apathy in the span of an afternoon which is another issue. Um, so so what should we do?
for - question - planetary emergency - ignorance or apathy - what should we do?
question - planetary emergency - ignorance or apathy - what should we do? - Johan Rockstrom advocates for three simultaneous internventions that must be executed in order to achieve the following impacts: - Legally binding global governance regimes must be implemented: immediately - Paris Agreement - biodiversity agreements - Internalize all externalities - Implement a global price on carbon emissions of at least 100 USD / ton - Stop all expansion of human activity into intact nature
The challenge and the problem is that emergency to our neural ancestral wiring meant a saber toothed tiger or something like that. And these risks are complex. They're in the future. They're abstract. There are no easy solutions. the famous people on TV aren't talking about them. so it's, really difficult.
for - planetary emergency - psychological factors - the 5 Ds
planetary emergency - psychological factors - the 5 Ds - Nate brings up the psychological challenges. These are summarized nicely by Per Espen Stokes interview on the Al Jazeera documentary below, where he discusses the 5 Ds:
reference - Per Espen Stokes psychological factors that make climate action difficult - the 5 Ds - https://hyp.is/UgWKRlNcEe-sPqcIvC-9Aw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXys5VluIQ
we have to challenge the world to understand that we are in this generation, Us, in charge today, sitting in the cockpit of planet Earth, putting the entire stability of the planet at risk in this generation.
for - quote - we are in the cockpit of planet earth - Johan Rockstrom
quote - we are in the cockpit of planet earth - Johan Rockstrom - (see below)
if we lose the Green and Ice Sheet, or the AMOC, it would be a complete disaster. So, you cannot measure it economically, it's an infinite parameter. So then, if the probability, even if the probability is low, if you multiply a low probability with an infinite impact, then risks are also infinitely high.
for - planetary emergency - risk analysis
planetary emergency - risk analysis - risk = probability x impact - If impact is high, then even low probability x high impact means high risk - If AMOC or Greenland icesheet melts, the impact is so high that it is not even economically measurable
I don't think we have scientifically any reason to hesitate at all to say, not only do we have a climate crisis, we are in a planetary emergency.
for - quote - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom
quote - planetary emergency - Johan Rockstrom - (see below) - Emergencies is when you have<br /> - unacceptable risks and - running out of time. - That's a combination: - Unacceptable risk and - time is running out. - Emergency means time is short. That's what is the definition of an emergency.
if these tipping points are crossed in the Arctic, then they can cascade through domino effects and hit the Amazon, and then Rainforest and Hit Antarctica
for - example - cascading tipping points via AMOC
example - cascading tipping points via AMOC - As Arctic system melts faster, it releases more freshwater into the North Atlantic - This is happening on the southern tip of Greenland, for example and the lower density of water slows down the AMOC current - Warm saline water flows from the Southern Ocean up into the North Atlantic - When it reaches the southern tip of Greenland, the heat is radiated into the atmosphere and heats up Europe - When the freshwater meltwater from Greenland mixes with this AMOC current, the AMOC water is less heavy and sinks slower - This pushes monsoons further south, which can explain why there are more droughts and fires in the Amazon rainforest - The slowdown of the AMOC leaves more saline water stuck in Antarctica, potentially contributing to the faster melting of Antarctica glaciers
there are other tipping points, like for example, lakes. that can flip over from, you know, oxygen rich, fish rich, clear water lakes into these murky, algal bloom dominated, anoxic states, dead states, based on nutrient loading and overfishing, and that is a Oh, not from climate or temperature. Not anything, no, has nothing to do with climate or temperature, it's just a, mismanagement,
for - other types of tipping points - not climate but human mismanagement of resources
if we get a bird flu mutation causing a human to human viral mutation that, that could cause also a catastrophic outbreak of a pandemic that would exceed, you know, by far what we experienced with COVID 19.
for - bird flu mutation - can exceed impacts of COVID
interactions between biodiversity, land, And climate
for - progress trap - zoonotic diseases - from transgressive biodiversity
one cannot exclude that he's right the challenge is that the science is, really not is very inconclusive on, the cocktail risks of chemicals in the biosphere, but that is why we have it as one of the planetary boundaries, that we have enough evidence to say that the loading of, for example, endocrine disruptors PFAS, persistent organic pollutants all forms of, of um, chemical long lasting chemical products.
for - examples of planetary boundaries novel entities
Jeremy Grantham. He was on my podcast and as worried as he is about climate change and has been for a long time, he actually thinks that endocrine disrupting chemicals may be a bigger risk to human futures and other animals than climate, which is a pretty strong statement.
for - comparison of urgency - climate change vs endocrine disruptors - Jeremy Grantham
we are at an urgency point. I mean, we know we need to cut global emissions by half within the next five years, by 2030, and we're not near to that.
for - stats - climate crisis intervention - urgency - reduce emissions by 50% in 5 years!
World Economic Forum, we're working very closely. They're also integrating planetary boundaries in, their global economy kind of policy agenda
for - World economic forum - integration planetary boundaries into their strategy
Concern - unintended consequence - The WEF is perceived by many to be an elitist organisation - who do not have the best interest off the people in mind - This could lead to potential reputational damage to the planetary boundary framework thru their association with it
, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
for - World business council - adopted planetary boundary strategy
what makes me doubly frustrated is that not only do we have all this evidence of, you know, potentially unmanageable risks. But we also have so much evidence that solving them is not a sacrifice.
for - quote - Johan Rockstrom - 2024 - double frustration - allowing situation to deteriorate - while there is no sacrifice
What should make us really concerned is the lack of leadership, is the lack of efforts of acting on that evidence. So if there's anything that all this leads for
for - quote - Johan Rockstrom - lack of keadership should concern us
we can produce what you can think of as a control room for the whole planet, like a situation room for planet Earth, with nine global numbers and nine high resolution maps based on satellite data, mapping all, basically measuring the planet, and measuring against the safe boundaries. And that is urgently needed. We have the technologies, And we are aiming to do that now. So, so we're, calling this the Planeter Boundary Health Check, and that requires not only massive funding, but also partnerships around, around the world.
for - planetary health check
on land, we use net primary production as an indicator for biodiversity, so basically, the richness of all biomass on land, but the ocean is also a control variable. a massive food web of net primary production from phytoplankton to the, you know, the big sharks and whales. And, we, we, need to be able to, represent scientifically what are the, minimum levels of keeping intact food webs in the ocean to keep the ocean functioning. Oxygen levels, as you mentioned as well,
for - planetary boundaries - ocean biology - net primary production
We don't have a control variable for ocean biology, and we don't have a control variable for the big ocean conveyor belt system, which holds the big potential tipping point systems
for - planetary boundaries - lack of ocean biological boundary
COP30, which is when Brazil hosts the climate negotiations, not this year, but next year in 2025, in Belen, in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil.
for - COP30 - hosted by Brazil
the biodiversity and the intact forest systems in particular that are buffering this.
for - climate crisis - biodiversity responsible for buffering 30% of emissions
even if we were successful in phasing out fossil fuels, we would still fail. on the climate boundary. We would still breach the 1. 5 degree Celsius boundary if we do not come back into the safe space on the biosphere boundaries. Because biodiversity, freshwater, land, and nutrients will determine the ability of the planet to buffer
for - quote - Johan Rockstrom - successful phase of of fossil fuels - is a necessary but not sufficient condition for station under 1.5 degree Celsius
if I was President Lula da Silva, I would say, Dear humanity, I'm willing to provide this service to humanity of keeping the Amazon rainforest intact. That is a service, is a global commons, it's a service to humanity and therefore you should compensate me for this.
for - global commons - example - compensating for - Amazon rain forest
during these 250, 000 years, as fully modern humans, I mean, basically, with the physical intellectual capacity you and I have,
for - stats - anthropology - she of modern humans - 250,000 year stats - anthropology - she of modern humans - 250,000 years - quote - Ronald Wright - update from 50,000 to 250,000 years old
it's only in 2023, it's only last year, that we for the first time quantify all the nine,
for - planetary boundaries - 2023 - all 9 fully quantified
this transition phase is like a gauntlet. It's very jumpy, it's very turbulent, you have winners and losers
for - quote - Johan Rockstrom - transition - is messy
for - interview - Johan Rockstrom - planetary boundaries
“Building housing in existing communities is one of our best climate solutions, and paving over 17,000 acres of non-irrigated farmland is not,
for - sustainable building - building reuse vs new build - which is better? - California Forever - intentional community - green debate
sustainable building - building reuse vs new build - which is better? - Study by Preservation Green Lab in 2012 concluded that in most cases, reusing existing buildings is far lower carbon footprint than building new - Research study shows that we cannot expand human activity into intact nature any longer if we are to stay within planetary boundaries - Rockstrom - https://hyp.is/0dbJ4FQSEe-QxY8q4Y3yvw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaboF3vAsZs
for - building new sustainable cities
summary - Building new "sustainable cities from nothing often does not consider the embodied energy required to do so. When that is considered, it is usually not viable - A context where it is viable is where there is extreme poverty and inequality
to - Why do old places matter? - sustainability - https://hyp.is/vlBLGlQFEe-EpqflmmlqnQ/savingplaces.org/stories/why-do-old-places-matter-sustainability
by building on undeveloped land, “by definition, you’re going to incur a carbon debt that you may never be able to pay off,”
for - unsustainable building
unsustainable building - See Preservation Green lab report cited above
the location of the development still poses what she considers an intractable environmental problem. “It is a vibrant landscape that supports our food systems, our environment, our water systems
for - unsustainable urban spatial planning
unsustainable urban spatial planning - It is no longer sustainable to take ecologically critical land and destroy it to install human habitat
he’s spent years grappling with barriers to retrofit existing cities.
for - urban planetary boundaries - barriers to transition - downscaled planetary boundaries - barriers to transition - cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries - barriers to transition - question - retrofitting cities to stay within the doughnut - what are the challenges?
the 5Ds
for - Climate change psychology - Per Espen Stokes - the 5 Ds
Climate change psychology - Per Espen Stokes - the 5 Ds - Distance - far away in spatial distance and time - also consider hyperobjects - Timothy Morton - Doom - crying wolf makes us discredit the alarm message - second time we hear a doom message, 40% less salience - avoidance behavior - discredit climate activists - Dissonance - disconnect between belief and action - Denial - we can make lots of excuses - blame others - compare our footprint to others with much larger ones - temporary concern but quickly move on to other topics - iDentity - spend many years to build up my identity - factual inputs are compared to my identity's values - identity values usually trump facts when our identity is threatened
climate crisis intervention - Any psychology-based climate intervention needs to leverage a combination of the 5 Ds.
per Espen Stokes is the author of what we think about when we try not to think about global warming
for - book - What we think about when we try not to think about global warming - author - Per Espen Stokes - climate crisis - psychology of - Per Espen Stokes
for - climate change psychology - video - youtube - Al Jazeera - All Hall the Planet - Why our brains are wired to ignore the climate crisis - Per Espen Stokes - interview
summary - A good introduction to climate change psychology - Per Espen Stokes is interviewed and he discusses his 5 Ds
this propaganda plays on psychological structure and if you're able to fish into that you're able to exploit those irrational Tendencies
for - climate crisis propaganda - human psychology used to exploit irrational tendencies of people to delay climate action
for - Preserving old, existing buildings is greenest - from - California Forever - intentional community - green debate
from - California Forever - intentional community - green debate - https://hyp.is/DKpS7FQGEe-xvLfZC4U-7Q/www.truthdig.com/articles/californias-urban-dream/
for - social tipping points - breakthrough effect - cascading tipping points - systemiq - Bezos Earth Fund -University of Exeter - social tipping points
report details - title - The Breakthrough Effect - How to trigger a cascade of tipping points to accelerate the net zero transition - authors - Mark Meldrum - Lloyd Pinnell - Katy Brennan - Mattia Romani - Simon Sharpe - Tim Lenton - date - january 2023 - publisher -
the people who has the power need to act faster
for - climate crisis - who has the power? - poverty mentality - leverage points - social tipping points - climate crisis - feelings of helplessness
climate crisis - who has the power? - There is still this assumption that policy-makers are the ones who have the power - There isn't yet a recognition of whether there is power within individuals sufficient to make a real difference. - Trying and failing, we grow weary of believing that we do have power to collectively effect the scale of change required - Unless we demonstrate leverage points within individuals that can lead to effective scale of collective action, we cannot jumpstart an effective movement - poverty mentality can keep us stuck
use the Neuroscience principle of education for corporate learning systems so instead of just having a classic a classic lesson to teach people
for - neuroscience and education - problem solving - active learning
neuroscience and education - problem solving - active learning - this is much like Socratic dialogue technique, engaging the learner actively to recreate the problem in their own consciousness - and play an active role in solving it - just like historical innovators did
is it possible to teach machine values
for - question - AI - can we teach AI values?
question - AI - can we teach AI values? - it's likely not possible because we cannot assign metrics to things like - ethics - kindness - happiness
Solutions or systems that are created uh to solve problems
for - question - neuroscience - creating neuroscience-based systems for solving problems
studies that are coming in right now from the last two years where we were forced to work remotely we see a decrease in Innovation and creative potential in in companies
for - neuroscience research - remote intentional working during Covid - showed decreased productivity and innovation
neuroscience research - remote intentional working during Covid - showed decreased productivity and innovation - Due to only creating intentional work times and eliminating the opportunities for informal meeting - When it is purely intentional work contexts created and no relaxing, informal opportunities to meet, innovation suffers
the first question that came in and as we're embracing remote and hybrid working as The New Normal how do you address this from a neuroscience perspective
for - question - neuroscience - efficacy of hybrid remote and live work environments
the future future for education and this is a mega Trend that will last in the next decades is that we use artificial intelligence to tailor um educational let's say or didactic Concepts to the specific person so let's say in in the future everybody will have his or her specific let's say training or education profile he or she will run through and artificial intelligence um will will tailor the different educational environments for everybody in the future this is this is a pre this is a pretty clear Trend
for - AI and education - children will have custom tailored education program via AI
before puberty before let's say 30 and 14 years of age um we know that the Restriction of those devices is beneficial for the development of the brain because children learn to to think in a three-dimensional world
for - neuroscience - education of children - recommend no digital devices before puberty - allows learning in a 3 dimensional world
children for instance ask 500 2 000 questions a day and as you are grown up it's maybe 10 or 20 Questions per day
for - neuroscience - importance of maintaining curiosity - 1000 questions a day for children - 20 questions a day for adults
in fact the best ideas happen when you are not planning them when you are just creating an environment where people get together in an informal way this is the reason why um Steve Jobs when he designed the Pixar building um he the initial idea was there's just one bathroom for the whole company
for - neuroscience - building design - common area to converge everyone - creates diverse social meetings - increases work efficacy - example - Steve Jobs - Pixar bathroom
upport cross-divisional thinking and that the best ideas are already in a company and it's just a matter of sort of um getting people together
for - neuroscience - validation for Stop Reset Go open source participatory system mapping for design innovation
neuroscience - validation for Stop Reset Go open source participatory system mapping for design innovation - bottom-up collective design efficacy - What Henning Beck validates for companies can also apply to using Stop Reset Go participatory system mapping within an open space to de-silo and be as inclusive as possible of many different silo'd transition actors
we are slower we are irrational we are imperfect we are drifting away we are forgetting stuff we are making mistakes but we are learning from our failures we get support from our from our friends from our from our colleagues and we are understanding and instead of just analyzing the world and this is giving us the ultimate cognitive Edge
for - key insight - human vs artificial intelligence - humans will create the best ideas
key insight - human vs artificial intelligence - humans will create the best ideas - why? - because we are - slower - imperfect - less rational - drifting away - forgetting - and we learn from the mistakes we make and from different perspectives shared with us
by doubling the size of the tables in the in the eating in the eating areas they increase cross-divisional across talk um in a very informal way they found out that cross-department um Corporation increased after that and the and the code and the code output increased two months later
for - neuroscience - example - informal diversity - increases work efficacy - via sharing diverse and novel perspectives
all the great ideas come um with a price tag of it's maybe a mistake
for - neuroscience - innovation - great ideas - mistakes and - risk
neuroscience - innovation - great ideas - mistakes and - risk - Any new idea involves taking a risk that it could be wrong - we cannot be innovators if we are not able to risk making mistakes
when we analyze what is happening in the brain when we are doing a mistake then we we see that a lot of different areas active when one region is missing the region for fear
for - neuroscience - mistakes - and fear
a good projects always benefit from cross-divisional from cross-divisional cooperation from asking some guys from outside not because they are showing the better um the better solution but usually they they give a good they give a good question they ask questions that nobody ever asked before and thereby giving you some kind of some kind of New Perspective
for - Indyweb - Stop Reset Go participatory system mapping - benefits of open source - Henning Beck - neuroscience support
Indyweb - Stop Reset Go participatory system mapping - benefits of open source - Henning Beck validates the importance of an open source design of the Stop Reset Go participatory system mapping - By developing an open source graph for many silo'd actors to participate, they mutually desilo each other - The sharing of diverse perspectives helps to mitigate progress traps
here you see a company with three different departments depicted in blue red and green
for - neuroscience - example - diverse and low density connections beats non-diverse and high connections
neuroscience - example diverse and low density connections vs non-diverse high density connections - having access to many diverse perspectives is a key enabler of good problem-solving and innovation
catching a break is necessary in order to refill your mental capacities and as a rule of thumb you can say that it's it's five to one five parts of work one part of doing a break so 50 minutes working 10 minutes catching a break
for - neuroscience - efficient work - relaxation rule
neuroscience - efficient work - relaxation rule - It is necessary to build NO WORK time into effective work - 5 time units work - 1 time unit relaxation - It is necessary to step back from concentrating on a problem - for the brain to drift away from it and - relax from concentrating on the problem - so that new perspectives can develop that can be brought back to solve the problem
I have never seen a single project that did not benefit from asking a non-expert
for - quote - neuroscience - perspective shift - benefits
it's about concentration prioritization and drifting away and doing something different
for - neuroscience - ideation depends on three different brain functions and brain areas - concentration - prioritization - and drifting away
neuroscience - ideation depends on three different brain functions and brain areas - concentration<br /> - frontal area of brain - prioritization and - deep inner part of the brain - drifting away - back part of the brain
what is the most brain friendly working environment in our digital in our digital working area and interestingly there are as I've shown you before there are different aspects of our way of thinking I mean we are not thinking the same way throughout the day um there are phases at the day
for - neuroscience - optimal working environment - varies with brain state - different phases during the day - engagement - inspiration - concentration - communication - relaxation
how long did it take you to understand the word brexit
for - neuroscience - human abilities - example Brexit and variations
we know from Lab studies that children understand the meaning of stuff at first or second or third site you
for - neuroscience - children's understanding - 3 examples is enough to consolidate new concept
this is the reason why I'm not afraid of artificial intelligence taking over
for - question - AI - can AI learn to be intentionally distracted?
human beings are good at getting distracted at mentally drifting away doing something else and thereby thereby understanding the world and give meaning to stuff
for - neuroscience - human understanding - what makes us excel? - forgetting and getting distracted!
usually it sticks you you know that moment you know that aha moment when you say ah I got it I understood it and suddenly from one second to the next your your way of thinking completely changes and this is the main difference in our world
for - human learning - key feature - evolutionary nature - indyweb - key feature - evolutionary nature of learning
human beings don't do that we understand that the chair is not a specifically shaped object but something you consider and once you understood that concept that principle you see chairs everywhere you can create completely new chairs
for - comparison - human vs artificial intelligence
question - comparison - human vs artificial intelligence - Can't an AI also consider things we sit on to then generalize their classifcation algorithm?
the brain is Islam Islam is it is lousy and it is selfish and still it is working yeah look around you working brains wherever you look and the reason for this is that we totally think differently than any kind of digital and computer system you know of and many Engineers from the AI field haven't figured out that massive difference that massive difference yet
for - comparison - brain vs machine intelligence
comparison - brain vs machine intelligence - the brain is inferior to machine in many ways - many times slower - much less accurate - network of neurons is mostly isolated in its own local environment, not connected to a global network like the internet - Yet, it is able to perform extraordinary things in spite of that - It is able to create meaning out of sensory inputs - Can we really say that a machine can do this?
this blue ball with three stumps a chair or this strange design object here because you can sit on it and what you see here is the difference the main difference between the computer world and the brainworld
for - comparison - brain vs machine intelligence - comparison - human intelligence vs artificial intelligence
comparison - human intelligence vs artificial intelligence - AI depends on feeding the AI system with huge datasets that it can - analyze and make correlations and - perform big data analysis - Humans don't operate the same way
you can Google data if you're good you can Google information but you cannot Google an idea you cannot Google Knowledge because having an idea acquiring knowledge this is what is happening on your mind when you change the way you think and I'm going to prove that in the next yeah 20 or so minutes that this will stay analog in our closed future because this is what makes us human beings so unique and so Superior to any kind of algorithm
for - key insight - claim - humans can generate new ideas by changing the way we think - AI cannot do this
you can measure data but you cannot measure having an idea you cannot measure Innovation you cannot measure knowledge there's no metric there is no quantifiable scale for knowledge or having an idea you cannot say one meter of knowledge one kilogram of idea
for - comparison - data vs ideas - no metric for ideas
for - Henning Beck - neuroscientist - video - youtube - The Brain vs Artificial Intelligence
curiosity trap
for - new term - curiosity trap - When distractions take us out of the concentration and focusing zone
the more stuff happened I'm going to think retrospectively oh this was a very long time because there were so so many new things and so much experience in retrospectively
for - time sense - more new events gives a longer sense of time
this is one reason why we forget stuff it is not a like like something that that is telling us that our brains bad but on the other hand the brain is using active forgetting in order to make the most important information the more precise and more pronounced
for - neuroscience - why brains forget - active forgetting
neuroscience -active forgetting - leaves behind a small set of salient ideas
we forget stuff yeah and it is even more it is not precise and accurate we invent stuff retrospectively
for - neuroscience - memories - reconstructed in the present - with new information - Indyweb - talking to our old selves - memories
Avram Lincoln said I don't like this man I have to get to know him better because getting other people into your perspective
for - neuroscience - perspectival knowing - why it's important to know other perspectives - perspectival knowing - Abraham Lincoln quote - I don't know that man - I better get to know his perspective
a very good advice in order to calculate or estimate the duration of the project is that you ask non-experts
for - neuroscience - time estimation - non-experts are better at providing time budgets - neuroscience - non-experts give better time estimates than consultants
for - Henning Beck - neuroscience
the best way to have a very long life is that you have a lot of new stuff around you
for - neuroscience - how to - create perception of a long life - increase new activities
for - climate crisis - psychology - wrong approach
summary - Climate scientist professor Mojib Latif explores why our best efforts at rapid intervention to deal with the climate crisis are failing - Near the end of the program, he interviews professor Henning Beck, a neuroscientist who suggests that human brains have evolved to be rewarded for securing more. - Dopamine is released when we get more and we have not designed our intervention strategies aligned with this basic property of our brains
for - neuroscience - Henning Beck - more education - can lead to - more stubbornness
Silicon Valley’s pivot to Trump reveals just how uncoupled its own needs have become from the public’s
for - silicon valley's far right turn
for - participatory system mapper - system mapping tool - participatory - question -participatory system mapper
question - participatory system mapper -tweak for people centered and Indyweb provenance? - Could we tweak it for Indyweb to simultanously map - people and - their ideas with - provenance
for - participatory system mapping - tool
System mapping software
for - system mapping software
system mapping software - ask @gyuri
The maps produced are intersubjective objects, in that they reflect the beliefs of the group of people that built them.
for - participatory system maps - subjective - perspectival knowing
The premise we explore in this article is that we would arrive at better ToCs, which more effectively support evaluation in complex environments, when we1.Begin with systems mapping, and then2.Recast the system map into the form of a traditional ToC.
for - participatory system mapping - start with system mapping - then recast in form of Theory of Change
CECAN
for - CECAN - Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus - to - CECAN
to - CECAN - https://hyp.is/2LWJzE0ZEe--JEt2ZKmfFQ/www.cecan.ac.uk/about-us/
for - paper review - building a system-based Theory of Change using Participatory Systems Mapping - participatory systems mapping - SRG / Indyweb dev - system mapping - participatory approach
summary - I'm reviewing this paper because the title seems salient for the development of our own participatory Stop Reset Go system mapping tool within Indyweb ecosystem. - The building of - a systems-based Theory of Change using - Participatory Systems Mapping - is salient to our own project and aligns to it with different language: - Theory of Change with uses theory to perform an evaluation and propose an intervention - The Stop Reset Go framework focuses on the specific type of process called "improvement", or - transforming a process to make it "better" in some way
to - Indyweb project info page - https://hyp.is/RRevQk0UEe-xwP-i8Ywwqg/opencollective.com/open-learning-commons/projects/indy-learning-commons
recommends that ToC construction should be participatory, involving stakeholders who represent different perspectives and roles within the intervention
for - ToC construction - recommendation - should be participatory
comment - Stop Reset Go process using Trailmark mark-in notation within Indyweb people-centered, interpersonal software ecosystem is inherently designed: - to be participatory - to mitigate progress traps - In fact, - the greater the diversity of perspectives, - the greater the efficacy in mitigating progress traps - For this reason, open source is necessary to achieve the optimal transformations of improvement
There have been many attempts over the years to address the limitations of an overly ‘linear’ approach to ToC diagramming
for - ToC diagrams - limitations - too linear - attempts to address
for - search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - search results of interest - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph
search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - https://www.google.com/search?q=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&oq=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigAdIBCTMzNjEzajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
to - search results of interest - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - A New Method for Graph-Based Representation of Text in - The use of a new text representation method to predict book categories based on the analysis of its content resulted in accuracy, precision, recall and an F1- ... - https://hyp.is/H9UAbk46Ee-PT_vokcnTqA/www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/12/4081 - Encoding Text Information with Graph Convolutional Networks - According to our understanding, this is the first personality recognition study to model the entire user text information corpus as a heterogeneous graph and ... - https://hyp.is/H9UAbk46Ee-PT_vokcnTqA/www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/12/4081
he most commonly used personality model is the Big Five personality traits model, which describes personality in five aspects: extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness
for - from - search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph
from - search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - https://hyp.is/ch_J9k43Ee-lGzfOapoCvQ/www.google.com/search?q=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&oq=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigAdIBCTMzNjEzajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
An innovative element of the proposed approach is the use of common cliques in graphs representing documents to create a feature vector.
for - further research - common cliques in graphs - question - relevance to disaggregating text corpus into sub-sentence graph nodes?
for - from - search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph
from - search - google - high resolution addressing of disaggregated text corpus mapped to graph - https://hyp.is/ch_J9k43Ee-lGzfOapoCvQ/www.google.com/search?q=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&oq=high+resolution+addressing+of+disaggregated+text+corpus+mapped+to+graph&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigAdIBCTMzNjEzajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
common goal to improve policy evaluations for the better.
for - CECAN - goal - policy improvement
Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus
for - complexity - evaluation - from - paper - Building a system-based Theory of Change using Participatory Systems Mapping
Indy Learning Commons
for - Indyweb information page - Open Collective Indyweb
from - Paper Review - Participatory Systems Mapping - https://hyp.is/FSRodE0QEe-Z26cIILK6sw/journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1356389020980493
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To - search Google - https://www.google.com/search?q=research+how+the+mind+affects+the+body&client=ms-android-xiaomi-rvo3&sca_esv=abf62c5a24135cce&sxsrf=ADLYWILr4e48E5scVB-z0niGsgiIWFrl4Q%3A1721890844889&ei=HPihZt39Ne61hbIPi8nxAQ&oq=research+how+the+mind+affects+the+body&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIiZyZXNlYXJjaCBob3cgdGhlIG1pbmQgYWZmZWN0cyB0aGUgYm9keTIIECEYoAEYwwQyCBAhGKABGMMESN42UIgpWMcycAF4AZABAJgBtwOgAdsGqgEDNC0yuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIDoAKLB8ICChAAGLADGNYEGEfCAgoQIRigARjDBBgKmAMAiAYBkAYIkgcFMS40LTKgB98I&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp - search results returned of interest - Washington University School of Medicine Medical school in St. Louis, Missouri Washington University School of Medicine is the medical school of Washington University in St. Louis, located in the Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. Wikipedia - https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/mind-body-connection-is-built-into-brain-study-suggests/
“What if we could give people who are depressed or suffer from PTSD or anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder a medication, and they could wake up the next day and be fine without any side effects? That would be transformative.”
for - Deep Humanity - alternatives to psychedelics?
Deep Humanity - alternative to psychedelics? - Could Deep Humanity open source praxis be developed as a non- pharmacological method to achieve the same kind of de-synchronisation? - Especially.well-crafted BEing journeys?
deep sea mining could start domino effects of which we are entirely unaware.
for - progress trap - deep sea metallic nodes produce oxygen - deep sea mining can disrupt
Does anything really matter? That’s what Tolstoy and I both want to know.
for - question - what's the meaning of life? - a philosophical perspective - John Vervaeke - The meaning crisis
for - governance - planetary subsidiary - recommendation - replace governance by nation states
It would represent a revolution in the governance of the world – and we do not have a map for how to get there.
for - governance - planetary subsidiary - no idea how to get there
Planetary subsidiarity is the principle that we offer for allocating authority over an issue to the smallest-scale institution that can govern the issue effectively to promote habitability and multispecies flourishing.
for - governance - planetary subsidiary
there are two crippling flaws with the existing multilevel governance architecture for the globe.
for - governance - multi-scale - two problems
governance - multi-scale - two problems -1. Some scales such as planetary scale lack institutions to deal with problems on that scale - 2. Smaller-scale, subnational governance institutions don’t have the authority or resources necessary - to address local challenges in a way that - satisfies and responds to constituent desires. - both problems have the same common source - the nation state level calls all the shots
Managing problems at the scale the planet, therefore, requires creating governance institutions at the scale of the planet.
for - key insight - governance - new planetary scale - NOT the UN
The UN and its many parts and agencies – from UNICEF to the Universal Postal Union – answer not to humanity nor the world, but the nations that united to join it.
for - climate crisis - key insight - why UN cannot address the climate crisis
climate crisis - key insight - why UN cannot address the climate crisis - The UN responds to sovereign states, not to humanity nor to the planet
the framing of problems as global suggests that they can be addressed with the tools we have at hand: modern political ideas and the architecture of global governance that has emerged since the Second World War
for - quote - planetary governance is required - not global
quote - planetary governance is required - not global - The framing of problems as global - suggests that they can be addressed with the tools we have at hand: - modern political ideas and the architecture of global governance that has emerged - since the Second World War. - But planetary problems cannot. - This helps to explain why decades of attempts to manage planetary problems with global institutions have failed.
it suggests the goal for our action should be sustainability – an anthropocentric, global concept – rather than habitability – a multispecies, planetary concept.
for - comparison - sustainability / anthropocentric / global vs - habitability / multispecies / planetary
human flourishing is possible only in the context of multispecies flourishing on a habitable planet.
for interdependency - inttertwingledness - humans flourishing requires multi-species flourishing
Culturally, we in the West, at least, have inherited a tradition of human exceptionalism rooted in the idea that human beings, uniquely, are made in God’s image and, as the Bible says, are meant to ‘have dominion … over all the earth’.
for - human exceptionalism - example - the bible
This basic mismatch between the scale of the problem and the scale of possible solutions is a source of many of today’s failures of global governance. Nation-states and the global governance institutions they have formed simply aren’t fit for the task of managing things such as viruses, greenhouse gases and biodiversity, which aren’t bound by political borders, but only by the Earth system.
for - governance - failure of nation state - on global issues
for - wetland ecosystems
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sustainable building - passive hvac - building temperature regulation - PCM
for - sustainable building - phase change material - PCM - DIY - wearable cooling vest - phase change material - PCM
for - sustainable building - PCM - phase change material
This has led some scientists to contend we are a ‘hyperkeystone’ species.
for - definition - hyperkeystone species - example - hyperkeystone species - modern humans
Another is to become a keystone species in an ecosystem, which is a species that has an outsized effect on its environment relative to its abundance. The concept was introduced by Robert T. Paine in 1969, and his experiments provide a good explanation of the concept.
for - example - keystone species - starfish
There have been so many lives, lived in so many ways, each with absolute importance to the individuals who lived them.
for - everyone is sacred
Tlaxcala, an indigenous city-state in Central America, was a democracy with a strongly egalitarian ethos. People appointed to their city council had to go through a gruelling initiation process aimed at instilling an attitude of self-deprecation and subordination to the will of the citizens they served.
for - governance - indigenous - training in humbleness - needed today!
they were effectively hunter-gatherers in terms of how they actually obtained their daily food supply, but they extensively modified the landscape, which is usually considered an agricultural practice.
for - anthropology - aboriginal Australians - both hunter gatherer AND agriculturalists
people in different cultures have different relations to deeper emotions such as greed.
for - social norms- greed - relative, not absolute
However, each of those people so intrinsically similar to you might be very different to you in many respects in their actual lives, because our cultural and environmental surroundings have an enormous influence on who we become.
for - example - Tree metaphor of - Deep Humanity
leads to an arresting realisation. It is a statistical certainty that people very similar to you and to each one of your friends and family lived in the deep past, are alive now in societies around the world, and will be born in the distant futur
for - key insight - we are the same across deep time and space
key insight - we are the same across deep time and space - He elaborates quite well on the fact that we are the same across deep time and space - This is the Common Human Denominator (CHD) of Deep Humanity praxis
If a baby born today and a baby born 30,000 years ago were swapped at birth, they would each grow up as normal people in their new cultures.
for - similar to - quote - Ronald Wright - progress trap - computer metaphor
similar to - quote - Ronald Wright - progress trap - computer metaphor - Ronald Wright's famous quote on the computer metaphor really gets to the essence of things - how much of the meta-poly-perma-crisis can be explained by the unprecedented mismatch between the rate of - biological evolution of our species - cultural evolution of our species - Culture is the major and possibly most signficant differentiator between the person alive 50,000 years ago and the one alive today.
reference - quote - Ronald Wright - computer metaphor - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Fwork%2Fquotes%2F321797-a-short-history-of-progress&group=world
In the Americas themselves, the impact was even worse. More than 90% of the indigenous population of both continents were killed.
for - meme - United States - built on the genocide of two continents
All around you as you read this essay, billions of molecules are chaotically bouncing into each other as they move at hundreds of metres per second
for - perspectival knowing - umwelt - perspectival knowing
perspectival knowing - Again, this may be considered "true" from one perspective, but not recognized from another - What meaning does it have to someone whose worldview is highly religious? - What meaning does it have to a tick, whose umwelt doesn't even allow it to recognize human word symbols in any meaningful way?
We now know that the world has existed for billions of years,
for - perspectival knowing - example - age of the world - number of galaxies
perspectival knowing - example - age of the world - number of galaxies - This may be truth for one person, but not another - Our writing reveals our perspectives, and also determines who will or will not resonate with it
it might help people live more meaningful lives, by feeling a sense of connection to the greater whole of the human species, and allowing this connection to guide their lives.
for - more meaningful lives from connecting to the greater whole of the human species - n other words - experience the sacred
I am trying to understand where the modern world, and individuals within it, might fit into the big story of our species.
for - adjacency - big story of our species - Deep Humanity
adjacency - between - big story of our species - Deep Humanity - absolute - relative - adjacency relationship - This is very similar to the goals of Deep Humanity - The problem with being fully immersed into modernity - and having no sense of history - is that we start to believe that our modernity is absolute, - when in reality, it is relative
for - Ronald Wright - computer metaphor - quote - Ronald Wright - computer metaphor