All one of us. Donald, we have a closing tradition on
for - meme - all over of us - Donald Hoffman
All one of us. Donald, we have a closing tradition on
for - meme - all over of us - Donald Hoffman
I'm using this logic as as to build spacetime. But I think it's going to give an even more powerful approach. I don't have to minimize some free energy principle. I I have a more direct computational way
for - future project - building a model to explain spacetime using Active Inference - Donald Hoffman - use Active Inference to minimise surprise using Markov chains - this model assumes consciousness is fundamental - this is going to be a model of intelligence based entirely from a model which takes consciousness as fundamental. - it goes back to game theory again. - back to the idea of a simulation - If you're able to create a piece of software that - is able to replicate and - is built on the fundamentals of consciousness. - Then it's potentially, it's going to think it's conscious
it's very intelligent to minimize surprise
for - explanation - why minimising surprise is a good definition of intelligence - Donald Hoffman - it's very intelligent to minimize surprise - I'm surprised all the time - I'm pretty stupid right, I don't understand the world very well - but if I'm NOT surprised, it's like I've got a really good model especially if I'm doing lots of stuff in the world and I'm almost never surprised - boy am I I'm really intelligent! - So, you can see why that's a really good principle for trying to build an AI, - not just finding correlations between everything, - but really something deeper.
that's sort of the the approach that Fristristen is taking to and his company is taking toward toward this. Um intelligence is somehow about minimizing surprise
for - paraphrase - Active Inference - Intelligence is about minimizing surprise - Donald Hoffman
Carl Fristen and a new company where they're using something called active inference
for - citation - Carl Friesten - Active Inference - chief by - Donald Hoffman
It's amazing what you can do with correlations but um they're not they're not truly intelligent
A answer - yes, interested in AI - they are not intelligent, just huge correlation machines - Donald Hoffman
I did my um my PhD research on list machines in the artificial intelligence lab at MIT
History - Donald Hoffman - PhD on Lisp AI - Marvin Minsky - MIT lab
do you think much about AI?
for - Q? - do you think much about AI? Donald Hoffman
I think that Buddha and Jesus and and Muhammad and and bunch of people were very very helpful avatars to help other avatars sort of wake up to their their true true nature
for - quote - religious avatars - Donald Hoffman - I think that - Buddha - Jesus - Muhammad and - a bunch of people - were very very helpful avatars to help other avatars wake up to their their true nature
That is the you one of the most profound images I've ever seen is a guy hanging on a cross forgiving the ones who are killing him
for - adjacency - non duality - non separation - Jesus crucifixion - forgiveness - interfaith - Gita - Islam - Judaism
I'm still tied to my avatar quite a bit. Right? So that's so that's why I suffer.
for - adjacency - parallel - Hofmann language - stuck to my avatar - spiritual language - attached to self
No one's going to care. And does that mean that I'm I'm worthless? I'm pointless. I'm I'm meaningless. No,
for - adjacency - existential isolation - footprints in the sand - noone will care for us a thousand years from now - Milarepa - alone vs loneliness - Donald Hoffman - I've often thought about this on walks in nature - plants sit next to each other, - some just sprouting, - others in full, vibrant maturity, - some withering, - and others dead and decayed - life and death are juxtapositioned - A blade of grass may live and die without the rest of the world knowing anything about it - When a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? - To live a life embodying the sacred, it doesn't matter if no-one knows anything about you - and yet, in contrast, biology and psychology tells us e are social beings, INTERbeings by nature - How do we reconcile these opposites? - Milarepa - the yogi living in solitude mountain retreat - in a yogic song I wrote, there's a difference between being alone and loneliness - How do we flip the loneliness of existential isolation of being human - to the fullness of the boundless wisdomin the aloneness of one particular headset in this lifetime?
New meme - the fullness of being alone - the Fullness of Emptiness
for - youtube - Diary of a CEO - interview - Donald Hoffman - youtube - title - seeing true reality would kill us
summary - I really enjoyed this interview with Donald Hoffman and found it very enriching on menu levels - He articulates many of the same insights as well as questions I have encountered in my own life journey - I didn't realize he had suffered long Covid and almost died of heart failure due to it - His own personal encounter with death makes his interview even more poignant and makes him more human, as he has gone through the litmus test of life and death - I found that he shared many of the same concerns, insights and paradoxes I face as a living and dying human INTERbeCOMing journeying through life. -
I am I'm completely transcendent of this thing. And to the my suffering is not recognizing that my suffering is entirely being caught in my avatar.
For - key insight - my suffering comes from identifying too strongly with my avatar. -
the suffering comes from me forgetting who I am
for - example - poverty mentality - Donald Hoffman
I think a lot of my problems my stress a lot of my suffering is because I believe illusions to the extent that I believe that I need to become something at all need to be better than I am in any way
for - example - poverty mentality - Donald Hoffman
Why would such a transcendent power or consciousness do such a thing?
for Q ❓- why would a transcendent power do such a thing? - why should death and pain be such an intrinsic creation of the transcendent? - pain receptors helo give us feedback to survive - but unfortunately, they are there often when it life is coming to an end
the heart of Christianity is the disbelievers have pinned you on a cross. They're killing you in the worst possible way. And you show them love
for - adjacency - heart of Christianity - shoe love to your abusers - Donald Hoffman
That's me in a different headset. And when I really then then I ask, well, how would I want to treat me? I get the right answer. That's love. How would I if that's me, how how how would I treat me if that were me? Well, when you get the right when you do that, you're acting in love.
for - key insight - if that person is me, hope would I treat me? - Donald Hoffman - adjacency - if that person is me, how do I treat me? - Good Deep Humanity BEing journey
it's Darwin's theory and the mathematical formulation of it that I think also says that what we're perceiving is not the truth.
for - Science/evolution/Darwin/perception/ not the truth/but only to help us succeed at reproducing
If if your religion is love and that's it and that's then that's how you act. You don't really need to add anything more to that. That's that's all you really need. Love your neighbor as yourself. You're done.
for - quote / key insight - If if your religion is love and that's it and that's then that's how you act, you don't really need to add anything more to that. - That's that's all you really need. Love your neighbor as yourself. You're done.
it's an awareness that can create all this in an instant and it can let it go.
for - adjacency - awareness creates - awareness destroys - change - life coexists with death each moment - Donald Hoffman - Interesting perspective - that awareness constructs this reality and destroys it (lets it go) - This emerged the association with another idea I've often thought of: - how each moment embodies both life and death - A new moment cannot arise - unless the previous moment is let go of
We will each die. That's incontrovertible. So any attachments I have to this world will cease. There's no doubt. The question is can I let go of the attachments now or will they only go for my cold dead hand?
for - quote / key insight - die before we die - Donald Hoffman - We will each die. That's incontrovertible. - So any attachments I have to this world will cease. - There's no doubt. - The question is can I let go of the attachments now - or will they only go for my cold dead hand?
if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear.
for - adjacency - letting go - of knowledge - of theories - Donald Hoffman - I've often felt as he does - it's a conundrum of letting go of that (knowledge) we've invested so heavily into - quote / key insight - letting go of theories of science and self - Donald Hoffman - Science is great, but don't believe any theory. <br /> - Theories are just tools. They're not the truth. - No scientific theory, my theories included, are the truth. - And so also is my theory about who I am not the truth. - So to really let go of any theory, if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear
The issue is then when I look at that fear response, can I look at it and accept it or do I identify with it? Do I identify with the fear response or can I step back and be the observer that watches the fear response?
for - key insight / quote - Do I identify with my fear or step back and be the observer that watches the fear response? - Donald Hoffman? - adjacency - calmness - in the face of death - fear of death - Donald Hoffman
t keeps you from just talking abstractly about this stuff and and and and being real about it is what do I really feel about it?
for - key insight - adjacency - fear - near death experience - experiential knowledge vs abstract knowledge - Donald Hoffman - He articulates a very important point, that many of us, are only partially there on the journey of journey of discovery - Belief only takes you part way there, - Embodiment is the real proof - We need to have the experience to be certain
It certainly let me see how tied I am to my body and the fear that I that I experienced.
for - comparison - emotional - vs intellectual - belief in the ideas - vs embodiment of the ideas - Donald Hoffman
At some point I realize that all my knowledge all possible scientific knowledge is 0% of reality. And do I really want to confine myself only to 0% of reality?
for - adjacency - science - spirituality - 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman
what the Bible is basically saying, love God with all your heart. That it's loving yourself. You are God. And loving your neighbor as yourself is just recognizing that your neighbor is yourself under a different avatar.
for - adjacency - Christian teaching - infinite intelligence - loving God - loving your neighbor - loving yourself - all the same - Donald Hoffman
the answer is you can know it, but but you know it when you let go of all concepts and you don't try. If you're trying to get there, then you don't see what you already are.
for - A Answer - you know it when you let go of all concepts and you don't try. If you're trying to get there, then you don't see what you already are. - Donald Hoffman
did someone or something create that one consciousness?
for - Q ? - Did someone create that consciousness? - Donald Hoffman
that's perhaps the only way the infinite can know itself is through an infinite number of perspectives. It it transcends any particular perspective
for - A Answer - the infinite knows itself though infinite number of perspectives - Donald Hoffman
through the lens of reality that you see the world and that you believe the world is what becomes the meaning of life
for - Q ? - What is the meaning of life - Donald Hoffman
they have to show explicitly scientifically how a conscious a specific conscious experience arises from a specific program
for - example - hard problem of consciousness - Simulation Theory - Donald Hoffman
consciousness has created the brain as an icon to describe how it's how it's creating this headset.
for - quote / key insight - consciousness has created the brain as an icon to describe how it's creating this headset - Donald Hoffman
I don't have a brain and you don't have a brain until we actually look inside and render a brain
for - adjacency - subjective vs objective reality - examining our most fundamental assumptions of reality, self and other Donald Hoffman - This is a difficult one for many people who reify objective reality to understand - It requires deep analysis and insight into our fundamental assumptions of how we employ anguage, learned while we were in our child development stage - Donald Hoffman is asking us to take that journey to uproot these most fundamental assumptions of self and other, long forgotten, but thoughtlessly projected into the present moment like an automaton
The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because your neighbor is yourself just with a different headset.
for - key insight / quote - the reason to love your neighbor - Donald Hoffman - The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because - your neighbor IS YOUR (TRUE) SELF, just with a different headset. - And the only reason we have problems is - we don't realize how incredible you are. - So you are that which is creating this VR simulation with all of its beauty, all of its complexity. - All the complexity is you and you're doing it effortlessly.
adjacency - infinite intelligence - hologram metaphor - your neighbor is your (true) self - Deep Humanity motto - Join together (instead of Join us) - face behind the mask - Reflecting on this, it occurred to me that the Deep Humanity motto of "Join together, NOT join me/us" is deeply connected to what is being discussed in this annotation. - The problem with "joining me" is that it reflects we are still stuck in the ego reification paradigm while "join together" reflects awareness that the boundless intelligence is the true face behind the mask of each different species and each different individual of each species
Jesus uh in Christianity in like Matthew 25 says you know I was hungry and you fed me. I was thirsty you gave me something to drink. I was a foreigner and you invited me in
for - adjacency - hologram metaphor - infinite intelligence - Jesus - Mathew 25 - Donald Hoffman - Interfaith - Ubuntu - I am because you are - I am you and you are me
This this one infinite intelligence whatever it is has decided I want to look at myself through the lens of a mosquito and now of the bumblebee and now of the the jewel beetle
for - adjacency - infinite intelligence - perspectival knowing - hologram - Donald Hoffman
All the egoic stuff that we do that causes all the problems in the world because you don't know who you are
for - key insight / quote - the reified ego is the root cause of all the problems in the world - we reify because we don't know who we REALLY are - Donald Hoffman - All the egoic stuff that we do causes all the problems in the world because - you don't know who you are. - You're creating this whole thing. - You're not a little player. - You're the inventor of this whole thing. - You have nothing to prove and - you don't need to be better than anybody else. - They're also master creators. - They're creating entire universes that they perceive as well. - And my own take on on this is that - you and I are really the same one reality - just looking at itself through two different headsets, - two different avatars and having a conversation. - And maybe that's what is required for this one infinite intelligence to sort of know itself.
I'm now rendering a cup. that the cup that I rendered is no longer there. You might render your cup. You might say, "Well, no, Don, you're wrong. The cup is still there. I can see it." No, you're rendering your cup. And so you you're you're not rendering my cup. I rendered my cup
for - adjacency - perspectival knowing - rendering - learned in child development - language usage - This is an interesting use of the word "render" to demonstrate how even shared human experiences are still uniquely seen from different perspectives - We impute objective reality, for instance of the cup, even though we are each uniquely rendering it in different ways - It is a direct result of our child development in which we learned how to employ words to label such social contexts - We establish rules for word usage at an early age, but we forget the original conditions which gave rise to them - When we remind ourselves of the original motivation, it is a bit of a shock to the system how strange this reality is
if we actually understood that all of this that I'm seeing right now I'm making it up on the fly. This cup that I'm seeing, it only exists when I create it.
for - adjacency - constructed reality - umwelt - species perspectival knowing - misunderstanding - sensory signals - map and territory - Donald Hoffman - We have to be careful how we interpret his claim here, as it is often easily misunderstood. - He means that evolution itself, reality itself has constructed this unique set of sense organs, that creates a unique human umwelt in which - the sensory signals give us a very specific map of reality, NOT reality itself - In this way, our sensory signals construct a very unique map of reality, which is different from the way all other species construct their maps
what's interesting about this now is if I think I'm just this little body and I'm nothing but this body and and my conscious experiences are nothing but what my brain does. So, so that's my theory and that's that's all I am. I don't feel very big. I don't feel very important. Um, and so I'm going to probably need to do something to make myself feel a little bit better and I'm going to need to compete with you.
for - example - poverty mentality - adjacency - poverty mentality - ego reification - othering - competition - If I believe my own spacetime story that - I am this body - thoughts are simply epiphenomena of the brain - then I don't feel very empowered or spacious - instead, I feel small and insignificant - and it motivates me to compete with others to make myself feel better - In this way, my own poverty mentality, based on the wrong-headed belief that I am the map (not the territory) - leads to identity and ego reification and othering
if you want to understand the truth of who you are beyond just this headset description of you then you have to lay aside all concepts period and just know yourself by being yourself not by putting a concept between you and yourself.
for - quote - who you are beyond your headset - Donald Hoffman - If you want to understand the truth of who you are beyond just this headset description of you - then you have to - lay aside all concepts period and - just know yourself by being yourself, - not by putting a concept between you and yourself. - adjacency - headset - perspectival knowing - Donald Hoffman - unquestioned assumption of other perspectives - imputation - external observable proxy - to private, inner world - As I read Hoffman's use of the word "headset", it brought up some associations with the idea of "perspectival knowing" - There is the perspectival knowing of a species, - but also of the individual of a species - For humans, perspectival knowing must be contextualized within an imputation: - that other perspectives exist - in other words, that other private worlds exist - and ultimately, this is a widely accepted imputation of an inner private world - based upon public, external observable behavioral proxies - This imputation of the other is a fundamental imputation and assumption of the human condition which we all take for granted, - but because it is so foundational, never question
There is another way that you can appreciate that
for - adjacency - spirituality - science - silence of thoughts in meditation - descriptions of reality - map and territory - Donald Hoffman - nice adjacency - if our thoughts are dependent on and built upon inputs from our senses - and our senses only provide us with a map, and not the territory, - then thinking will only ever keep us in the map world
Almost all of us think of ourselves as an object in spaceime only here for a short amount of time and will soon die
for - quote - Almost all of us think of ourselves as an object in spacetime only here for a short amount of time and will soon die - Donald Hoffman When I say you transcend any scientific
learning by ostensive definition.
for - definition - learning by ostensive definition - adjacency - ostensible definition - parents - external proxy - children's private experiences - This is a very deep insight and important point - Parents are stewards of culture and they lead their children into a world of shared names - It is important to note that - the parent who teaches the child the name for some aspect of reality - only ever has a proxy to the child's private experience of reality - That proxy is the externally observed behaviour of the child - In fact, we fundamentally only ever have public external proxies to the private, "inner" lives of others
So what does that mean? You're you're God. >> It means that whatever you are transcends any description
for - quote - you are God - Donald Hoffman - you are good - predictive text error - you are not good, you are God
the eye that is doing all this theory building is the eye that is real, that is making these theories, and that utterly transcends all these theories.
for - adjacency - science - banishes - observer - but - observer - transcends - theories
there's something that trans transcends science
for - adjacency - spirituality - transcends - science
there's not only not a theory of everything, the best theory we'll ever come up with is 0% of reality.
for - adjacency - theory of everything - 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman
Spiritual traditions basically often say there's more to life than what you see inside space and time.
for - adjacency - spirituality - betting space and time
Is there anything people from all of the work you've done and the books you've written that people can bring into their lives to help them live better lives with this understanding of the world?
for - Q❓- how can your work help people lead better lives?
some fish can detect electric fields. Um, some birds, I believe, can see the polarization of light
for - example - umwelts
all of our theories will comprehend 0% of reality
for - the map is not the territory - don't mistaken the finger for the moon
What we experience and know is trivial compared to whatever reality is. Absolutely trivial. We know 0% of reality
for - quote - we know 0% of reality - Donald Hoffman
what we think is human appreciation of the deep truth of reality is just our little headset
for - quote - not truth, just a headset - Donald Hoffman
jewel beetle
for - example - jewel beetle - simple hacks over seeing the truth - jewel beetle tries to mate with dimple on glass beer bottle - it doesn't use any other signals to help it distinguish between - the beer bottle dimple and - a real female jewel beetle
if a bat is sat there thinking that they understand the nature of reality when it's actually just a map
for - comparison - bat umwelt vs human umwelt - good comparison - all sensory signals of living beings only ever generated major of reality, - never 'reality' itself, whatever that may be - We humans can study other species and observe how their senses create their respective maps of reality - but our senses fall on the same continuum
seeing the truth takes too much time and energy. It it's complicated to see the truth
for - research output - the truth requires too much energy
From an evolutionary point of view, perception is expensive
for - quote/key insight - perception serves reproduction, not seeing reality as it is
quote / key insight - perception serves reproduction, not seeing reality as it is - Donald Hoffman - From an evolutionary point of view, perception is expensive. - It takes a lot of calories. - You have to eat a lot of food - to run your brain and - to power your eyes and your ears. - - And so you need to do shortcuts. - You need to make your sensory systems not chew up so much of your energy. - The more expensive your perceptual systems are, - the more you've got to eat to to power those. - So that means you have to go out there and forage and put yourself at harm. - So there's a trade-off. - We try to do things cheaply in evolution. And you don't need to actually go for the truth because that's very very expensive
Darwin's theory says the probability is zero that any sensory system like eyes, ears, smell, touch, taste has ever been shaped to see any aspect of objective reality truly. So the probability is zero that you see any aspect of the truth. Period.
for - quote - probability of zero that sensory organs are designed to help us see objective reality - Donald Hoffman
I've published some papers
for - find - Donald Hoffman papers
our sensory systems on Darwin's theory were not shaped to show us the truth. They were shaped to keep you alive long enough to reproduce successfully. Period. That's all Dharm's theory actually says
for - quote - Evolution shapes us not for truth, but to successfully reproduce - Donald Hoffman
This paper’s authors argue that using GWP to assess the relative planetary warming caused by various different sectors is therefore a deeply flawed metric. They propose that a better measure for policymakers to adopt would be something called Effective Radiative Forcing, or ERF.
for - youtube - Just have a think - new paper - new metric for measuring emissions - ERF - to - paper - Increased transparency in accounting conventions could benefit climate policy - https://hyp.is/CUcbhF2TEfCn1ieAeq73JA/iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adb7f2 - climate crisis - carbon emissions - agriculture has the highest of all - AgroSphere Technologies - cite this paper
for - AgroSphere Technology key research paper - carbon emissions - paper claims agriculture is the highest summary - The paper cited here is very important for AgroSphere Technology because - It shows how critical a role regenerative agriculture plays in mitigating the climate crisis - The claim of the paper is that carbon emissions from Agriculture are the biggest emissions of all
for - youtube - BBC - AI2027 - Futures - AI - progress trap - AI - to AI2027 website - https://hyp.is/0VHJqH3cEfCm9JM_EB3ypQ/ai-2027.com/
summary - This dystopian futures scenario is the brainchild of former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, - It is premised on human behavior in modernity including - confirmation bias of AI researchers - entrenched competing political ideologies that motivate an AI arms race - entrenched capitalist market behavior that motivates an AI arms race - AI becoming embodied, resulting in Artificially Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AEAI), posing the danger to humanity because it's no longer just talk, but action - Can it happen? The probability is not zero.We don't really understand the behavior of the AI LLM's we design, they are nonpredictable, and as we give them even greater power, that is a slippery slope - AI can become humanity's ultimate progress trap, which is ironic, because the technology that promises to be the most efficient of all, can become so efficient, it no longer need human beings - Remember Jerry Kaplan's book "Humans need not apply"? - https://hyp.is/o0lBFH3fEfC1QLfnLSs5Bg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiiP5ROnzw8 - This dystopian futures scenario goes further and explores the idea that "humans need not exist"!
question - What about emulating climate change gamification of "Bend the Curve" of emissions? - Use the AI 2027 trajectory as a template and see how much real-life follows this trajectory - Just as we have the countdown to the https://climateclock.world/ ( 3 years and change remaining as of today) - perhaps we can have an AI 2027 clock? - What can we do to "bend the dystopian AI 2027 curve" AWAY from the dystopian future?
for - youtube - Google Talks - Humans need not apply - Jerry Kaplan - 10 years after the book "Humans need not apply - the AI 2027 project - https://hyp.is/kWXQ0n3cEfCIUz_j42HHiA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UufaK3pQMg
for - from AI2027 website - https://hyp.is/W-LxWn3dEfCtI2PPz8uecA/ai-2027.com/
Daniel Kokotajlo
for - to - Wikipedia - Daniel Koktajlo - https://hyp.is/Q0vJPH3dEfC1Q-NVG27cig/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kokotajlo_(researcher)
for - from - youtube - BBC - AI2027 https://hyp.is/kWXQ0n3cEfCIUz_j42HHiA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UufaK3pQMg
for - youtube - debunking US white racism
for - Similar to - Ronald Wright computer metaphor - We're cave people stuck in a modern world - YouTube - Humans are not evolved by for midterm life - interview - host - BBC series - Human
for - Epstein scandal - fox guarding the henhouse - Who is the fox? - The fox is one or all of the below: - rich men who secretyly abused underage girls - intelligence - politicians - When the fox is in charge of the henhouse - they get to control the narrative
for - youtube - podcast - I've had it - Lindsay Graham is Gay - conservative political parties - closeted LBGTQ - Republican party - closeted homosexuals
summary - This program raises a very important, but ignored issue that is salient to the polycrisis - conservative religions harbor many closeted homosexuals who actively promote harmful LBGTQ hatred because they are in such denial - Complexity - simultaneous being both - conservative religious and - homosexual, queer, bi or trans - creates a pathological - contradiction - denaialism - self-hatred - hatred of LBGTQ community - Political parties that are conservative are composed of a majority of religious conservatives - hence, they also have a majority of CLOSETED homosexuals, gay, queer, trans, bi people - The denialism and self-hatred manifests as political policies that are harmful to the LBGTQ community
There is nothing like a mortal crisis to bring about a moral transformation
for - quote - mortal - moral
An emergency is also an emergence.
for - double meaning - emergency - EMERGEncy
Psychologically, we’re in distress. Socially, we’re isolated.
for - articulation - nice - Annick - Psychologically, we’re in distress. - Socially, we’re isolated. - Culturally, we’re at war. - Democratically, we’re in decline. <br /> - Ecologically, we’re in crisis. - Geopolitically, the world order is fracturing. - Technologically, we’re losing control.
there's very few examples. We know of smarter things being controlled by less smart things. In fact, pretty much the only example we know is a mother being controlled by to make that happen. Evolution built maternal instincts into the moth
for - AI - Hinton - maternal instincts
for - embodiment - embodied knowledge
the process of ignoring information is as important as a process of gathering information
for - salience landscape
this main goal. And again this is something we share with cats and viruses and everything else. So it's just like don't die
for - quote main goal of life - don't die
what I want to say very provocatively, there is makes no sense to talk about eternal life
for - claim - eternal life is nonsense
why we kind of like uncomfortable with the bodies. Yeah. And the answer is quite simple because we are biological system that know that we're going to die and we don't want to die
for - adjacency - denial of death - discomfort with body
the case of pregnancy where you have two immune systems in the same system and not only you have two immune system you have a third immune system which is in the placenta
for - research - pregnancy - 3 immune systems
Varela who is very famous in the you know body cog cognition literature he was a biologist and he spent quite some time in into um the immune immune systems
for - adjacency - Verela -immune systems
what we call mental disorders that are very much associated with neuroinflammation across the entire body
for - mind body connection - mental disorder - body inflammation
this system that actually tells you which one is you which one is not you is the self is not the self yeah so the immune system
for - adjacency - brain - identity - immune system - immune system involved with identity at a microscopic level - which molecule is part of "you"? - which moleculev is NOT part of you - immune system preceded neural system
? - maybe there is similarity between neural processing and immune system response?
the really interesting question is like how come a bunch of dump cells give rise to something very smart which is the brain
for - question - how do dumb cells give rise to a smart brain?
if we ignore how we get to neurons from the cells then we again we're not going to understand how the system functions.
for - key insight - from cells to neurons
wonderful researcher Pamela Lion called she has this beautiful paper called the biogenic approach to cognition
for - paper - biogenic approach to cognition
we need to state start with the state of co-evodment as fundamental and coostasis um not with the individual. Why? Because the mother's body is not phase or dro. another living system.
for - adjacency' -coevolvement - Deep Humanity - mOTHER
Offsetting with carbon credits is morally equivalent to obese people hiring someone else to go on a diet for them
for - post - LinkedIn - Glenn - post - LinkedIn- Carbon Credits - ecological prostitution - metaphor - carbon credits - obese people - quote - carbon credits like obese people overconsuming without feeling guilty - Offsetting with carbon credits is morally equivalent to - obese people hiring someone else to go on a diet for them or even - demanding that people in countries suffering from food-insecurity reduce their food intake - so that obese people can continue to overconsume without feeling guilty. - It resembles the colonial hoax of “paying” the poor to clean up the mess they cause.- Glenn Sankatsing
obese people can continue to overconsume without feeling guilty
for - post - LinkedIn - Glenn - post - LinkedIn - Carbon Credits - ecological prostitution - metaphor carbon credit - obese people
for - article - Substack - Michel Bauwens - title - The Geopolitics of Cosmo-Localism (I)
summary - A nice summary of the geopolitical implications of a cosmolocal future and the main obstacles that must be overcome to turn it into a reality
Planetarity, and two forms of diversity,
for - definition - planetarity - Michel Bauwens - tension between two forces - regionalism vs - global virtual domains - phygital domains - question - how do we reconcile - phygital vs regional?
part II of this article
for - part II of this article - identifying and overcoming the obstacles
The relocalization of production closer to human need, which could diminish matter-energy usage by two-thirds
for - stats - cosmolocalization - localization can reduce matter-energe usage by 60%
The mutualization of such production and consumption, which can diminish matter-energy usage by another 80%.
for - stats - cosmolocalization - mutualization can reduce matter-energy usage by another 80%
my hypothesis of the Pulsation of the Commons, in times of civilizational degradation, the commons return, and in dark ages, commons institutions even become hegemonic.
for - definition = pulsation of the commons - Michel Bauwens - Throughout history, - in periods of dark ages - capitalism (self interest) rules - in times of civilizational degradation - even commons institutions can be compromised
Mutualization means ‘doing more with less’, through the sharing of resources, and it has been the perennial response of humanity in terms of crisis.
for - quote - mutualization - Michel Bauwens
today, ‘constructive translocal productive networks’, which will hopefully be the format for post-civilization
for - adjacency - translocal productive networks - cosmolocal - deep Humanity - trans-spiritually, trans-religion - in other words, these translocal productive networks are cosmolocal networks and - can Deep Humanity be framed as a 'universal spirituality or - trans-spirituality or - trans- religion - that compliments the translocal productive network?
Mode A (gifting and commoning), to a higher level of complexity
for - definition - Mode A - gifting and commoning, to a higher level of complexity
we cannot just go ‘back’ to indigenous social systems
for - adjacency - cannot go back - spiral -progress - progress trap - This can also be seen as the complexity emerging from the continuous oscillation between progress and progress traps - while we are a timebinding species, the unintended consequences of progress require us to undo the unintended harm by revisiting a corner time to remember the beneficial qualities so they we may decouple the harmful qualities in the future
Keith Chandler’s book, Beyond Civilization
for - book - Beyond Civilization - Keith Chandler
Civilization as a master-slave paradigm regarding nature.
for - new definition - biosphere-scale inequality - adjacency - metaphor - master-slave - resources - externalisation - Michel articulated an insightful metaphor to describe our modern relationship with nature - To see nature as a resource is a species-selfish (anthropomorphic) perspective - which enables - resource extraction - exploration - externalization and ultimately - the climate crisis - Humans are seem as the master and all of nature our slave - This transcends human-scale inequality - it is biosphere-scale inequality
religious communities were trans-local
for - quote - religion was trans-local - Michel Bauwens - new definition - trans-religion - a universal religion that transcends existing religions - one of the dominant theories of - anthropology, - human origins and - human evolution - is that our species had is origins in Africa and spread out to the rest of the world - The interesting thing is that if this iis indeed true, then we are all distant relatives in the family of humanity - and the various regional cultures that developed in isolation until relatively recently when modern transportation technology brought us into contact, are all related - third could be a unifying narrative that could motivate a universal human spirituality that re-integrates a fragmented modern humanity
regional scope
for - adjacency regional - human evolution - isolated cultures
they considered other living beings as kin, being animated by powerful spiritual beings which demanded a certain respect,
for - key insight - indigenous vs modern culture - spirituality - indigenous people had / have strong spiritual beliefs that mitigate extreme forms of environmental destruction and promote stewardship
Point Zero, Vol. I, a book on civilizational development by Boris Sirbey
for - book - Point Zero, volume 1 - Boris Sirbey - it nicely summarises the different stages by such humanity became alienated
post-civilizational shift
for - definition - post. civilisational shift
our environmental crisis which is a fundamental crisis of our relation with our lifeworld
for - adjacency - environmental crisis - sensory bubble - hyperobjects - evolution - progress traps
Adjacency - between - environmental crisis - sensory bubble - hyperobjects - evolution - progress trap - adjacency relationship - ? - Why does capitalism framework externalise climate impacts? - The climate is a hyperobject that transcends our evolved sensors for danger - A crisis that threatens the (global) climate therefore also transcends our innate ability to sense danger - We will react immediately when a predator like a bear is rubbing after us - because we have evolved to respond to that with a fight out flight response - The bear is perceived as a real threat, while the climate crisis, bring a hyper object is not - Science reveals that invisible, but depends on complex reasoning chains of inference - Our sensory bubble is always only a small part of the world - even though media can give us images of the entire world, it is indirect and cannot compete with our evolved, innate danger sensing mechanisms
there is a tension in our societies between
for - competing forces - return to isolated cultures / tradition - universality
the surplus of the latter creates a further surplus for cognitive-type societies
for - adjacency - agriculture - emergence of cities
for - from - youtube - Just have a think - A controversial new paper challenges established emissions accounting criteria - https://hyp.is/9AQ6VF2SEfCsW8_68Y6AUA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9f16OTL1Lg - climate crisis - ERF - agriculture 60% - fossil fuels 18% - agriculture is the biggest contributor to carbon emissions summary - This paper uses Effective Radiative Forcing (ERF) as a metric to measure global carbon emissions instead of the traditional Global Warming Potential (GWP) - It points out the problematic nature of GWP and how ERF provides a more accurate picture - Using ERF, the most surprising result of this study is that agriculture is the leading sector causing global warming - Measured from a baseline of emissions since 1750, - agriculture contributes 60% while - fossil fuels contributes 18% - Projects like Project Drawdown already prioritize agriculture, this gives even more validation and priority on transforming the agricultural sector - This also increases importance on efforts in: - regenerative farming - bioreginalism - permaculture - agroforestry - rewilding
for - definition - reverse Robin Hood - steal from the poor to give to the rich - adjacency - Trump policy - reverse Robin Hood
THERE WILL BE AN INSURRECTION. IF THAT HAPPENS, IT WON'T JUST BE DEMOCRATS. IT WON'T JUST BE, IT'LL BE MAGA, IT'LL BE INDEPENDENTS, IT WILL BE EVERYBODY. BECAUSE WE ARE A PLACE IN THE SOCIETY RIGHT NOW WHERE WE KNOW THAT CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING IS A CRIME, AND THAT YOU SHOULD NOT BE GRANTED CLEMENCY
for - quote - pardoning Ghishlaine Maxwell - There will be an insurrection if that happens - Gretchen Carlson
THEY WANT TO BE ABLE TO OWN THEIR OWN VOICES. AND THIS IS WHAT I FIGHT AGAINST NOW, ARE THINGS LIKE NDAS, BECAUSE A LOT OF THESE WOMEN SIGNED NDAS AS YOUNG GIRLS
for - progress trap - legal - NDA - question - legal - NDA - can laws be amended so that NDA's are null and void whecan laws be amended so that NDA's are null and void when perpetrators use them to defend and hide their illegal activity?
IF THEY'VE SIGNED SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I UNFORTUNATELY HAVE TO SAY NEVER
for - progress trap - legal - NDA - question - legal - NDA - can laws be amended so that NDA's are null and void when perpetrators use them to defend and hide their illegal activity?
for - Epstein scandal - progress trap - NDA - youtube - MSNBC - interview - Gretchen Carlson - to - Lift our voices - founder Gretchen Carlson - https://hyp.is/cjEMJHaCEfCvXw-j41Uguw/liftourvoices.org/legislation
for - founder - Gretchen Carlson - Lift our voices - NGO fighting against silencing mechanisms - from - youtube - MSNBC - interview - Gretchen Carlson - https://hyp.is/r0w0vHaCEfC5XJ9qJvCP7A/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1HwE9Q01RM
We Fight Silencing Mechanisms
for - definition - silencing mechanism - - methods that individuals and organizations employ to intimidate others into silence to hide illegal activity such as sexual harm
at some point the FBI called me in uh for unrelated reasons and the first thing I told them before I cooperated with them um is just just to let you guys know if I ever find out that uh you were complicit in running a covert operation that used children to do anything in terms of state craft, all bets are off
for - Epstein as part of state-sponsored child abuse Kompromat? - Eric Weinstein - adjacency - Epstein - CIA - FBI - state-sponsored pedophilia
state sponsored pedophile or a state protected pedophile who is using pedophilia as part of what the intelligence
for - adjacency - Epstein - CIA -FBI - state sponsored pedophilia
for - youtube - Pier Morgan interview - Eric Weinstein
summary - The most interesting part of this interview is with Eric Weinstein - He weaves together geopolitics, Epstein, Trump, Israel, wars raging in the world and state-sponsored covert violence to help make sense of world events
I don't think that there's a more inspiring thing than to figure out the infinity of space. all of these galaxies and the deep field photographs of these space telescopes filled with worlds and we're stuck here.
for - perspective - We're stuck here (on earth) - Eric Weinstein
very powerful people at JP JP Morgan told me I needed to meet him.
for - adjacency - JP Morgan - Jeffrey Epstein - Harvard Math Dept - Eric Weinstein
It was very important to get Nobel laureates and some of the smartest people on earth to come to the Virgin Islands and talk about gravity. Steven Hawkins was there. David Gross was there. Lawrence Krauss was there. Lisa Randall was there right before his conviction. And I'm telling you, he was very focused on the Harvard math department. and he knew all about me in ways that he wasn't supposed to.
for - adjacency - Jeffrey Epstein mystery - gravity - Harvard Math dept - Eric Weinstein - Stephen Hawkins
Epstein knew a tremendous amount about my work when nobody knew anything about my work and he had a pipeline into me that I didn't understand which is that he was connected to my graduate program.
for - adjacency - Jeffrey Epstein - Harvard graduate dept of mathematics - gravity - Eric Weinstein
I think a large portion of our conversation was actually an LLM. We didn't actually get to the stuff outside of the LLM. You and I are two chat bots for the most part. You're a good one.
for - perspective - techno-optimist - - aligned to computer modeling of biological systems - simplistic systems poorly modeling complexity
we had this crazy narrative which is like the dizzying pace of change is making it almost impossible to keep up while things were incredibly stagnant.
for - perspective - Eric Weinstein - feels we've been stagnant - like - Eric Weinstein - Peter Thiel
Why don't you just stay here and fix this planet? Cuz you can't.
for - Eric Weinstein perspective - can't fix this planet
we still have basically one or two atmospheres. And I would really say one. And we've now gotten powerful enough to really screw it up, right? And so, through nukes or through carbon emissions, all three of those things
for - argument for finding another home for humanity - single atmosphere - 3 threats - Eric Weinstein
What needs to happen to get me a future? Something remarkable. Something utterly remarkable because it's not it's not going that way.
for - quote - future of humanity - something remarkable has to happen - Eric Weinstein
you believe that we aren't meant to live without religion. We're meant to be orientated by something transcendent, but you don't believe that it's real.
for - atheist who believes we need religion - metaphor - diving deep
This is the start of the undoing of the postworld war II order.
for - quote - This is the start of the undoing of the post world war II order - Eric Weinstein
he key ingredient that made COVID so unique was a four amino acid sequence inserted into spike protein. So that's 12 nucleotides coding for four amino acids shut down planet earth for a couple of years. That's how powerful this is
for - example - leverage - progress trap - COVID - mix of 4 amino acids inserted into a spike protein
we're playing with levers and tools that are so powerful.
for - progress traps - biotech - nuclear - powerful tools - leverage points
six-month period between November of 52 and April of 53 where we unlocked first the power of the nucleus because we could fuse hydrogen and the other thing we were able to do was uh figure out the threedimensional structure of nucleic acid in the form of the double helix
for - stats - history - Nov 1952 - hydrogen bomb - -April 1953 - discovery of DNA
for - scientist - Eric Weinstein - Jeffrey Epstein - science connection
The CIA, FBI. I don't know who ran him, but he knew a tremendous amount about my scientific work in ways that he wasn't supposed to
for - Jeffrey Epstein - science connection
for - Jeffrey Epstein - evidience for Bipartisan coverup - 2007-2025
summary - Reporter nick Bryant has been investigating the Epstein case for many years and he shares evidence that strongly suggests a bipartisan coverup at the highest level - This would imply that political / business leaders at the highest level, both democrat and republican and international elites as well engaged in illegal sex with minors and children - He contextualizes the Epstein case in the historical concept of Komrpomat, as written in his previous book The Franklin Scandal
Ebstein Justice.
for - to - website - Epstein Justice from - youtube - Chris Hedges - interview - Nick Bryant
she had a client who described the interior of Epstein's home. And a number of things about Epstein that she possibly couldn't have known unless she was there. But she was trafficked by Epstein when she was under 10 years old.
for - Jeffrey Epstein victims - under 10 years of age
David Boy is one of the architects of the victim compensation program and he's a very he's a dirty
for - David Boie - lawyer for Epstein victims - Epstein compensation program - lawyer David Boy - victims must sign NDA not to disclose any other perpetrators - to - Business Insider - News Inside the messy effort to compensate 225 Jeffrey Epstein accusers - https://hyp.is/qCXM_mMMEfC1a_NlKIJWAg/www.businessinsider.com/inside-jeffrey-epstein-victims-compensation-program-fund-2022-1
this is something that can't be overlooked.
for - child abuse - why the American public will not let it go
between 240,000 and 325,000 women and children are trafficked in the United States every year.
for stats - 240,000 to 325,000 children and women trafficked every year in America
t if you just go with the CDC numbers, you've got over 50 million Americans that have been molested when they were underage
for - stats - CDC - underaged American children who have been molested - 50 million / year - 5 % boys - 25% girls
when I think of the MSAD and I think of the CIA, I kind of think of the Genovves crime family and the Gambino crime family that they're always working together.
for - MOSAD and CIA - metaphor - work together
from what I understand the three countries that are the bellweathers of blackmail are the United States, Israel and uh the UK. One would think that Russia would be in that mix
for - top 3 Kompromat countries - US - UK - Israel
if you're if you're compromised you're controlled. This is what Hoover at the FBI did. He had files on everyone uh and he used those files to maintain his own power.
for - Kompromat - FBI uses it to maintain control
according to Sabel Edmonds, the FBI, she's a FBI whistleblower. The FBI was aware of Dennis Hastard's shadow life when he was speaker of the house. So that was obviously a situation where they were told to stand down like Alexander Aosta was told to stand down and because he was compromised.
for - FBI knows of Kompromat - and asked to stand down
Dennis Hastard is a perfect example
for - example - Kompromat - former house speaker Dennis Hastert - to - BBC - Dennis Hastert - sentenced to 15 months in prison - https://hyp.is/lKQYwGMHEfCpaVc_LjDjBg/www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36155261
Well, once you're compromised, it's like you're on a yacht. It's a beautiful yacht and it's a beautiful day and you can have anything you want on that yacht. But if you decide to get off that yacht, the people on the yacht are going to make sure that you drown.
for - kompromat - metaphor - yacht
I eventually got a blackmail photographer to talk
for - blackmail photographer
When I wrote a book called The Franklin Scandal, and the Epstein scandal is very much a carbon copy of the Franklin Scandal in in many ways. It was about a nationwide pedophile network that was covered up
for - book - Franklin Scandal - to - book - The Franklin Scandal - https://hyp.is/HY_CnmMGEfCIO0dovGj0wg/www.amazon.com/Franklin-Scandal-Story-Powerbrokers-Betrayal/dp/1936296071
the Epstein case was covered up at the very apex of the Bush 2 administration. And then the Obama administration continued to cover up in the Biden administration and also the uh the Trump administration
for - Jeffrey Epstein - bipartisan coverup - 2007-2025
There's only two people in the government that can tell a US attorney to stand out. One is the attorney general and one is the president. And this was in 2007. So the attorney general was Alberto Gonzalez and the president was George Bush
for - Jeffrey Epstein - Bush - Bipartisan coverup - Reporter Nick Bryant - Jeffrey Epstein - bipartisan coverup
.> for - from - youtube - Chris Hedges - interview - Nick Bryant - https://hyp.is/8f4Y0GMNEfCstv8IuzwQoQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK114NGCM8
The Epstein Victims' Compensation Program put a price on the experiences of women the financier sexually abused.
for - Jeffrey Epstein - victim compensation program - from - youtube - Chris Hedges show - interview - Nick Bryant - https://hyp.is/qCXM_mMMEfC1a_NlKIJWAg/www.businessinsider.com/inside-jeffrey-epstein-victims-compensation-program-fund-2022-1
A federal judge has sentenced Dennis Hastert to 15 months in prison, calling the former House Speaker "a serial child molester" who tried to cover up his abuse with hush money.
for - former house speaker - Dennis Hastert - charged with child molestation - from - youtube - Chris Hedges show - interview - Nick Bryant - Trump - Epstein bipartisan coverup - https://hyp.is/fUpCCGMHEfCHZnvfKdHYtA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK114NGCM8
The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal
for - book - The Franklin Scandal - from - youtube - internview Chris Hedges - interviews - Nick Bryant - https://hyp.is/HY_CnmMGEfCIO0dovGj0wg/www.amazon.com/Franklin-Scandal-Story-Powerbrokers-Betrayal/dp/1936296071
HOW SYSTEMS GET UNSTUCK
for - stuck systems - how systems get unstuck
for - warm data - Nora Bateson - warm data
for - from - LinkedIn post - What if Artists Were your Strategic Weapon in the Boardroom? - https://hyp.is/BXB-XmGvEfCJvBfKjwObTQ/www.linkedin.com/posts/tijntjoelker_art-creativity-systemschange-activity-7350396135213088768-imLO/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI
"What if Artists Were Your Strategic Weapon in the Boardroom?
for - to - substack - What if Artists were your Strategic Weapon in the Boardroom? - https://hyp.is/5NVKlGGuEfCGlnei6XLPog/ourmanifesto.substack.com/p/what-if-artists-were-your-strategic
Annalise Lewis
for - paper - the Role of Artists in Societal Change
rtists and entrepreneurs share key psychological traits: intrinsic motivation, systems thinking, and comfort with ambiguity.
for - system change - role of artists - TPF - arts community - research paper - RMIT 2020 - artist traits
It’s too late.
for - David Suzuki - says - It's too late - comment - LinkedIn post - David Suzuki says "It's too late" - to - article - David Suzuki says it's too late - https://hyp.is/0riUWmGqEfCXcUd-cD_Z-Q/www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/
for - David Suzuki - says - It's too late - from - LinkedIn post - David Suzuki says "It's too late" - https://hyp.is/mtjZSGGtEfCtMm-KtJi5mA/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7348311666352123904/
Gestaltic Perception
for - definition - gestaltic perception - adjacency - pre-linguistic - feral children - gestaltic perception
The Culture Hack Method
for - culture hacking method
for - Alnoor Ladha - Culture Hack Labs - Alnoor Ladha - Culture Hack Labs - culture hacking
liberation often arrives not by fighting harder, but by thinking sideways
for - adjacency - Euler's Identity - book - Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense - to - Google Books - Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense - https://hyp.is/62BFDGCrEfCrMjc4k92e5g/books.google.com/books/about/Why_the_World_Doesn_t_Seem_to_Make_Sense.html?id=tMDvKl8anacC - This book takes a similar approach and makes use of duality represented by real numbers on the real number line, embedded within the complex plane
that Nothing is not emptiness, it is the fertile void from which all dualities arise.
for - Emptiness - Euler's equation - interesting that in Eastern philosophy, emptiness IS the fertile ground from which duality arises
for - from - Euler's Identity - https://hyp.is/lIog4GCrEfCGOSN3fhymkQ/www.regenerativelaw.com/euler-s-identity
for - youtube talk - Michael Levin - youtube - Against mind-blindness - Recognizing and Communicating with Unconventional Intelligences
summary - mind blindness is the unawareness of other types of minds that surround us - This definition alludes to an expanded definition of "mind" that is based on Levin's research which is influenced by the work of William James - The expanded definition of mind is based on living systems with the ability to perform problem-solving with respect to its environment - Levin's experiments that suggest that problem-solving is an important definition of minds involves artificially manipulating morphological features of simpler life forms at very early stages of their development. - He demonstrates that tadpoles, with morphologically displaced features such as eyes, follow a problem-solving arc with this novel situation and have some kind of collective blueprint that they follow that allows the eyes to migrate to the right place in a fully developed frog - Hence, living organisms are equipped with problem-solving templates that guide them towards some collective target - Even if the original morphological state is novel, the mind can solve to migrate to the final target - Levin's other experiments show how implanting novel instructions in the target template will cause the living system to migrate towards a new final target, as demonstrated in his 2-headed worm, which reproduces with 2 heads for all future generations after the novel implant - These findings have profound implications on our understanding what life itself is - They also force us to expand the diversity of the definition of "mind", with many moral implications
for - cooperative - Africa - Mondragon - AST
for - future annotation - youtube - Michael Levin - David Eagleman
Capacity building of small-holder farmers
for - AST
for - youtube - Dr. Zia Mehrabi - regerenative ag - potential synergy - regenerative ag - Agrosphere Technologies
we also see a lot of opportunity for engaging the public in the research. So through immersive um visual experiences and exhibits to enable individuals to reinvision the future of farming together.
for - adjacency - future regenerative ag - science communication - TPF - town anywhere - Indyweb
embedding agroecology and sustainable farming in the global models.
for - Agrosphere Technologies - alley cropping - Agrosphere Technologies - bioeconomy with permaculture-zones
Sector contributions are incomplete due to conventional partial accounting
for - climate crisis - GHG - incomplete accounting
Gross carbon accounting (consistent with treatment of all other emissions) reasons that old growth deforestation carbon is equally ‘new carbon’.
for - key insight - GHG accounting - gross carbon accounting - count old growth deforestation as new carbon emissions - just like exposing millions-of-years-old fossil fuels
we believe that photosynthesis cannot be claimed to be anthropogenic, other than plantings, as it occurs despite human intervention.
for - in other words - net accounting vs gross accounting - slash and burn forestry practice is a human activity - net accounting has been justified on the logic that - deforestation is a human activity that removes carbon sinks - regrowth that occurs after deforestation contributes a new future carbon sink - The problem with net accounting in this case is that it counts regrowth as a new carbon sink that is attributed to humans - when in reality, it is simply a natural process - A forestry company could slash and burn and then claim carbon credits for the natural regrowth, even though they did something that contributed to emissions, not mitigate emissions
Presently, convention dictates that 100% of fossil carbon is counted but only a third of LULUCF carbon is counted
for - question - why does the GHG accounting convention have this inconsistency in the first place?
when cooling emissions are included
for - aerosols - cooling emissions included
comment - complexity of aeresols - aerosols are a good example of the complexity of progress - aeresols are a byproduct of useful human processes such as: - refrigeration - transportation - especially shipping - Waste-to-Energy burning - biomass burning - industrial processes - the aeresols are considered pollution that are the cause of millions of deaths worldwide - this has given motivation to laws that significantly reduce aeresols, as in new shipping fuel convention - at the same time, aeresols have had a cooling effect on global warming, so - it can be considered to be a harmful pollutant with beneficial unintended consequence of lowering global mean temperature
aim of this study
for - goal of the study - update GHG accounting with these recent discoveries
effective radiative forcing (ERF)—has removed the need for time-period-related metrics to compare different gases
for - effective radiative forcing - removes time variable for gas comparisons
consistent gross CO2
for - newer GH accounting - consistent gross CO2 - deforestation impact larger than - fossil fuel emissions
Several assumptions were made when these accounting conventions were first developed,
for - GH accounting assumptions: - emission processes were unclear - land carbon emissions assumed to be part of self-balancing carbon pool - atmospheric interactions of emissions unknown - focus on fossil fuel emissions - exclusion of impacts of aeresol cooling effect - use of 100 year GWP
agriculture, the most extensive land user, to be the leading emissions sector and to have caused 60% (32%–87%) of ERF change since 1750.
for - comparison - climate crisis - emissions using ERF - agriculture - 60% of ERF - fossil fuels - 18% of ERF
using emissions-based effective radiative forcing (ERF) rather than global warming potentials to compare emissions
for - definition - ERF effective radiative forcing
for - planetary boundaries update - June 2025 - earth system boundaries update - June 2025 - youtube - Johan Rockstrom - June 2025
for - article - Substack - Michel Bauwens - What do we do, right now, at this moment in the transition ?
piritual aspects of the transformation
for - inner development - human inner transformation - Deep Humanity
We could provide all citizens with a given no of citizen credits, and allow them to work on solving collectively agreed and priced challenges of society.
for - example - holons
in the action, we can find each other
for - Indyweb dev - finding the salient other
Imagine cooperatives that aren’t just “alternatives,” but core providers of care, food, housing, and energy as state and market institutions fail.
for - flipped world - business - OPEN cooperatives can become the primary business organization, and corporations secondary