• for: annotate, doughnut economy critique, r3.0, Ralph Thurn

• for: overshoot - context insensitive

• key insight: overshoot

  • overshoot is not bad, it is context insensitive. We enact old behaviors that have been deeply conditioned into us for a particular context, but the context has changed, while our behavior has not

• for: double overshoot, definition - double overshoot

• definition: double overshoot

  • ecological and cultural overshoot

• for: resilient cities, living cities, IPCC - cities, future earth - cities, complexity - cities, climate change - clities, Xuemei Bai - IPCC cities report

• for: definition - stuporism, philosophy - of wonder

• definition: stuporism

  • the philosophy of wonder encountered in everyday life

• for: regenerative cities, living cities, urban permaculture, Pocket hoods, relocalization, Mark Lakeman, Portland villages, people-oriented city-villages, city-village, pocket neighborhood, communititecture, urban planning, urban planning - city villages

• summary

  • Mark gives a tour of his work at his company, Communittecture in applying permaculture principles to redesign communities in urban environments.
  • The central focus is designing based on commons principles of actually creating lived environments where healthy socialization is a primary design objective.
  • The design involves creating common areas that residents can share, from common food gardens to many mini-parks and recreation areas where families can gather.
  • The modern community has alienated socialization, creating groups of juxtapositioned strangers. There are two different design categories:
    • retrofitting existing neighborhoods
    • designing greenfield new neighborhoods

• reference

  • Communititecture home page
    • https://www.communitecture.net/about.html

• for: question - ordinances for street intersection transformation

• question: ordinances for street intersection transformation

  • how easy is this to do in other cities around the world? Check with city officials.
  • cars obviously still have to get to homeowner's garages so this does not stop automobile traffic

• for: Ross Chapin, Pocket Neighborhood - example - Langley Washington

• comment

  • Pocket neighborhood pioneer introduces an example of a pocket neighborhood

for: complexity - example - google maps - unsafe areas

• for: definition - permanent security, examples - permanent security

• definition: permanent security

  • Extreme responses by states to security threats, enacted in the name of present and future self defence.
  • Permanent security actions target entire civilian populations under the logic of ensuring that terrorists and insurgents can never again represent a threat. It is a project, in other words, that seeks to avert future threats by anticipating them today.

• example: permanent security

  • Russian-Ukraine war
    • Vladimir Putin reasons that Ukraine must be forcibly returned to Russia so that it cannot serve as a launching site for NATO missiles into Russia decades from now.
  • Myanmar-Rohingya conflict
    • The Myanmarese military sought to squash separatism by expelling and killing the Rohingya minority in 2017
  • China-Uyghur conflict
    • China sought to pacify and reeducate Muslim Uyghurs by mass incarceration to forestall their striving for independence forever
  • Israel-Palestine conflict
    • Israel seeks to eliminate Hamas as a security threat once and for all after the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel
  • US-Iraq-Afghanistan
    • The US sought to eliminate Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities and to eliminate Osama Bin Laden for his bombing of the World Trade center.

• for: colonialism - justifying death

• for: colonialism - role of religion

• comment

  • Using religion as justification of violence committed against the other is liberally found throughout history

• for: israel-Palestine conflict, colonialism, Israel-Hamas conflict,annotate, genocide

• for: big oil cover up, big oil - MIT, big Oil Ernest Moniz, methane emissions coverup, PBS - The Power of Big Oil, climate change - big oil lobby, quote - Ernest Moniz, quote Edmund Carlevale, quote - methane emissions coverup

• quote

  • Today, the U.S. is spending hundreds of millions to address the crisis of methane emissions. But as Tony Ingraffea says, this should have happened a decade ago (https://lnkd.in/eaFpkTrj) and it didn't because of a single person.
  • And none of this is in the past. Ernest Moniz is the single person in the entire world most responsible for legitimizing the hoax of #carboncapture.
  • And carbon capture is only reason that the global oil&gas cartel has been given a green light to #drilldrilldrill. -These lies matter, and they are devastating our world.
• author: Edmund Carlevale

• date: Nov 16, 2023

• reference

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAbcNl4Lb8

• for: feedback - Weall - system change explainer video

• comment

  • good observation by Claire Elizabeth Wiliiams

• for: explainer video - system change, not climate change, Weall, Wellbeing Economy Alliance

• for: music that unites, music as a force, Jerusalema

• for: future cities - Africa, CommuniTgrow, urban planning - Africa, African cities, futures - African cities, 2 Billion Strong, Gita Govin, Richard Rubin, Alistair Rendall

• title:

  • 2 Billion Strong
    • A Regenerative Solution to Building Sustainable African Cities
• author
  • Gita Govin
  • Richard Rubin
  • Alistair Rendall
• date: 2012
• summary
  • This book outlines the vision from sustainable architectural firm CommuniTGrow for a template for a future sustainable African city. The first project launching in 2024 is the Milkwood Development in Cape Town:
    • https://milkwoodcity.co.za/

• for: Deep Humanity, epoche, BEing journey, Douglas Harding, Zen, emptiness, awakening, the Headless Way

• summary

• adjacency between
  • Kensho
  • Zen
  • Douglas Harding's Headless Way

• adjacency statement

  • this paper explores the parallels between Zen b experienced of Kensho and Douglas Harding's Headless Way

• question

  • can this technique be adapted for Deep Humanity BEing journeys and mass awakening /epoche?

• for: comparison - awakening - enlightenment, Kensho

• comment

  • the author makes an astute observation and articulates an uncomfortable reality about the association of the word enlightenment with so called enlightened masters who have behaved quite immorally.
  • this is a good reason to choose v one word v over they other, although in my experience, both these words have been used at times to describe individuals who have behaved immorally, that is, to bring suffering instead of ease it. I don't if Kensho is a word that is a description of a very specific experience that is decoupled from model behaviour?
  • in the end, it may be different to simply add a caveat when using both terms .

• for: xylitol - anti fungal

• for: Progress trap - mouthwash, mouthwash - blood pressure

• for: microbiome, gut health, MET in Individuality - microbiome, complexity - human microbiome, fermentation - health

• for:holistic medicine - example - oral microbiome and colon cancer, oral microbiome - colon cancer, bleeding gums - colon cancer, gingivitus - colon cancer, periodontitis - colon cancer, bloodstream translocation, complexity - example - human body - colon cancer - oral microbiome

• comment

  • colon cancer starts in the mouth!

• references

  • Oral-Intestinal Microbiota in Colorectal Cancer: Inflammation and Immunosuppression (2022)

    • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8824753/
    • Abstract
      • It is widely recognized that microbial disorders are involved in the pathogenesis of many malignant tumors.
      • The oral and intestinal tract are two of the overriding microbial habitats in the human body. Although they are anatomically and physiologically continuous, belonging to the openings at both ends of the digestive tract, the oral and intestinal microbiome do not cross talk with each other due to a variety of reasons, including
        • intestinal microbial colonization resistance and
        • chemical barriers in the upper digestive tract.
      • However, this balance can be upset in certain circumstances, such as
        • disruption of colonization resistance of gut microbes,
        • intestinal inflammation, and
        • disruption of the digestive tract chemical barrier.
      • Evidence is now accruing to suggest that the oral microbiome can colonize the gut, leading to dysregulation of the gut microbes.
      • Furthermore, the oral-gut microbes create an
        • intestinal inflammatory and
        • immunosuppressive microenvironment
      • conducive to
        • tumorigenesis and
        • progression of colorectal cancer (CRC).
      • Here, we review
        • the oral to intestinal microbial transmission and
        • the inflammatory and immunosuppressive microenvironment, induced by oral-gut axis microbes in the gut.
      • A superior comprehension of the contribution of the oral-intestinal microbes to CRC provides new insights into the prevention and treatment of CRC in the future.

  • Insights into oral microbiome and colorectal cancer – on the way of searching new perspectives (2023)

    • https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2023.1159822/full
    • Abstract
      • Microbiome is a keystone polymicrobial community that coexist with human body in a beneficial relationship.
      • These microorganisms enable the human body to maintain homeostasis and take part in mechanisms of defense against infection and in the absorption of nutrients.
      • Even though microbiome is involved in physiologic processes that are beneficial to host health, it may also cause serious detrimental issues.
      • Additionally, it has been proven that bacteria can migrate to other human body compartments and colonize them even although significant structural differences with the area of origin exist.
      • Such migrations have been clearly observed when the causes of genesis and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC) have been investigated.
      • It has been demonstrated that the oral microbiome is capable of penetrating into the large intestine and cause impairments leading to dysbiosis and stimulation of cancerogenic processes.
      • The main actors of such events seem to be oral pathogenic bacteria belonging to the red and orange complex (regarding classification of bacteria in the context of periodontal diseases), such as
        • Porphyromonas gingivalis and
        • Fusobacterium nucleatum respectively,
      • which are characterized by significant amount of cancerogenic virulence factors.
      • Further examination of oral microbiome and its impact on CRC may be crucial on early detection of this disease and would allow its use as a precise non-invasive biomarker.

• for: BEing journey - adapt to, DH, Deep Humanity

• comment

  • Potentiality coupled with limitations - Daseitz Suzuki and the elbow does not bend backwards.
  • The experience of the unnamable quality present in every moment - infinite potentiality
  • The mundane is the extraordinary. Even when we name it and discover it in all our scientific discoveries and articulate it, and mass produce technologies with it, is is still miraculous

• adjacency

  • Nora Bateson's book Combining and the Douglas Rushkoff podcast interview
  • potentiality
• adjacency statement
  • both are alluding to the pure potentiality latent in the moment
  • language can be contextualized as an unfolding of the space of potentiality to a specific trajectory. Each word added to the previous one to form a sentence is a choice in an infinite, abstract space of symbols that communicates intentionality and is designed to focus the attention of the listener to one very narrow aspect of the enormous field of infinite potentiality

• for: epoche, perceptual interpretation, perception - epoche, perception - bottom up sensation and top down conceptualisation, lebenswelt

• key insight

  • Those is an important observation, namely that our ubiquitous, everyday act of perception, performed thousands of times a day is a near-instantaneous fusion of
    • sensory information and
    • conceptualising from our accumulated lebenswelt
  • in third context, Husserl's epoche or phenomenological reduction is a way to give us insight into this otherwise invisible process that normative social learning deeply conditions into us.
  • Indeed, one of the unique traits of our species is our individual and collective immersion into a virtual world of ideas, the symbolosphere.
  • The 24/7 immersion in this world would not be possible unless we institutionalised decades of education in our stake childhood years to steep use all in at m language training that forges ideas out of intention and symbols, creating the deep associations necessary for effortless meaning-making and linguistic participation as adults

• annotate
• for: Dzogchen teachings - James Low, epoche - meditation, epoche - perceptual interpretation

• for: Nora Bateson, Book - Combining, space of possibilities, disorientation, Douglas Rushkoff, Team Human

• for: ignorance becomes the mirror-like wisdom

• for: tantra - origins of the secret aspect

• comment

  • historically, tantra was kept secret since the social norm was that we were taught to be miserable

• for: definition - dharma

• definition: dharma

  • the Buddha flipped the meaning - dharma means reality holds you in freedom from suffering

• for: meme - violence, patriarchy, men - expressing feelings

• meme

  • violence is the language of the inarticulate
• meaning
  • men have been conditioned by society to shut down their feelings and the only way they can express it is through egoistic expression of violence, anger and control

• for: conflict resolution - Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Toda Peace Institute, Lisa Schirch, 5 point peace plan

• title: 5-Point Peace Plan to Protect Civilians, Address Trauma, Invest in Democracy, and Dismantle Hamas and the Israeli Occupation

• author: Lisa Schirch

• date: Nov 2023

• Abstract

  • There is no military solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
  • A just political solution is essential.
  • This article expands the narratives of what is necessary at this moment when too many simply say “there is no other way” or “ceasefire” which both leave many questions unanswered.
  • This 5-point peace plan identifies a range of strategic principles and bridgebuilding processes to protect the safety and ensure the democratic freedoms of both Israelis and Palestinians.
  • It emphasises the shared humanity and traumas of both Palestinians and Jewish Israelis.
  • A sustainable peace will require that journalists and political leaders use their power to focus on
    • protecting civilians,
    • dismantling Hamas,
    • ending occupation,
    • addressing trauma, and
    • investing in democracy.

• for: individual/collective gestalt, social tipping points

• for: climate departure project - potential stakeholder

• for: example - complexity - automobile, example - progress trap - automobile

• for: materialism Vs panpsychism

• comment

  • Husserl's phenomenology, especially his views on epoche in his later years lean more towards panpsychism although they are different in a nuanced way.
  • there is direct, pure biological phenomenological experience ,- Epoche may give us a taste of it, interment meditation may go further and the deepest meditation of decades of intense practice may re-immerse us in it.
  • Feral children who grow into feral adults, an extremely rare occurrence, may have an immersive experience of it
  • social conditioning of language bind meaning tightly to our construction and experience of objects in our sensory field
  • it is extremely difficult to disentangle our conditioned meaning with prelinguistic phenomenological experience of reality
  • spiritual awakening or enlightenment would appear to show that it is possible
  • When we attach such strong meaning to ideas, such as to scientific ideas, "material* objects, in spite of their attached, implicit symbolic complexity, appear to have a natural, autonomous and obvious existence.
  • in this way, our conscious constructs become solidified and mistaken for concrete, autonomously existent objects. Consciousness then comes to mistaken variants of consciousness itself with autonomously existent objects

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

• quote: Fransisco Verella

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

• date: 1999

• comment

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

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

• adjacency between

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

• for: quote - Fransisco Verella, quote - evolution - no-self

• quote: Fransisco Verella

  • In some sense, a heightened degree of self-awareness is anti evolutionary
• date: 1999

• for: list - skills for knowing another

• list: skills for knowing others

  • deep, authentic gaze
  • accompaniment

  • presence, listening and meaningful questions

• for: quote - respect

• quote: respect

  • in every conversation respect is like air. When it's present, nobody notices and when it's absent it's all anybody can think about.
• author: Book - Crucial Conversations

• for: effective communications - in polarized situations

• for: how to ask good questions

• for: good story - accompaniment

• for: importance of play

• for: good story - everyone is sacred

• for: good story - illuminators - pastor

• for: good story - illuminators - Bell labs

• for: personality types - diminishers and illuminators, definition - illuminator, definition - diminisher

• definition: illuminator

  • a curious, empathetic person who genuinely listens to you, pays attention to you, asks questions, make you feel heard, seen and acknowledged. In short, they treat others as sacred

• definition: diminisher

  • a person who has lost sight of the sacred and are not interested in others. They are not curious about others, stereotype, ignore and don't ask questions. They make you feel unheard, unseen and unacknowledged.

• for: statistic - how little we know each other

• statistic: how little we know each other

  • the average person when they meet a stranger and start a conversation with him they accurately understand what's going on in that person's head 20% of the time
  • with friends and family it goes up to 35% of the time
  • some people are pretty good they're 55% of the time
  • some people are zero% of the time but think they're 100% of the time
  • we're often strangers to each other

• for: purpose of David Brooks' book

• paraphrase

• the purpose of his book is to advocate and spread the skills it takes to know another human being and make them feel known, seen and heard

• for: treating each other as sacred, recognizing the sacred, quote - not recognizing the sacred

quote: not recognizing the sacred - we've become sadder and meaner because we don't treat each other with the consideration that we deserve

• for: meme - unheard, meme - pain is the root of anger

• new meme

  • a society that becomes more sad is a society that becomes more mad

• for: statistics - United States happiness indicators

• statistics: United States happiness indicators

  • suicide is up by 30%
  • depression is skyrocketing
  • 36% of Americans report feeling lonely frequently
  • 45% of teenagers say they feel despondent and hopeless most of the time
  • the number of people who say they have no close personal friends has gone up by four times
  • 36% more Americans are not in a romantic relationship
  • the number of people Americans who rate themselves in the lowest happiness category has gone up by 50%

• for: Deep Humanity, DH

• annotate

• for: life as a living lab

• comment

  • in some sense, life is the ultimate potential laboratory and the labs in science are variants of the laboratory of life.

• for: worldviews - materialist and phenomenological

• paraphrase

• categories: scientific worldviews
  • materialism
    • elegant
      • a form of materialism that classifies the universe according to different levels, each with new properties that give rise to the emergence of specific and unique behaviors that the level below does not have.
    • radical
      • this is the current worldview of science that explains everything from the existing physical theories such as the standard model of the weak, strong and electromagnetic forces. The radical materialist does not take the idea of emergence seriously.
  • phenomenological
    • elegant
      • The annotator is not clear about what this category is.
    • radical
      • the radical phenomenologist does sees the hard problem of consciousness as insoluble by its very design, consciousness cannot emerge from behavior of atoms, molecules or quanta. Correlation is not causation.
      • like the radical materialist who threw away the ether, he radical phenomenologist does not seek to ground consciousness in anything at all.

• for: comparison -

• meme

  • matter-based science to experience-based phenomenology
  • phenomenology and contemplative spirituality

• for: bridge between - scientific and contemplative world

• comment

  • this describes my current strong interest in the epoche as a potentially b transformative Deep Humanity BEing journey tool

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

• for: adjacency - epoche - enlightenment - awareness

• comment

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

• paradigm shift - ontological - from material to experiential

• for: paradigm shift - scientific ontology

• comment

  • the paradigm shift from a scientific worldview from a material to an experiential one of the profound shift alluded to in the previous annotation

• for: what is the world made of, paradigm shift - scientific ontology

• question

  • what off the world made of?
• answer ( Phenomenological)
  • experience!

• for: beginning mind, beginner's mind, regaining innocence, meme - regaining innocence

• for: enculturation, conditioning

• comment

  • penetrating deep enculturation and conditioning
  • language itself also needs to undergo such penetrating analysis but how? Language itself is so entangled sorry analysis, use analysis even possible without language? And if so, would it be a very primitive form of analysis?

• for: epoche - examples - science, quote - epoche - paradigm shift

• quote

  • All major breakthroughs in science stem from a form of epoche.

• example: epoche scientific paradigm shift

  • Galileo, when looking at how the Sun seems to revolve around the Earth, bracketed the common belief that the Earth itself is immovable.
  • Newton, when interpreting gravity as action at a distance, bracketed the belief that any form of action should occur through material contact.
  • Einstein explored the consequences of Maxwell's equations, while bracketing all the presuppositions that had been used to derive those equations in the first place, including the absolute character of space and time. From purely phenomenological thought experiments, he thus derived the relativity of space and time, together with the precise rules according to which they can be transformed into each other.
  • Bohr bracketed the notion that a particle must have a definite state before one makes a measurement, when he developed his Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.

• for: definition - epoche, bracketing

• definition: epoche

  • the epoche is a form of suspense of judgment,
  • a way to let the phenomena speak while `bracketing' the usual presuppositions that are in force in any given situation.

• for: epoche - tool for exploring tacit assumptions

• for: wonder - loss of

• for: SIMPOL application

• for: epoche - application - harmonizing radical alterity of the sacred.

• comment

  • this would be an invaluable tool for Deep Humanity analysis

• for: epoche, epoche - interfaith applications, Deep Humanity, DH, polycrisis, political polarization, religious polarization

• comment

  • I performed Google search for "Epoche and application to interfaith religion"
  • The reason is that I am exploring a hunch of the salience of applying epoche for deep interfaith understanding
  • political polarization constitutes an existential threat and is one important crisis in our current polycrisis
  • Unless we find ways to effectively and rapidly reduce polarization, the other crisis's such as climate crisis, biodiversity crisis and inequality crisis will likely not be resolved
  • religious polarization form ingroups / outgroups and is a major contributing factor to political polarization and violent conflict
  • hence it becomes important to understand how interfaith understanding can be enhanced
  • epoche appears to be one possible way to accelerate interfaith understanding

• for: learned a new word

• definition: alterity

  • Merriam Webster
    • OTHERNESS specifically : the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation

• for: epoche, epoche - interfaith applications, bracketing, applied epoche, Deep Humanity, DH, polycrisis, political polarization, religious polarization, epoche - research application

• comment

  • I performed Google search for "Epoche and application to interfaith religion"
  • The reason is that I am exploring a hunch of the salience of applying epoche for deep interfaith understanding
  • political polarization constitutes an existential threat and is one important crisis in our current polycrisis
  • Unless we find ways to effectively and rapidly reduce polarization, the other crisis's such as climate crisis, biodiversity crisis and inequality crisis will likely not be resolved
  • religious polarization form ingroups / outgroups and is a major contributing factor to political polarization and violent conflict
  • hence it becomes important to understand how interfaith understanding can be enhanced
  • epoche appears to be one possible way to accelerate interfaith understanding

• for: epoche - feeling audit

• for: epoche - explanation

• explanation

• paraphrase
  • The first principle determined by Husserl (quoted in Villanueva, 2014) to approach subjectivity,is:the epoché, placing in parentheses the supposition of the natural attitude, present in our habitual rapport to the world.
  • For example, this natural attitude is found in the sciences
  • It is the acknowledgement of the world as something given or its facts, as a reality itself, existing beyond the consciousness that thinks, values or feels them.
  • In other words, "the epoché refers to the elimination of everything that limits us from perceiving things as such, since the natural attitude, due to its objective nature, prevents us from doing so.
  • To apply the epoché, refers, to abstain or to do without" (Villanueva, 2014, p.220).
  • This principle
    • does not imply questioning the world as if it existed,
    • nor does it reduce it to the thought of the subject.
  • On the contrary, it tries to stop thinking under these terms, with the objective of being able to observe the life of the consciousness that is behind the objects understood as given things: to approach how this represents them, the meaning it assumes for it.
  • In short, what original sense they possess or how they become objects of consciousness.

• for: follow up - Gadamer

• of interest

  • Gadamer was the father of philosophical hermeneutics and sought to integrate progress of science and thought by means of language. Since I feel language is a critical intertwingled variable in such deep questions, his approach will be of interest

• for: phenomenology - explanation

• comment

  • a good and simple explanation of phenomenology

• explanation

  • In summary, phenomenology leads to finding the relationship between objectivity and subjectivity, which is present in each instant of human experience. Transcendence is not reduced to the simple fact of knowing the stories or physical objects; on the contrary, it tries to understand these stories from the perspective of values, norms and practices in general

• comment

  • and also how we construct meaning then inhabit the meaningverse and symbolosphere

• for: key insight - phenomenology as life's pre-scientific dimension

• key insight

• paraphrase
  • Due to its nature, phenomenology focuses on experiences and emphasizes the sense that surrounds the everyday, the meaning of the human being,,
    • that is to say, the experience of what we are.
  • Phenomenology is sensitive to the problems around the world of life.
  • The world of life represents the reality of daily life, which is investigated under a non-naive eye. -This world without categories or explanations, coming from science, is the life's pre-scientific dimension, characterized by being extremely rich, a world of experiences and experience.
  • In this world, objective sciences are examined as cultural facts.
  • It is the sum of borders and horizons in which worldly facts are born and established, and which have to be regenerated by experience. This study corresponds to the worldly phenomenology.

• for: adjacency - objectivity - imputation of the other

• adjacency between

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

• for: adjacency - emptiness - phenomenology

• adjacency between

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

• for: quote - epoche,

• quote: epoche

  • . It is admitted to perceive the world and its objects as a fragment of the experience of a consciousness that gives them meaning. It implies being warned of a tendency of the consciousness to see the world as already constituted and to forget its own activity, to make it anonymous

• for: scientific naturalism - circular argument, logical error, subjectivity - explanation, quote, quote - studying consciousness

• quote: consciousness

  • Human subjectivity is the foundation oof all scientific knowledge. Therefore, there is a logical error in trying to explain the foundation through what it has founded.

• author: Doris Elida Fuster Guillen

• comment

  • Alternative way to state it
    • Human subjectivity is the foundation oof all scientific knowledge. Therefore, there is a logical error in trying to explain the foundation through what itself.

• for: scientific naturalism - critique, scientific naturalism - phenomenology, consciousness - objectification of, SELF-consciousness

• comment

  • Good observation that is quite salient to the hard problem of consciousness. Language can be used to describe any observable pattern.
  • Our own bodies are an observable pattern. As we associate our consciousness with our body, It is a small step to observe our own consciousness. SELF-consciousness is what allows us to be observer and observed at different times.

• for: epoche, epoche - interfaith applications, Deep Humanity, DH, polycrisis, poltical polarization, religious polarization, hermenneutic, hermeneutical phenomenological method

• summary

  • a very insightful paper

• comment

  • I performed Google search for "Epoche and application to interfaith religion"
  • The reason is that I am exploring a hunch of the salience of applying epoche for deep interfaith understanding
  • political polarization constitutes an existential threat and is one important crisis in our current polycrisis
  • Unless we find ways to effectively and rapidly reduce polarization, the other crisis's such as climate crisis, biodiversity crisis and inequality crisis will likely not be resolved
  • religious polarization form ingroups / outgroups and is a major contributing factor to political polarization and violent conflict
  • hence it becomes important to understand how interfaith understanding can be enhanced
  • epoche appears to be one possible way to accelerate interfaith understanding

for: empathy, self other dualism, symbolosphere, Deep Humanity, DH, othering, What is it like to be a bat?, Thomas Nagel, ingroup outgroup

• title: What is it Like to be a Bat?
• author: Thomas Nagel

• date: Oct 1974

• comment

  • Forget about what it's like to be a bat, what's it like to be another human!
  • This is a paper that can deepen our understanding of what it means to be empathetic and also its opposite, what it means to participate in othering. In the fragmented , polarized world we live in, these are very important explorations.
  • Insofar as the open source Deep Humanity praxis is focused on exploring the depths of our humanity to help facilitate the great transition through the meaning / meta / poly crisis embroiling humanity, knowing what the "other" means is very salient.

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• for: quote - consciousness, quote - mind body problem, quote - hard problem of consciousness, quote - Thomas Nagel

• quote

  • Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

• comment

  • consciousness is primordial and
  • stable, observable patterns that emerge in our field of consciousness is also primordial
  • the primordiality of these two, awareness and stability of observable patterns WITHIN awareness itself, are the two pillars that constitute the mind-body problem
  • in particular, the pattern of "other consciousnesses" is also another pattern that arises from within consciousness itself
  • The brain is a construction, a synthesized idea that emerges out of a dynamic amalgamation of countless accumulated patterns
  • In this respect, it is no different in quality than other complex constructed ideas we humans create, it only differs by degree and by kind
  • Were we to purely sense a human brain, for instance when a surgeon opens the skull in an operation, without the vast associative network of ideas associated with it, could we even consider how brain and mind are connected except in the most naive way?
  • Language is deeply encoded in every culturally conditioned modern human. Then advanced education in a specific field of knowledge encodes even more esoteric and deeper types of language conditioning.
  • Husserl's idea of phenomenological reduction, or epoche taken to its logical conclusion results in an impossible task, for we cannot severe the deeply entangled nature of meaning that our entire lives of cultural conditioning has enculturated into us.
  • The symbolosphere is now a part of us. We cannot undo such deep conditioning easily. You cannot simply dissociate meaning from the letters and words of your native and learned languages. Indeed, it is this deep symbolic conditioning that spans the decades of our childhood and adolescence that allows us to observe a symbol and effortlessly associate meaning to it.
  • Epoche, no matter how carefully crafted cannot uncondition such deep conditioning
  • It can, however, give us insight of the unconditioned from the perspective of the conditioned consciousness
  • We cannot become feral people even if we wanted to, nor, I suspect, would we want to experience reality permanently in that state
  • This brings up the question of what the process of spiritual enlightenment is designed to achieve
  • Is it a temporary suspension, an incomplete epoche that provides us with sufficient insight to lead to some kind of permanent shift where the insight stays with us and affects our lives in a beneficial way?

.

• for: social superorganism - vs human multicellular being, social superorganism, Homni, major evolutionary transition, MET, MET in Individuality, Indyweb, Indranet, Indyweb/Indranet, CCE cumulative cultural evolution, symmathesy, Gyuri Lajos, individual/collective gestalt, interwingled sensemaking, Deep Humanity, DH, meta crisis, meaning crisis, polycrisis

• comment

  • True, there is no physical cohesion that binds human beings together into a larger organism, but there is another dimension - informational cohesion.
  • This informational cohesion expresses itself in cumulative cultural evolution. Even this very discussion they are having is an example of that
  • The social superorganism is therefore composed of an informational body and not a physical one and one can think of its major mentations as collective, consensual ideas such as popular memes, movements, governmental or business actions and policies
  • I slept on this and this morning, realized how salient Adam's question was to my own work
    • The comments here build and expand upon what I thought yesterday (my original annotations)
    • The main connections to my own sense-making work are:
      • Within our specific human species, the deep entanglement between self and other (the terminology that our Deep Humanity praxis terms the "individual / collective gestalt")
      • The Deep Humanity / SRG claim that the concurrent meaning / meta / poly crisis may be an evolutionary test foreshadowing the next possible Major Evolutionary Transition in Individuality.<br /> - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=MET+in+Individuality
        • As Adam notes, collective consciousness may be more a metaphorical rather than a literal so a social superorganism, (one reference refers to it as Homni
          • https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140701-the-superorganism-engulfing-earth
        • may be metaphorical only as this higher order individual lacks the physical signaling system to create a biological coherence that, for instance, an animal body possesses.
        • Nevertheless, the informational connections do exist that bind individual humans together and it is not trivial.
        • Indeed, this is exactly what has catapulted our species into modernity where our cumulative cultural evolution (CCE) has defined the concurrent successes and failures of our species. Modernity's meaning / meta / polycrisis and progress traps are a direct result of CCE.
        • Humanity's intentions and its consequences, both intended and unintended are what has come to shape the entire trajectory of the biosphere. So the impacts of human CCE are not trivial at all. Indeed, a paper has been written proposing that human information systems could be the next Major System Transition (MST) that could lead to another future MET that melds biotic and abiotic
          • https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=MST+-+information
          • or https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontiersin.org%2Farticles%2F10.3389%2Ffevo.2021.711556&group=world
        • This circles back to Adam's question and what has just emerged for me is this question:
          • Is it possible that we could evolve in some kind of hybrid direction where we are biologically still separate individuals BUT deeply intertwingled informationally through CCE and something like the theoretical Indyweb/Indranet which is an explicit articulation of our theoretical informational connectivity?
          • In other words, could "collective consciousness be explicitly defined in terms of an explicit, externalized information system reflecting intertwingled individual/collective learning?
      • The Indyweb / Indranet informational laminin protein / connective tissue that informationally binds individuals to others in an explicit, externalized means of connecting the individual informational nodes of the social superorganism, giving it "collective consciousness" (whereas prior to Indyweb / Indranet, this informational laminin/connective tissue was not systematically developed so all informational connection, for example of the existing internet, is incomplete and adhoc)
      • The major trajectory paths that global or localized cultural populations take can become an indication of the behavior of collective consciousness.
        • Voting, both formal and informal is an expression of consensus leading to consensual behavior and the consensual behavior could be a reflection of Homni's collective consciousness

• insight

  • While socially annotating this video, a few insights occurred after last night's sleep:
    • Hypothes.is lacks timebound sequence granularity. Indyweb / Indranet has this feature built in and we need it for social annotation. Why? All the information within this particular annotation cannot be machine sorted into a time series. As the social annotator, I actually have to point out which information came first, second, etc. This entire comment, for instance was written AFTER the original very short annotation. Extra tags were updated to reflect the large comment.
    • I gained a new realization of the relationship and intertwingularity of individual / collective learning while writing and reflecting on this social annotation. I think it's because of Adam's question that really revolves around MET of Individuality and the 3 conversant's questioning of the fluid and fuzzy boundary between "self" and "other"
      • Namely, within Indyweb / Indranet there are two learning pillars that make up the entirety of external sensemaking:
        • the first is social annotation of the work of others
        • the second is our own synthesis of what we learned from others (ie. our social annotations)
      • It is the integration of these two pillars that is the sum of our sensemaking parts. Social annotations allow us to sample the edge of the sensemaking work of others. After all, when we ingest one specific information source of others, it is only one of possibly many. Social annotations reflect how our whole interacts with their part. However, we may then integrate that peripheral information of the other more deeply into our own sensemaking work, and that's where we must have our own central synthesizing Indyweb / Indranet space to do that work.
      • It is this interplay between different poles that constitute CCE and symmathesy, mutual learning.
      • adjacency between
        • Indyweb / Indranet name space
        • Indranet
        • automatic vs manual references / citations
      • adjacency statement
        • Oh man, it's so painful to have to insert all these references and citations when Indranet is designed to do all this! A valuable new meme just emerged to express this:
          • Pain between the existing present situation and the imagined future of the same si the fuel that drives innovation.

• quote: Gien

  • Pain between an existing present situation and an imagined, improved future is the fuel that drives innovation.
• date: 2023, Nov 8

• for: adjacency - consciousness - multiscale context

• adjacency between

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

• for: panpsychism, Spinoza, universal consciousness

• for: Michael Levin - slime mold experiment, question - new theory of consciousness from a single cell

• question

  • is it possible that a theory can be constructed to explain consciousness from the behavior of a single cell organism such as a slime mold?

• for: quote - Michael Levin, quote - MET of individuality, quote - memory wipe, quote - cancer therapy - MET of individuality

• quote: Michael Levin

  • this is a cancer approach that we work on which is to not to kill those cells but to force them to re reconnect to their neighbors and when they reconnect to the neighbors they once again become part of the collective that's working on making nice skin nice muscle they stop being metastatic and they they go back

• comment

  • Michael refers to cancer as a "memory wipe" where they have forgotten the normative programmed narrative of bodily / collective / multicellular unity

• for: MET of individuality - examples of breakdown - cancer

• paraphrase

  • cancer is an example of when some part of the evolutionary program that coheres multicellularity into a cohesive whole goes faulty
    • then some subset of cells lose their coherence programming / story / narrative, the unity is lost and that cellular subset no longer identifies as part of the higher order collective individual, but return to a much more evolutionarily primitive state of pre-MET of individuality
  • this means that the MET individuality coherence program has weaknesses that can cause groups of cells to lose sight of the unifying logic and return to the primitive state
  • cancer demonstrates that these primitive programs still exist in all cells in our bodies and when the regulating coherence program is faulty, they can return to these more primitive states

• for: embryo development

• comment

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

• question

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

• adjacency question

  • is there a relatoinship between these two facts?

  • Could this

• for: social superorganism, MET, major evolutionary transition, MET of individuality, Michael Levin, Roy Baumeister, Adam Omary

• insight

  • this talk inspired an insight:
    • The contrast occurred to me with this talk especially, due to the respective areas of the two guests and Michael Levin's own interest of whether the signaling and policies within the collectives within a physiological body generalize in any way to larger social collectives that are outside of those physiological bodies. Rob Baumeister, being a social scientist is the perfect person to have such a conversation with.
  • In this case, those policies are composed of informational signals and it would seem the signals currently have nowhere near the cohesion that millions of years of evolution have resulted in within the biological body of a multicelllular organism

• for: MET, MST, MCT, FET, MET - information, MST - information, Amanda N. Robin, major evolutionary transition, major system transition, facilitating evolutionary transition

• Title:Major Evolutionary Transitions and the Roles of Facilitation and Information in Ecosystem Transformations

• Author: Robin et al.

• Date: 2021

• Abstract

  • A small number of extraordinary “Major Evolutionary Transitions” (METs) have attracted attention among biologists.
  • They comprise novel forms of
    • individuality and
    • information,

  • and are defined in relation to organismal complexity, irrespective of broader ecosystem-level effects.

  • This divorce between

    • evolutionary and
    • ecological consequences

  • qualifies unicellular eukaryotes, for example, as a MET although they alone failed to significantly alter ecosystems.

  • Additionally, this definition excludes revolutionary innovations not fitting into either MET type

    • (e.g., photosynthesis).
  • We recombine
    • evolution with
    • ecology
  • to explore how and why entire ecosystems were
    • newly created or
    • radically altered

  • as Major System Transitions (MSTs).

  • In doing so, we highlight important morphological adaptations that spread through populations because of

    • their immediate, direct-fitness advantages for individuals.

  • These are Major Competitive Transitions, or MCTs.

  • We argue that often
    • multiple
      • METs and
      • MCTs

  • must be present to produce MSTs.

  • For example, sexually-reproducing, multicellular eukaryotes (METs) with

    • anisogamy and
    • exoskeletons (MCTs)

  • significantly altered ecosystems during the Cambrian.

  • Therefore, we introduce the concepts of Facilitating Evolutionary Transitions (FETs) and Catalysts as

    • key events or agents that are insufficient themselves to set a MST into motion,
    • but are essential parts of synergies that do.

  • We further elucidate the role of information in MSTs as transitions across five levels:

    • (I) Encoded (Genetic);
    • (II) Epigenomic;
    • (III) Learned;
    • (IV) Inscribed; and
    • (V) Dark Information.

  • The latter is ‘authored’ by abiotic entities rather than biological organisms.

  • Level

    • IV has arguably allowed humans to produce a MST, and
    • V perhaps makes us a FET for a future transition that melds
      • biotic and
      • abiotic life
    • into one entity.
  • Understanding the interactive processes involved in past major transitions will illuminate both
    • current events and
    • the surprising possibilities that abiotically-created information may produce.

Indyweb / Indranet citations - Michael Levin, Roy Baumeister, Adam Omary youtube conversation - specifically, the question about whether a social superorganism of global human civilization / society / culture constitutes a new Major Evolutionary Transition of Individuality - https://hyp.is/rQgvZn2hEe6-TF8HFSS9mg/docdrop.org/video/UfoVTA0ilsY/

for: Major Evolutionary Transitions in individuality, MET, MET in Individuality

• Abstract
  • The evolution of life on earth has been driven by a small number of major evolutionary transitions.
  • These transitions have been characterized by individuals that could previously replicate independently, cooperating to form a new, more complex life form.
  • For example,
    • archaea and eubacteria formed eukaryotic cells, and
    • cells formed multicellular organisms.
  • However, not all cooperative groups are en route to major transitions.
  • How can we explain why major evolutionary transitions have or haven’t taken place on different branches of the tree of life?
    • We break down major transitions into two steps:
      • the formation of a cooperative group and
      • the transformation of that group into an integrated entity.
    • We show how these steps require
      • cooperation,
      • division of labor,
      • communication,
      • mutual dependence, and
      • negligible within-group conflict.
  • We find that certain ecological conditions and the ways in which groups form have played recurrent roles in driving multiple transitions.
  • In contrast, we find that other factors have played relatively minor roles at many key points, such as
    • within-group kin discrimination and
    • mechanisms to actively repress competition.
  • More generally, by identifying the small number of factors that have driven major transitions, we provide a simpler and more unified description of how life on earth has evolved.

• for key insight: object overshadows subject

• paraphrase

  • we become so focused on the object that we lose sight off our subjective involvement in the act of observation or participation.
  • she gives the example of writing in which we forget the sensations of the fingers because we are so engaged with the ideas flowing out

• for: definition, definition of experience, question, question - what is experience?

• question : experience

  • what use experience?

definition: experience - it just the sum of the sensations feelings emotions thoughts and actions that i live instant after instant

• for: cognitive neuroscience - shift from study of cerebral function alone, Fransisco Verella, cognitive neuroscience - study of lived experience

• for: meditation - improvement with micro phenomenological interview

• for: vanishing structures

• description: 3 types of

  • the separation we think we live:
    • between body and thought
    • between inner and outer space
    • the feeling of identity

• for: microgenesis

• for: instantaneous experience - micro phenomenological interview

• for: social change, rapid whole system change, social change - micro Phenomenological interview

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

• annotate

• for: key insight, key insight - Andrew Millison, key insight - geomorphology, quote, quote - Andrew Millison, quote - geomorphology

• definition: geomorphology, geomorphic

  • geomorphology.is the study of the shape of the land and geomorphic means conforming to the shape of the land.

• quote: Andrew Millison

  • The fundamental flaw of our civilization is that our political boundaries and our land management units, property boundaries are not conforming to the shape of the land. Because if they did, then decisions we made would have an integrated holistic landscape scale impact instead of a fragmented or fractured impact.
• date: 2023

• for: redistrict cities - based on watersheds, watershed - urban permaculture, urban climate action, climate action - urban scale

• summary

  • old communities were designed around watersheds. New cities are designed around arbitrary grids.
  • creating new districts based around their respective watersheds, an idea called watershed democracy makes sense
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKGvj50r_6w
      • then reservoirs can be customized to each respective watershed
        • neighborhoods can be redesigned around each watershed:
          • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R-fAc0wl10&t=5s

• for: IPCC - social behavioral change impact, quote, quote - IPCC social behavioral change

• quote

  • The forthcoming 6th IPCC report includes a chapter on demand-side mitigation solutions, which estimates that
  • sociobehavioral changes (on top of changes in infra- structure or technology) have the potential to reduce CO 2 emissions by 40% to 70% by 2050.

• comment
  • top down and bottom up actions compliment and strengthen each other.

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

• for: social tipping points - climate action, climate action - social tipping points, social norms - climate action, climate action - social norms, Damon Centola

• title: Scaling Up Change: A Critical Review and Practical Guide to Harnessing Social Norms for Climate Action

• author:
  • Sara M. Constantino
  • Gregg Sparkman
  • Gordon T. Kraft-Todd
  • Cristina Bicchieri
  • Damon Centola
  • Bettina Shell-Duncan
  • Sonja Vogt
  • Elke U. Weber
• date: 2022

• for: polycrisis

• for: climate science - for policymakers, climate science - for citizens, leverage point, leverage point - climate science, missed opportunity - citizen movement

• comment

  • has anyone thought about the idea of writing a science report - FOR THE CITIZEN? It seems that there is a potentially large missed opportunity by NOT seriously engaging the public with climate science and thinking that the policymakers are the only ones who can make the system change.
  • question
    • what if
      • climate science reports and studies can ALSO be written for THE GENERAL PUBLIC?

• for: voting - Iran. low voter turnout - Iran

• annotate

• annotate

• for: structure first, process second, mind first, consciousness second

• comment

  • claim
    • strictly speaking, all structures are processes. Those structures that seem stable over long periods of time are very stable processes. Pragmatically, however, we can distinguish.
    • example
      • molecules are made of arrangements of atoms but atoms themselves are composed of subatomic particles and these have a particle/wave duality

• summary
  • Konstantin Anokhin proposes a theory of consciousness based on the concept of the cognitome and consists of three principal claims:

    - the study of the structure (mind) must precede the study of the processes that take place within the structure (consciousness)

• for: language - concept formation, language - formation of abstract concepts

• for: progress trap, moloch - progress trap, progress trap - Moloch
• comment
  • This explanation leaves out one variable that defines the progress trap
    • https://hyp.is/6Lb6Uv5NEe2ZerOrftOHfA/www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/321797-a-short-history-of-progress

• for: Moloch, definition, definition - Moloch, trancontextual decontextualised reductionism, Nora Bateson

• comment

  • those is similar to Nora Bateson's description of decontextualised reductionism
    • https://hyp.is/vS3QOm49Ee69E8e7ZWchKg/docdrop.org/video/j44AVKgdORs/

• for: progress trap

• comment

  • this is similar to the Deep Humanity, contextual preamble that introduces progress traps.

• for: metacrisis, Moloch

• for: perspectival knowing, situatedness, othering, othering -perspectival knowing

• paraphrase

  • we are often so trapped within our own perspectival knowing at many levels:
    • as child,
    • as adult
    • as any category
    • as human, etc

• comment

  • our inability for deep empathy is tethered to our inability to escape the orbit of our perspectival knowing
  • processes that can help us with deeper empathy can mitigate destructive othering

• for: quote, quote - Nora Bateson, quote - double bind

• quote: Nora Bateson

  • being able to recognize a double bind is wonderful it's a really good thing to know how to do
  • it won't solve it for you but it will keep it from tearing you in half and that's something
  • generally you have to do a jump or come from another context
    • the response to double bind is never on either side of the bind, like never, which is so hard in a culture that is completely committed to linear strategic change making and solving if the if the solution looks nothing like the problem

• for: 3 things Nora learned from her father, mutual learning, indyweb - mutual learning

• paraphrase

  • first, Nora learned what his father was learning
  • second, Nora learned what it looks like to learn and
• third, and most important, Nora learned she could be in relationship in learning, mutual learning

• for: holism, progress trap, double bind, SDG failure

• comment

  • In the current silo'd approach typified by the SDGs, unintended consequences, or progress traps are unavoidable and are built into the approach itself.

• for: quote, quote - Gregory Bateson, sustainable development goals, SDGs, SDGs in one holistic image

• quote: Gregory Bateson

  • The major problems in the world are the difference between how nature works and how people think

• for: meme, meme - meet the double bind, double bind

• for: Deep Humanity, perspectival knowing

• for: example, example - double bind, you never tell me that you love me

• example: double bind

  • you never tell me that you love me
  • parent encouraging children to be independent but then asking them " don't you love me?"
  • encouraging children to speak their mind but then having standardized test scores
  • having to work to stay alive but sacrificing being with our children, aged parents or other loved ones in order to do so
  • maintaining our current precarious lives working at destructive and meaningless jobs in order to survive

• comment

  • these examples seem to be more indicative of contradiction than multiple contexts

• for: double bind, definition - double bind - evolutionary, Gregory Bateson - definition of double bind

• for: definition, definition - double bind

• definition: double bind

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

• comment

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

• for: double bind - difficulty, insight - double bind

• insight: double bind

  • one of the problems of the double bind is that you are often so caught in the extreme drama of the situation that it becomes very difficult to see beyond it

• for: quote, quote - Nora Bateson, quote - polycrisis - individual

• quote

  • the individual is carrying the load for the polycrisis

• comment

  • the individual is carrying the load of the polycrisis but it is unfair

• for: example, example - decontextualized problems, interconnected problems, intertwingled problems, entangled problems

• example: unintended consequences of:

  • agricultural on education
  • tourism and air transportation on clean air and respiratory human health

• for: holism, polycrisis, quote, quote - Nora Bateson, quote - polycrisis, intertwingled problems

• quote

  • This is what happens when we don't tend to the whole, things break. The responses that get made to one part at a time and then those responses create more problems.
  • So you say we have to address the climate change problem so clearly we have to stop producing carbon.
    • but that sends the economy into complete failure.
    • If you send the economy into complete failure, then you're going to not have health systems and people aren't going to support themselves and your going to have food crisis

• for: quote, quote - Nora Bateson, quote - polycrisis, decontextualized perceptions

• quote

  • some people refer to the multiple contextual crises of this era as a polycrisis some people refer to it as a meta crisis I prefer poly crisis but we won't get into that discussion today and this is what happens when for a century and a half we have decontextualized our perception of the world and
    • education is separated from politics is separated from economics
    • is separated from family
    • is separated from ecology or the environment and now we have crises looming and we have environmental crises we have got crises in the education system we've got crisis in the health systems
• author: Nora Bateson

• for: indyweb - mindplex, indranet - mindplex, symbolosphere, making the invisible visible

-for: similar to, similar to - metacrisis example

• similar to
  • https://hyp.is/ypdXFnA-Ee69OSunL0_XAg/docdrop.org/video/IjOQB608ylQ/

• for: polycrisis, quote, quote - polycrisis, quote - Nora Bateson

• quote

  • every time we pick at one piece of those polycrisis we end up actually creating more problems in other contexts

• author: Nora Bateson

• example

  • climate change If we do, all emissions suddenly, we will create an economic crisis, then without money, a health and social crisis

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

• for metacrisis - Nora Bateson, double bind - Nora Bateson, Nora Bateson double bind - Nora Bateson

• for: cognitive dissonance, local vs global, polycrisis - cognitive dissonance

• for: metacrisis framework, progress trap - metacrisis sensemaking

• comment

  • progress trap framing would help provide an overarching sensemaking framework

• annotate
• for: metacrisis

• Annotate

• for: microphenomenology, phenomenology, meditation

• for: microphenomenology, phenomenology, meditation

• for,: phenomenology, micro phenomenology, meditation,

,- epoche, Roche - applying in science

• for: situatedness, perspectival knowing, example, example - perspectival knowing

• for: Hamas Israel war 2023, son of Hamas leader