Inspired by the engaging discussion between Nate Hagens and Robert Sapolsky, I’ve decided to crystallize some thoughts on the topic that have been percolating for some time. Sapolsky asserts that free will is essentially a product of an individual’s long-term and short-term histories, which shape biases and neurochemistry. …

(0) This post is a continuation and deepening of that post and a response to the question of how to move from the current paradigm (moloch/gameA/etc) into a life serving one. (aka: breaking the multipolar trap) (1) The mechanism of breaking the multipolar trap is the development of individual and…

(1) We produce money at exponential rates (M3 doubles every 10 years) and back this money with GDP (doubling every 20 years). Since GDP ultimately about how many atoms can be moved by a part of the world in a given timeframe and moving atoms requires energy, the energy requirements…

In her book “Lo-TEK” Julia Watson describes many highlights of indigenous infrastructure from various areas of the world. One of these are the “Jingkieng Dieng Jri”, the living root bridges of the Khasi people of northern India. The Khasis cultivate roots over generations into bridges and ladders as the only…

In the past two centuries humanity has used cheap energy to extract resources from the environment and grow the population of the species exponentially. This behavior occurs often in nature and results in boom-bust cycles of populations. …

Tightening the loop between System One and System Two leads to coherence and therefor congruent action towards the intention of System Two. Maybe it is the closest approximation of free will humans are capable of. The core drive that leads to such a tightening of the loop is curiosity. Some…

Gregg Henriques idea of the Tree Of Knowledge is a great framework to use when looking at the here-now of human existence on the planet. Stuart Kauffmans idea of the Theory of the adjacent possible and its cousin, the idea of the combinatorial explosion as well as Geoffrey Wests findings…

In the recent conversation between Lex Fridman and Joscha Bach, Joscha reiterates his theory of how consciousness arises which if find incredibly useful. So useful, that i base a large part of the argument for this post on it. In essence he says that life always tries to optimise towards…

For a long time i was convinced that i — and every other human — have an essence that makes us who we are. I imagined it like a pearl, pure and indestructible. But when i peeled back the layers of me — the ego, the self and so on…