After talking with you today, I just kept thinking about that percolation exercise and GEB. I think with the percolation model, I felt like I really understood complexity, or at the very least, emergence. When you look at the basic elements of that model, its just an n by n…

Follow any line of reasoning in this society, and it returns back to justify itself. The problems that we see at the surface (such as climate change, mass shootings, and the list go on) are all founded upon systems that are only justified in terms of themselves. The self-justification can’t…

It was my first time at the bouldering gym a few weeks ago, and it embodies so much of my understanding of value and liberation. Before I get into it, I should note that businesses in general — especially those in gentrified areas — are not an actual example of…

My main interest right now is to use the core of cognition to talk about the broad range of social shapes that are available to us as a species, or as a part of a broader ecosystem. The shapes of society should help us accomplish what makes a mind worth…

There are some questions central to sustaining life that determine the world we live in today. Returning to these central questions can help us redesign society and eliminate the problems resulting from poorly-thought out answers manifested in reality. Questions brought up by Elinor Ostrom: “How do we best limit the…

I’d like to update our philosophy of human nature, or as I prefer to call it, “the psychosocial essence,” so that we can update our psychosocial philosophies and the realities that rest on it. I don’t believe that there should be separate philosophies of “human nature” and social life. Everything…

A better social world starts off with asking the right philosophical questions. If we get the philosophy right, or at least if we get the questions right, then the reality based on them will be on the right track. If we get the questions right, we can always adjust our…

Getting ourselves out of social systems also means getting out of ourselves. We need to embrace the complexity of psychosocial phenomena and dig in to how they work and how we can shape them for a liberatory future. We need to abandon the idea of only thinking about social systems…

Rejection is what I’m looking for now. Rejection is super validating to me. It means that I’m expressing myself in a real way, and for whatever reason, someone doesn’t like that. I’ve spent a lot of time being agreeable, and it’s really depressing. For me, being agreeable is being on…