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• 03:35, 26 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Expanded Now (Created page with " =Description= Richard Hames: "One of the most profound shifts needed in futures literacy is a reimagining of time itself. Western models teach us to see and experience time as linear, a relentless arc of progress, invariably teleological. But then many indigenous and non-Western traditions view time as cyclical—an underlying pulse with cadences of growth, decay, and renewal. The Māori concept of Whakapapa, for instance, reminds us that the past, the present, and t...")
• 11:53, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page China as the First Electrostate (Created page with " =Discussion= ==China as the First Electrostate== Chor Pharn: "An electrostate is a country whose power rests on surplus electrons and compute. Instead of living off scarcity rents — coal seams, oil wells, or gas pipelines — it manufactures abundance: solar, wind, nuclear, batteries, and FLOPs. It exports that abundance as electricity, synthetic fuels, and digital infrastructure. China is the world’s first electrostate. In 2023 it added more solar capacity...")
• 11:52, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Electro State (Created page with " =Discussion= ==China as the First Electrostate== Chor Pharn: "An electrostate is a country whose power rests on surplus electrons and compute. Instead of living off scarcity rents — coal seams, oil wells, or gas pipelines — it manufactures abundance: solar, wind, nuclear, batteries, and FLOPs. It exports that abundance as electricity, synthetic fuels, and digital infrastructure. China is the world’s first electrostate. In 2023 it added more solar capacit...")
• 05:44, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Pooling Formula of Human Development (Created page with " >< The Coercion Formula of Human Development =Description= Will Ruddick: '''"The Pooling Formula: Communities maximize shared prosperity when pooled and kept promises outweigh the risk of broken promises and everyone’s ability to pull on the commons is capped."''' To say this in another way … We all do well when: People keep their promises more than they break them (you can count on help showing up), and There are clear limits so no one promises too muc...")
• 05:40, 25 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Coercion Formula of Human Development (Created page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "From outright slavery to modern wage coercion, societies have repeatedly optimized for surplus extraction by binding people into work they cannot freely refuse. The formula behind this is simple: '''The Coercion Formula: Elites maximize their gains when the profits they extract are larger than the costs of enforcing control.''' Whenever the costs of maintaining guards, laws, or surveillance are lower than the wealth squeezed from people...")
• 08:42, 23 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Trust-Minimized Scaling (Created page with " '''= "Solve every problem, at every scale, with the minimal mutual trust required among participants for success."''' [https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/beyond-szabo-scaling] =Context= Venkatesh Rao: '''1.''' "Early in the crypto story, circa 2009-13, there was a lot of talk of trustless architectures, but there has since been a growing appreciation that that’s too strong a term, and not even imaginable in principle, let alone practice. So phrases like “t...")
• 13:10, 20 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Threshold of Counterproductivity (Created page with " = concept of Ivan Illich =Description= Dougald Hine: "In his pamphlets of the 1970s, Illich analysed what he termed the “threshold of counterproductivity”: the point beyond which increasing the intensity or the amount of a given thing begins to produce the opposite of the intended effect. Returning to the study of history, he wrote of “the war on subsistence” and the destruction of the “vernacular” domain: the capacity of households to meet their own and...")
• 05:05, 18 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cratology (Created page with " = the study of power =Description= Peter Limberg: "Power is a language one can speak and hear, and it is not explicitly taught in school but rather concealed. The powerful do not want you to be power literate, because they do not want you to know they have power. Rule #1 among the power-savvy: maintaining power requires concealing it. Being knowledgeable about politics does not translate into having good power literacy. In fact, many who are interested in politics...")
• 15:32, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Replacement Economics (Created page with " '''= "the profitable practice of pretending to solve issues by replacing the technology, rather than addressing the issue. Replacement economics defers issues into the future by using new technologies that eventually unravel and compound the problems they were meant to solve."''' [https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/replacement-economics-the-scam-that] =Examples= See: https://georgetsakraklides.substack.com/p/replacement-economics-the-scam-that Category:Eco...")
• 09:41, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Digital Stack for People and the Planet (Created page with " '''* Report: Rikap C., Durand, C., Paraná, E., Gerbaudo, P. and Marx P. (2024). Reclaiming digital sovereignty: A roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet.''' Available at: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/Reclaiming-Digital-Sovereignty =Abstract= "This policy paper outlines a progressive reform agenda to enhance digital sovereignty for people and the planet with the following 4 key proposals: * Offer a democratic, public-led dig...")
• 09:04, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Scale Theory (Created page with " * '''Book: Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry. Joshua DiCalglio.''' URL = =Description= “It’s a book bout how contemplating scale can transform us — how it’s one thing to understand the microcosm and macrocosm through our maps and another thing entirely to really sit with the mystery of how all of this is happening at once. We can conceptually differentiate ourselves from the rest of the cosmos, but scale makes it clear that at no point do we ever...")
• 09:02, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Joshua DiCaglio on Scale Theory (Created page with " Video via https://michaelgarfield.substack.com/p/h-15 =Description= Conversation on the '''Book: Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry. Joshua DiCalglio.''' “It’s a book bout how contemplating scale can transform us — how it’s one thing to understand the microcosm and macrocosm through our maps and another thing entirely to really sit with the mystery of how all of this is happening at once. We can conceptually differentiate ourselves from the rest of...")
• 09:00, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Matthew Segal on a Participatory Approach to the Life Sciences (Created page with " Video via https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/my-biophilosophy-conference-talk =Description= “This participatory framework, exemplified in Goethe’s intuitive science, Peirce’s abductive reasoning, and Rudolf Steiner’s esoteric phenomenology, reveals evolution not as random variation under differential selection but as purposive metamorphosis guided by what Whitehead terms an immanent divine “initial aim.” The essay concludes that revitalizing the life...")
• 08:57, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Against the Machine (Created page with " '''* Book: Against the Machine. Paul Kingsnorth.''' URL = https://paulkingsnorth.net/against-machine? =Description= "An account of the technological-cultural matrix enveloping all of us. The culmination of two decades of my writing and thinking about technology, culture, spirituality and politics, it seeks to offer an insight into how the techno-industrial culture that I call ‘the Machine’ has choked Western civilisation, is destroying the Earth itself, and is r...")
• 08:55, 10 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Amagi Village Podcast (Created page with " Podcast series via https://open.spotify.com/show/6KGJfBnSkoP2aPlh1vPmpT =Description= “Explores how we can redesign the village for the 21st century. Through conversations with innovators, entrepreneurs, and community builders, we document our journey of building a family-friendly eco-village in Koh Phangan, Thailand, with an intentional vision for the future of living, working, and education. Using a venture builder model, we’re experimenting our way forward, l...")
• 12:45, 9 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Max Bennet's Stages in the Evolution of Multicellular Animals vs Valentin Turchin's Metasystem Transitions (Created page with " =Discussion= Francis Heilighen: I recently finished a book that I consider required reading for all those interested in cognition and evolution. For once, all the superlatives (“Amazing”, “Fabulous”, …) by famous scientists on the book blurb are truly deserved! The author, Max Bennett, is a young neuroscience and AI researcher. He did a formidable job synthesizing the results of hundreds of often highly technical papers and books in such diverse disciplines...")
• 12:43, 9 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Brief History of Intelligence (Created page with " '''* Book: Bennett, Max S. (2023). A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains. Mariner Books.''' =Discussion= Francis Heilighen: I recently finished a book that I consider required reading for all those interested in cognition and evolution. For once, all the superlatives (“Amazing”, “Fabulous”, …) by famous scientists on the book blurb are truly deserved! The author, Max Bennett, is a young neuroscienc...")
• 12:35, 9 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Research on Social innovation for Biodiversity (Created page with " '''* Article: Social innovation for biodiversity: A literature review and research challenges. By Rafael Ziegler, Josephine Balzac-Arroyo, et al. Ecological Economics, Vol 193 | March 2022.''' URL = https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800921003955 = ummary= ‘There are calls for social innovation to help with the effort to halt biodiversity loss. However, research on social innovation and biodiversity is dispersed and covers a multitude of...")
• 12:32, 9 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ann Brody on Organizational Culture in the Ethereum Ecosystem (Created page with " Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxQiUzUrGFQ Category:Crypto Governance Category:Webcasts ")
• 12:23, 9 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Constitutional Monarchy (Created page with " =Discussion= ==Advantages== Lipton Matthews: "Calls to become a republic tend to frame the monarchy as a colonial remnant whose time has passed. This narrative is emotionally compelling but often overlooks the specific institutional benefits that constitutional monarchies offer. Jamaica, like other Commonwealth countries that retain the monarch as head of state, operates under a system that has provided political stability, symbolic unity, and continuity of governanc...")
• 14:24, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Blockchain-Based Verification Systems (Created page with " =Typology= Benjamin Life: ==Global Impact Markets: Aggregating Contextual Attestations== "The emergence of Blockchain-Based Verification Systems creates possibilities for what economist Mariana Mazzucato might term "markets shaping" rather than just market-taking—intentionally designing market infrastructures that recognize and reward public value creation. These systems can create what might be called "attestation markets" where contextual impact claims become...")
• 14:24, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Contextual Attestations of Value Creation (Created page with " =Typology= Benjamin Life: ==Global Impact Markets: Aggregating Contextual Attestations== "The emergence of Blockchain-Based Verification Systems creates possibilities for what economist Mariana Mazzucato might term "markets shaping" rather than just market-taking—intentionally designing market infrastructures that recognize and reward public value creation. These systems can create what might be called "attestation markets" where contextual impact claims become...")
• 14:19, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Commons-Based Peer Production System for Capital Allocation (Created page with " =Discussion= Benjamin Life: "The transition from theoretical frameworks to implemented systems requires attention to what sociologist Bruno Latour terms "translation"—the process by which abstract ideas become concrete sociotechnical arrangements. This translation process involves several interconnected components: '''Ontological engineering'''. Developing formal taxonomies of value that can be computationally represented and operated upon. This involves collaborat...")
• 14:13, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Self-Definition in Impact Measurement (Created page with " =Description= Benjamin Life: "Traditional impact measurement typically imposes external frameworks on communities, reflecting what anthropologist James Scott termed "seeing like a state"—rendering complex social realities legible to distant authorities. In contrast, emerging approaches emphasize what scholars Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang call "refusal"—communities' right to define impact on their own terms. ... These approaches transform impact measurement from a...")
• 14:09, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Post-Capitalist Philanthropy (Created page with " =Description= Benjamin Life: "Looking beyond even the most innovative evolutions of impact investment, we discover the emerging field of what might be termed "post-capitalist philanthropy"—approaches that direct capital not toward ameliorating problems within existing systems but toward creating structural conditions for new economic arrangements. This approach recognizes what decolonial theorist Arturo Escobar terms "pluriversal design"—creating conditions for m...")
• 14:03, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Pluralistic Value Assessment (Created page with " =Tools= Benjamin Life: "The measurement of heterogeneous forms of value is not merely aspirational—it is already happening in increasingly sophisticated ways: '''Impact measurement frameworks.''' Tools like the Ecological Benefits Framework (EBF) provide structured approaches to assessing ecological and social impact across different domains. When combined with verification technologies like those described above, these frameworks enable credible impact claims that...")
• 13:53, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Zero-Knowledge Verification (Created page with " =Description= Benjamin Life: "Cryptographic zero-knowledge proofs enable verification of claims without revealing underlying data. This allows for the verification of impacts without compromising privacy or creating new forms of surveillance. For instance, labor conditions in supply chains can be verified without exposing individual worker data. A company could prove that all workers in its supply chain earn living wages without revealing specific salary information,...")
• 13:47, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Recursive Value Systems Frameworks (Created page with " =Context= Benjamin Life: "The emergence of cybernetics—defined by Norbert Wiener as "the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine"—offers powerful tools for reimagining economic coordination. Cybernetic thinking emphasizes feedback loops, information flows, and emergent behavior within complex systems. Applied to economics, it suggests alternatives to both centralized planning and market fundamentalism. Stafford Beer's Viable System M...")
• 13:27, 8 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Pluralistic Capital Allocation Using Blockchain Tools (Created page with " '''* Article: Beyond Narrow Optimization. Reimagining Capital in the Networked Age. Benjamin Life. Sep 03, 2025''' URL = https://omniharmonic.substack.com/p/beyond-narrow-optimization? =Description= "This essay argues that by developing pluralistic capital allocation systems, we can transcend the limitations of narrow financial optimization while preserving the coordinative efficiency that markets provide. By expanding what we measure, value, and incentivize, we can...")
• 14:30, 7 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Tyrants (Created page with " =Discussion= ==On the historical, ‘populist’ role of the ‘Tyrants’== Via Deep Noetics: “We can observe the rise of Hellenistic tyrants in the late 7th century BC. Tyrants, therefore, are the first rulers known to have passed laws to limit competitive luxury. The main reason was not that the costs of such luxury would be better diverted to public use for the community’s good. Luxury was divisive in the upper class and a threat, too, to the tyrant’s own p...")
• 14:28, 7 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Imagining the Digital Future Center (Created page with " = "research initiative of Elon University focused on the impact of the digital revolution and the future of the ever-deepening relationship between humans and machines. The Center was established in 2000 and renamed with an expanded research agenda in 2024." URL = https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org Category:Research Category:P2P Futures ")
• 14:25, 7 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, (Created page with " '''* Book: Narayanan, A., & Kapoor, S. (2024). AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference. Princeton University Press.''' URL = =Review= Francis Heylighen: an excellent book debunking the AI hype: "The authors also have a free newsletter, with many of their articles listed below. They offer a much-needed pragmatic view on AI as just another wave of impactful “normal” technology, such as electricity, the c...")
• 14:23, 7 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Matteo Pasquinelli, Maurizio Lazzarato et al. on the Biopolitical Turn (Created page with " Video via https://vimeo.com/20198246 =Description= “transmediale 2011 panel on : Life at Work: Bioeconomy and the Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism More than just 'collective intelligence' and our brain skills, digital economy is absorbing today the whole of our social relations and monetizing the very physical desire of communication. Moreover the crisis of so-called cognitive capitalism within the intellectual property regime as well as educational institutions acr...")
• 14:17, 7 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Lynn Foster on Integrated Value Flows Software for Open Source, Globally Coordinated Economies (Created page with " Video via https://entangledfutures.fm/episodes/economies-that-flow-an-open-source-blueprint-XcKPeIi8PeT/ =Description= "In this episode, Lynn Foster—champion of open-source software and co-author of the Value Flows vocabulary—shares her journey from corporate software development to creating commons-based economic infrastructures. She explains how Value Flows provides a shared language for representing economic activity, enabling projects and organizations to coor...")
• 14:09, 7 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Ocean Model of Civilization (Created page with " =Description= Nayef Al-Rodhan: "Transcultural understanding, cultural cross-fertilization, and historically-based cultural commonality have a long and rich history, one that has been forgotten or downplayed by the Western collective memory, as demonstrated by rhetoric such as that espoused in the framework of the global war on terror. Recovering this common history helps us to go beyond cultural and civilizational stereotyping and to recognize conflict as contingent r...")
• 13:56, 7 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cosmo-Local Credit (Created page with " =Description= Will Ruddick: "What if everyday access to resources didn’t need an employer or lending interest at all? What if it were as simple as neighbors and organizations offering what they already do best, tapping a shared line of credit today, and settling up in-kind tomorrow? That’s the heart of cosmo-local credit. You create a physical or digital voucher (a gift card for your goods or services) and stake it in a community commitment pool. That voucher is...")
• 04:31, 5 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Maps vs Territory (Created page with " =Discussion= ==The Map|Territory Analogy== Ric Ammurio: Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. If the map could be ideally correct, it would include, in a reduced scale, the map of the map; the map of the map, of the map; and so on, endlessly, a fact first noticed by [Josiah] Royce (Korzybski, 1994, p. 58). ===...")
• 04:26, 5 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Time-Binding (Created page with " =Discussion= ==What makes humans human? Time-binding== Ric Ammurio (summarizing Korzybski): ===Plants as Chemistry-binders=== “Plants absorb, or bind, specific chemicals in their immediate environment. They reproduce cells and produce growth. Growth and reproduction are influenced by other environmental factors such as climate, gravity, and (of course) plant-eating animals and pollinating insects. ===Animals as Space-binders=== Animals possess (to varying degr...")
• 04:22, 5 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Participatory Approach to the Life Sciences (Created page with " '''* Article: A Participatory Approach to the Life Sciences. Matthew David Seagall. Footnotes to Plato, 2025''' URL = https://footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/my-biophilosophy-conference-talk =Description= "This essay argues that mechanistic biology, despite its technical successes, fundamentally misunderstands life by reducing organisms to externally related parts governed solely by efficient causation. Drawing on a philosophical lineage from Kant through Goethe, Nova...")
• 04:14, 5 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Shareholding (Created page with " =Discussion= ==Adam Smith’s critique of Shareholding== John C. Medaille: “Capitalism and Corporations: One cannot long find oneself in possession of a few excess dollars without soon getting advice to “invest” them in the stock market. But in a 2022 issue of New Polity Magazine, Jacob Imam and Marc Barnes took on this primary symbol of capitalism, this same stock market, posing the question of whether a Christian should even buy stocks at all. Now, as radic...")
• 04:00, 5 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Using LLMs to Enhance Democracy (Created page with " '''* Article: Using LLMs to Enhance Democracy. By Seth Lazar and Lorenzo Manuali. Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab, 2025.''' URL = https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.08418 =Description= "Researchers and practitioners have recently asked whether LLMs can support democratic deliberation by leveraging abilities to summarise content, to aggregate opinion over summarised content, and to represent voters by predicting their preferences over unseen choices. In...")
• 10:05, 4 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Web3 Sovereign Stack for Network Nations (Created page with " =Discussion= Primavera de Filippi and Felix Beer: " The flourishing of Network Nations hinges on developing robust self-sovereign infrastructure that enables these communities to coordinate effectively while maintaining independence from both state control and corporate capture. This is where Web3 technologies play a crucial role: as the building blocks for new infrastructural systems that are collectively owned, transparently governed, and resistant to external c...")
• 09:41, 4 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Network Sovereignty (Created page with " =Description= Primavera de Filippi and Felix Beer: "Network sovereignty captures the emergence of new forms of sovereignties grounded in network technologies and digital infrastructures. Network sovereigns do not operate within the territorial borders of the nation-state, instead, they exercise political agency within, through, and by virtue of networks. To analyse this emerging concept as both a continuity and a rupture with the Westphalian model, we can revisit the...")
• 16:54, 3 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Blockchain Politics (Created page with " '''* Book: Blockchain Politics. Ideology and the Crisis of Social Trust. By Kieron O’Hara. Elgar, 2025.''' URL = https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/blockchain-politics-9781802207927.html =Description= "Likening contemporary extremes of far-right populism and identity politics to 17th century Peasants and Puritans, Blockchain Politics examines the enduring importance of trust in political life. Kieron O’Hara develops a new theory of trust to analyse how these extre...")
• 16:37, 3 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Decentralized Participatory Intelligence Network (Created page with " = Human DEPIN, "a system where people can not only contribute articles but also design, vote, and co-create the very rules that govern decentralized systems". [https://medium.com/@tarikcanaytac/tribe-to-community-city-state-to-state-now-its-network-state-7010de6f0b6b] Category:Democracy Category:Crypto Governance Category:Peergovernance ")
• 16:34, 3 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Lycian League (Created page with " =Description= The Lycian League, a model of federative plurality, by @tarikcanaytac : "While Ionian cities practiced Isonomia, their southern neighbors in Lycia pioneered another model: federative plurality. In the 5th century BCE, the Lycian League united 23 autonomous cities. Representation in the central assembly was proportional to city size large cities had three votes, medium ones two, and small cities one. This innovative system balanced local autonomy wit...")
• 16:32, 3 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Federative Plurality (Created page with " =Example= See our entry on the Lycian League. Category:Democracy Category:Governance ")
• 12:52, 3 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Digital Sphere (Created page with " =Description= Mark Stahlman: "EXO believes the Digital paradigm is more accurately characterized as a “Sphere,” a civilizational subconscious mindset ordered around the focal points of language and definitions of what it means to be human. The Digital Sphere competes against two other Spheres, centered respectively around Western and Eastern civilizations. Collectively, the Three Spheres represent a classic 3-body problem that is forcing the disintegration of the...")
• 12:47, 3 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Elite Knowledge Networks (Created page with " =Description= Nel: "Inderjeet Parmar (2019) terms this the soft machinery of elite knowledge networks: “flows of people, money, and ideas” that institutionalize consensus from Washington to Berlin. The Fulbright Program, the German Marshall Fund, Atlantik-Brücke, the Munich Security Conference, and the Bilderberg Meetings are formative ecosystems. They sort, school, and elevate those who can carry the worldview forward. Critically, these networks are not passive...")
• 14:44, 2 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Protopolis Lab (Created page with " '''= "investigates and prototypes civic protocols and emerging technologies that enable collective life to flourish—in tomorrow’s polis, networks, and habitats".''' URL = =Description= About Protopolis Lab: "Protopolis” fuses “proto” and “polis,” evoking the iterative prototyping of civic protocols within the city-as-commons—a public realm of governance, reciprocity, and collective imagination. The physical and digital are increasingly collapsing in...")