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• 14:15, 2 September 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Tribal Fictive Kinship (Created page with " =Description= John Robb: "For the vast majority of our history as modern humans, we lived in tribes. Tribes are the organizational boost that lets us overcome the scaling limits of families and clans bound by blood relations. To achieve this, tribes employ a concept known as fictive kinship. Fictive kinship is a connection that allows people to form a familial relationship with someone who isn’t actually related by blood. It’s fictive in that it isn’t actually...")
• 07:57, 29 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Liberal Way of War (Created page with " =Discussion= Adam Tooze: "The liberal way of war. This has four essential components: Normative, Historical, Tactical, Political. In normative terms, the enemy is the bad guy - uncivilized, the aggressor, standing in the way of progress. They must be erased. “Exterminate the brutes” is the battlecry. Though the particular forms of stigmatization are distinctive, this general structure is not particular to liberal conceptions of war. It is the combination of thi...")
• 07:41, 29 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Fourth Major Evolutionary Transition (Created page with " =Discussion= =='Axial Entities of the Noosphere as the Fourth 'Major Evolutionary Transition'== David Ronfeldt: "This will be a "Fourth Major Evolutionary Transition” (MET) from a TIMN and NOO perspective. The first occurred when the oral information-communications revolution enabled the tribal form to take hold ages ago; The second, when writing and printing enabled the hierarchical institutional form to consolidate a couple millennia ago; The third...")
• 07:20, 29 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Axial Entities of the Noosphere (Created page with " = David Ronfeldt suggests the emergence of “axial entities of the noosphere” (AEONs; or AXEONs?) =Contextual Quote= '''1.''' "If something crucial arose during the primeval evolution of the geosphere, and something equivalent recurred in the ancient evolution of the biosphere, then it’s bound to recur as well in the evolution of the noosphere. Geological evolution led to the formation of enormous tectonic plates under-girding Earth’s continents. They are s...")
• 07:50, 28 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Baltimore Community Commons (Created page with " = "designed to be a comprehensive, financially self-sustaining model for Community Wealth Building that can be replicated in communities throughout the U.S." [https://www.baltimorecommunitycommons.org/about] URL = https://www.baltimorecommunitycommons.org/ ''"Because meaningful, lasting change requires trust, we need place-based ecosystems that build community connections, expand on existing assets, and reward mutual support."'' Category:Localization Cate...")
• 05:02, 28 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cultural Land Trust (Created page with " '''= "SECURE THE FUTURE OF CULTURAL VENUES THROUGH COLLECTIVE LAND STEWARDSHIP"''' URL = https://www.lamain-fonciere.coop/ =Example= In French, followed by English translation: <La Main, une foncière culturelle, solidaire et citoyenne POUR PÉRÉNNISER LES LIEUX CULTURELS PAR UNE MAITRISE FONCIÈRE COLLECTIVE D’où l’on vient ? Les Tiers-Lieux culturels, lieux intermédiaires et indépendants, friches culturelles, affirment l’art, la culture et l’espace...")
• 06:42, 27 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Mid-Tech (Created page with " =Discussion= ==Theorizing mid-tech: a framework for a just circular economy== Vasilis Kostakis: "The pursuit of sustainability has often been polarized between high-tech and low-tech approaches, each with significant limitations. High-tech solutions, while powerful, frequently prioritize technical sophistication and efficiency over social equity and accessibility, often reinforcing existing power asymmetries and resource-distribution patterns . Low-tech approaches, t...")
• 06:36, 27 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Low Tech (Created page with " =Research= Vasilis Kostakis: "Researchers have begun exploring alternative approaches. Tanguy, Carrière, and Laforest (Citation2023) demonstrate that low-tech solutions provide more than simplified technologies; they represent a holistic vision for sustainability that integrates technical, social, and organizational dimensions. Their analysis shows that while resource efficiency and material reuse remain important, small-scale, localized technical appropriation – r...")
• 06:11, 27 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Metabolic Flow Accounts (Created page with " '''= "continuous reporting of energy, food, carbon, biodiversity flows".''' [https://indoeden.substack.com/p/metabolic-infrastructure-508] =More information= * Metabolic Infrastructure * Biosenescence, = the the terminal threshold of natural productivity [https://biosenescence.com/] < The future of natural capital depends on recognising biological time. Until you include biosenescence, you’re not measuring reality. > Category:P2P Accounting Categ...")
• 12:38, 26 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Metabolic Infrastructure (Created page with " =Description= MAATR: "A new economic classification that recognizes living biological systems as appreciating infrastructure assets. Unlike traditional infrastructure that depreciates toward zero value, metabolic infrastructure compounds in value through natural biological processes. This paradigm shift represents the most significant advancement in economic theory since the invention of compound interest, offering institutional investors the first truly appreciatin...")
• 07:27, 26 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Question of Scale in Bioregionalism (Created page with " =Discussion= == The Question of Scale in Bioregionalism == Benjamin Life: "Critics of bioregionalism often raise the question of scale. How can watershed-based organizing address global challenges like climate change or ocean acidification? How do bioregional networks coordinate beyond their boundaries? What happens when bioregional interests conflict? These questions reveal both limitations and possibilities within the bioregional framework. The honest answer a...")
• 07:06, 26 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Collapse Awereness Movements (Created page with "=Typology= Benjamin Life: "a growing movement of collapse-aware communities has emerged. These range from the Doomer subcultures who have simply opted out — withdrawing into nihilistic acceptance or individual preparation — to sophisticated networks attempting to build alternatives. The spectrum is vast: preppers stockpiling ammunition, ecovillages creating autonomous zones, transition towns relocalizing economies, and bioregional movements rebuilding from the grou...")
• 06:32, 26 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Strategic Foresight (Created page with " '''= "The disciplined exploration of plausible futures to inform decision-making in conditions of complexity and uncertainty".''' [https://ageoftransformation.org/introducing-the-planetary-intelligence-bulletin/] Category:P2P Futures Category:Research ")
• 10:49, 25 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Special Interest Group in Formal Protocol Theory (Created page with " = "Formal Protocol Theory seeks general unifying principles, concepts, and methods across a vast scope of cultural and technological phenomena and across a wide range of scales, from micro to macro. From handshake-scale to planet-scale." [https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com/p/what-is-formal-protocol-theory] URL = https://protocolized.summerofprotocols.com Search for Venkatesh Rao. Category:Protocols and Algorithms Category:Research Category:Moveme...")
• 14:35, 24 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Energy SuperAbundance Hypothesis (Created page with " = The SuperAbundance Hypothesis: < overbuilding renewables is not waste — it’s the cornerstone of a post-scarcity energy future. > "we dive deep into current research on overbuilding renewables – examining its feasibility, cost-effectiveness, and implications." See: Nafeez Ahmed reviews the research at [https://ageoftransformation.org/inside-the-breakthrough-science-of-clean-energy-superabundance/] =More information= '''References:''' American Solar Energy S...")
• 14:04, 24 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Former vs Informal Empire (Created page with " =Contextual Quote= * "The foremost contradiction in our recent political systems has been the antagonism of formal and informal empire. The former is engaged in what we conventionally understand under conquest and colonisation: Armies under the banner of some nation showing up in another part of the world in order to take territory. The latter runs on the soft power of international legitimacy, the art of diplomacy and the strength of a common vision for the future."...")
• 13:56, 24 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cross-Horizon Encounter (Created page with " =Discussion= Charles McKelvey: "when we seek to understand, we proceed within a particular social context, which includes a coherent set of values, facts, and assumptions concerning the world. Stressing that this worldview is rooted in a particular social place, Lonergan calls it our “horizon,” analogous to a place from which we view a physical landscape. He wrote, “As our field of vision, so too the scope of our knowledge, and the range of our interests are bou...")
• 07:57, 24 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Henry Farrell on LLMs as Cultural Technologies (Created page with " =Discussion= Chor Pharn: "Henry Farrell – LLMs as Cultural Technologies and the Return of the Prophetic Spirit Henry Farrell’s view is LLMs are “cultural technologies”, deeply enmeshed in human social systems rather than isolated artificial brains. Human beings, as Herbert Simon reminds us, are remarkably limited in individual problem-solving capacity and thus outsource much of our cognition to larger social systems. Over centuries we have leaned on markets,...")
• 07:54, 24 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Progress Studies (Created page with " URL = https://www.lesswrong.com/w/progress-studies =Description= Arctotherium: "Progress Studies is a combination of academic discipline and political movement aiming to study “the causes of civilizational progress”, i.e., the “economic, technological, scientific, and cultural advancements that have transformed human life and raised standards of living over the past couple of centuries”. Those under its banner (such as Tyler Cowen and Jason Crawford) tend t...")
• 06:29, 24 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Planetary Health Check (Created page with "'''= "the most comprehensive, science-based global initiative dedicated to measuring and maintaining the Earth system."''' URL = https://www.planetaryhealthcheck.org/ Category:P2P_Accounting Category:Thermodynamic_Efficiencies Category:Ecology")
• 15:57, 23 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Commons-Based Strategy of Social Change (Created page with " =Source= '''* Article: What do we do, right now, at this moment in the transition ? Suggestions for a commons-based strategy of social change. By Michel Bauwens, Jun 23, 2025''' URL = https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/what-do-we-do-right-now-at-this-moment =Text= Michel Bauwens: ==Recapitulating the evolution of the commons== In our last Substack article, we attempted to provide a full historical overview of the evolution of the commons as an insti...")
• 15:41, 23 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page SEEDS Currency (Created page with " URL = https://joinseeds.earth/ =Description= Mammouth.AI: “Chuck Harris's SEEDS Currency is a blockchain-based complementary currency designed to foster sustainability, community collaboration, and regenerative economics. It operates on a Bancor-like system, allowing for dynamic exchange rates between different community currencies while maintaining liquidity.” =Characteristics= Key Features of SEEDS Currency ==Complementary Currency System== SEEDS is not...")
• 15:37, 23 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Commodity Reserve Currency (Created page with " =Description= Mammouth.AI: “Benjamin Graham, the legendary investor and father of value investing, proposed the idea of a Commodity Reserve Currency (CRC) as a way to stabilize the global monetary system. His concept was outlined in his 1944 book, "World Commodities and World Currency" (co-authored with Frank D. Graham), and later refined in his 1949 book, "The Intelligent Investor. =Characteristics= Key Features of Graham’s Commodity Reserve Currency (CRC):...")
• 15:32, 23 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Theosis (Created page with " =Discussion= Alexander Beiner: "When things fall apart, the promise of control hits like a drug. But what if there’s a better high? Namely, Theosis. The pendulum swing in cultural values we’re living through might be part of a deeper trend in the Western psyche. In his recent session on Sensemaking 102, cognitive scientist John Vervaeke argued that Western culture pendulums so wildly because of an inability to reconcile two aspects of human agency rooted in the C...")
• 15:26, 23 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Vilfredo Pareto's Residues vs Derivations (Created page with " =Typology= Westering Sun: "One of Burnham’s key influences was Vilfredo Pareto, a polymath who conceived social behaviour as shaped by two forces: residues and derivations. * Residues reflect the deep, unspoken impulses that drive behaviour—such as the instinct to preserve our physical security, property or territory. * Derivations, meanwhile, are the surface rationalizations that mask instinctive drives beneath appeals to morality, fairness, or other general...")
• 12:17, 23 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page AI-Enabled Localization (Created page with " =Description= Benjamin Life: “Paradoxically, the same AI threatening global homogenization enables unprecedented localization. This represents a fundamental shift from centuries-old economies of scale driving centralization toward "economies of scope"—efficiently producing highly customized solutions for specific communities and contexts. Rather than relying on centralized monopolies for one-size-fits-all solutions, communities can build bespoke systems tailored...")
• 12:14, 23 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page GENIUS Act (Created page with " '''* The GENIUS Act: Permission-Based Planetary Ownership''' URL = https://indoeden.substack.com/p/the-day-nature-became-a-security =Description= MAATR: "On July 18, 2025, the GENIUS Act became law. Buried in regulatory language was this line: "Only permitted issuers may issue a payment stablecoin for use by U.S. persons, subject to certain exceptions and safe harbors." This sentence restructures planetary ownership. The act grants states the right to issu...")
• 12:11, 23 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Permission-Based Planetary Ownership (Created page with " * See: GENIUS Act Category:Peerproperty Category:P2P Law ")
• 11:57, 23 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page AI Democracy Levels Framework (Created page with " '''* Position Paper: Democratic AI is Possible: The Democracy Levels Framework.''' URL = https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09222? =Description= "This position paper argues that effectively "democratizing AI" requires democratic governance and alignment of AI, and that this is particularly valuable for decisions with systemic societal impacts. Initial steps -- such as Meta's Community Forums and Anthropic's Collective Constitutional AI -- have illustrated a promising direct...")
• 06:58, 23 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Community Funding Protocols (Created page with " '''= "empower communities to collectively fund initiatives that align with their values, from Universal Basic Income (UBI) schemes to public goods, art, open-source software, and more."''' [https://greenpill.network/pdf/onchain-impact-networks.pdf] =More information= * Report: On-Chain Impact Networks: How Crypto Is Being Used To Regenerate The World. A GreenPill Network Writer’s Guild. URL = https://greenpill.network/pdf/onchain-impact-networks.pdf Catego...")
• 06:56, 23 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page On-Chain Impact Networks (Created page with " '''* Report: On-Chain Impact Networks: How Crypto Is Being Used To Regenerate The World. A GreenPill Network Writer’s Guild.''' URL = https://greenpill.network/pdf/onchain-impact-networks.pdf =Context= "An impact DAO or impact network is a group of individuals coordinating to create systems change in alignment with pluralistic values and vision. - Ron Rivers Using web3 tech and specifically distributed consensus mechanisms to empower social infrastructure and pos...")
• 07:39, 21 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Biosenescense (Created page with " '''= Biosenescense = the the terminal threshold of natural productivity''' URL = https://biosenescence.com/ < The future of natural capital depends on recognising biological time. Until you include biosenescence, you’re not measuring reality. > =Description= + "WHAT IS BIOSENESCENCE “It is not the end of life. It is the end of yield.” Biosenescence is the moment when a living system can no longer produce value even though it remains biologically alive....")
• 07:33, 21 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page UNIT - Fractal Monetary Ecosystem (Created page with "'''= "fractal monetary framework, which allows global financial system to function without directly using any national currencies for international trade and reserves".''' URL = https://wp.unitfoundation.org =Description- White Paper: "The UNIT fractal monetary ecosystem introduces a practical approach to creating essentially “apolitical money” that can be freely used as a storage of value or currency for payments via any open payment and clearing system, while...")
• 06:58, 21 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Civilizational Memory (Created page with " =Characteristics= Venkatesh Rao: "'''Civilizational memory can be understood in terms of three entangled strands — affective, declarative, and procedural'''. These correspond, roughly, to myth-based, event-based, and econo-legal senses of history. The US constitution, for instance, embodies all three elements in a single print-based artifact. There is the sacralized mythology (bordering on theology, complete with a reverential hermeneutic tradition) of what the Fo...")
• 06:35, 21 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science (Created page with " =Description= Scott Morris and Stephen DeMeulenaere: "R. Buckminster Fuller’s vision of Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science offers a radical and necessary alternative. Fuller, an iconoclastic inventor, architect, and systems theorist, proposed a proactive methodology for problem-solving that aims to “reform the environment, not man.” It is not about predicting the future, but about understanding trends, patterns, and the fundamental principles governing co...")
• 06:36, 20 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Credible Neutrality in Web3 Funding Mechanisms (Created page with " = research project '''* Credible Neutrality Through Mechanism Design in Dedicated Domain Allocation: A Commons-Based Approach to Collective Intelligence.''' URL = ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cepg2JIlEJjAVhbwTFEYdRQ2q1ukk2ADEnbKqY1OcXM/edit]) =Description= '''1.''' "This research explores how credible neutrality can emerge through mechanism design in dedicated domain allocation systems, specifically within the context of commons-based collective intellige...")
• 13:03, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Created page with " '''* Book: Elizabeth Eisenstein. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe.''' URL = =Discussion= Venkatesh Rao: "The book clearly draws out the difference between the technology of the printing press, and the protocols of print culture that took root in the abstract soil it created. The emergent European effects of these protocols — the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment — soon reshaped the entire world. Based on Eisenstein’s model,...")
• 07:56, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Cosmopolitan Communities (Created page with " =Discussion= Ralph Horat and Jan Baeriswyl: “While village communities have for a long time been the place where social bonds were being forged and one’s own identity was being formed, that changed radically in the course of industrialization. Our everyday life has been divided into private and professional life, our space into individualistic housing estates and private office buildings, and our social environment into a circle of family and friends and work coll...")
• 07:41, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Stephen DeMeulenaere (Created page with " '''= monetary activist and author of Pathways to Regeneration''' =Bio= "Stephen DeMeulenaere first became involved with community currencies in 1990, as a member of the Victoria Local Exchange Trading System offering gardening and painting services while studying Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Victoria in Canada. He was the Administrator of Victoria LETS from 1992-1996, then turned his focus to community currency developments in Mexico and A...")
• 07:39, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Scott Morris (Created page with " = monetary activist and author of Pathways to Regeneration =Bio= "Scott Morris began working with community currencies in 2009 after having graduated into the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Political Economics from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. After his family lost their business and home in the crisis, he developed a personal appreciation for how Main St. paid the price for Wall St. speculation, a...")
• 07:33, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Autonomy Income (Created page with " =Description= Translated from Frédéric Bosqué, via DeepSeek: "Piloted in Lustrac, it is a form of unconditional basic income, distributed in local community currency to residents to cover their essential needs. Its value is backed by a relocalized, sustainable, and vital production system—including healthy food, water cycles, waste recycling, renewable energy, sustainable housing, shared vehicles, and more—provided by a cooperative territorial ecosystem within...")
• 07:29, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Local Community Currency (Created page with " =Description= Translated from Frédéric Bosqué, via DeepSeek: "It is a (in our case, digital) currency issued and used within a limited territory, complementing the euro, with the aim of relocalizing the economy, strengthening community exchanges, and promoting durable and essential goods and services for residents. Managed democratically by citizens, LCCs bring meaning back to every transaction by directing spending toward ecological and solidarity-based initiative...")
• 07:25, 19 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Patient Capital with Moderate Returns (Created page with " =Description= Frédéric Bosqué: "Financing the transition requires long-term investments that accept modest returns rather than immediate profits. Unlike "fast-moving" capital seeking quick gains, patient capital invests responsibly over the long term, accepting reduced and deferred benefits. It aims to move finance away from speculation and refocus it on creating real value, supporting worthwhile projects that take time to mature (renewable energy, sustainable agri...")
• 07:37, 18 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Institutional Self-Negation (Created page with " =Description= Benjamin Life: "Let's talk about what bioregional backbone organizations can uniquely provide. These are traditional nonprofits, but with a radically different purpose. Think of them as translation membranes — interfaces between the dying world of empire and the emerging world of bioregional commons. They speak the old language when necessary: receiving grants, signing contracts, interfacing with government agencies, providing tax receipts. But here'...")
• 07:32, 18 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Bioregional Commoning (Created page with " =Contextual Quote= ==digital networks enable commoning at bioregional scale== < ''We're taking ancient wisdom about how to share and govern together, and we're applying it with modern tools at the scale of living systems''. > "We can practice collective governance across entire watersheds, with thousands of participants, in ways our ancestors couldn't imagine. Networks become the soil in which bioregional commoning can grow. I also want to honor David Henke and th...")
• 07:26, 18 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Radio-Biometric Data (Created page with " =Description= Jem Bendell: "Scientists at the Italian university have developed a method, nicknamed “WhoFi”, which uses the subtle disturbances we make when passing through WiFi signals to identify us with over 95% accuracy, even through walls. This is not surveillance in the form we’ve grown used to, such as cameras, facial recognition, or GPS. It is something more ambient, invisible, and insidious, especially given the widespread roll out of 5G, which uses sim...")
• 07:24, 17 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Limitations of Blockchain and DAOs for Complex Economic Processes (Created page with " '''* Article: Beyond the Ledger: Why Blockchain and DAOs Fall Short for Complex Economic Organizations, and How OVNs Point the Way Forward Synthesized with AI from documents developed by Tiberius Brastaviceanu, with the help of Sacha Pignot. Sensorica, 2025.''' URL = https://sensoricablog.blogspot.com/2025/07/beyond-ledger-why-blockchain-and-daos.html =Description= "We are witnessing a profound transformation in the architecture of global economic activity. The trad...")
• 06:51, 17 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Measuring Societal Complexity (Created page with " =Discussion= Peter Peregrine: "It seems clear that societal scale, complexity, and integration have all increased in a roughly linear fashion over the past 12,000 years. Thus, there is clear evidence for unilineal trends in cultural evolution such that societal scale, complexity, and integration all tend to increase over time. The presence of these unilineal evolutionary trends clearly supports the validity of cultural evolutionary research, and contradicts critiques...")
• 06:42, 17 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Measuring Changes in Societal Scale (Created page with " = < ''societal scale has increased in a roughly linear fashion over the past 12,000 years'' > [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245534439_Atlas_of_Cultural_Evolution] Peter Peregrine: "Societal Scale: '''Changes in societal scale are perhaps best measured by the Urbanization and Population Density variables'''. Graphs showing the means of these variables at 1000-year intervals for the last 12,000 years are given in Figures 2.A.4 and 2.A.5. Means have clearly...")
• 06:29, 17 August 2025 Mbauwens talk contribs created page Archaeoethnology (Created page with " =Description= Peter N. Peregrine: "Comparative research is a necessary tool in evolutionary science. It is only through comparison that we can identify diversity, and it is the creation and maintenance of diversity that evolutionary science attempts to understand. Within anthropology, comparative research is usually called cross-cultural research or ethnology. The unit of analysis in such research is the culture. What constitutes a culture is rather loosely defined,...")