User contributions for Mbauwens

8 September 2025

• 13:4813:48, 8 September 2025 diff hist +62‎ Recursive Value Systems Frameworks ‎ →‎Tools
• 13:4713:47, 8 September 2025 diff hist +9,089‎ N 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..."
• 13:3513:35, 8 September 2025 diff hist +796‎ Pluralistic Capital Allocation Using Blockchain Tools ‎No edit summary
• 13:3313:33, 8 September 2025 diff hist +2,510‎ Capitalism ‎ →‎Characteristics
• 13:2913:29, 8 September 2025 diff hist +537‎ Category:Mutual Coordination ‎ →‎Emergent Stigmergic Infrastructures of Mutual Coordination
• 13:2813:28, 8 September 2025 diff hist −5‎ Pluralistic Capital Allocation Using Blockchain Tools ‎No edit summary
• 13:2713:27, 8 September 2025 diff hist +694‎ N 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..."
• 12:5812:58, 8 September 2025 diff hist +1,649‎ Cancel Culture ‎ →‎Description current

7 September 2025

• 14:3014:30, 7 September 2025 diff hist +979‎ N 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..." current
• 14:2814:28, 7 September 2025 diff hist +353‎ N 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 " current
• 14:2714:27, 7 September 2025 diff hist +387‎ Category:Protocols and Algorithms ‎ →‎Key Books
• 14:2514:25, 7 September 2025 diff hist +915‎ N 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..." current
• 14:2314:23, 7 September 2025 diff hist +996‎ N 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..." current
• 14:2214:22, 7 September 2025 diff hist +902‎ Category:Protocols and Algorithms ‎ →‎Quotes
• 14:2114:21, 7 September 2025 diff hist +1,268‎ Category:IP ‎ →‎Long Citations
• 14:1814:18, 7 September 2025 diff hist +671‎ Category:Mutual Coordination ‎ →‎Videos
• 14:1714:17, 7 September 2025 diff hist +1,079‎ N 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..." current
• 14:0914:09, 7 September 2025 diff hist +2,232‎ N 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..." current
• 13:5813:58, 7 September 2025 diff hist +1,248‎ Category:P2P Solidarity ‎ →‎Quotes
• 13:5813:58, 7 September 2025 diff hist +1,250‎ Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Commons Economics ‎ →‎Contextual Quotes current
• 13:5613:56, 7 September 2025 diff hist +1,287‎ N 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..."

5 September 2025

• 04:3104:31, 5 September 2025 diff hist +3,169‎ N 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). ===..." current
• 04:2904:29, 5 September 2025 diff hist +64‎ Time-Binding ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2604:26, 5 September 2025 diff hist +1,956‎ N 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..."
• 04:2304:23, 5 September 2025 diff hist +373‎ Category:Cosmobiological ‎ →‎Key Articles current
• 04:2204:22, 5 September 2025 diff hist +801‎ N 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..." current
• 04:1504:15, 5 September 2025 diff hist +20‎ Capitalism ‎ →‎More Information
• 04:1404:14, 5 September 2025 diff hist +5,729‎ N 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..." current
• 04:0004:00, 5 September 2025 diff hist +743‎ N 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..." current

4 September 2025

• 10:0510:05, 4 September 2025 diff hist +4,227‎ N 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..." current
• 10:0310:03, 4 September 2025 diff hist +3,117‎ Network Sovereignty ‎No edit summary
• 09:5809:58, 4 September 2025 diff hist +14,183‎ Network Sovereignty ‎No edit summary
• 09:4909:49, 4 September 2025 diff hist +3,717‎ Network Sovereignty ‎ →‎Discussion: Claims for Sovereignty in Network Landscapes=
• 09:4609:46, 4 September 2025 diff hist +7,077‎ Network Sovereignty ‎No edit summary
• 09:4109:41, 4 September 2025 diff hist +7,035‎ N 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..."
• 09:3709:37, 4 September 2025 diff hist +59‎ Sovereignty ‎ →‎More Information
• 09:3509:35, 4 September 2025 diff hist +1,666‎ Sovereignty ‎ →‎Description
• 09:2809:28, 4 September 2025 diff hist +620‎ Network Nations ‎ →‎Description current
• 04:2204:22, 4 September 2025 diff hist +3,934‎ Egregore ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2104:21, 4 September 2025 diff hist −1,424‎ Egregores ‎ Replaced content with "See: Egregore Category:Intelligence" current Tag: Replaced

3 September 2025

• 16:5416:54, 3 September 2025 diff hist +639‎ N 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..." current
• 16:4916:49, 3 September 2025 diff hist +77‎ Isonomia ‎No edit summary
• 16:3716:37, 3 September 2025 diff hist +354‎ N 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 " current
• 16:3416:34, 3 September 2025 diff hist +2,175‎ N 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..." current
• 16:3216:32, 3 September 2025 diff hist +101‎ N Federative Plurality ‎ Created page with " =Example= See our entry on the Lycian League. Category:Democracy Category:Governance " current
• 16:3116:31, 3 September 2025 diff hist +67‎ Isonomia ‎No edit summary
• 16:2516:25, 3 September 2025 diff hist +2,906‎ Isonomia ‎No edit summary
• 12:5912:59, 3 September 2025 diff hist +13‎ Fourth Generation Civilization Substack Newsletter of Michel Bauwens ‎ →‎Thematic Clustering
• 12:5212:52, 3 September 2025 diff hist +1,609‎ N 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..." current
• 12:5012:50, 3 September 2025 diff hist +2,496‎ Plurality ‎No edit summary