For us to be able to coordinate lots of human activity, a in a big corporation or military or whatever, we need to be. able to decompose complex tasks into a bunch of small tasks. In doing so, and this is kind of key to reductionism, as we convert the complex to the complicated, we convert the a self organizing nature of nature to a some taxonomy that you can separate thinking. And it's why complex chronic disease doesn't actually have cures, ecause we don't understand them. The same is true with can you fix the environment without understanding industry and impho structure and economics and human political theories like it's all deeply connected.
On this episode we meet with founding member of The Consilience Project, Daniel Schmachtenberger.
In Part 3 of their series, Schmachtenberger and Hagens explore metanarratives. Why are they threatening to various sections of society?
Further, Schmachtenberger helps us understand how we can take in the systemic metacrisis facing humanity in ways that grant us agency, rather than despair.
About Daniel Schmachtenberger:
Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue.
The throughline of his interests has to do with ways of improving the health and development of individuals and society, with a virtuous relationship between the two as a goal.
Towards these ends, he’s had particular interest in the topics of catastrophic and existential risk, civilization and institutional decay and collapse as well as progress, collective action problems, social organization theories, and the relevant domains in philosophy and science.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/31-daniel-schmachtenberger