John Gowdy: “Superorganisms, Crazy Ants, and Fire Apes, Oh My!"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Downward Causation
civilization eats energy, and its doing whatever it can to access more energy by changing the rules or issuing debt. But within that there ar there are levels of hierarchy. Downward causation means that the higher levels in the hierarchy tend to dominate the lower levels. And so this super organism, this thing that's not a thing, self organizing system that has no self the rules to keep it going. You see that playing out now, sort of on the world stage.
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