The origin of the superorganism was much earlier than 10,000 years when we found agriculture and started to optimize for surplus. It's not only the recursability to imagine abstractions and to invent technology but it's also because we're ultra social we're not a solitary species Jonathan Hite who's going to be on this show soon in his book The Righteous Mind says that humans are 95% ape and 5% bee like we have a lot of behavioral attributes of the social insects so that we copy and we coordinate and we collaborate in ways that other species don't.
In this fourth installment of conversations with Daniel Schmachtenberger, we dive deeper into the nuances of humans using energy, materials and technology. Human’s ability to develop and use tools is one of our greatest strengths - yet has also led to increasing destruction of the natural world. How does technology intensify the binding effects of a world order based on growth? Is there any way out - or could global solutions just make the problem worse?
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/42-daniel-schmachtenberger