Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Origins of the Superorganism
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.
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