Metamodernism, Transcending Critique, Optimal Degrees of Freedom and the Return of Board Games

Brendan Graham Dempsey and Cory Barker help Karen to gain a greater understanding of Metamodernism.

Brendan is writer, poet, farmer, and systems thinker. As Director of Sky Meadow Institute, he works on productively bridging the divide between science and spirituality.

Cory has a Master of Arts in Social Science and Informatics and is working on a PhD with a research focus on applying big picture thinking to improved AGI design. He serves as President of the Archdisciplinary Research Center (Arc.voyage)

If you haven't already seen it, I highly recommend my first conversation with Cory Barker as background (which explores the concept of moving from discipline, to interdisciplinary, transdisciplinarity and finally to archdisciplinarity as a method of solving intractable problems.) We also cover how the world works and other interesting things:-). https://youtu.be/LwqByLmk1AU?si=LqS2kXXfo4-Qj99_

Topics covered: (If anyone wants to turn this into timestamps, go for it.)

AGI, LLM's, tokenization and statistical inference

Computable functions related to development psychology

The natural relations of Knowledge

More efficient systems that take less energy to run

The brain autonomously organizes information Universal classes of human experience Dynamic skill Theory, Kurt Fischer Reflexes, sensory motor, representations skills, pairing concepts and action/words, abstraction

The Universal Learning Process Adaptive Complexity

Coupling of an agent to its environment (wittedness)

Variation and selective retention

Autopoesis and cognition

Coupling between elements and the formal systems

Unlike other animals, we are not perfectly fitted to our environment, but are made for space Antagonism drives adaptation.

We are not endlessly pliable

Our linguistic component allows us to go off into abstract space

The free energy principle, maximum freedom

Think beyond our environments We advance on the basis of our previous equilibriums

Ted Lasso and metamodernism

Critique and transcend (the pattern of culture shock, also)

Universal process of automation

Cause and Effect Forming a stable system with a boundary space

Cascades through the interior

Universal process of concretion

Creates a stake through the system

The optical way to process info Free energy principal

A set of expectations, a model that we hope will hold up and avoid surprise

We continually update our model and that will minimize the distance between our expectation and the reality

Anomaly drives hierarchical complexification

How space affects equilibrium

Turning point Ted Lasso and space

Earnestness and Sincerity in the context of irony and cynicism

Bill Tolbert, Action Inquiry

A stage model of managerial styles postmodernism - ironist metamodern - a sense of coherence @ what is going on

Understanding how things are relating to each other

Arch modernism

Entropy production is creative

Alicia Juarrero

Maximum complexity before it becomes chaos

Randomness is not high in info

Chaology - a study of the hidden order inside chaos, too difficult for us to understand at this point

Metamodernism, transcending the critique of postmodernism