Fight Like An Animal

Exploring temperamental variations, political engagement, and evolutionary traits in humans and animals. Delving into stress coping styles, societal subordination, and the instinctual drive for liberation. Introducing the 'heart refuses to die' concept and analyzing dopamine-mediated traits in shaping political tendencies. Emphasizing the importance of emotional endurance in navigating societal challenges and individual differences.

Thorstein Grunwald's quest for extreme consciousness states intertwines with groundbreaking climate science. Explore how visionary experiences led to scientific breakthroughs, including the fascinating origins of the EEG. Delve into the urgent politics of ecological survival as Grunwald's legacy is honored. The collaboration with the World Tree Center opens pathways to a redefined scientific perspective, showcasing the essential role of the observer in addressing climate change. A compelling narrative of friendship, tragedy, and scientific evolution unfolds.

Dive into the fascinating evolution of selfhood and its implications for environmental politics. Explore how societal complexity might not be intrinsically negative and whether nature exists outside human influence. Discover insights on consciousness, the critique of Silicon Valley's hype, and the interconnectedness of life. The discussion emphasizes our active role in ecological health and proposes a hopeful outlook, advocating for collective agency in addressing modern challenges.

This podcast explores the evolution of Jesus of Nazareth from revolutionary to apolitical figure, examining the political implications of his crucifixion. It delves into the different types of Messianic figures in Jewish religion and the concept of collective redemption in political movements. The podcast also discusses the depoliticization of Christianity, the evolution of Christian beliefs, and the biology of defeat in both arthropods and vertebrates.

Explore the potential of synthetic biology and the evolution of human ecology. Discuss the concept of life-based material production, customizable biological technology, and integration of technology into living spaces. Delve into the role of developmental bioelectricity and the potential of DNA as a storage medium. Consider the ethical implications of genetic modification and rapidly developing human capacities.

Dr. Shane Simonsen, an expert in social and ecological complexity, discusses the decline of reactive aggression, low-cost methods of transgenic experimentation in agriculture, the power of short stories, and the potential of local food systems and algae production in this fascinating podcast.

Metanoia: How Worldviews Change is an engaging podcast that explores the reasons why most people are unresponsive to the world's problems. The hosts discuss their unique paths that led them to question reality and become ecologically conscious. They also introduce the importance of frameworks for discussing worldviews and the project of transforming perceptions to address the ecological crisis.

Learn about vivimancy, a form of synthetic biology that replaces technology with direct interaction with living systems. Explore the water carrier organism, which desalinates the Pacific ocean and gives birth to a forest with 100% photosynthetic efficiency. Discover how vivimancers visualize and affect these organisms down to the molecular level. Reflect on meditation, survival, evolution, and connections, as well as the incorporation of others and the synthesis of genetic sequences.

Fight Like An Animal has generated an incredible audience consisting of rigorous thinkers who possess deep empathy. These traits, which are too rarely combined in political movements and institutions, mean that we have the potential to collaborate on truly novel, worthwhile projects. Thus is born, friends, the World Tree Center for Evolutionary Politics and Global Survival. World Tree applies the central logic and worldview of the podcast to six strategic initiatives, comprising institutions of both research and parallel governance. Find out about the Embodied Political Cognition Collective and its new podcast/video series Metanoia: How Worldviews Change, collecting narratives of transformations of temperament and corresponding belief systems. Hear about what appears likely to be Arnold's first formal contribution to the scientific literature, the beginning of an attempt to generate the revolutionary process described in so many Scientific Militant fiction episodes. And learn, as well, friends, about four other programs of revolutionary biology and evolutionary politics whose indomitability of spirit, scope of ambition, and elegance of conception could not possible be relegated to the confines of mere episode description.

A wide-ranging conversation between Arnold and Daniel of What Is Politics? concerning the prospects for social transformation in this dreamlike age of epistemic fracture. We talk about the impact of declining social cohesion on traditional modes of political organizing; whether the internet can do anything other than make people stupid and crazy; and how lessons from evolutionary biology and anthropology apply to our utterly novel environment. Somewhere along the way, we talk about the biology of the naked mole rat, whose societies resemble the “civilizations” of social insects; the Goldilocks magnitude of crisis, that creates political possibility without starving everyone to death; the methodological horror show of evolutionary psychology that talks about genes “for” complex behavioral traits; how the fragmentation of knowledge by academic discipline enables hierarchy; and how the inverse correlation between social dominance and social comprehension means its best not to use big words when talking to venture capitalists. A good deal of what is discussed here provides a problem statement for which the next episode provides tentative answers.