Considering discreet phase shifts in addition to changing the shape of curves provides a new perspective on the future. It unveils the potential for significant shifts and the need to anticipate and facilitate them. Neglecting to study discreet phase shifts can result in a false sense of certainty and overlook crucial phenomena. This oversight can lead to misguided decisions and strategies, such as moral considerations around depopulation, highlighting the importance of understanding the unknown aspects in forecasting and decision-making.
On this episode we meet with founding member of The Consilience Project, Daniel Schmachtenberger.
In Part 3 of their series, Schmachtenberger and Hagens explore metanarratives. Why are they threatening to various sections of society?
Further, Schmachtenberger helps us understand how we can take in the systemic metacrisis facing humanity in ways that grant us agency, rather than despair.
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/31-daniel-schmachtenberger