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John Gowdy: “Superorganisms, Crazy Ants, and Fire Apes, Oh My!"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Downward Causation
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civilization eats energy, and its doing whatever it can to access more energy by changing the rules or issuing debt. But within that there ar there are levels of hierarchy. see that playing out now, sort of on the world stage. In terms of energy, ean, you mention finance. I mean, something like one or two % of the total energy used now is made to mind bit coins. How crazy is that? There whole countries like iceland is tapping its hydro power toMind bit coins. The higher levels in the hierarchy tend to dominate the lower levels. And so this super organism, this thing that's not a thing, self organizing system that has no self the rules to keep
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