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Encouraging radically new ways of thinking about the limits of human perception and the limitless reach of human imagination to adapt to climate uncertainty.

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« Honey, will you tell the kids that free will is an illusion, that consciousness is a product of evolution, that notions such as praise and blame probably produce more harm than good, and that our species has yet to come up with a good plan to avoid long-term extinction? »


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Our conception of time is what prevents us from perceiving everything happening at once ?


“Facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.” Maya Deren, quoted by Joseph Campbell in Myths to live by


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Is it useful to use "Free will" in the sense of a "perception of free will", ie the conscious experience of oneself as the author of one's actions? An action feels freely taken if it is immediately predicted by consciousness. Less conscious actions feel less free.


Why have humans so much trouble acknowledging the lived experience of other living things?


Ask a living being: Is this meaningful to you?


The curriculum of modern education rests on the assumption that conditions in the natural environment which allow the human species to flourish are guaranteed. They are not.


The key to human resilience is to find comfort in unpredictability


GPT-4 has some nice practical and new ideas for geo-engineering to alleviate global warming


Paradoxically perhaps, the pervasive idea of freedom of will puts constraints on thought and imagination that one day almost certainly will be laughable.


Does anyone have a nice poster of the evolutionary tree of life? Or could create one? We'll pay for it. #treeoflife #evolution #posterdesign


Is human consciousness a by-product of evolution?


We will learn so much about human consciousness in the next 10 years that our experience of agency and causes of action, individual and collective, will fundamentally change.


I don’t think we’re mature enough as a species to use private jets appropriately.


“Climate uncertainty and human behaviour” by Fundamentals Foundation link.medium.com/NY3iwiEunwb

allfundamentals's tweet image. “Climate uncertainty and human behaviour” by Fundamentals Foundation
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Human nature is nature.


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