Emerge: Making Sense of What’s Next
Society & Culture
This week I'm speaking with Daniel Schmachtenberger.
Daniel 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.
Motivated by the belief that advancing collective intelligence and capacity is foundational to the integrity of any civilization, and necessary to address the unique risks we currently face given the intersection of globalization and exponential technology, he has spoken publicly on many of these topics, hoping to popularize and deepen important conversations and engage more people in working towards their solutions. Many of these can be found here.
We talk about the current state of the phase shift, whether we are past the point of no return for social collapse, Daniel’s three generator functions of existential risk, the definition of an adequate social architecture that avoids existential risk, how technology creates asymmetric advantage that debases the planetary life support system, why we need to create technology that leads to ‘metastability’, the pollution of the epistemic commons, why we need to define problems in a comprehensive way where the solutions don’t create worse problems, the vows Daniel made as a teenager, what progress is being made at solving the generator functions of existential risk, the auto-poetic nature of trauma, and the necessity of a mature relationship between certainty and uncertainty.
Soryu Forall - Responding to Collapse: Virtue and Possibility at the World's End
Rob McNamara - Adult Development & Ensoulment
Zak Stein - The Eros of Ethics
Emerge Returns: Solo Episode
The End of Emerge (For Now)
Zak Stein - American Culture's Psychotic Break (pt. 2)
Zak Stein - American Culture's Psychotic Break (pt. 1)
Soryu Forall - Manufactured Awakenings
Andrew J. Taggart - Existential Openings & Psychotechnologies of Self-Transformation
Jonathan Reams - Waking Up & Growing Up: How Seeing the Virtuality of Self Supports Adult Development
Robert Kegan - The Five Stages of Adult Development (And Why You Probably Aren't Stage 5)
Mark Feenstra - The Inner Dimension of the Meta-Crisis
Rob Burbea - Emptiness, Postmodernism, and Sacred Participation
Jamie Bristow - Mindfulness as Metamodern Psychotechnology
The Future of the Emerge Podcast
Rebel Wisdom // Future Thinkers // Emerge - Making Sense of the Sensemaking Web
Ronan Harrington - Extinction Rebellion: Collective Sacrifice and Metamodern Praxis
Guy Sengstock - Circling Towards Meaningfulness & Collective Intelligence
Zak Stein - Metapsychology, Soul, and Collapse (Pt. 2)
Zak Stein - Metapsychology, Soul, and Collapse (Pt. 1)
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