Daniel Schmachtenberger: "Sensemaking, Uncertainty, and Purpose” | The Great Simplification #31

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.

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.

Find out more, and linked show notes: https://www.thegreatsimplification.co...
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00:00 - Daniel Schmachtenberger info + TGS episodes part 1 and part 2
05:58 - Overview of Nate’s story: Animated videos, Economics for the Future - Beyond the Superorganism
10:45 - Evolutionary Psychology
11:11 - How psychology varies across cultures
11:29 - Varying levels of violence, value of education across cultures
12:32 - Dumb American geography videos
13:58 - How algorithms keep people on social media sites
14:48 - Humans prefer certainty, uncertainty is difficult
15:36 - One Marshmallow/Two Marshmallow experiment
16:29 - Supernormal stimuli
17:18 - People dying of obesity are also dying of nutrient deficiency
21:13 - Sensemaking
23:59 - Chinese model of government
25:35 - Reductionism
26:40 - Iatrogenic
27:03 - Chronic diseases require understanding the body’s system
30:13 - Orangutans, Indonesia and paper bags
32:48 - Consensus Bias
32:58 - Environmental degradation on indigenous lands and communities
34:55 - David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti
36:43 - Delusion of Consciousness
39:48 - Vedic Bhagavad Gita chapter 2 verse 48
43:06 - Psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness
43:56 - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Catastrophizing
48:30 - Doomerism
49:43 - Sometimes ‘cheering up’ makes people feel worse
54:29 - Decentralized technology, tabletop CRISPR
55:07 - Bucky Fuller - egg analogy
57:53 - Discrete Phase Shifts
58:55 - Trolley Problem
1:01:58 - CAFOs
1:03:06 - Diet For a New America
1:06:19 - Marc Gafni

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