This may be a slight digression, but i stumbled across this crazy and
somewhat frightening video on youtube.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__youtu.be_-2DCto1DXXHAc&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=xx3qg_cR748Ib37KtweWMONDD05eUeMTqG5BgeYz8Yc&s=ypqWFgAAeplo9pYUtpkKKubmFjYqE9b9fqDvdLaDOXY&e= 

All kinds of ethical questions and alarm bells going off after watching
this....if it is real and not some fake video. If anything, it points to
the urgency of a wisdom commons for humanity so that we don’t end up
exterminating our own species through sheer stupidity. Imagine if some
unthinking human released something like this into nature as a lark?

On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 17:11, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Thanks, Jack.
>
>
>
> I will need to look more into this, but I would argue that other
> techniques have demonstrated visual/experiential consciousness in other
> animals. The second half of this article gives a good demonstration of
> subjective visual experience in crows…
>
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.scientificamerican.com_article_bird-2Dbrains-2Dare-2Dfar-2Dmore-2Dhumanlike-2Dthan-2Donce-2Dthought_&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=xx3qg_cR748Ib37KtweWMONDD05eUeMTqG5BgeYz8Yc&s=zLqGrLkv63YpGOkmkE8DztWG6b2PO6MV_OEkBfUdhEY&e= 
>
>
>
> Best,
> G
>
>
>
> *From:* tree of knowledge system discussion <
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> Very interesting results!
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> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 7:11 AM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Gien,
>
>   I would frame it in terms of how would UTOK shed light on the situation,
> just to differentiate the whole system (UTOK) from the first key idea (ToK
> System). The first key idea is about a new map of Big History, science and
> our origin story, such that we have a coherent naturalistic ontology for
> our shared base reality.
>
>
>
>   The UTOK is a holistic philosophy, and the whole unified theory of
> psychology and unified approach to psychotherapy, which are key in such an
> analysis. Several angles emerge from a UTOK vantage point, the first being
> the relationship between the participants, their motives and the UTOK
> analysis. That is, is it something they would want?
>
>
>
>   If yes, then one can apply the UTOK to help the participants reframe the
> opposed positional narrative that has emerged. The idea is that people get
> stuck in justifying positions and influence and investment pathways that
> they become diametrically opposed and deconstructive, which results in
> vicious, maladaptive cycles. That is the process of undesired “neurotic”
> conflict. By undesired, I mean that the actual ideas, values, and visions
> of the participants was more or less overlapping and no one reflectively
> would have wanted a break. Think of a divorce. Sometimes a divorce is a
> function of the reflective needs of one or both partners. Say, they fell
> out of love and the system needs to go its separate ways. There are other
> marriages whereby people get neurotically entangled. This is because of
> miscommunication, misunderstanding, defensiveness (see, e.g., John
> Gottman’s four horses), and this drives people into positions that are
> win/lose or lose/lose, and viciously reciprocal (i.e., you did this thing,
> so I retaliate, so you retaliate, etc.).
>
>
>
> Mike Mascolo has developed a conflict resolution frame called Creating
> Common Ground
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.creatingcommonground.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=Y3_QyUIfZ6o9r36yuiDaIXCxy1NaXgiHrM0OrmKLDZs&s=vnRYw1__KKEJ228078Mh7QjGxuviINUgQpWW30tj3kM&e=>
> that overlaps much with the basic human psychological frame and sensibility
> and provides ways to understand how people get stuck and how to reverse
> problematic positions and develop a better foundation for working together
> to meet needs and solve problems. Here is the website, which I collaborated
> with him on.
>
>
> Best,
> Gregg
>
>
>
> *From:* tree of knowledge system discussion <
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> *Sent:* Monday, March 29, 2021 5:43 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: TOK Essay from Michel Bauwens
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> Yes, this is the fallout he is referring to. I believe the two opposing
> parties are not able to see each other's respective views and the result is
> this conflict and splitting apart. How would ToK shed light on the
> situation to mediate a solution?
>
> Wishing you WELLth
>
> Gien
>
> Future Ancestor
>
>
>
> Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
> - Nadeem Aslam
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> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 9:23 PM nysa71 <
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> Hi All,
>
> To be honest, I don't know anything about P2P or Michel Bauwens. My
> initial impression from reading his editorial, though, is that a lot of it
> sounds dubious --- like something you'd get from alt-right media. I've
> heard all this panic over this supposed "far left" extremism taking over
> society many times before, but I've yet to see a shred of convincing
> evidence of such. If anything, it seems like it's extreme right wing
> ideology that is the real concern.
>
> Anyways, I did a quick Google search and found this open letter of
> disassociation from Bauwens. Just thought I'd share it, if for anything, to
> show a counter-perspective from some other folks on the left.
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__c4ss.org_content_54521&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=xx3qg_cR748Ib37KtweWMONDD05eUeMTqG5BgeYz8Yc&s=8zJUfhVfrI3pHmdRR-5s59sry3I4fhpWhX6hSCY-73Q&e= 
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> On Monday, March 29, 2021, 01:50:41 PM EDT, James Gien Wong <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I've been working very closely with Michel in the last few years on
> Commons works, especially the concept of Cosmolocal Production as in this
> collaboration:
>
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__medium.com_-40joseramos-5F30450_the-2Dcosmo-2Dlocal-2Dreader-2Dinvitation-2Dto-2Dparticipate-2Ddbcb6248f54b&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=xx3qg_cR748Ib37KtweWMONDD05eUeMTqG5BgeYz8Yc&s=Uruu4EJivdIU0FLFzFW-uiSB7tUM51AWriMsqT1Gb0k&e= 
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>
> In the past year, I've been motivating discussions of the need for a
> wisdom commons to help people to understand the divisiveness they are
> falling prey to. From the blowups I've seen in the P2P Foundation FB group,
> it appears that Jordan Peterson has been one of the lighting rods that has
> been the source of much of divisiveness. Another is wokism and identity
> politics. Yes, sadly Michel has been the target of much of this and  a
> wisdom commons that unites humanity is much needed.
>
> Wishing you WELLth
>
> Gien
>
> Future Ancestor
>
>
>
> Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
> - Nadeem Aslam
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>
>
> www.stopresetgo.org
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> On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 2:57 PM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi TOK List,
>
>
>
>   Michel Bauwens is the founder of the P2P Foundation
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__p2pfoundation.net_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=dOmx3ppqXdK1MNq4amruTKUBv0JOW9LFo_71hkfzGlU&s=b2HMuC5leypEdYRrcffVGhL9UYOLf5gSn0FPy1-GZjM&e=>,
> which is a non-profit organization and global network dedicated to
> advocacy and research of commons-oriented peer to peer (P2P) dynamics in
> society. Given that the “wisdom commons” was the focus of the final “Body
> and Soul” series,
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DZBYXTN6-5FInw&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=dOmx3ppqXdK1MNq4amruTKUBv0JOW9LFo_71hkfzGlU&s=KJTJBFhgp1UbUM0IzFvanimNY6P-bE_uc34SchWN_IU&e=>
> the P2P Foundation is an organization and vision that is aligned with the
> vision and values of the TOK Society. I recently have learned that Michel
> has been embroiled in controversy that parallels many these days in the
> left. Namely, he has been criticized strongly for critiquing some of the
> extreme left movements toward a highly racialized society, which I
> something that I too have deep concerns about. As such, I thought I would
> share this essay that he shared on his platform. This is an ongoing
> conversation…
>
>
> Best,
> Gregg
>
>
>
>
>
> Editorial: Why share dissenting universalist and egalitarian points of
> view on a p2p/commons oriented forum ?
>
>
>
> We have rapidly moved to a new hegemony that aims for racial separation
> and a return to fragmented tribal identities. In American schools, children
> as young as 4 years old (though mostly in 8th grade), are taught to
> identify their  racial characteristics, divided into oppressor and
> oppressed groups, with the former asked to pen down confessions and
> understand the harm they are doing to others because of their unchosen DNA.
> In these schools and other institutions, people are asked to divide
> themselves by racial affinity groups, with people of particular skin and
> gender, being excluded from meetings. The first thing done at the CHAD in
> Seattle was to create such an exclusion zone, which is also a standard
> practice at the main left student union at French universities. Separate
> dorms have been instituted in about 80 universities along with separate
> graduation seminaries. Since every difference in outcome has been decreed
> to be due to systematic racism, and complex inquiries into causation are
> now off-limits, with scientists asking to retract their findings ‘because
> they could be mis-interpreted’ (and not because they are wrong). In what is
> now a routinized policy of what Frederick Douglas called the racism of low
> expectations, exams are adapted or cancelled, asking for homework is taboo,
> and it is no longer okay to challenge a 2+2=5 response, seen as an
> acceptable outcome of cognitive divergence.
>
>
>
> Practices that make people more resilient, such as studying hard or
> working hard, are being racialized and demonized, targeting cultures that
> excel at it, such as the Confucian cultures.
>
>
>
> The boundaries between the decreed intersectional groups are policed
> through taboos around cultural appropriation. It is no longer ok for
> novelist to create characters of a different DNA than yourself, to have
> texts translated by people with a different DNA, to wear dresses of a
> different culture, or as in Portland, to cook burritos if you are not
> Mexican.
>
>
>
> People are supposed to speak as their group interests dictate. Hard won
> civil rights, such as women’s rights for protected spaces, even the right
> to characterize themselves as such, the free choice of sexual partners, and
> many other really basic rights, are being challenged, and in many cases,
> have been reversed. The people who dissent with the new hegemony, who more
> often than not get identified as libertarian left on the political compass,
> are hounded from their jobs by the thousands, are labelled as extremists
> for views that were mainstream progressive viewpoints even a few years ago.
>
> The viewpoints of the most sensitive and fragile, who are no longer
> habituated to autonomous dissent that disagrees with their viewpoint, are
> posited as the norm from whom majorities cannot dissent, otherwise they
> would be unsafe. Pluralism is out,  people are massively calling for book
> burnings, and representations of the cultural heritage of peoples and
> nations are poised for destruction in an iconoclastic fury. Only one ring
> of interpretation to rule them all, and everything that points to other
> possibilities should be destroyed. History is to be managed to the demands
> of the most extreme and fragile current sensibilities. Viewpoint diversity
> is out, even ‘diversity and inclusion’ are decried, in favour of centering
> one single political sensibility. Dissenters in the own ranks are
> de-identified as ‘not really belonging to their tribal group’, even if they
> share the required DNA.
>
> Reactions to his new hegemony range from denial, “it doesn’t exist, it
> isn’t there, move on”, to the opinions that these are but marginal
> phenomenal, even though its rules and regulations are in many cases the
> constitutions of our online spaces (and now in the US, presidential
> decree), to enthusiastic ganging up to eliminate the dissenters through
> rituals of degradation, social shunning, and the systematic campaigns to
> destroy livelihoods, which hits un-famous working class people the hardest.
> Identitarian institutions themselves are subject to their own purity spiral
> campaigns, often  the previous deniers being the victims of a process that
> they denied just 24 hours before being eliminated themselves. These
> processes are very familiar to those who know but a little of previous
> history, and realize where racialized and opinion-based purity spirals can
> lead to. It is no accident that the CHAD in Seattle saw pamphlets against
> Jewish privilege, since it is the same psychological structure of
> victimization and blame, which replaces the search for solidarity and
> commonality across difference, that produces both. The first step to
> physical violence is the destruction of the possibility of dialogue, hence
> the importance of rituals of degradation and Berufsverbot, which takes
> center stage in the neo-identitarian movements. The aim is always to
> dehumanize you, preparing further and deeper campaigns of purification,
> depending on the power they can mobilize. The one thing they fear the most
> is a dialogue amongst peers, before a free audience that can freely make up
> its minds, hence the need for cancellation and deplatforming.
>
>
>
> While it is crucially important to continue the fight for civic and human
> rights, against discrimination of all kinds, for diversity and inclusion of
> marginalized social groups, the way forward is not through a universal
> regime of group separation and group allocation. Between the equality of
> opportunity of the liberals who refuse to look at material conditions, and
> the equality of outcomes of the identitarians, which refuse to recognize
> complex causation, individual freedoms and collective cultures, there is
> the old socialist (it is centering societies around preferred social
> outcomes, while honouring individual and collective autonomous initiative)
> and now common-centric approach, of creating the concrete material,
> cultural and subjective conditions so that people are really free to choose
> how they will contribute to the common good, and to the resilience and
> thriving of their own families, groups and productive communities.
>
>  The answer is to look at the concrete conditions, commons of
> capabilities, of people regardless of their DNA and other biological
> markers. The answer is to look at class, not in an essentialist and hateful
> way, but in the very concrete way of people having access to the product of
> their labour and own value creation, i.e.distributed forms of property and
> governance. The answer is to have the tools at our disposal to take
> decisions that take into account all living beings in the web of life, and
> the resources we all need to thrive across generations.
>
>  The answer is to retain the achievements of democracy and a liberal
> human order, to achieve a deeper, deliberative, super-competent democracy.
> The answer is to retain universalism and egalitarianism, and not abolish
> them because they were so imperfectly carried out. The answer is to retain
> the solidarity mechanisms of the welfare state and to extend them to all
> the nomadic and marginal existences that fall through the cracks,
> complementing them with new translocal institutions of solidarity. State
> and markets, historically responsible for the twin good/bad outcome of
> consumptive expansion and environmental and social dislocation, have to
> exist within bounds that make them generative, working with and for commons
> that protect human and extra  human communities.
>
>  Some people believe that such a commons-centric successor civilisation
> is compatible with tribal fragmentation in a segregated social order
> subject to stringent suppression of free speech and thought. They are wrong
> and dangerous in that belief. Commons require freedom of thought and
> individual liberty. The commons are not a top-down stalinist or fascist
> institution that can freely discriminate in order to be made safe for elite
> extraction. These 2 solutions are mutually incompatible.
>
>  The commons require free peer to peer dynamics of free persons that
> willingly associate; it requires us to create and work on commons of
> capabilities so that every citizen and inhabitant can create livelihoods in
> freely chosen communities. It requires us to design economics not for zero
> sum games and group allocation that favours elite outcomes within each
> group, at the expense of the interests and wellbeing of the vast majority
> of the other people inside and outside those groups. While segregated
> commons based on elite clientelism are perhaps a theoretical possibility,
> on their own, in the context of a suppressive racialist order based on
> group allocation, they will not be able to create a coherent society that
> builds on the achievements of the current form of civilization. We need to
> ‘transcend and include’ what is best in premodern, modern and post-modern
> forms of living and organizing society, not suppress its highest and most
> noble achievements, which is individual and collective initiative,
> including entrepreneurship i.e. the right to create livelihoods around
> common interests and ideals.
>
>  People should be judged on their individual merits and behaviour, their
> intentions should be honoured and treated with dignity; they are all
> persons, the result of complex identity formations, choices, complex
> causation and the vagaries of life and society.
>
>  If the above is true, this means that while we can readily recognize the
> original good intentions of those that fall for the separatist,
> segregationist and free-speech suppressing movements , we also have to
> point out that they are in fact  being conned by a ideologically totalist
> cult, that peddles a system of unproven pseudo-realities, and that these
> movements systematic racial profiling and scapegoating, will create a
> monster, and in fact, has already created a monster. We already know from
> meta-studies on ‘unconscious bias training’ result in more racist outcomes
> and that affirmative action and DIE bureaucracies do not seem to have
> desired outcomes (see the situation at Google itself). As Immanuel
> Wallerstein is reported to have said before his passing, this whole
> identitarian wrong path may well meant the loss of a whole generation in
> terms of emancipatory work, until an explosion and catastrophic event like
> the Chinese Cultural Revolution leads to a re-awakening to the need to work
> together across difference. The good news is that this has happened many
> times in human history, and that people have recoiled from the ultimate
> consequences of their wrong choices. But like fascism, stalinism and
> maoism, it can take many decades of catastrophes. The only hope we have is
> that these institutions are so dysfunctional, destroy progressive social
> movements at such a rate, that leading activists will recoil from going
> further into that path of self-destruction.
>
>  In the meantime, it is a time of reckoning and knowing where you stand.
> It is a time of political re-alignment.
>
>  We need to defend the advances and achievements of the civil rights
> movement against the upstart movements that aim to undo them.
>
>  We need to defend all people who have been targeted for suppression, and
> show our solidarity with them.
>
>  We need to defend open inquiry, academic freedom and free speech.
>
>  The commons are not an exclusively left project, as they have existed at
> the heart or at the margins of many different types of civilizations. Need
> we remind ourselves that the world’s most successful and exemplary
> cooperative, Mondragon,  was born in a fascist state ?
>
>  The commons are a universal project, the only human institution that has
> historically been able to maintain and protect resources for the common
> good of communities the world over, for thousands of years, and that now
> needs to move center stage.
>
>  This requires free persons engaging with each other regardless of their
> DNA, to judge each other on our mutual contributions, to assist all those
> who want to contribute but have difficulties doing so. We need to abandon
> zero sum games which divide us into resource wars, and design infinite
> games, in which the advance of one person, does not have to happen at the
> expense of another.
>
>  So , in these forums, do not expect dis-engagement from the historical
> task at hand, nor any compromise with the forces who want to treat people
> based on their DNA and biological markers. We are with Martin Luther King,
> Malcolm X, James Baldwin, and the Black Panthers, emancipators who saw
> themselves within the tradition of universalism and egalitarianism even as
> they opted for communal forms of organization within that framework. We are
> most emphatically not with people who want to allocate speech rights and
> other resources based on DNA (see the Evergreen documentaries to see how
> this works out in practice).
>
>  We denounce the new defenders of a universal apartheid regime, we are
> with all those who oppose them; we are with all egalitarian and
> universalist oriented people who believe the commons need to be centered in
> order to save our civilization. We welcome people of all persuasions, as
> long as they are not racialist, who align with a belief in free association
> around common projects. If you do not believe in free association, in free
> persons, how can you also believe in the commons ?
>
>  If you believe it is too partisan to be against racism, segregationism
> and the defense of complex persons with free speech, you have a whole
> hegemonic world order to defend, just don’t expect me to be your ally.
>
>  There is an enormous amount of pro-commons work to do; and the
> principles of the commons and peer to peer need to be defended against the
> advocates of segregation and racial inequality. There is no contradiction,
> they go hand in hand.
>
>
>
>
>
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