The displacement of the liberal narrative of the atomistic, isolated, selfish individual by the emergent realization of the ‘social self’. a holobiont: a combination of a host, plus all of the resident microbes […]
How to Sway a Baboon Despot
What other species can teach us about democracy Early last year, more than 70 years after its publication, George Orwell’s Animal Farm appeared on The Washington Post’s best-seller list. A writer for the New York Observer declared the novel—an […]
Human Beings Are Wired For Morality
A human being growing up in isolation would never arrive at moral reasoning. Such a [person] would lack the experience to be sensitive to others’ interests, hence lack the ability […]
The Human Strategy A Conversation With Alex “Sandy” Pentland
Accounting is a universal function upon which all life and even Algorithmic Intelligence if founded. Social Fabric is Social Accounting. The article is a transcript of a 29 minute video […]
Resisting Reduction Designing our Complex Future with Machines
Social credit, debt, favors, obligations – form social fabric, conscience, moral order in ways that show how we Value our Values as a social currency. The digital environment is enabling […]