She'd say, "Jamie, in this life, if you're torn between two decisions, always choose the new memory. Carpe Diem my boy, carpe diem!" One of the earliest steps in Joe Campbell's model is the Call to Adventure.

Always choose the new memory Jamie Wheal 9.19.2023

John Vervaeke: Neoplatonic grammar of cognition: “emergence up, emanation down, and interpenetrating so that the self is fundamentally dialogical, vertically and horizontally.”

these stories talk past each other because the facts they select and the timeframes they’re considering relevant don’t match.

Arabs, Jews and Time: why we're talking past each other and how to get in synch Jamie Wheal 11.24.2023

It’s always more complicated than simple binaries ever allow.

Arabs, Jews and Time: why we're talking past each other and how to get in synch Jamie Wheal 11.24.2023

10% of people online generate 90% of the content. The algorithm rewards outrage more than any other single emotion. That means that the most extreme 5% on either side of the spectrum are dictating “The Conversation” for all of us. What’s More: those 5% on both the far left and far right more strongly track with Dark Triad and Authoritarianism than ... See more

Thomas Murphy recently observed, "We live in a physical world governed by physical law. We do not need to create a physics police force or build physics jails or plead cases in front of some physics court. Nature provides perfect, automatic enforcement for free."

Why "Climate Change" is a really bad idea Jamie Wheal 9.28.2023

It’s how all propaganda campaigns, all the way back to Edward Bernays in the 1920’s to Soviet misinfo in the Cold War roll out–the goal isn’t to replace the truth with a lie. The goal is to muddy the notion of knowable truth so thoroughly that people give up ever finding it. (a much lighter lift and just as effective)

How Not to Get Climate Meme-Jac... See more

Seems we could all do with a bit more humility and a lot less utility in our thinking.

Psychedelic Fascism Jamie Wheal 7.13.2023

We are inescapably part of a larger ecology of sentience.

Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even ChatGPT Do It Jamie Wheal 4.20.2023