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Regenerating the Earth with ProSocial
In this six-week learning journey, we will explore the planetary predicament humanity is in with an empowering focus on how to guide the intentional cultural evolution of trust and cooperation at different scales. This includes real-world examples of landscape restoration where diverse people come together around the shared purpose of restoring rivers and bringing forests back to degraded landscapes.
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Can Evolution be Understood as a Conscious Process?
My approach is explored by considering Aristotelian Causal Categories, focusing on Final Cause. I then consider the possibility of understanding this question from an ‘internalist’ perspective.
The Consciousness of Detachment and the Detachment of Consciousness
Welcome to the Noösphere
The Evolution of Consciousness Enables Conscious Evolution
One Culture, Two Cultures? How Many Cultures, How Long?
When asked “Can Evolution be Conscious?” reactions can occur aptly reflecting the “informal definition” (as stated in most dictionaries) of schizoid, that is, “having inconsistent or seemingly contradictory elements.”
Can Evolution Be Conscious of Itself? Yes, It Can!
Human beings are subject to the workings of evolution and are also aware of their role as shapers of the environment so as to consciously direct evolutionary change.
The Origins and Evolutionary Effects of Consciousness
How consciousness evolved and how consciousness has come to affect evolutionary processes are related issues.
Cultural Evolution, Insight, and Fundamental Theories of Consciousness
Can Evolution Be Conscious? Introducing a Collection of Commentaries Published on This View of Life
Evaluating Narratives of Conscious Evolution
Conscious Evolution is a Category Mistake
No, evolution is not a conscious process, and to think so is an example of what philosophers call a category mistake, predicated on a fallacy of equivocation.
Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: A Capstone Conversation with Victor Hwang
Entrepreneurs are not disconnected individuals, they are cooperating in a connected ecosystem.