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I'm very heppy to help you promote your book theory and your bigger projects by bringing intuitive visualizations in the foreground !

Oliver and the Infinity team :)

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I'm equally excited to be working with Infinity Maps. Can't wait to bring our work to the world soon!

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Hey Bobby! Firstly thank you for your work. Time will show how important this work will be in the coming phase transition! The question I have asked myself is how can these (big) ideas be translated into a tool? (Tool=interface) A tool that enables a fun and intuitive path into the new? A tool that brings humans together, a platform to collaborate. A tool for the mysteries? The questions goes on.

My fascination into all of this comes from the angle of creativity, storytelling, narrative architecture, character development, gamification, incentive systems, values, culture, play and how allllll of it influence end-user interfaces and experiences. Perhaps I could be of any help in this regard?

Btw - Did you Bobby or any of ya'll read the ClueTrain Manifesto? Or read about the "VRM Project"? perhaps interesting in all of this.

In the end, all of it will always be up to the individuals. So perhaps learning from Joseph Campbell and the "mono-myth" (Try youtube and ted-ed "Hero's Journey") could potentially make all of this even more a journey for the individual!

Again, great work and let's build a united humanity!

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Hey Marcus, so sorry I missed this before. I haven't read the ClueTrain Manifesto but I'll look into it and then VRM project. I'm also interested in your question about how these ideas can be translated into tools. We should collaborate to think about how to build this platform to collaborate. You could definitely be of help in all the ways you mentioned. Let me know if you're still interested in working on this and I'll see how we can find some synergy!

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Better late than never:) and that would be my pleasure to discuss this with you! I sent you a message from Chew__world on Twitter and personally on LinkedIn - hopefully this reaches you:)

Furthermore Bobby, I have since my post above last year written an essey on the topic I mentioned above!: "How world building and transformative journeys is new product<>interface design":

https://open.substack.com/pub/justanotherhuman/p/world-building-and-transformative?r=jysc0&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Would love to discuss this with you🦄

My personal project is called "Chew on This: Creativity as a Sport" : Check it out on chewonthis.world 🔥

Best regards from Berlin! ☀️

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"It's time for me world order"

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I love it! I call it the gospel of strangers

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Love to explore new ideas!

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Hey I'm looking for a beginners intro book to Bayesian reasoning.

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Hi Jim, I will be looking into this for a book list I'm compiling that I'll be sharing soon. For now though, I can tell you the best intros to Bayesian reasoning I've come across are the Julia Galef youtube videos. Hope that helps!

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Thank you, Bobby, for partnering with Infinity Maps to "map out" your research. We're excited to share the accompanying Maps soon.

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The pleasure has been all mine!

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Have a safe journey. vt

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What is the difference between TMT and Ernst Becker's work?

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TMT is based on Ernest Becker's work and book, The Denial of Death, but it was created later by the psychologist Sheldon Solomon. So it turns Becker's work into a testable theory.

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I'm reading Propaganda by Edward Bernays and it reminds me a lot of the points made in The Denial of Death. Internet seems to have galvanized people into iron-clad communities who're all working to build their hero projects. Less educated populace like India's are particularly vulnerable to this as they already have a tribal caste-based system. There are now apps like https://kutumb.app which are geared towards consolidating caste based Whatsapp groups into hateful safe spaces. The tribalism problem will get much worse in years as people have only recently began using internet in most of the world.

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I agree that it will get worse, and that the Internet is creating these huge effects that are essentially invisible to us right now. I'll check out that Bernays book!

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The link at the end of this bullet "unifying the sciences with a new kind of “Theory of Everything”" is broken. So there's no way to understand what you mean by "Theory of Everything."

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Hi Mark, very valid point! On Tuesday the theory page will go live with everything spelled out, along with a Psychology Today article on the topic of agency and free will. If all goes as planned, I will be sending out a newsletter the same day with some of that content. As mentioned in the post above, this theory is a *non-reductive* "Theory of Everything," meaning it does not try to reduce the higher sciences to fundamental physics; it instead unifies the sciences by describing life, mind, culture, and cosmos in terms of thermodynamics and information. Essentially, Darwinian evolution is life's answer to the tendency toward disorder described the second law of thermodynamics, and this process accumulates adaptive information (aka knowledge) in a biosphere. As knowledge accumulates, life as a whole becomes increasingly complex and computationally powerful. This process is now thought to be "open-ended," meaning there is no fundamental limit to progress and knowledge creation, despite what we've been taught by superficial interpretations of the second law.

Also, this is not my theory, but the theory that is emerging from many different fields of science which are converging due to statistical thermodynamics and information theory taking over fields like biology, neuroscience, and even cultural evolution. I'm just one of the scientists/journalists putting the puzzle pieces together (I'd suggest the books mentioned in the post). Also, the theory is fundamentally a continual work-in-progress, since new phenomena with new properties continuously emerge, and since our models will always contain some amount of error and uncertainty. So feedback from people like you will help shape the theory and its applications. Without such feedback, a theory can't evolve or progress, so comments regarding content are duly appreciated.

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Bobby,

Thanks for responding, and especially for your enthusiasm. But if I might return to my admittedly prosaic point: The link under Theory of Everything on this page is broken. Specifically, these characters precede the URL: "http://%20"

Someone who has access to the code of this page needs to edit out those three characters in order to make the link work. Most commonly, in HTML, "%20" is used to denote a space. That works fine in some contexts, but this doesn't belong in front of the link. Also, after that, the punctuation of the link also needs to be fixed. Currently it reads (in part), "http://%20https//www.researchgate.net"

A colon should be inserted (and previously-described stray characters removed) so the underlying link reads (in part), "https://www.researchgate.net"

In full, it should read like this:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335022762_Universal_Darwinism_and_the_Origins_of_Order

This link works; I just tested it.

If I had access page I'd fix it myself...

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It doesn't matter that it's broken because that content isn't ready. The page is not accessible on purpose. When it goes up I'll make sure the URL is correct and does not include the unnecessary characters. Also, for some of the links I'm literally just copying and pasting from the original URL, so if the text has those extra characters usually it's not because of me but how it is displayed when you're on the page. When I have time I'll go through and make sure the underlying links look clean. Thanks for the feedback.

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