Designed For Extinction: Why Humans Developed the Wrong Type of Intelligence

Posted on by George Tsakraklides

Contrary to what our impressive technological milestones suggest, we have never been in charge of our fate. Like any organism striving to maximize its chances of survival, our choices were blindly driven by expansion: economic growth, domination, population increase - whatever it took, whatever the cost to us or the planet. From our humble beginnings as monocellular life … Continue reading Designed For Extinction: Why Humans Developed the Wrong Type of Intelligence

The longest 10 minutes of your life have just begun

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Our powerful, charismatic brain is not designed for long-term planning and projecting.  Its impressive capacity to solve problems is at its peak only when these problems are present right here, right now.  From a survival point of view, the “right here right now” is much more important than 10 years from now, or even 10 … Continue reading The longest 10 minutes of your life have just begun

A Brain from Another Time

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Our naturally dismissive attitude towards impending disasters is woven into the geological history of this planet.  Our brain did not evolve in the midst of catastrophes, but during one of the most climatically stable and abundant times in Earth’s history.  Resources were infinitely plentiful in relation to our consumption, and the climate remained stable enough … Continue reading A Brain from Another Time

(Psssst…I have a NEW BOOK out)

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Beyond The Petri Dish: Human Consciousness in the Time of Collapse, Apathy and Algorithms We are experiencing an era of unprecedented cognitive dissonance.  Despite incredible advances in our capacity to access information and “truth”, we have reached a terrifying all-time high for apathy. The planet’s existential-level catastrophe is systematically edited out of the news, even … Continue reading (Psssst…I have a NEW BOOK out)

Transcending The Ego: The Difficult Awakening Into Responsibility

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Reaching the Infinity State for the very first time can be a daunting experience: by connecting to the universe’s neuralink one suddenly becomes a mirror for the vastness, reflecting anything and everything, both good and bad, including all the joy and all the pain that has ever existed.  For a moment the Vastness turns the … Continue reading Transcending The Ego: The Difficult Awakening Into Responsibility