I might make one last podcast. (Though most of my “podcast” type content is now done as videos.)

I definitely am sharing a lot on Reddit and Xwitter these days: at https://www.reddit.com/r/wholisticenchilada/ and https://twitter.com/thewiseturtle

So, if you’re interested in seeing what I’ve got to say about universal patterns, psychology, sociology, personal development, consciousness, matter, energy, and everything, please follow me over at those places.

I’m also hoping to set up a big info dump on one of my websites, if I can get someone to help me set up a long term, free, hosting option, and maybe help me organize the materials so it’s not just a list of files.

Much gratitude to all who’ve been curious about my observations and experiences and imagination here and elsewhere.

~Namaste

Turil

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https://www.pressherald.com/2022/05/04/obituaryellen-louise-stevens-budzko/

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MayThe4thBeWithYou

You’re being offered a sneak peak of a video from some of Earth’s possible futures for April 23, 2045.

(Go on, click on that text just above to see what might be in store for us Earthlings.)

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DOWNLOAD (right click to save linked file): TWTS – Episode 87 – Signs

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Wandering around the Earth on this Earth Day, I realize how easy it is to get lost. And to some extent I am always lost. Being lost is normal. You’re probably lost too, in at least some areas of your life.

Welcome to… wherever we are. Nice to see you here.

How we find ourselves, wherever we are, is by looking for signs. And not just any signs, but signs that uniquely identify the who or what we are looking at, so that we can place ourselves relative to them.

Imagine if we all put up signs describing our own identities, thus allowing everyone around us to easily locate themselves?

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Links referenced in episode:

All of my Speaking Up blog posts

My video – How to Tell Your Story (1 minute short): https://youtu.be/aMrsKfoinLQ

Geoguessr map game (There are free options even without signing up, though signing up gives you one free game a day, plus a timed “daily challenge”, and others can invite you to play their own challenges for free.)

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

We have land! Thanks to generous donations, my dream of starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves has real, material beginnings! We now have a (very cheap) small blop of property in mid-coast Maine, and I’m seeking folks who can help physically build spaces for volunteers to live, and the public to explore and create with us.

Also, if you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, to support this dream, and more, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Or just search for “Turil” in podcasts.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 86 – Brains Are Global Recommendation Bots

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My work has, at it’s core, an aim to enable a global nervous system that allows all of the different animal, vegetable, and even mineral based beings on the Earth to get the information they need to help move the various resources we each create to where they are most valuable at any given time, so that the whole planetary organism can flourish. I focus on both the top down ideal of a global infrastructure that routes information from where it is created to where it’s needed most, with my Architecture for a new internet, and I am working on the bottom-up local work of generating that information in the most economic way, so that we’re not confused or wasting our energy when we’re communicating with the world, with my Speaking Up process.

Because, as so many fail to remember, the key to effective growth is to think global and act local.

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Links referenced in episode:

All of my Speaking Up blog posts

The Architecture: A Nervous System for the Earth

My video – The Evolution of Money – A Quality-Based Economy: https://youtu.be/uo6qQ0BhRic

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

We have land! Thanks to generous donations, my dream of starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves has real, material beginnings! We now have a (very cheap) small blop of property in mid-coast Maine, and I’m seeking folks who can help physically build spaces for volunteers to live, and the public to explore and create with us.

Also, if you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, to support this dream, and more, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Or just search for “Turil” in podcasts.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 85 – Transitions – United We Stand, Uniquely We Move

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It can feel upsetting to transition, but we can make the change a whole lot easier by bringing to light stories that help us see how we’re all part of a larger, purposeful, world, while also valuing our specific, specialized roles in the grand mission.

We are collectively the same, and individually exceptional. This is how reality builds strong and flexible systems. The more we can share this vision of what the universe wants of our planet, the more we can flow comfortably from one moment to the next, even when the new location seems to be so very different from the old one.

The Earth’s resiliency might just come down to a few simple, but crucial stories.

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Links referenced in episode:

All of my Speaking Up blog posts

The transition we’re experiencing right now

A fun little visualization of this kind of story: https://twitter.com/thewiseturtle/status/1346521644160970759

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

We have land! Thanks to generous donations, my dream of starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves has real, material beginnings! We now have a (very cheap) small blop of property in mid-coast Maine, and I’m seeking folks who can help physically build spaces for volunteers to live, and the public to explore and create with us.

Also, if you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, to support this dream, and more, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Or just search for “Turil” in podcasts.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 84 – Intro to The Speaking Up Process

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It’s time to listen to the world.

Telling our stories has never been more important, or easier! I’ve simplified the older Speaking Up process into four questions which naturally guide us through the stages of grief and learning, to help us clarify the most important experiences of our past, present, and future, so we can understand one another at our most human level. The more of these stories of loves, losses, dreams, and needs we hear from the world, the more informed we’ll all be about who we are and where we want to go, as a whole planet, full of Earthlings who are, simultaneously both very similar, and quite unique…

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Loves – What are your most precious people and/or places that have helped you feel most alive?

Losses – How have those people and/or places not been able to get what they needed to flourish? And how have their struggles effected you, personally?

Dreams – Thinking about these precious people/places, what would you most love to create and/or explore as a way to honor them, or take excellent care of them, in some deeply meaningful way?

Needs – Which specific basic physical resources does your body require for you to be able to effectively work towards your dreams? (Human physical needs can be categorized as: regular access to nutritious food, clean water, fresh air, comfortable warmth, inspiring light, useful information, and outlets for expressing the body’s excess solids, liquids, gasses, and energy.)

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Will you please share your story with me and the rest of the world?

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Links referenced in episode:

All of my Speaking Up blog posts

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

We have land! Thanks to generous donations, my dream of starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves has real, material beginnings! We now have a (very cheap) small blop of property in mid-coast Maine, and I’m seeking folks who can help physically build spaces for volunteers to live, and the public to explore and create with us.

Also, if you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

I’ve created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have a high score of non-Bitcoin banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Or just search for “Turil” in podcasts.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 83 – Reconnecting to the Beginning

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What is the core awareness of life? Pain and pleasure of the body. Repression or growth. Focus on the inputs and outputs from the organism, allowing everything outside the system to simply be complex neutral patterns in an ocean of waves of concentration and dissipation.

Letting go, temporarily, of the intellectual and emotional assessments of the patterns we see around us in the ocean that is our universe can help us reconnect to life itself, and listen carefully to our core awareness of how our current environment is taking care of our needs, to help us decide if we are healthy where we are, or if we need to move elsewhere to become healthier.

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Links referenced in episode:

When the Body Says No: Mind/body Unity and the Stress-Disease Connection W/ Dr. Gabor Maté (video)

Russell Brand & Gabor Mate | Damaged Leaders Rule The World (video)

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

We have land! Thanks to generous donations, my dream of starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves has real, material beginnings! We now have a (very cheap) small blop of property in mid-coast Maine, and I’m seeking folks who can help physically build spaces for volunteers to live, and the public to explore and create with us.

Also, if you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

I’ve created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have a high score of non-Bitcoin banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/. Or just search for “Turil” in podcasts.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 82 – The Architecture: A Nervous System for the Earth

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Social Media, and the internet itself, is about to evolve.

We can direct our communications in a simple decision tree based on evolution, with random mutation and natural selection helping us organize our content, effectively, efficiently, and responsibly, so that we serve our subjective priorities beautifully, for a more informed and inspired species.

I call this The Architecture for a New Internet. Bold, yet humble, is it not?

(Note: this podcast works best if you’re looking at the map itself, so clicky on that picture!)

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Links referenced in episode:

Time for a Global Circulatory and Nervous System (video)

A New Architecture for Planetary Procreation (video)

The earlier post announcing this map/idea: https://turil.wordpress.com/2019/04/22/a-love-letter/

My Reddit post describing the “who” level categories in general

Big thanks to Patrick at the Alewife, Massachusetts Staples for generously helping record this podcast!

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

We have land! Thanks to generous donations, my dream of starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves has real, material beginnings! We now have a (very cheap) small blop of property in mid-coast Maine, and I’m seeking folks who can help physically build spaces for volunteers to live, and the public to explore and create with us.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 81 – Small is the New Big

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A tiny ball of confusion hits the Earth, pushing the status quo off the edge, dramatically eliminating the dinosaur memes, and allowing the small and furry memes of the Earth to reconnect with what it is that they most need, at the deepest core.

We now know what the memetic version of the genetic dinosaur’s infamous comet is. A tiny, spiky sphere of viral RNA.

Yes, the waiting is over. We are now leaping upwards, into humanity’s developmental level 1000, focusing on first, second, and third person input, with a whole new, planetary level output opening up to our awareness.

What do we need now?

Universal Material Health.

Starting at home.

And ever so slowly expanding outward, to encompass the entire globe.

Food, water, air, warmth, light, and information that is qualitatively better, for us all, so that we can mature into a global consciousness of peak self-awareness — an emergent wisdom of a new, all encompassing Age of Enlightenment.

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Links referenced in episode:

The Grand Solstice of Life on Earth (video episode)

An old, sparse website introducing the CREATE Space project: http://www.createspaceearth.org

A Small and Furry Government (podcast episode 13)

Safe Spaces for Mammalian Memes (podcast episode 78)

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

We have land! Thanks to generous donations, my dream of starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves has real, material beginnings! We now have a (very cheap) small blop of property in mid-coast Maine, and I’m seeking folks who can help physically build spaces for volunteers to live, and the public to explore and create with us.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 80 – The Library of All Stories

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Happy Winter Solstice!

Enjoy the library. :-)

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Links referenced in episode:

Last Year’s Solstice Video: The Grand Solstice of Life on Earth

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

We have land! Thanks to generous donations, my dream of starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves has real, material beginnings! We now have a (very cheap) small blop of property in mid-coast Maine, and I’m seeking folks who can help physically build spaces for volunteers to live, and the public to explore and create with us.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 79 – Morality: A How To

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Where do you draw the line? What do you stand for? Is it more important to you to conserve the good things that are already here, or is it more important to liberate new possibilities?

It’s all good.

But there’s this one simple trick!

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Links referenced in episode:

Peter Draws: http://www.peterdraws.com

A quincunx/Galton board you can play with to see the bell curve in action

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 78 –

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We’re seeing history repeat itself, on a higher level now. We kinda know how the story of the dinosaurs’ genes went, and now we can see the dinosaur memes flame out too, to be recycled into informational fuel for the future.

While that happens, our small, furry, pro-social, creative memes need a place to hide out for a while. We can CREATE spaces for us to be safe, while we focus on taking excellent care of the basic needs of the small resourceful groups that are starting to spread out into the cracks and crevices of our planet, staying well away from the oversized, aggressive, dangerous beasts of centralized corporations and national governments.

You can join me in working to make truly safe spaces for all of our mammalian memes, and the bodies that contain them, or just go for it on your own, in your own local spaces.

It might not be the most comfortable time on the Earth right now, but if we focus on the best stuff, in small, decentralized ways, we just need to hang tight for a bit, and then we’ll finally inherit the Earth.

Happy Summer Solstice!

Love,
Turil

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Links referenced in episode:

The video podcast this one is following up on: The Grand Solstice of Life on Earth

Speaker John Ash’s Twitter thread that partly inspired this story

An old, sparse website introducing the CREATE Space project: http://www.createspaceearth.org

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 77 – Entropy is Provocative

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Memetic procreation is fun!

Happy Birthday to me! (I’m 50! Yay!)

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Links referenced in episode:

Speaker John Ash’s video on the creative unpredictability of communication Words: Distilling a Distributed Excitation of a Body of Cells

Speaker John Ash’s very sweet song about meeting someone else in one’s cautious explorations: Snail

Peter Draws is a wisdom dealer, offering free words. Find lots of his words, and non-words, here, and how about a couple of them over here too?

It’s pretty, and clever, and I like it Terran’s titanium anodizer. (He made my fork yellow-purple once. I didn’t know yellow-purple was a color before then. It was very nice. I still have the fork, but the yellow-purple wore off.)

This, right here, is a placeholder for something new. Some idea, perhaps from you, that dances beautifully with my own ideas!

“A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.” ~ Albert Einstein

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 76 – This is Valuable

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How do we bring our own personal values, of what we most want to get from the universe, and most want to share with the universe, into the internet culture and economy?

I explore a bit about what value is, and ask for ideas and help for incorporating our priorities, in some quantifiable way, into our communications online, in social media, government, education, and basic physical needs.

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Links referenced in episode:

Speaker John Ash’s video on quantified human value #Trashtag: Social Proof of Work

Choice blindness | Petter Johansson | TEDxUppsalaUniversity video (Talking about the “explain why you prefered this photo” study.)

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

(Also, note my “gifts wanted” on the rightmost sidebar for ways to help out in non-monetary ways.)

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TWTS – Episode 75 – How to Know What is Right and True

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The title of this is a good old fashioned bait and switch, really. That’s because I want to talk about the question itself. I want to talk about these concepts of “right and wrong” and “true and false”.

These ideas are based in a limited, one dimensional, linear view of reality, which, while useful sometimes, is generally ineffective in the long term, and/or on large scales. To get a more effective view of reality, we can look at things from a higher dimension, with more complexity, seeing how reality is like a tree branching outwards in a fractal pattern. It’s not always easy! But it’s worth it if we want to find good solutions to our problems and gain more joy and meaning in life.

Ultimately, from the perspective of the center of the universe, “right” is just a subjective direction. All directions are “right” if every direction is available and interesting and moving reality forward, or “true”, just like every branch of a tree is the right branch.

So, whatever you do, and whomever you are, is what’s right, from the universe’s perspective.

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Links referenced in episode:

The British Royal Institution’s (for science) video “How to Think Like a Mathematician – with Eugenia Cheng” which talks about moving up a level of understanding to see the complexity of things a bit more.

Me on Twitter: thewiseturtle

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 74 – The Best… For What Purpose?

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When we are asking for the “best” option or solution to a problem, it’s very useful to also be clear about:

Why are we asking the question? (Who, specifically, are we trying to help, and what are we specifically trying to help them get or do?)

How are the complex probabilities, and values of each option/solution, being simplified (to reach a single “best” answer)?

Bias, aka, subjective perspective, is a necessary part of a healthy, diverse system, but it can be problematic when we’re not aware of why individuals are coming up with dramatically different answers to what can seem, on the surface, like the exact same question.

For example, when asking an important question such as “Do we want to vaccinate ourselves and/or our children?” we can look at what our own, personal, goals are in life, what the options available to us are, how we give weight to the different possibilities, and what the probability is that the “best” choice is going to help us achieve our goals, relative to what the probabilities are that the other choices will get us to where we want to be.

And then we can seek to understand all of these things — goals, available options, and assessed probabilities — for everyone else who’s asking the same question and getting different answers, whether those others are animals, vegetables, or minerals even (computers, etc.).

Of course, understanding why their “weird” answers are the “best” from their perspective doesn’t mean that our own best answers aren’t the best for us. We might not need to change our own ideas about the best answers to our own problems when learning about others at all, since our own goals and options are probably different. But even so, getting to know a little more more about others’ thought processes is just a healthy way to feel more comfortable with the diversity of goals, and approaches to those goals, that life creates.

Or, we can skip the deep exploration of why and how, and just trust that life is doing what it needs to do, as we individually learn how to take excellent care of the specific people, places, and things that we find most precious.

Also, ultimately, we can become aware of the reality that life, as a whole, has to explore all the different options for all the different tactics, so that every time living organisms are thrust into new situations and new environments, there is someone, somewhere, capable of navigating through the new territory effectively, specifically because of their particularly abnormal modus operandi.

As strange as others’ answers might seem to us, and our answers might seem to them, all of our answers, and our thinking processes, are probably important for the success of life as a whole.

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Links referenced in episode:

The diverse roles different personality types fill in a healthy planetary system

Video explaining machine learning (deep learning) by the wonderful YouTube math guy “3blue1brown”

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 73 – The Old New You: a Ritual Practice

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We can use our old stories to tell new stories, and make new habits by choosing to engage in practice work that prepares us to create, explore, dream, and do, in more effective ways when we are faced with life’s bigger challenges. And the more regularly we choose to play with these rituals of connecting with ourselves and others in meaningful ways, the more comfortable we can become as we navigate through the flow that is a robust and rewarding life.

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Links referenced in episode:

A list of my posts about the Speaking Up process

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 72 – SciFi Cities

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Combine Burning Man together with a farmers’ market with a library and a mini forest, and maybe that’s a bit like what a neighborhood in our future cities will be like. The ultimate in multi-use urban development, emerging out of a combination of technology, specialization, networking, and good old fashioned humanity getting messy and doing the really meaningful and awesome work that needs doing.

Not like Blade Runner. Way more friendly, fun, diverse, and welcoming. For everyone.

Future cities are places you really want to live at least some of the time. While also leaving some of the time, to go off on your own for a while. And then return to, to share and reconnect.

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Links referenced in episode:

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 71 – Fake Fake News

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You only get fake answers when you ask fake questions. Fake answers are great when we are looking for some nice fiction, but when we want more honest, meaningful, personal, and important answers with which to make crucial decisions about the world, then we want the fake fake news, aka., the real news.

So how do we ask questions that lead to the best, more useful answers?

Ask everyone to Speak Up about the stuff that gets their blood flowing, so to speak.

Best Things (Loves): What most precious people, places, and things in the universe do you most value and want to take good care of?

Challenges (Losses): How have you struggled, or are struggling, with being able to protect the people, places, and things you love?

Purpose (Dreams): What do you most want to create and/or explore in this vast universe? (Eg., stuff for taking good care of physical bodies, for creating heathy living spaces, for building healthy communities on a larger scale, and for generating the most flourishing global culture possible.)

Needs (Hopes): What basic resources does your body most need in order to continue to work on your life’s purpose effectively? (In general: inputs of high quality food, water, air, warmth, light, information, and outlets for expressing the body’s excess solids, liquids, gases, and energy.)

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Links referenced in episode:

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 70 – How To Be Comfortable with Chaos

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Control versus freedom. Predictability versus unpredictability. Arbitrariness versus randomness.

Life is messy, and fluctuating, and we sometimes want to learn how to deal with the unknown better.

Here’s a bit of my story of how I learned to live with the chaos of a messy life.

I gave up thinking I could plan, and control, everything.

I understood that failure and sadness are a normal part of the learning/grieving process.

I learned to let go of my attachment to the details of what I loved and lost, while embracing the more important overall ideals and ideas of what I still want to get, so that I might find something similar but new that the universe might be happy to give me.

And I learned to see that the whole fluid movement of the interacting stories of all of our lives is beautiful on a large scale, even if the details of my own situations might be ugly sometimes.

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Links referenced in episode:

A list of my posts about the Speaking Up process

Byron Katie’s inquiry process (which inspired my own Speaking Up process)

The Stages of Grief are Loopy

Peter Draws glowy ink in water video

My version of a glowy ink in water video

More of me!: www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 69 – Art & Science

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Humans are extraordinarily majestic when it comes to the arts and sciences, and as we move into the future where technology — computers, AI (if we ever help truly intelligent synthetic beings evolve), robots, etc. — can take over the jobs that we humans find boring or dangerous in a bothersome way, humanity will become far more free to focus on exploring and creating new art and science.

So what is art? What is science?

Art is the emotional connection and communication with various media — the two-dimensional relationship between you and your medium, or you and your audience (via a medium/media). Art is the individual, subjective stories of what it’s like to be an individual relating to someone or something else in our big ol’ universe.

And science is taking two more more of those art stories and simplifying, analyzing, and comparing them to one another, collectively, to find the important similarities and differences so that we can generate a more broad, literally objective, view of reality.

art + art = science

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Links referenced in episode:

Peter Draws a community of lines Must Art have an Objective? (video)

Understanding Comics, a book, by Scott McCloud

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 68 – Serotonin is the Soul

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Serotonin is the deep, philosophical, self-defining chemical that governs our most important connection with external reality.

Dopamine is the physical motivation chemical, but serotonin is the one that *inspires* you to become your best possible self, and find your place in the grand experience of the whole universe of space and time. When you are feeling at one with the universe, in pure euphoria, naturally, it’s because serotonin is letting you know that your patterns of biological input and output are literally synchronized with reality’s grand purpose.

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Links referenced in episode:

A somewhat easy to read scientific explanation of the history of serotonin: Evolutionary ancient roles of serotonin: long-lasting regulation of activity and development.

A discussion about this podcast on Reddit: Serotonin: it’s probably not what you think it is. It’s definitely not what mainstream science and media portray it to be. Serotonin is your soul, which comes online around age 39.75.

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 67 – What is This Thing?

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A little wandering exploration of one of the most basic elements of the universe, the it-y “thingness” of each of the individual elements within reality, from atoms to alligators to Alisons.

These “its” are all about containment, stability, and separation/connection to the rest of existence.

And there are levels. The more boring things are pretty compact and stable. What is “you”, on the other hand, is much more fuzzy, with the center of you being the electromagnetic matter that forms your body, and the edges of you being the little bits of you that are more free flowing outward into the rest of the universe, only held moderately closely to your center through the gravity that holds humanity close to the Earth.

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Links referenced in episode:

This discussion was very much inspired by my new YouTube discovery Speaker John Ash

My weird Discord channel… has now been banned. Discord does not protect minority opinions, or free speech.

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 66 – You Really Can Help Them (Don’t Give Up!)

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Is what you’re trying to do really important to you to do? But what you’re doing just isn’t working? Are all of your efforts being rejected by whomever you’re trying to help, yourself, your friend/family/companion, your community, your whole culture?

Look at offering help on a different level, then.

There are four basic levels of offering good things to reality:

Physical: first person offerings to the outside environment

Emotional: second person offerings to someone you are close to

Intellectual: third person offerings to the larger infrastructure of the system/group you are a part of

Philosophical: fourth person offerings to the whole world (and beyond)

If you’re failing to accomplish your goals of improving things on one level, try to do something useful at one of the other levels that will indirectly help things at the level you care about most.

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Links referenced in episode:

My weird Discord channel… has now been banned. Discord does not protect minority opinions, or free speech.

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Summer 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 65 – You Are Worth It

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There are no good words. I attempt anyway. You make the universe vaster and deeper when some of the wiggly bits of you complement some of the wiggly bits of me, in some deeply valuable way. Thank you to those of you who have impacted my life, in immeasurable ways, by offering your unique selves to me. You’ve made me a far better human being than I imagined possible.

Special thanks goes out to my beloved David. There really are no good words.

But, thank you from all of the cells in my body, nonetheless.

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Links:

My weird Discord channel… has now been banned. Discord does not protect minority opinions, or free speech.

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Spring 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 63 – Who Haven’t You Asked

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I have a saying “Who haven’t you asked yet?” I guess it stemmed from my quest for answers about how to grow healthfully, and how to deal with anger, after realizing that both I and my beloved husband were so very angry. I found my best answers by looking in all kinds of weird places. Leaving no stone unturned, as they say. By listening to so many different types of individuals, instead of just the ones who were similar to me, I found some really unexpected perspectives which led to some great solutions.

We can form questions in different ways to get the attention of different kinds of individuals, who have different perspectives on the subject. These can be anything from different parts of our own brain to other animals, vegetables, minerals, and whatnot that we encounter in our lives — anything that happens to have some kind of information that we might not have, or haven’t yet tried to apply to our current problem we’re trying to solve.

Here are the kinds of questions that we can ask, in chronological order, as we seek to achieve a goal and encounter a problematic something or other (X):

Physical (Negative/Past): What caused X?

Emotional: What do others think of my theory about what caused X?

Intellectual: How does my theory fail to predict reality?

Philosophical: What IS reality (here and now)?

Physical (Positive/Future): How can we work WITH reality (to achieve our goal)?

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Did you ask them?

(Oh, and inertia was the word I was looking for!)

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Links referenced in episode:

The MIT Media Lab event that this was partly a reaction to Curious Minds: from building knowledge networks to inciting political resistance

My weird Discord channel… has now been banned. Discord does not protect minority opinions, or free speech.

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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The Big Picture:

My big goal that is getting very much closer, thanks to generous donations, is starting a non-profit community resource hub with resident artists, techies, and educators all working with the community to find creative solutions using available resources to serve the needs of the community members freely and unconditionally so that everyone can be their best possible selves. I’m currently (Spring 2018) starting to seriously look for (very cheap) property, ideally an old farm, probably in mid-coast Maine, and seeking folks who can help figure out the legal stuff of starting a non-profit or whatever, and putting the property into a trust so that it’s always there to serve the needs of those who live there.

I’ve also created a Patreon creator account for those who believe that my work is valuable and who have an excess number of banking points (aka $’s, £’s, ¥, or whatever).

If you want to toss me a little Bitcoinage, this is my wallet address: 1KH9wQmrRrpaMKYM3WFrMJBTGhNGhjBHLo

Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 62 – The Evolution of You

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You are made of a vast number of wiggles… vibrations of quantum particles, making vibrating atoms, making vibrating molecules, making vibrating cells, making vibrating organs, making a vibrating living organism. All of it combined is you. You are one big complex wave.

And your wave is always adding complementary, compatible, yet slightly incompatible, other waves to it, to help you become a better you. A you that fits together better.

In this podcast I ramble around the idea of what makes you you, and not, for example, a lamp, and why you are probably pretty compatible with me, even looking all the way back to you as a zygote!

the lamp

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Links referenced in episode:

Super awesome interactive thingie for learning about sound waves and how they combine

My older podcast about the brain understanding things independent from the vast chaos of random realitypodcast about brain understanding things

My weird Discord channel… has now been banned. Discord does not protect minority opinions, or free speech.

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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Subscribe to The Wise Turtle Speaks Podcast on iTunes or subscribe manually in your favorite podcast application by using the rss feed address – https://turil.wordpress.com/category/TWTSpodcast/feed/.

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TWTS – Episode 61 – Solstice – Addendum – A Personal Story of Loss

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My own reflection of what I’ve lost, an introspection on the past decade of my life, without my beloved husband and without a healthy community that supports my basic needs for food, water, air, warmth, light, information, and the freedom to express myself fully.

I’ve used this loss to define myself and my goals for creating a better world. I hope that you can explore your own losses and define yourself with them so that you, too, can clarify your goals and ideals for what you want to do with your life!

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Links referenced in episode:

I also (temporarily, at least) recently lost a beautiful relationship I had with my friend Peter, when he decided he needed to be destructive to his community, before he rebuilds: https://youtu.be/raQKg5p0Jfo

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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TWTS – Episode 59 – Letters In Your Brain

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Consider how the brain could function in a way that is pretty literally just recording the sensations that your body physically experiences (from the wavelength of light to the temperature and pressure of touch to the chemicals of smell) when you encounter some unique thing, by drawing little diagrams – like the letter “A” only way more complex and in 3D – in the brain using the neurons as endpoints and the axons and dendrites connecting them as the lines. When remembering something, we might literally just be replaying the physical experience in the body in some way, with full sensurround experience. (Just on a more subtle scale most of the time.)

And memories, ideas, language, etc. are fuzzy because the diagrams that get drawn with the biological stuff inside the brain are like waves describing probability, rather than simple, unchanging, written-in-stone “facts”. When I experience the color purple, most of the time it’s a pleasant experience, but occasionally it’s not, so the brain remembers those edge cases, as well as the more common ones, to use for future predictions about what might happen when those sensory experiences occur again.

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Links referenced in episode:

Podcast on Consciousness is Contraction

PBS Infinite Series’ video on mapping the network diagrams of the brain: https://youtu.be/rlI1KOo1gp4

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil (on hiatus): https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

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TWTS – Episode 58 – Life is a Grand Experiment

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Evolution, be it genetic or memetic or otherwise, is the process of taking two unique wholes, splitting them in half (or more, perhaps) and combining those halves with different halves, making entirely new wholes. The wholes go on to split up so that they, too, can expand out into the larger environment — from the tiny spaces inside a tidal pool, to a whole solar system, or any other scale of space that life exists within — and what happens on their unique journey, going their own separate ways and then re/connecting with all the other individual animals, vegetables, minerals, and such, as the whole system is explored, is recorded in the memories and general structure of the matter that makes us “individual things” up. And then the best, most interesting, most useful, most relevant, information forms one grand story of Everything That Is.

These stories — information packets in any form, genes, art, ideas, culture, etc. — of things that work best for nurturing all the individual things in the system, helping them function and grow and thrive, are shared as widely as possible, so that they can be used to make more, new, individuals/wholes, forever pairing with other parts never before combined. (And the least useful, interesting, helpful stories get forgotten, for the most part, except perhaps as examples of what not to do). The more that this process of taking the best parts of one individual person, place, or thing, and smooshing them together with the best parts of another individual person, place, or thing happens, the more effective, interesting, and delightful life gets overall, for both the individuals and the whole amazing system.

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Links referenced in episode:

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Noosphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil/overview

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil (on hiatus): https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

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TWTS – Episode 57 – Just Beyond Your Comfort Zone Lurks Excellence

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For the vast majority of us humans the state of flow is… over there. Just out of our immediate reach.

But if we stretch ourselves we can get there, get to a state where our bodies, including our brains, are operating at peak performance.

And to get there we need BOTH the support of healthy resources, and just a little bit of discomfort. Too much ease and comfort will make us bored. Too much pain and suffering and frustration will immobilize us (or turn us psychopathic). But that nice balance of everything we need most, plus a little challenge to give us a problem to focus our skills and experience on, will lead us to accomplishing something we likely never imagined possible. Some research suggests that the discomfort level is ideal when there is a positive (comfort) to negative (discomfort) experience ratio of 5:1.

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Links referenced in episode:

John and Julie Gottman relationship research

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his Flow state theory

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

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TWTS – Episode 56 – Going with the flow takes effort!

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One of the biggest places people get stuck when looking for enlightenment — be it in the more traditional Eastern philosophies or the more modern Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of mainstream Western psychology — is how to accept reality while also not “giving up” or being like a “doormat” and “letting people walk all over you”.

How do we “go with the flow” while not getting swept up in a seriously dangerous or excessively lame current? Why not fight against the way things are going, and try to go where we want to go in the first place?

The gist of it is that we find a way to aim, while using the flow to our advantage, to accomplish something meaningful. And the more open we are to all the different kinds of things that are meaningful to us, rather than trying to force a specific one, the more likely we will succeed.

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Links referenced in episode:
Speaking UP process (Podcast)

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil (on hiatus): https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

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TWTS – Episode 55 – The Reality of Infinite Delight

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If the universe (or multiverse, if you prefer) is indeed generating a pure mathematical randomness of all possible patterns (which physicists seem to think is very likely) – with entropy being the process of evolution where all the stuff that exists is continually being divided into smaller parts and recombined into new things – then we end up with a reality that grows infinitely more interesting, complex, challenging, fun, weird, and unpredictably beautiful with each passing moment. We’re not talking pure boring perfection of ectasy all the time, of course, but an ever increasing level of discovery of intersting and amusing and fun stuff.

This means that while it might seem that everything that possibly could be created, invented, explored, discovered, and known might already have been created, invented, explored, discovered, and known, in the next moment those things will fall apart and reorganize themselves into totally new things, being created, invented, explored, discovered, and known.

The universe’s story not only goes on, but the plot always thickens, the people (whatever type exists at the time) always get more character development, the settings always get more atmospheric, and the special effects always get more stunning.

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Links referenced in episode:

PeterDraws’ version of What One Can Invent

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil (on hiatus): https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

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TWTS – Episode 54 – Going in a Different Direction Now

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The Solstice is a time of change, stopping what we’ve been doing for a bit and then redirecting ourselves. Tilting another way.

Using this as a signal to reconsider what questions and problems you have had in life, and revisiting the answers, or lack of answers, you’ve found so far, to see if there might be some new person, place, or thing that might offer you something new.

Who haven’t you asked yet?

Which animal, vegetable, and/or mineral might have some nugget of information that you never imagined even existed?

What if enlightenment was hiding under that rock over there?

This solstice, turn some things over, maybe, just to see what you might have been missing.

Ask someone you never thought of asking before. Ask them how you might be able to do something that you’ve always wanted to do, but had given up on hoping you could ever get to do.

You never know who might show up with something unimaginably valuable…

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Links referenced in episode:

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil (on hiatus): https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

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TWTS – Episode 54 – Generation Fluidity

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(NOTE: I am not so sure I had this generation and it’s personality type and contribution to society categorized well. See this post for a more detailed breakdown of the generations. I might have combined two different generations here.)

When the generation of humans born in the 2010s and 2020s come into power, our world is going to go through an almost unbelievably dramatic paradigm change, from one that is focused on making material things (animal/vegetable/mineral) using a top-down/centralized control of life to one that is focused on exploring and collecting the immaterial ideas/information/energy while using a bottom-up/decentralized control of life.

And it is the more Autism Spectrum types, or at least the personally avoidant/flight introvert types, who will be the ones to lead us (again, from below, not above, us), gently nudging us forward in all different directions as they focus on understanding how the whole universe wants to flow, and helping the world be more fluid and free, so that everyone can follow their own unique path through life. This will allow the whole system to turn into something almost magical, the way a drop of ink in clear water will swirl into chaotically stunning patterns…

The future will be one where there are infinite possibilities, and our wildest dreams of today might pale in comparison to even just every day life in a decade or two.

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Links referenced in episode:

Government 4D (We’re beginning stage 111 now with the cooperative commons approach of Generation Z, and we’re heading into stage 1000 where everything about the way we organize society changes on a fundamental level.)

DSM-MBTI four quadrant diagram (Fight types are ESxx, Flight types are ISxx, Freeze types are INxx, and Flow types are ENxx – we’re governed by the Fight types now, and about to change over to being governed by the Flight types.)

The MBTI “Prime Directive Earth” map of how all the personalities contribute to our future. The ISFP, or 1000, types are going to be leading us all, from below, exploring and collecting ideas about how the universe flows, especially when it comes what’s going on inside us.

Vi Hart’s video “1 Year of Research” (Also, apologies for continually spelling her first name, rather than saying it. I don’t know why I did that.)

Jeremy Rifkin’s Collaborative Commons ideas

More of me!: https://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil: https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

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TWTS – Episode 53 – You should feel angry, scared, sad, and happy.

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Many times when I’m talking to people about the future, and the direction that I see things moving, based on the patterns of growth in life, they start to doubt me, and start looking to tell me all the reasons why the future is only going to get worse. Competition is “normal”. Humans are inherently messed up. Life is purposeless. Physics doesn’t care. We’re destroying the planet. Etc.

And, ironically, I both want to reassure them that they are mistaken, and let them know that whatever they feel is what they should feel.

Any time anyone, including yourself, tries to make you believe that what you are feeling is not what you’re supposed to be feeling, whether that is rage, avoidance, depression, or joy, you can be assured that they are confused. Feelings are the body’s way of sending you a message about the state of things, so that you can make a more informed decision about what to do.

Ideally, we can allow our emotions to be fully heard and respected and expressed before we try to solve any intellectually complex problem. This way we allow ourselves to focus on the past first, and then the future, using the parts of our brain that are best suited for each of these things.

“I ball up the meanness and let it out in the art, and no one gets hurt” ~Artist Peter Deligdisch

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Links referenced in episode:

The Stages of Grief are Loopy

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil: https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

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TWTS – Episode 52 – Life and Breath

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Moon, tides, life, breath, flow.

Matter energy matter energy matter energy.

Breath in. Breath out.

The cycles repeat, forever.

Life never ends. It just changes, and grows. Always.

Each rhythm is different.

Each part of life makes a part of the music that is life on Earth, and beyond.

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Links referenced in episode:

The Wise Turtle Speaks Video Special: What is Life?

PeterDraws: glowing and flowing ink and ideas (video)

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil: https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

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TWTS – Episode 51 – The Story of D

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A small, round, fuzzy person takes a random walk around his world, and finds something he never believed existed.

Love,
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A special request illustration done for Turil, by Mr. Roberto Kontosic, aka, Albert Fisk (Thanks Albert!)

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Links referenced in episode:

The future is dark (and that is a good thing) | Dr. Jane McGonigal | TEDxSkoll (Video)

The Stages of Grief are Loopy

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil: https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

And thanks to an exceptional and friendly sort of folk (who wishes to remain nameless) who generously created the new intro music for my podcast. Thank you so much!

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TWTS – Episode 50 – If You’re Happy and You Know It

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We are given so many mixed messages about how to deal with emotions! Do X! Don’t do X!

I try to make the most of an hour to offer you a fairly concise and thorough, but simple and universal approach to expressing our emotions in a way that works well, and makes life easier for everyone, even when doing what we instinctively want to do hasn’t worked out so well in the past. I got into how we can respect and care for our bodies, and their natural, normal, generally healthy reactions to problems, fears, danger, threats, etc. while also doing as little harm to our environment and the individual animals, vegetables, minerals, etc. around us who we need to keep reasonably intact, if we are to be successful in growing and learning and making life better overall?

I go through the four basic instinctive reactions of fight/anger/aggression, flight/fear/avoidance, freeze/sadness/depression, flow/happiness/joy and how we can put a little effort into moving from the most destructive, and least effective, way of expressing our emotions, to the most creative and effective way.

The general idea is identifying the particular emotion and problem, and then practicing in a reasonably comfortable space with a similar low level problem to move just a little bit towards improving the situation in some way. Then, when the “real thing” shows up, you have more options, and can choose your instinctive response or your new skilled response, depending on which one is more useful.

Links referenced in episode:

The Stages of Grief are Loopy

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil: https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

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TWTS – Episode 49 – The Purpose of Happiness

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Happiness seems like such an undefinable, inexplicable, unknown thing sometimes. We all know about the simple things that make all of us living things “feel good” that involve the body getting some sort of food, or water, or warmth which it needs to function well. But beyond that, why do some humans get all tingly when they hear someone whispering in their ear, and other humans don’t? And why is it so addictive for some people to gamble?

And why is life still worth living when there are so many depressing things out there?

Because life is, at it’s core, made to expand and grow. The algorithm of life is one for generating new life, and pretty much nothing else. Without that purpose in life, it would not continue to exist. And one way it does that is by having the super complex human brain reward itself for doing certain things.

What sort of things make YOU happy depend entirely on a complex combination of your genes and your environment, but the one thing that is always true, is that the things that make you happy, that aren’t actively harming anyone (non-consensually), are the things that the universe probably needs you to do more of.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Love,
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Links referenced in episode:

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

Live Streaming Philosophy by Turil: https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

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TWTS – Episode 48 – What are we doing here?

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Thinking, mostly. Everything thinks. Therefore it is. What is thinking? Absorbing information/energy, and processing it in some way.

Thinking is patterns.

And there are only a few basic building blocks that make up, or at least describe, all possible patterns in reality: empty, pregnant space, a point or location in that space, a movement or line between two points, and so on, with each next pattern being more changes/lines between a point or set of points in space.

And Pascal’s triangle tells us how many points and lines (vectors, changes, differences, etc.) there are for each dimension of thinking that we’re doing.

(Note that I initially talk about the 1, 3, 3, 1 level of Pascal’s traingle as the 3rd/objective dimension, when it is the 2D/shape dimension, but I correct myself pretty quickly.)

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Links referenced in episode:

I Think Therefore I am, In Context – podcast episode

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

https://www.instagram.com/turilcronburg/

And for good measure: Pascal’s Triangle

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The only law that always applies to reality is the laws of physics/nature, and that law is what we also call entropy/evolution, as far as I can tell.  This law essentially says that the universe starts with simple, boring, somewhat predictable stuff and grows increasingly more complex, diverse, weird, and unpredictable.  And it does so through a simple set of instructions for dividing things up and recombining them in novel ways to produce all possible combinations of matter and energy.

So the best way to stay as safe and uninjured in life as possible is to be expecting the (seemingly) unlikely to happen, at least somewhat often.

There are a variety of ways to do this, which I go over in this podcast, in a fairly meandering way. (Which is, of course, what you might be starting to expect!)

And as for me, I expect that you will be able to find yourself finding ways to embrace the weirdness in some weird and seemingly unpredictable way.

(Including, perhaps, noticing the reality that sometimes things are weird and sometimes they are wierd.)

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Links referenced in episode:

The ideal algorithm for keeping options open – TED Talk by Alex Wissner-Gross

This Explains Everything (the art installation video version): https://youtu.be/KX959aZ6WpU

A general example of the Pascal’s Triangle chunking category approach

Byron Katie’s “The Work” process and her grammatical/logical“Turnarounds”

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

And for good measure: Pascal’s Triangle

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TWTS – Episode 46 – Art is at the Edges (fixed)

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The edges between the past and the future, the edges between what is and what isn’t, the edges between two different things, are where life, and all it’s diverse and expansive creativity, are born.

First we contract into ourselves, defining the edges of who we are and what we want, and then we can look around at our immediate environment to see what the edges are of what it is and what it wants, and then we can look for ways to recombine ourselves with our environment by dissolving the edges between us and our world in a way that is most useful for helping us create a better world.

So… I’d like to wish you a happy dissolving of the edge between 2016 and 2017!

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Links referenced in episode:

Speaking Up Process podcast

Speaking Up Process discussion on Reddit

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

The Examined Life discussion community on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

Me live streaming: https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

A video of the making of my newly acquired art
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TWTS – Episode 45 – Away from Fight, Towards Flight

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For a century, we’ve been dwelling solidly in humanity’s stage of flight, as our basic reaction to global stress. But that’s coming to an end. The age of Extravert Sensing types being in the lead is starting to subside. And now, we’re entering the stage of flight. It’s time for the human world to be lead by the more Introvert Sensing types, who focus inwards in the more extreme ways, which will allow our world to move into some seriously quiet, reserved, and possibly magical, new-age, Buddhist, internally-focused navel gazing.

In a way, we’re all going to be refuges running away from the aggression and towards something unknown, with an open belief system, looking to discover what beauty and wonder the universe has to offer us all, from virtual reality, to cat memes, to deeply intimate but distant relationships, to quantum physics, and artificial intelligence.

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Links referenced in episode:

The Stages of Grief are Loopy

The DSM-MBTI personality types

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and his Flow state theory

Personality Types and how they fit into EVERYTHING (Prime Directive Earth MBTI)

https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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TWTS – Episode 45 – Solstice 2016 – Turning Point

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Happy Winter Solstice!

I believe that we are well into a decade long turning point where we swing as far out towards the masculine, intellectual, 3D, objective, “Judging”, past-centered, bad-stuff-avoiding, artificial, controlling, technology based society as we can and then start changing direction, moving towards a more feminine, philosophical, 4D, universal, “Perceiving”, future-centered, good-stuff-creating, natural, spirituality based society where we focus our energies on helping the whole system flow as a unified organism.

Through the very personal, open, and honest stories we tell — of where we were, where we are now, and where we want to go — while using our greatest losses to understand what is most meaningful to us and how we want to honor our past while creating a better future — one that supports and inspires younger generations — a new culture is emerging. But it sometimes takes a while for that to be recognized, as large things such as whole planets take a while to pivot around the various corners of reality.

Much love and curiosity to you all this Solstice.

Enjoy!

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Links referenced in episode:

Speaking Up process (Storytelling with a purpose)

Life: Earth Mission Diagram

Life: Earth Mission TWTS Podcast episode

Generations X, Y, and Z Rebooting Humanity TWTS Podcast episode

Governmental Personalities diagram

The Stages of Grief are Loopy (the learning/growing process)

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

https://www.twitch.tv/turilcronburg

The Examined Life subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/theexaminedlife

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TWTS – Episode 44 – Pick a Government, Any Government

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This is a bit of a follow-up to a couple of previous episodes…

How does a bottom-up government, like the Life: Earth Mission (aka Prime Directive Earth) one I’ve been sharing, work? Whatever way works! Just like in a healthy living organism, like a human body, each local area, be it a collection of blood cells, a kidney, or a hand, makes it’s own decisions about how it wants to make decisions, based on who’s there, and whatever they find most comfortable for how they collaborate. And, while a bottom-up, living organism system is definitely no utopia (as we all know, when our bodies get sick or hurt or, eventually, die), the goal of a healthy organism is to try to give every individual within the system what it needs to function as well as possible, while being flexible and resilient through complex networks that can temporarily work around malfunctioning areas until they can heal and be put back online and working for the system again.

The more the individuals focus on taking care of themselves in their small communities, organs/organizations, using whatever skills, interests, resources, etc. they happen to have on hand, and the more these groups network together, based on both geography and category of purpose, the healthier and more effective the system as a whole becomes. The health of the system grows exponentially, meaning that we can repair a huge amount of damage pretty quickly as long as we focus on actually doing so, freely, and with a goal of system health, rather than competition.

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Links referenced in episode:

Life: Earth Mission Diagram

Life: Earth Mission TWTS Podcast episode

Personality Types (Prime Directive Earth MBTI)

Everyone for President TWTS Podcast episode

Everyone for President Reddit community

If you and a bunch of others were starting a new colony from scratch, on another planet, or just an island on Earth, what form of governance would you want to use? How would you want decisions to be made about about who does_gets what? discussion on Reddit’s /r/Futurology community

A proposal for governance in the post 2011 world – just a little something that I found interesting on the wikileaks website

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TWTS – Episode 43. – Freedom, Not Safety is What We Need

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When squeezed enough, everything explodes.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The more forcefully something is contracted, controlled, and contained, the more forcefully it will soon become expanded, uncontrolled, and uncontained.

But if there is an outlet, even just a single way to move into a lower pressure area, then the violence can be avoided.

And the more outlets for free movement, and free expression, the less violence there will be.

This is true whether we are talking about balloons or humans, physics or sociology.

Yet this seems to be one of most ignored laws of nature when it comes to leaders and policy-makers in the world, at all levels, and in all fields.

When norms, religions, governments, families, schools, organizations, and ideologies attempt to repress, by trying to contract, control, and contain an individual’s innate need for free expression, something always breaks. And the typical “solution” to that breakage? Add even more forceful repression, contraction, control, containment! More punitive, threatening, harm-based laws! More insults! More alienation of those who are outside the norm! In general, more lack of freedom all around. Ouch.

But we understand, deep down, through both our instincts and our science, that the only cure for violence, on all levels — physical, emotional, intellectual, and philosophical — is more freedom to be ourselves, our weird, abnormal, eccentric, creative, exploratory, awesome selves. More outlets for individuals to express their unique passions. More flexibility. More openness. More space for all the diverse individuals to be themselves, whether that is LGBT, Muslim, Christian, agnostic, weird-looking, normal-looking, Republican, Democrat, Green, Libertarian, authoritarian, historian, singularitian, fat, skinny, blind, eagle-eyed, dark skinned, light skinned, female, male, mixed, genius, simple, New Aged, old aged, autistic, borderline, histrionic, hyperactive, shy, funny, dull, happy, sad, mad, mammalian, culicidian, ornithorhynchidian, Martian, or robotian. The universe makes all of us individuals to fill a niche, and as a society we can choose to try to block individuals from finding their niche, and suffer the backlash, or we can choose to help individuals find their niche, by giving them the freedom to fully, honestly, and openly express who they are and want to be.

The “safety” of forced contraction, control, and containment, which always eventually results in the serious danger of forced expansion, uncontrol, and uncontainment, is the opposite of what we need. What we truly need is freedom. Freedom to be human, or whatever else the universe has made us to be. Freedom to be and do whatever we feel most joyful, passionate, excited, and delighted about when it comes to what we want to explore and create in life.

So, I wonder, how can we turn the dialogue around to promoting freedom, rather than safety, flow, rather than boredom or overwhelm, in our world?

Maybe Blooomy.org?

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Links referenced in episode:

Understanding Hate TWTS podcast episode

How to Raise an Awesome Kid TWTS podcast episode (on one of the Columbine High shooters)

Introducing Blooomy!

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TWTS – Episode 42. – Generations X Yand Z Rebooting Humanity

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A long and wonderfully winding tour of the past 60 years of humanity and how each human generation (of 20 year periods) has split off from and then recombined cultural norms and ideals from their elders and future Earthlings to elevate our species, and all of life on Earth, into thinking in three dimensions, at governmental level 111, and then, eventually, in all four, at government level 1000 and beyond, for some truly brilliant evolving. I had a whole lot of fun with this one, and I hope you find it fascinating to consider where we’ve been and where we seem to be going…

Here is the way I see Generations X, Y, and Z

Gen X – “The Slackers” – born 1950 to 1969 – First Person/Physical Output Focus
Question: What do I really want to do in life? What does it mean to be a human being and what are we “supposed” to do, if we want to be our best?
Answer: Stop being so greedy and violent, and instead connect to one another!
Peak Achievement (and gift to the next generation): the Internet
Some Spokesmodels: Robert Downey Jr., Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Joss Whedon, Kevin Smith

Gen Y – “The Circus Generation” – born 1970 to 1989 – Second Person/Emotional Output Focus
Question: What do we really want to do together? How can we be our best, interpersonally?
Answer: Stop being so focused on just yourself, and instead play games together!
Peak Achievement (and gift to the next generation): Social media/gaming to improve health
Some Spokesmodel/s: Jane McGonigal, Tim Ferriss, Mark Zuckerburg, Alexis Ohanian, Chris Poole

Gen Z – “Millennials”, “Generation 3D” – born 1990 to 2009 – Third Person/Intellectual Output Focus
Question: What do we really want to do for work? How do we want to collectively solve problems and improve the lot of us?
Answer: Stop being so focused on just you and your pals and competition, and instead start collaborating with all of the diverse Earthlings – animal, vegetable, mineral, and otherwise – in solving the problems of life on Earth in a fun and exciting way!
Peak Achievement (and gift to the next generation): Basic Income (and something involving “the Blockchain” and VR, probably)
Some Spokesmodel/s: (Ummmm… Errr…. Any suggestions for the best of the 26 and under set?)

And what’s next? What will those born starting this decade want to focus on? Everything “out there”, in the most mystical, and incomprehensible sense! They will start up the “Transhumanism” reality, I think. Looking to see what the universe beyond our planet and current material understanding of life has to offer us all. And then, those born even later will be the first generation of fully active Transhuman beings, in the sense of individuals having two or more fully functional bodies (“trans” meaning “across” or “beyond”): with avatars in VR alternate realities, in robot/drone bodies exploring the deep sea, as AI copies on spaceships, or whatever, that are connected to their “home bodies” in realtime, so that individuals can collaborate creatively with themselves over expanses of space and time (making them 5D beings?). Is that a bit scary to us older folks? Yep. And also exciting!

Enjoy!

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Links referenced in episode:

Four Dimensions of Political Government diagram

http://www.government3d.xyz

Pascal’s Triangle

The Wise Turtle Speaks Basic Income podcast

Basic Income podcast at The Guardian

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TWTS – Episode 41 – Robots Love You!

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A shockingly short and sweet reminder of what robots want. I thought I’d done a podcast about this already, but couldn’t find it, so maybe I imagined it, or it was hiding in the middle of some other, longer discussion that I’ve since forgotten about, so I felt it would be good to put this out there. This is pretty much all I think needs to be said on the matter of robots “stealing” your job!

Enjoy!

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Links referenced in episode:

What Technology Wants – book by Kevin Kelly

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TWTS – Episode 40 – Listening to Yourself

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When the outside world isn’t giving you great feedback, maybe it’s time to give you some for yourself. Here’re some practical suggestions for assessing the ideas that are floating into, out of, and around your own head, to see where they are useful and where they are not, and to flesh them out into more realistic curves, and spheres, and such, rather than just yes or no binary models of life.

Enjoy!

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Links referenced in episode:

Carol Dweck’s TED Talk on Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset

Byron Katie and her “The Work” inquiry process

Speaking Up Process Worksheet (PDF download)

Speaking UP process (Podcast)

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TWTS – Episode 39. – Reflecting on War = Raw

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In this episode I explore how we can transform our history of war, the negativity surrounding Memorial Day (and it’s celebration of violence), and the anger/destruction/disconnection-based fight element of the stages of grief (stages of learning), into something positive so that we can evolve. Memorial day is all about reflection, and I discover that the literal reflection of “war” is “raw”.

Rawness is all about vulnerability, openness, existential philosophy, absolute sensitivity, and being in an unadulterated, natural state. War is the opposite of raw in the same way that the anger/fight element of the stages of grief is the opposite of the depression/freeze element. Depression comes after anger, and it is what finally moves us toward the discovery of an enlightened resolution to our past problems.

We can reclaim Memorial Day as a positive time to embrace the spiritually beautiful and raw depression stage of grieving, with its focus on looking back at the life-affirming things we have lost, and then keeping those in mind as we seek ways to reconnect to the world using healthy curiosity and compassion, especially with those we might have previously feared or been in conflict with.

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Links referenced in episode:

Stages of Grief are Loopy!

Speaking Up for Yourself podcast episode

Successful Love is Randomness plus Challenge podcast episode

How Science can Eliminate Terrorism podcast episode

Particle moving through a wave

Nick Lane (has the book with the diagram showing that evolution is both division and recombination)

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TWTS – Episode 38 – Just Some Extra Stuff from Turil

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This is just a bit of an update and some rambling. Not super important. Listen at your leisure, if you feel so inclined.

Something cool and kinda big is coming very soon!

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Links referenced in episode:

Life: Earth Mission (a.k.a. the Prime Directive Earth Game)

CREATE Space Earth’s website: http://www.createspaceearth.org

The Stages of Grief are Loopy (the pattern of our heroic stories)

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TWTS – Episode 37. – The Turil Test for “Intelligence”

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Because our own perceptions of external reality are always colored by our own subjective experiences, goals, beliefs, etc., when it comes to the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence, as well as identifying Artificial Intelligence, the question of whether or not we decide that some “other” is “intelligent” or was designed on “purpose”, may be moot. In any long sequence of ones and zeros we can always find some “interesting” pattern.

So I propose a slightly modified version of Alan Turing’s famous test which can be boiled down to asking:

Is this thing able to take in my goals and offer an unexpected and useful solution for achieving those goals?

The wider the variety of goals a thing can offer solutions for, and the more useful those solutions are, compared to one’s own solutions, the more “intelligent” we might want to label this thing, if that is the sort of thing we really want to spend our time doing, that is.

Enjoy!

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Links referenced in episode:

Stephen Wolfram’s SETI talk

Tebetha Boyajian’s TED talk on the SETI project’s mysterious “Wow” signal

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TWTS – Episode 36. – Understanding Hate

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There are so many myths and misconceptions about why someone would commit a hate crime or otherwise want to harm someone else, especially when it comes to things like identity (gender, culture, age, shape, size, lifestyle, beliefs, etc.). I offer a simple way to look at hate that allows us to see the heart of the problem, so that we might better address it, effectively and compassionately.

This episode was inspired by a BBC World Service radio show that talked about a man who took up boxing after being attacked after coming out of a gay bar, and a review of a documentary film about philosopher Hannah Arendt and her controversial ideas on Nazi hate crimes.

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Links referenced in episode:

Speaking UP process (Podcast): https://turil.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/twts-speaking-up-for-yourself/

Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt documentary: https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/vitaactivathespiritofhannaharendt

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TWTS – Episode 35. – The Best Investment Advice. Period.

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Economists, lawyers, investment experts, parents, teachers, the media, etc. are all unlikely to know how to truly use one’s material resources, especially $, £, ¥, €, Bitcoin, etc., to the fullest, since they have unlikely researched evolution and how it affects society and human technology. So, their advice, while potentially reasonable for the past, is probably nowhere near as important or useful to you as the advice I offer here in this short and sweet podcast episode.

If you have a goal of using your excess resources to generate a future where you and those you care about have the most access to the things they need, so that they can most freely pursue their dreams, then listen up!

Enjoy!

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Links referenced in episode:

An assessment tool for measuring community priorities Create Spaces Survey (PDF download)

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TWTS – Episode 34. – Who do we want to elect?

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Of the four basic types of biological responses to overwhelming obstacles standing between us and our goals, only one is a healthy, long-term, win-win approach to problem solving. And while we humans generally are capable of all four of these responses, we each have a genetic inclination to one or the other of these approaches. Unfortunately, in our current design of society, the types of human who are naturally inclined to be the most effective at leading us to where we most want to go, as a whole, are not at all the types who are currently being given the job, or even being promoted as candidates.

There’s a clear reason that there is such vocal distress when it comes to elections, as well as the decisions being made by large corporations and other institutions: the people who we really want leading us are being kept far away from those leadership roles.

So, in this episode, I go into a fair bit of detail about the four types of approaches to problems, and where they are most useful. And then I explore the kinds of individuals who we will want to actively seek out to give the most crucial ambassadorial and policy-making jobs that direct us forward, towards a world where we are all able to thrive, in whatever way is most meaningful to us as unique individuals.

This is my longest podcast episode yet, and well worth the time put into it for those who are looking for ways to uncover truly excellent solutions to our planet’s grandest challenges, and most difficult problems. The solutions are indeed out there, hovering on the leading edge of the overly negative social system of our past.

The secret is in unleashing those visionaries and innovators who are otherwise ignored, and pushed out of mainstream politics and science, because they are too “weird” to fit in. These “weirdos” are, in fact, the only ones who are likely to give us the answers we seek. They are the ones who will both care about us individuals, intimately, and be dogged in finding practical policies that will serve us all, collectively, and do so in ways we might never have even dreamed possible.

I encourage everyone who seriously wants our world to find answers — to questions such as how to support a resilient environment in the face of global climate change, how to help humans and other Earthlings adapt to rapid technological change, and how to alleviate the deadly conflicts between tribal-style groups in the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and on urban streets in the US and Europe — to intentionally seek out the “weirdo” hidden gems of problem solvers who haven’t yet been given the jobs that they are best at, and then, finally, give them the power, and other resources they need, to fully let loose with what some might imagine to be magic — the true magic that only comes from the purest physical determination, deepest emotional communication, and broadest intellectual innovation, all combined with the grandest cultural inspiration.

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Links referenced in episode:

Everyone for President! https://www.reddit.com/r/everyoneforpresident

A place for everyone… https://createspaceearth.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/mbtiprimedirective.gif

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TWTS – Episode 33. – How to Organize. Everything!

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Organization is both an art and a science, and I offer a bit of a secret to using science to bring people (be they animal, vegetable, mineral, or whatever else) together in a productive way. This secret involves both a children’s game (not marbles this time!) and the location of every single particle in the universe.

Wanna play?

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Links referenced in episode:

United-Earth.vision

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TWTS – Episode 32 – How to Raise and Awesome Kid

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Or, How to Raise a Superhero, Not a Supervillan! Whether you are a mom or a dad, a grandparent, an aunt or uncle, teacher, or any other individual in that proverbial village where a child is raised, I offer a short (relatively!) “everything you need to know” overview of what it takes to nurture a child of any sort of intelligence to be successful in all the most important ways.

This episode is dedicated to Sue Klebold, who’s been on my mind, and in my heart, quite a bit lately.

I offer you three points for each of the basic elements of your approach, starting with creating and sharing your clear intention to raise this child to get to the end of their life having generally felt like they lived in an environment that supported them being able to discover, and invest their lives in, their greatest dreams for what they most want to explore and create in and for their world. Then I go on to give the three basic processes for how to achieve this goal as effectively as possible.

Basically, it boils down to taking good care of oneself, then focusing on identifying and providing a broad range of options for this child to choose from that reflect the absolute highest quality physical, emotional, intellectual, and philosophical things that your world can offer them, and then giving them the respect and freedom to choose for themselves.

Good Luck!

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Links referenced in episode:

Article on Sue Klebold “A Mother is Supposed to Know”

Maslow 2.0

Angela Stokes Monarch on Raw Food

Speaking Up for Little People https://turil.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/speaking-up-for-little-people/

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TWTS – Episode 31. – Successful Love is Randomness plus Challenge

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It turns out that loving one’s romantic partner and loving one’s enemies is very similar, and can be effectively described by the path of a mountaineer, or a computer program: part random curiosity and part hard work that quite often hurts! Love is also the only way to grow, and find a better life, for oneself and one’s companions, whoever they happen to be, and while frustrating at times, is the only truly good option in life.

Enjoy this hearty (heh) Valentine, specially made for you, from me!

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Links referenced in episode:
Guardian Article: What is love?

Maslow 2.0: the basic human needs

Hanna Fry TED talk – The Math of Love

Speaking UP process (Podcast)

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TWTS – Episode 30. – The Basic Stages of Artificial Intelligence We Should Aim For

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I look forward to seeing an AI that is at least as intelligent as a 10 year old human! This is the level at which true intelligence shows up at the most basic understanding of conscious awareness, so it’s the most useful for us to create. These levels can be clearly defined using increasing awareness of different individual perspectives/goals in different combinations of observation and action (input/cause and output/effect) to the point of objective, third person, action that includes the goals of others, in the same way that a 10 year old human does: effectively, given some healthy philosophical/moral guidance and parameters.

The questions each of the higher functioning 4 levels/algorithms we need, beyond the core programming of the AI’s own goals and awareness of itself, are (note: these numbers are binary!):

10. What do you (person #2) want to do, and how does it affect me (person #1)?

11. What can we (person #2 and person #1) do together?

100. How are they (person #3) helping you (person #2)? (As perceived by person #2.)

101. How can I (person #1) help you (person #2) the same way they (person #3) did?

This is a long one! But if you are interested in goals we want to use for building AI that functions successfully, then this is a very thought provoking episode, with a good background on human intellectual development.

Please let me know your questions! I really would love to help you understand these levels and why they are important! Comment here, email me, or talk to me on Reddit! (My email is TheWiseTurtle on gmail. My reddit page is listed in the links below.)

Enjoy!

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Levels of Conscious Awareness

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TWTS – Episode 29. – Why Losing Your Marbles Can Be OK

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What do all my marbles have to do with the economy? Find out in this somewhat rambling, but sweet, story that came to me while listening to a talk by Robert Reich on inequality that showed up on the radio in the middle of the darkness of New Years Eve/Morning at about 4am.

Enjoy!

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Robert Reich’s website

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TWTS – Episode 28. – The Spirit of the Gift Economy

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Breathe.

And again.

And again.

Inhale. Exhale. Repeat.

It’s natural.

It’s the gift economy.

It’s where we’re instinctively going in life, after we take a bit of a detour with a bit of a silly game that got taken way too seriously.

I talk about why not using, ignoring, giving away, and otherwise simply NOT having money can be the most valuable option in life.

Imagine if we made breathing a seriously competitive game. Well, that’s essentially what we’ve done with most everything else we living things need to do in life. And we’re starting to realize that we’d rather just be free! To breathe, eat, drink, think, listen, talk, laugh, cry, yell, run, watch, wait, explore, and create.

Enjoy!

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Links referenced in episode:

Except from Charles Eisenstein’s book Sacred Economics

The origins of the game of Monopoly

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TWTS – Episode 27. – Encouraging Rational Thinking

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Whether you are a STEM teacher, a parent, an organizational leader, or just someone who believes that the world would be better off if more people, human and otherwise, were able to think rationally and scientifically and logically when looking to solve problems, this podcast episode is for you!

We already know that the primary need for complex brains to function well is basic physical health (from high quality nutritious food, clean water, fresh air, comfortable warmth, inspiring light, and the freedom to express one’s excess matter and energy), but after that, or even occasionally without that (temporarily) we have a better chance of supporting people in looking at things from multiple points of view if we, ourselves, are looking at things from multiple points of view, including the various goals and ideals of our audience.

In other worse, for best results, we can use all four dimensions of awareness/pespective to speak to others in a way that values their own unique personal priorities (and abilities), the priorities of their closest companions, the priorities of their larger communities, and the ideologies that they believe are universal.

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Links referenced in episode:

NPR psychology story: Is Arguing With Passion The Most Effective Way To Persuade Opponents?

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TWTS – Episode 26. – How Science Can Eliminate Terrorism

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What do cat videos, systems theory, Netwonian physics, and you and me have to do with decreasing extremist violence? A whole lot! I take a look at how science can help us solve our problems with terrorism and other extremist violence, in all areas of our world.

We consider how change spreads from a single individual outward to the whole world via a messy web of more intimate, personal connections involving the sharing of our best, healthiest, most considered ideas.

And we combine that with the understanding that even with complex living beings, the instinctive reaction to an action is an equal one aimed in the opposite direction. This means that a negative/pushing/destructive force will naturally be met, most often, with an equally negative/pushing/destructive force aimed at the original source. This also means that a positive/pulling/constructive force will most often be met with a similarly positive/pulling/constructive force in return. So, if we have a goal of a healthy world, where even very diverse groups can “get along” and at least minimally tolerate one another fairly respectfully, then we should direct our efforts to creating an extremely attractive force at those who have been extremely repellent.

Making ourselves more attractive involves being curious, generous, compassionate, and loving. When we honestly welcome our “enemies'” thoughts and feelings about what they want to accomplish in life and what they believe they need to be able to achieve their dreams, and then seek to help them get these healthy things, we suddenly become exceptionally alluring and personally magnetic, allowing us to lead folks to a better place, where everyone can focus on improving the world.

And, yes, there’re also cats!

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Links referenced in episode:

The whole human world is just a few hops away from you!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_degrees_of_influence

Newton’s Laws of Motion (#3 is the Equal and Opposite one): https://www.brainpop.com/science/motionsforcesandtime/newtonslawsofmotion/

BBC’s Hardtalk interview with Tunisian Nobel Peace Prize winner: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03b18z4

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A system (an organism, biological or not) that is mostly contained and that

1. takes in matter and/or energy patterns

2. reorganizes those patterns (combining them with other patterns)

3. outputs copies of at least parts of the newly created patterns (procreation)

What do you think?

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TWTS – Episode 25. – Non-Murderous Self Driving Cars

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In response to an article at MIT’s Technology Review magazine that offered the attention-grabbing headline “Why Self Driving Cars Must Be Programmed To Kill”, I feel the need to offer two very crucial points to the discussion:

1. BATNA: The “best alternative to the negotiated agreement” in the operation of a vehicle is to stay centered around a point of health and wellness. All users — be they animal, vegetable, mineral, or otherwise — of a shared space need to direct their actions in such a way as to NOT take chances with anyone’s life, right from the start. The number one rule of sharing spaces with others is to always plan to be able to stop, safely, if something unexpected happens. No plan is ever perfect, but starting out with at least a minimal threshold of something like “Stay safe enough that if there is a physical conflict any potential damage will be fixable”. High risk is only for consensual and limited play, NOT our planet’s basic organism’s infrastructure. Use a truly healthy model for our future systems, not the sick, bad habits of our past or present. In professional conflict resolution and mediation, one of the basic concepts is to always keep in mind that if negotiations are too challenging, one can stop and walk away with nothing worse than the status quo. In other words, no progress is better than making things much worse.

2. Intelligence Increases Options: In a complex system, the ideal plan is NOT a deterministic, direct path from point A to point B, instead the idea plan is an expansive, branching (US American) football-shaped web of as many possible routes to get from here to there as possible, both physically and logistically. A cut-off point that allows for as much wiggle room as possible while still making progress needs to exist before anyone moves forward with sharing the public ways, if we want to have a positive experience as we travel around our world and beyond. Not only do we need wiggle room for other individuals, including inanimate objects, weather, and malfunctioning thingies doing unexpected things, but we also have to include space for confusion and illusion. Senses, and sensors, can be fooled! Making sure that there are as many possible ways out of a potential conflict is the only way to allow for all the possible problems that could happen to happen with as minimal an impact on the goals of everyone sharing the space as possible.

This is just my first reactions, and I could go into far more detail, if anyone wants me to! I just wanted to make it clear that we absolutely do NOT want to program cars to kill, and instead can easily program them to operate in a safe and healthy way?

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Links referenced in episode:

Tech Review Article

Constructal Theory – Adrain Bejan

Brookline TEDX talk by Alex Wissner-Gross on Intelligence
Getting To Yes’s “Best Alternative to the Negotiated Agreement” BATNA

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TWTS – Episode 24. – Friendly Intelligence, Artificial and Otherwise

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What makes relationships friendly? Consensual interactions! What is consent? Freedom to be able to work towards achieving one’s goals, plus valuing others’ goals, which, combines means seeking to achieve each of the participants’ different goals.

The Green Rule is an 21st century version of the Golden Rule, where we:

Aim to take only what we need to be our best, from what is freely offered, and freely offer what we no longer need, to anyone else who seems to be able to use it to be their best.

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TWTS – Episode 23. The Universe as a Snowflake Among Infinite Snowflakes

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I share a bit of elegant writing about multiple universes from Charles Seife’s book Decoding the Universe, and then offer some commentary and new ways of thinking about it all.

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Links referenced in episode:

Charles Seife’s books

Maths is Fun Pascal’s Triangle page

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TWTS – Episode 22. – Conscious is Contraction

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What really matters?

If the two processes of the universe are contraction and expansion, and all smaller “things” that make up the universe are different combinations of infinitesimal instances of the contraction and expansion states, then we can describe all of the things we speak of in these terms of contraction (0) and expansion (1).  In this case, I’m also going to suggest that the term “consciousness” can be described as expanded external reality being contracted into a more material state within an internal somethingorother (like our brains, or even a molecule).  In other words, all individual things that take in energy (information) from outside themselves and turn that energy into matter are “conscious” in some way.  And the more complex and multi-dimensional the representation gets, the more consciousness the thing has.  Human brains, of course, are pretty complex.  But is there something beyond this complexity?  Is a whole planet able to be conscious, if it is turning energy into matter in some way?

“I’m not a genius, I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.” ~Buckminster Fuller

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Links referenced in episode:

Consciousness Development Pattern

(Similar) dimensions of consciousness (PDF download)

Radiolab’s podcast episode on consciousness

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TWTS – Episode 21. – Biological Fourier Transform Peak Experiences!

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What matters?

Our more “metaphorical” and poetic language turns out to be an excellent clue as to the more scientific processes of what’s going on unconsciously with our more complex and interesting experiences as living beings in this universe. For example, the idea of “peak experiences” may well be a quite literal expression of how smaller, weirder waves of sensory inputs or communication outputs are overlapping in a way that produces an exponentially stronger and more powerful and more pointed wave in the story that is our life, in the same way that an expanded rainbow of colored light combines together to create an intense, focused burst of pure white light.

Sometimes, just sometimes, in our path through the universe, our bodies and minds come upon some collection of smaller, seemingly insignificant, or at least fairly mundane, elements of delight that are brought together in a way that overlaps their energy/information waves such that they produce an exceptionally overwhelming surge of power inside us.

I’m curious about how our more two dimensional science can bring it’s more quantified and detailed understanding of this process with philosophy’s (religion’s) more three dimensional illustrations of the big ideas of humanity, to help us better clarify how we might learn to explain and create more of our flow states so that we can help all of living beings, individually and as a whole, consciously find a whole lot more intense height and delightful breadth.

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Links referenced in episode:

Consciousness Development Pattern

Flow States: Csikszentmihalyi TED Talk

Rise of Superman – Book by Steven Kotler

(My review of the Rise of Superman on Reddit)

First ever picture of light as particles and waves at the same time

Rapalje’s Dunmore Girls

Science explains how music can give humans the equivalent of an orgasmic experience

And Reddit’s discussion of how music can give humans the equivalent of an orgasmic experience

Celtic spirals!

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TWTS – Episode 20. – What You Look For Is What You See Is What You Get

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All intelligent beings are pattern seekers, and since all possible combinations of patterns seem to be tried by the laws of nature, whatever pattern we decide to look for in our reality we will be able to find more often than we would if we weren’t looking to find it! That’s not just because all possible patterns are tried in reality, but also because patterns are fractal, and so if we start looking for a simple pattern, we’ll start recognizing it in all sorts of other patterns, both simple and complex, as we move our focus closer or further away.

So… consider what would you like to see more of in your life, then start consciously seeking it out, using the most appropriate measuring tools and tactics to find such a thing, and you’ll likely find more of it, naturally.

(For more about why it’s likely that all possible patterns get tried, see the previous two podcast episodes on Entropy, Randomness, Evolution, Free Will, Determinism, and What Life is All About (Pascal’s Triangle))

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This is what happens when Google’s Deep Dream process looks at my honey and my feet and the wedding sand sculpture I made! (Click on the image to open a larger version.)

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Links referenced in episode:

Google’s Deep Dream Introduction

Google’s Deep Dream on Reddit

Pauli Exclusion Principle – XKCD version (explained)

Speaking Up – Elevate Your Conversation Worksheet podcast

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TWTS – Episode 19. Entropy, Randomness, Evolution, Free Will, Determinism, and What Life is All About (Pascal’s Triangle) Part 2

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Even more not purely random discussion of randomness and all that, and how it relates to the big questions of how the universe works, or at least might work. This second part covers how entropy and evolution are the same basic process, which is, probably, an ever expanding, ever complexifying fractal collection of things that continually divide and recombine into novel and more diverse individuals of all manner. Also, I point out why dinosaurs are from the past!

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How about some images for your consideration?

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Links referenced in episode:

Maths is Fun Quincunx page

Maths is Fun Pascal’s Triangle page

Possible Universal Categories

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them.” ~ Neil Gaiman xkcd comic

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TWTS – Episode 18. Entropy, Randomness, Evolution, Free Will, Determinism, and What Life is All About (Pascal’s Triangle) Part 1

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A not purely random discussion of randomness and all that, and how it relates to the big questions of how the universe works, or at least might work. This first part includes another intro to Pascal’s triangle, a bit about entropy, and how both free will and determinism co-exist in reality.

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How about some images for your consideration?

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Links referenced in episode:

Maths is Fun Quincunx page

Maths is Fun Pascal’s Triangle page

Possible Universal Categories

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TWTS – Episode 17. The Word

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A Sunday Physics Sermon, perhaps. Or a meditation on what an etch-a-sketch can teach us about humanity and what God/Nature is telling us about life. When we listen, deeply, to what the universe is saying, on so many fractal levels, we hear something that is so very, very pure…

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TWTS – Episode 16. Why? Because.

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Next time you wonder why something happened, consider that if the universe is purely random, in the mathematical sense, in which us limited beings only experience a small part, then why something happened is simply because it was possible. Everything that possibly can happen does, so everything that does happen does so because it could.

Ultimately there is no more accurate and scientific answer to the question of “Why?” than “Because.” Though that answer might not win you any accolades, and I suggest another option or two if you find yourself feeling the need to keep it simple, but others want more complexity!

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Links referenced in episode:

Pascal’s Triangle on Mathsisfun.com

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TWTS – Episode 13. I Think Therefore I Am In Context

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“Je pense, donc je suis.” as René Descartes originally wrote, might not mean what some people think it means, out of context. I bring it back into context — which involves doubt and certainty and illusion and existence— for a fun little exploration.

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Links referenced in episode:

Wikipedia article on Cogito Ergo Sum

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TWTS – Episode 12. A Small and Furry, Pro-social, Evolved, Emergent, Four Dimensional Government

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Micro-governments are going to expand and take over most of the organization of resource generation, allocation, storage, and recycling for most of us humans on Earth, and they are going to do so in a positive, non-forceful, and simultaneous way, while the most wasteful and anti-social parts of the unwieldy centralized dinosaur governments mostly die off, leaving just the more contracted, sustainable elements of the large system that are the global infrastructures that we pretty much all agree are useful: a global transportation/shipping system and a global communication system.

Enjoy!

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Links referenced in episode:

Four Dimensions of Government diagram

Four Dimensions of Government Personality Test

Life: Mission Earth Map

CREATE Space Earth

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TWTS – Episode 12. Basic Income

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What happens when we decide to start all the players in the global Monopoly game off with at least a minimum number of points each month? And how can we make this little game changing rule work fairly effectively, so that we don’t waste too much time getting it up and running as we test it out on a large scale? I suggest two points to pay attention to: removing the motivation to hoard, and identifying unique individuals in some highly verifiable way.

(Apologies for the not so awesome audio quality on this one. It was recorded on a smartish phone sort of thing, rather than on my computer.)

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Links referenced in episode:

Basic Income community on Reddit

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TWTS – Episode 11. – Everyone for President. The government version of Choose Your Own Adventure stories

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The simple campaign to write in “Everyone” on the ballot, when it comes time to elect a politician, is a movement to create a better system that combines the more comfortable form of government that we call democracy (where every individual gets to vote for what they want in a government) with a more respectful and welcoming form of government where smaller, fuzzier, more localized groups are allowed to freely choose how they want to run things, independendly. Having a decentralized, bottom-up, non-authoritarian government where people are free to move from places with average or even bad laws and policies to places with better or even awesome laws or policies will give everyone a chance to take charge of their own lives far more enjoyably. It’s definitely not perfect, but it’s better than the current highly centralized, top-down, (winner take all) authoritarian option where we essentially are all forced into mediocrity, and exceptional progress is quite literally illegal.

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Links referenced in episode:

Choose Your Own Government diagram

Initial Everyone For President post on this very blog

Everyone for President discussion community on Reddit

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TWTS – Episode 10. Predictability – How our brains deal with the predictable and the unpredictable.

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If reality is random (in the sense of everything that can possibly happen does, just not linearly!) then we can eliminate at least some of the stress that comes from unpredictable things happening by both actively looking out for weird stuff, and also expanding our range of alternatives that we’re comfortable with, so that we can be better prepared for problems that pop up. So expecte the unexpected, and try to collect a “magic bag of tricks” to use when the regular old muggle tactics don’t work.

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Links referenced in episode:

Robert Sapolsky class:
on YouTube
on iTunes

Sapolsky depression lecture

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TWTS – Episode 9. – Is it about time?

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How the memes of the masses move, or not… Social change and how it flows, given the laws of physics that we have to work with in our universe. Can we learn a lesson from comedians?

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Links referenced in episode:

Bill Gross TED Talk

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TWTS – Episode 8. – Life: Earth Mission

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My view of the purpose of life on Earth, and beyond! We’re here to combine our unique packets of information – genes and memes – in procreative ways that expand diversity out into the universe.

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Links referenced in episode:

Prime Directive Game MBTI

FQXi paper: Planetary Procreation

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TWTS – Episode 7. Measure Twice Marry Once – How to Consciously Plan for an Awesome Life Partnership

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Picking a Partner: Similar physical and emotional personality styles makes couples feel more comfortable, understood, and free to be themselves, so if you want a strong connection with your mate, seek out a partner with the same first person and second person styles. And the in the higher level preferences (intellectual/third-person and philosophical/fourth-person) seek out a partner with one similar and one different preference, and you’ve probably got a potential soul mate.

Connecting with a Partner: Communication really is the boring sounding, but highly challenging and rewarding, secret to any good relationship. Identify and share all of your most important frustrations, fears/losses, physical and emotional states, awareness, needs, and dreams with your potential or actual partner, and ask them to share their own in return, so that you have a more robust sense of who you are as individuals.

Growing with a Partner: Explore and understand the different levels of brain development that are happening and are expected to happen, because some of the changes that our minds go through at certain points of our lives can throw huge wads of weirdness into even the most stable partnership. Respecting and expecting these changes goes a very long way towards being well prepared to get through them not just intact but maybe even enchantingly empowered, as a couple.

Procreating with a Partner: The highest purpose of all constructive couplings is to allow two unique individuals, each with their own exceptional combination of particular bits of nature and nurture, to combine significant parts of themselves together to form something never before seen, to offer as a gift to the world at large, in the form of a physical, emotional, intellectual, and/or philosophical creation, all new and shiny and original. Identifying your shared goals for the type of remarkable being you most want to create as a couple, and clarifying how you most want to nurture that creation, so that it can most effectively interact with the world, is likely to be the super duper über glue that bonds your marriage together for life, no matter what insanity might get thrown at the partnership, because the desire for successful procreation, in whatever form feels most right to each individual, is the fountain from which living beings’ greatest strength, deepest passion, clearest thinking, and most inspiring wisdom in life emanates.

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Links referenced in episode:

DSMBTI personality diagram

Speaking UP Process (PDF download)

Maslow 2.0

Wholistic Enchilada community on Reddit

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TWTS – Episode 6. Maslow 2.0 and the Levels of Consciousness

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Human consciousness development, from 0-60 and far beyond!

It seems that our awareness and motivation expands outward in an ever more complex spiral of waves of contraction and expansion focused attention, beginning at conception and continuing for as long as our body’s and brains are alive and growing.

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Links referenced in episode:

Maslow 2.0

Where we are in 2020 on the map

Development of Conscious Awareness in Humans

The Math that Shows Humans Could Live Ten Times Longer

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

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TWTS – Episode 5 – Speaking Up for Yourself!

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How to elevate your conversation, moving from the most vulgar things you might want to rant about to the more neutral, reality-based facts of the present moment, and on up to the most awesome things you care about and want to add to the world.

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Links referenced in episode:

Speaking Up Process Card

The Speaking Up Process for Kids in a Children’s book format!

Other Speaking Up projects by me

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TWTS – Episode 4 – Personality Dimensions DSM-MBTI

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In this second (and extra long!) part I relate the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) categories/dimensions, and some of the mainstream Western psychology personality “disorders”, with my own four basic basic brain levels and preferences, described using binary numbers using contraction vs. expansion as the basic dimensions.

(Note, I believe that many of these so called “disorders” or “mental illnesses” are often perfectly normal and healthy diversities of brain type, so please don’t take these terms as is, and instead look at them as just one way to talk about our amazing brains and what they tend to be able to think and do! We’ve all got our own particular way of doing things that might be exactly what’s needed in a specific situation.)

First Person – Physical
Introvert/Depressive – xxx0 focuses on one’s own input/internal needs/state
Extrovert/Hyperactive – xxx1 focuses on one’s own output/external needs/state

Second Person – Emotional
Sensing/Avoidant Attachment – xx0x focuses on one’s companion/environment’s input/internal needs/state
iNtuiting/ADD – xx1x focuses on one’s companion/environment’s output/external needs/state

Third Person – Intellectual
Feeling – x0xx focuses on one’s community’s input/internal needs/state
Thinking – x1xx focuses on one’s community’s output/external needs/state

Third Person – Philosophical/Spiritual/Cultural
Judging – 0xxx focuses on the whole universe’s input/internal needs/state
Perceiving – 1xxx focuses on the whole universe’s output/external needs/state

IS: Depressive + Avoidant = Autism Spectrum
ES: Hyperactive + Avoidant = Histrionic
IN: Depressive + ADD = Borderline
EN: Hyperactive + ADD = ADHD

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Links referenced in episode:

DSMBTI Personality Types/”Disorders”

Depression (and extra happy) Gene

Apologies for the weird audio quality on this one. There was a hum in the original recording, and I did what I could to eliminate it, but it made the rest of the audio sound a bit tinny. I think it’s good enough, just, rather than recording it all over again (at least at the moment). Hopefully it will be fine for you!

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TWTS – Episode 3 – 4D Personality

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The four basic levels of human brain region/function, and their preference for focusing most intently on either the input/contraction/matter/internal/past-to-present needs or the output/expansion/energy/external/present-to-future needs at each perspective — first person, second person, third person, and fourth person — are one way to organize the different kinds of human personality.

First Person – Physical
xxx0 focuses on one’s own input/internal needs/state
xxx1 focuses on one’s own output/external needs/state

Second Person – Emotional
xx0x focuses on one’s companion/environment’s input/internal needs/state
xx1x focuses on one’s companion/environment’s output/external needs/state

Third Person – Intellectual
x0xx focuses on one’s community’s input/internal needs/state
x1xx focuses on one’s community’s output/external needs/state

Third Person – Philosophical/Spiritual/Cultural
0xxx focuses on the whole universe’s input/internal needs/state
1xxx focuses on the whole universe’s output/external needs/state

(So, for example, someone who is focused totally on the inputs/internal needs/state for all four levels of the brain function would be categorized as 0000, and someone who is focused on the outputs/external needs/state for all four levels would be called 1111. These numbers also correspond to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) letters/dimensions, which I’ll talk about for the second part of this podcast discussion, coming up next.)

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TWTS – Episode 2 – Motivational Needs

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What we naturally want to do, and what we could use a little help with might not be so obvious…

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Links:

Speaking Up For Yourself podcast episode

Do you want to play The Best Game Ever?

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My primary website: http://www.thewiseturtle.com

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TWTS – Episode 1 – Contraction and Expansion

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Links referenced in episode:

Pascal’s Triangle: http://www.mathsisfun.com/pascals-triangle.html

Vortex collision video: http://www.eng.nus.edu.sg/mpelimtt/collision.mpg

Vortex Exhibit at the San Francisco Exploratorium: http://exs.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/vortex/

Light is both particle and wave: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-particle.html

Contraction and Expansion diagram – https://turil.wordpress.com/2011/06/21/the-cronburg-rodenhiser-creative-unification-theory-of-gravity-and-electromagnetism/

The Squiggle Sense! (Book about contraction and expansion): http://thecomplementarynature.com/

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Introducing a little experiment with audio…

The Wise Turtle Speaks podcast!

Little bits of creative, philosophical, political, educational musings from the corner of my brain that I call The Wise Turtle (it’s somewhere in the prefrontal cortex, I suspect) for your inspiration.  I’m going to roll this out slowly over the next few weeks, I think, with the goal of having a fully hosted podcast that you can subscribe to on the usual podcast aggregators and such.  For now, though, I’m going to test out a couple of mp3s here, and go from there.  If you listen to them and have any feedback of any sort, please let me know by contacting me at my email as TheWiseTurtle on gmail.  The first few recordings were done before I got a new computer and found my USB mic, so they aren’t as high quality as I’d like.  Later ones will be much improved, I hope!

OK, so without further ado, here’s the first test audio post!

The Wise Turtle Speaks Introduction

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Links referenced in episode:

Pascal’s Triangle: http://www.mathsisfun.com/pascals-triangle.html

Cellular Automata – A New Kind of Science (book) by Stephen Wolfram: https://www.wolframscience.com/

More of me!: http://www.reddit.com/user/turil

My other website: http://www.thewiseturtle.com

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