The most important cognitive skill of the 21st century is the ability to comprehend the implications of deep time through the lenses of physical, biological, and socio-cultural systems dynamics. Currently ~.001% of Humanity has sharpened this skill. Our survival requires more.
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The absolute beginner should start with an accessible, high-level overview of everything we know about the history of the Universe, Life, and Human evolution. A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson would work. Then dig into complexity theory and follow your nose...
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No problem. Happy to help further if you want to dig into the systems dynamics part later, but without a broad contextual understanding of how everything has unfolded so far, systems and complexity theory often seems too abstract for most people to take seriously.
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That would be wonderful! Thank you! I'll read up on the materials you recommended and brush up on Spiral Dynamics/Integral Theory first, but I'll be reaching out when ready to approach the systems/complexity aspects! The interplay is beyond my grasp ATM and I'd love a framework
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