Our project aims to democratically organize a reverential community around an ecologically- and socially-regenerative worldview.
We hope the conversation around these ideas will be both an active co-construction of this worldview, and a way to grow a self-sustaining dense network of trust
This site is organized as an entailment net. It is a collection of linked ideas, where the links show that one idea leads to others. (Note: There are some unlinked ideas in the 'Node List' above that need to be linked in). The initial set of ideas was a selection (or curation) of pre-existing ideas, which are informally cited. This selection continues through a never-ending bootstrapping process, by which this net can be modified into a more coherent and self-reproducing expression. We use methods of participatory democracy to create and modify our rules about how to change the community's net.
The current state of this worldview (at any time) is always a starting point, and is never complete. It can always be improved and degraded. The community decides how it changes.
We are building a collaborative-knowledge commons (a resource + a community + a set of social protocols to maintain both for the long-term). The resource of this commons is both its worldview and its members' ability to work together and nurture the worldview. CEStoicism is a mostly-philosophical worldview built from ideas centering around Simondon's individuation:
❝Gilbert Simondon views being as a dynamic process of individuation emerging from a "pre-individual" field of potential. Physical individuation, such as a crystal forming in a supersaturated solution, occurs as a terminal event that resolves energy into a static structure. Biological (vital) individuation evolves this process into a continuous state, where the organism perpetually re-individuates to maintain its internal life and negotiate its environment, carrying its potential with it as it grows.
When biological tensions can no longer be resolved through action alone, psychic individuation arises, creating the "self" as a way to organize internal experience. Yet, the individual remains incomplete until it engages in collective individuation, where multiple beings unite to tap into their remaining pre-individual potential. This transition creates the transindividual—a shared social and technical reality that transcends the isolated person, allowing for collective growth and the resolution of common problems through shared meaning.🙷 - Claude's summary
The word democracy derives from the ancient Greek demokratia, formed from the roots demos ("people") and kratos ("rule").From Ballotpedia↗ In the phrase of Abraham Lincoln, democracy is a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
Democracy as a process that a collective individuation can use to make decisions.
Concerned with "the general forms to be found in the dynamics and organisation of complex systems (living systems, small groups and communities, cultures and societies): how they emerge and develop, how they maintain themselves as stable wholes, how they evolve and adapt in changing circumstances." From Bernard Scott↗ Cybernetics can be described as the study of "feedback and circular causality in biological and social systems" From Bernard Scott↗
Cybernetic processes as ways that psychological- and collective-individuations attempt to maintain their stability.
The study of how organisms interact with one another and with their physical environment. Topics includes Panarchy and Ecological Economics.
Ecology as the existential relationships that psychological- and collective-individuations must manage with their environment.
"...life processes themselves, by their very nature, are meaning-making, informational processes, that is, sign processes (semioses), and thus can be fruitfully understood within a semiotic perspective." from Towards A Semiotic Biology: Life Is The Action Of Signs. Edited by Kull Kalevi, Emmeche Claus
Biosemiotics as the capability of psychological- and collective-individuations to recognize, interpret, create and modify signs.
"the view that the Universe (in the sense of the totality of all existence) and God are identical (implying a denial of the personality and transcendence of God)." From Wikipedia↗
Naturalistic Pantheism as the view that all of existence is a "pre-/current-/post-individual" field of potential, which is a focus of reverence.
A philosophy of how to live one's life. Goal of leading a flourishing life with a peace of mind, focusing on things within our control (mostly our own thoughts and attitudes), understanding that being a good person is primary and everything else are preferred or dispreferred 'indifferents', using a reflective mind to possibly distance oneself from the immediate raw emotions of a situation and choosing whether or not to give them assent. Practicing a virture ethics of temperance, justice, wisdom and courage.
Stoicism's logos as recognition of the rational structure of the universe as an individuation beyond collective-individuation. Stoic teachings as guidance for psychological-individuations’ efforts at managing adversity.
Please Note: This site meshes with the long pre-existing Principia Cybernetica website (PCw). Parts of this site links to parts of PCw. Because PCw was created long ago and by other people, we used web annotations to add links from parts of PWc to this site and to add notes to PCw pages. To be able to see those links and notes, create a free Hypothes.is↗ account, log in and search for "user:CEStoicism".
