New design, new affordances, new incentives, new game theory, new conversations, new future.
Consider that the design of global electronic communications is tantamount to a world wide nervous system & its essential structure contextually formative to its future functioning, as the initial conditions to the big bang instrumental to subsequent possibilities.
Is mind / consciousness an emergent process, derived from the convergent movement of signal into subjectivity - and if this is a 'below' what's the analogy 'above'? 'A global layer of thought', from the Greek noos for ‘mind’, the Noosphere emerges from the biosphere, here, amongst the atmosphere, hydrosphere & geo/lithosphere…
some have published:
Humanity deserves a better medium for thinking and communication
but the Noosphere has published:
Humanity can tell a better story - which is what would inevitably emerge from just a slightly better medium for thinking and communication. In fact it's already here (though perhaps in dire need of a rewrite).
___ [there's no center justification available?] ____
Convergence through open process
References
Three Parables, by Leo Tolstoy, 1895
copied from https://www.marxists.org/archive/tolstoy/1895/three-parables.html Source: From WikiSource.org Transcription/Markup: Andy Carloff Online Source: RevoltLib.com; 2021 audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFy-pbxjmD8
Nonviolent Communication
Esther Dyson 'domain names: it’s a space in people’s minds'
I Annotate 2017 Day 1 Keynote: Esther Dyson. Context: Dan Whaley has invited participant in the implementation of the world wide web's domain name system (Esther) to a conversation to kick off a conference forwarding annotation efforts on the world wide web
principles and values statement by 4BillionDead.org
as read here: https://youtu.be/watch?v=9Q93ZE54yaE&t=65s
Oliver Tree "Universal"
"We make up a universe that's unified" released February 17, 2013
Different Kinds of Reasoning Require Different Kinds of Analysis
"Living In The World"
excerpt from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP80KoZx8iU by Laughlin Artz Jul 30, 2026
Disclosing New Worlds Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity by Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores and Hubert L. Dreyfus
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262692243/disclosing-new-worlds/ Pub date: February 18, 1999 - The MIT Press - 232 pp., 6 x 9 in, ISBN: 9780262692243
What is a project language?
excerpted from https://www.buildingbeauty.org/student-work for context, this comes out of Christopher Alexander's community - namely inspired by his work A Pattern Language
Arthur Miller on Suffering (1963)
transcript of excerpt found in Adam Curtis' TV documentary "Century of Self" on the BBC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSQPAke1bs0
Life is a Miracle: an essay against modern superstition
by Wendell Berry (2000)
David Bohm's Thought as a System, pages 120-3
DECLARATION OF NUTOPIA
Gregory Bateson: On the ‘preinstructed’ nature of communication… to understand something new, you’re going to have to know 9/10ths of it already
Marshall Rosenberg's Strategy/Need distinction & the end of "Enemy *Images*"
term used by Marshall Rosenberg - if he found it elsewhere, he most certainly focused the rigor within it through his distinction between strategy and need…
Mechanism Design…
Hypertext frees up conversations to exist in new relationships to each other. Instead of ‘where?’ (like ‘this URL’) we can imagine a map of ‘what (is this content about)?’, and within that topic, conversations will vary by how inclusive and relevant they are. The basic equation for any particular piece of content goes ‘quantity of unique negative feedback, divided by the number of its overall views’. This is the mechanism of a listening/synthesis, ‘circuit’[13] within Xanalogical structure, responsible for sorting out[14] the topological dimension extending from the semantic map of ‘views’ - conversations, juxtaposed & networked together in an ‘argument[15] structure’.
13. Being conceptual and process oriented, ‘circuit’ because it is a mechanism like experiment or law. I’m making a point to highlight the mechanical-like functioning of my augmenting proposal because you may have a reflex assumption that to accomplish what I’m pointing to requires an additional breakthrough in something.
14. Which I’ll limit myself to describing here as the following.
15. Inspired by the etymology - process of ‘reasoning made clear’.
Because oppositional communication becomes the least efficient thing across the conversational topology, split topologies[16] inherently incentivize listening for what’s beneath their gap of conflicting strategies. A sort of vertical integration or positive feedback loop comes into play between listening circuits and the dignity of data as labor. It’s as if the market automatically creates jobs for addressing ‘what doesn’t work about civilization’. Across all domains, people are interacting with an emergent complexity of self-governance through hypertext platform.
16. The appearance here of the living persistence of historical conflict.
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