What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2025/05/what-if-we-had-bigger-brains-imagining-minds-beyond-ours/

#HackerNews #WhatIfBiggerBrains #ImaginingMinds #BeyondOurs #CognitiveScience #FutureThinking #BrainExpansion

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What’s one idea, project, or breakthrough you think will change the future?
I’m all ears to your thoughts!

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¿Cuál es esa idea, proyecto o avance que crees que cambiará el futuro?
Os leo en las respuestas.

#FutureRadar #Innovation #TechTrends #Breakthroughs #NextBigThing #FutureThinking #EmergingTech #IdeasThatMatter #FutureIsNow
#FutureRadar #TendenciasTecnológicas #Avances #PróximoGranPaso #PensandoEnElFuturo #TecnologíasEmergentes #IdeasQueImportan #ElFuturoEsAhora #pocket

Fear works. But it’s also everywhere.

If we want post-growth economics to gain ground, we need to stop copying strategies of those with more money, more reach, and more fear to offer.

Our advantage? Utopian clarity, intellectual rigor — and a future people actually want.

Blog post: https://eduzen.bearblog.dev/why-we-must-stop-selling-post-growth-with-fear/

#PostGrowth #Degrowth #FutureThinking #PoliticalCommunication #CoreyRobin #CyberUtopia #Economics

#DigitalCommons #GlobalCitizenship #FutureOfDemocracy #PostNationState #CivicTech #ParticipatoryDemocracy #DecentralizedGovernance #DigitalCitizenship #FutureThinking #SystemChange #DesignTheFuture #RadicalImagination #FuturesDesign #UtopiaNow #SocialInnovation #TechForGood #EthicalTech #ClimateJustice #FreedomOfMovement #EquityMatters #GlobalJustice #ReclaimDemocracy #ActivismWorks #DemocracyNow #PowerToThePeople #VoicesUnite #TakeAction #ManifestoInMotion #OpenSociety #Web3ForAll

The ethic of the future isn’t sacrifice.

It’s stewardship.

Objective compassion sees desire as signal—
not sin.

It invests in agency, not dependency.

When people are free to grow,
the world grows with them.

#ObjectiveCompassion #Philosophy #HumanFlourishing #Nomodynamy #FutureThinking #ethics #Concupiscere

Objective compassion doesn’t mean more oversight.

It means fewer hoops.
No tests of worthiness.
No paperwork that proves pain.

Just dividends of inclusion—
like UBI, education, clean water.

Not guilt. Growth.

#ObjectiveCompassion #UniversalWealth #Freedom #UBI #FutureThinking #philosophy #ethics #politics

Objective compassion isn’t pity.

It doesn’t reward suffering.
It empowers potential.

It removes drag from human flourishing.

The goal isn’t to rescue—
it’s to release.

#ObjectiveCompassion #HumanFlourishing #Freedom #FutureThinking #Nomodynamy #philosophy #ethics

// NIKOLAJ SVEISTRUP

Nikolaj Sveistrup – Head of Urban Futures, Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies – designs regenerative futures rooted in place, culture, and balance with planetary boundaries. 🌱

At Waterkant 2025, he explores how evolving our ways of living can help shape resilient and just environments. 🚀

Tickets: https://www.waterkant.sh/festival?utm_source=mastodon&utm_id=WK25

#waterkant25 #futurethinking #urbanfutures #evolve #regeneration

Compassion isn’t soft.

Real compassion builds capacity.
It invests in freedom, not control.

It says:
You don’t have to prove your suffering to be worth empowering.

Objective compassion isn’t reactive.
It’s strategic.
It grows the world.

#ObjectiveCompassion #Freedom #HumanFlourishing #Nomodynamy #FutureThinking #Ethics #philosophy

What does it mean to think on the scale of centuries? Great discussions with Stephen Heintz & Kim Stanley Robinson.

The Long Now Foundation offers a fascinating read on long-term logic, design, and the ethics of building for the future.

https://longnow.org/ideas/a-logic-for-the-future/

#LongNow #FutureThinking #SystemDesign #Podcast

I’m finalizing a paper on the metaphysics of economic value for first submission after working on it for over 3 years.

What if UBI isn’t redistribution, but a dividend from investment—like Alaska’s model?

Then it doesn’t weaken the economy. It activates it—especially through the often-overlooked forces of consumption and investment.

Economics isn’t just math. It’s memory, motion, and meaning.

#UniversalWealth #FutureThinking #UBI

Fear is the path to the dark side.

But freedom—realized, empowered, invested—leads somewhere else.

Toward resilience.
Toward flourishing.
Toward the light.

May the 4th be with you.

#MayThe4thBeWithYou #Nomodynamy #Freedom #HumanFlourishing #FutureThinking

Survival was our ancient battle.
Thriving is our next great frontier.

Freedom isn’t just the absence of constraint.

When we lift the burden of coercion,
empowered responsibility emerges.
Freedom becomes the realized power to build, shape, and choose.

That power is made possible by investment—
investment that fosters universal wealth,
ends poverty & taxation,
and relieves the weight of bureaucracy and unsustainable debt.

#Nomodynamy #Freedom #HumanFlourishing #FutureThinking #UniversalWealth

In the last 150 years, humanity has:
— defeated smallpox
— expanded lifespan by decades
— made childbirth safe

Progress is real.
The future is open — and still unfolding.

#HumanFlourishing #Progress #FutureThinking #Optimism #HistoryMatters

What if we’re not in decline — but mid-evolution?

What if the future isn’t a crisis to survive,
but a golden age to build — together?

Progress isn’t always loud.
Sometimes it’s quiet, patient, and already underway.

#FutureThinking #HumanFlourishing #Philosophy #Progress #Evolution

We need more optimistic science fiction

https://craig-russell.co.uk/blog/2024-10-24-optimistic-sci-fi/

#HackerNews #optimisticSciFi #scienceFiction #futureThinking #creativity #inspiration #storytelling

// ALICE ROMBACH

Alice Rombach – Founder, Consultant, Speaker, Author, Lecturer – brings an explorer’s mindset to strategy: 600 km across Greenland, 7,126 m up the Himalayas. ❄️

At Waterkant 2025, she shows what SMEs can learn from extreme experiences to lead through uncertainty with clarity and courage. 🧭

Tickets: https://www.waterkant.sh/festival?utm_source=mastodon&utm_id=WK25

#waterkant25 #futurethinking #leadership #SMEs #explorermindset

Wealth isn’t a threat to humanity — poverty is.

Ending unchosen poverty isn’t just kindness; it’s a deep investment in the economy.

It’s the foundation for maximizing intellect, creativity, resilience, and flourishing across generations.

Freedom thrives when more people can build, dream, and grow.

#HumanFlourishing #FutureThinking #Freedom #PovertyReduction #Philosophy

I’m an aspiring writer because I believe ideas build futures.

Freedom. Creativity. Resilience.

I’m here for those who think differently, dream fiercely, and build patiently — even when the world doesn’t understand yet.

Let’s imagine — and then create — a future worth growing into.

#FutureThinking #HumanFlourishing #CreativeFreedom #EdgeOfChaos #Philosophy

A thousand generations fought to survive.
We are the first to fight to thrive.
Freedom is not a relic. It is an unfinished symphony — played in every invention, every act of courage, every dream left unguarded.
The future is still ours to shape.

#FutureThinking #HumanFlourishing #Freedom #Innovation #Philosophy #Progress #Creativity