David_Veksler

Thesis: The universe extracts complexity from progressively smaller free-energy gradients in a staged sequence, each stage enabled by and consuming the residue of the last. Human civilization is sitting inside three nested windows (cosmological, planetary, and civilizational-resource) that are open simultaneously by a margin that compounds multiplicatively. The present moment...

I learned about the virtue of fear when preparing for my wife's childbirth, in "Ina May's Guide to Childbirth." Counterintuitively, mothers who have the least fear of childbirth tend to have the worst outcomes. Giving birth is complex and risky. Moms who either dismiss all concerns or defer all fears...