The Psychology Podcast

Daniel Schmachtenberger || Upgrade Your Consciousness

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May 30, 2017
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INSIGHT

Complex Systems Approach Reversed Unresolved Illness

  • Schmachtenberger combined cybernetic theory and complex-systems thinking to reverse his own complex medical conditions and develop integrative protocols.
  • He used system-wide diagnostics across omics and regulatory cascades rather than single-target fixes to restore function and cognition.
INSIGHT

Game Theory Explains Harmful Human Behavior

  • Human behavior problems arise more from game-theoretic and conditioning contexts than immutable genetic 'nature'.
  • Changing economic & mimetic structures (zero-sum vs positive-sum) shifts expression of agency from harmful competition to cooperative omniconsideration.
INSIGHT

Gene Editing Forces A New Ethical Science

  • The ability to alter genomes/connectomes forces a new ethical framework because science alone doesn't decide which traits are desirable.
  • CRISPR as thought experiment reframes 'human nature' and elevates normative questions into technological planning.
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