# Research and Sense-Making **URL:** https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/c/research-and-sense-making/6.md?page=1 [Latest](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/tags.md) **Page:** 2 --- ## [CHI-enabled Deliberately Developmental Society](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/chi-enabled-deliberately-developmental-society/820)
**Author:** [@George](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/George)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/chi-enabled-deliberately-developmental-society/820 "2026-07-10T13:53:52Z")
Below’s the just-updated, 150-word-limited abstract of my paper to be submitted to the Towards a Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence conference, organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 6-Oct-2026. Wh… --- ## ["Going Meta" on Recent Interactions with GeoffDann](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/going-meta-on-recent-interactions-with-geoffdann/740)
**Author:** [@Gen](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/Gen)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2026, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/going-meta-on-recent-interactions-with-geoffdann/740 "2026-07-10T11:42:20Z")
@dvdjsph @RobertBunge @rufuspollock @Justin @Asimong I want to invite an unusual explore, to use this forum’s own recent dynamics as data — to ask what is actually happening at a structural level. Going meta means stepp… --- ## [Goal and Throughput for Second Renaissance Research](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/goal-and-throughput-for-second-renaissance-research/822)
**Author:** [@rufuspollock](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/rufuspollock)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2026, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/goal-and-throughput-for-second-renaissance-research/822 "2026-07-10T10:15:02Z")
Context: working with @dvdjsph on behalf of the Research Circle Stewards on getting an initial “goal and throughput” definition for Second Renaissance Research Circle. Goal and Throughput This is simple operational de… --- ## [Proposed Subcircle on Coops and Related Alternative Economics](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/proposed-subcircle-on-coops-and-related-alternative-economics/824)
**Author:** [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 9, 2026, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/proposed-subcircle-on-coops-and-related-alternative-economics/824 "2026-07-09T10:31:35Z")
There seems to be a lot of interest in the topic of coops and related topics such as social capital and alternative currency. I’d suggest a multi-week research subcircle on these themes from the upcoming fall season (sev… --- ## [What is Second Renaissance Subgroup: Session 6](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/what-is-second-renaissance-subgroup-session-6/818)
**Author:** [@rufuspollock](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/rufuspollock)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2026, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/what-is-second-renaissance-subgroup-session-6/818 "2026-07-04T08:37:59Z")
Context and Setup Week 6 and final session of the initial Research Circle subcircle experiment Session framed as an open debrief: what worked, what didn’t, what to change Overall Verdict on the Experiment Bob: got eve… --- ## [Second Renaissance Research Subgroup: What is the Second Renaissance](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/second-renaissance-research-subgroup-what-is-the-second-renaissance/667)
**Author:** [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2026, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/second-renaissance-research-subgroup-what-is-the-second-renaissance/667 "2026-07-03T12:12:49Z")
At a recent Research call, there was a call from proposals for research proposal for dedicated subgroups. The proposal below is in response to this call. In summary, it proposes: UPDATE: 2026-05-15 this was unanimously … --- ## [MetaChakra Change Model](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/metachakra-change-model/776)
**Author:** [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [July 3, 2026, 10:42am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/metachakra-change-model/776 "2026-07-03T10:42:21Z")
Nymrod Glassman is a relatively new Life Itself/Second Renaissance contributor. Nymrod and I share a taste for relatively complex (but practical) social change models. As a point of entry to Nymrod’s work, see the links … --- ## [Making Sense of Wickedness](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/making-sense-of-wickedness/784)
**Author:** [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2026, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/making-sense-of-wickedness/784 "2026-06-30T09:34:26Z")
Michael P. Schlaile, coauthor of the paper linked below, has graciously volunteered to present at an upcoming Research call. (Date TBD). The paper is offered here by way of pre-reading. Here some other links to Michael’… --- ## [Knowledge base on collective action and cooperation: contributions welcome](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/knowledge-base-on-collective-action-and-cooperation-contributions-welcome/783)
**Author:** [@rufuspollock](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/rufuspollock)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/knowledge-base-on-collective-action-and-cooperation-contributions-welcome/783 "2026-06-27T14:46:23Z")
tl;dr Starting a knowledge base on collective action and cooperation: https://collective-action-rufuspollock.flowershow.me Part of the prep for a course I’m planning to run on the subject later this year … --- ## [Stag Hunt and Shared Vision](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/stag-hunt-and-shared-vision/777)
**Author:** [@dvdjsph](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/dvdjsph)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/stag-hunt-and-shared-vision/777 "2026-06-27T14:43:27Z")
As requested by @rufuspollock I’m capturing some of the WhatsApp discussion around the Stag Hunt theme here. Includes some familiar names, as well as a newcomer (welcome @Nymrod !) The discussion began with a reframing… --- ## [Research Group Evolution: Robert Bunge is becoming Lead Steward](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/research-group-evolution-robert-bunge-is-becoming-lead-steward/775)
**Author:** [@JonahW](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/JonahW)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 26, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/research-group-evolution-robert-bunge-is-becoming-lead-steward/775 "2026-06-26T15:50:27Z")
Reposting this message about the evolution of the research group here on @rufuspollock’s suggestion: I’m very happy to share that with the new research stewardship circle in place, @RobertBunge has stepped up to take … --- ## [Rufus and Brendan on How the West Become Modern](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/rufus-and-brendan-on-how-the-west-become-modern/771)
**Author:** [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2026, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/rufus-and-brendan-on-how-the-west-become-modern/771 "2026-06-25T20:41:42Z")
@rufuspollock recently appeared on a Podcast with Brendan Graham Dempsey. Lots of juicy historical questions in here! Rather that reacting directly, I prefer to set the table for a more extended discussion with some refe… --- ## [What would it take to solve the metacrisis?](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/what-would-it-take-to-solve-the-metacrisis/770)
**Author:** [@dvdjsph](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/dvdjsph)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 21, 2026, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/what-would-it-take-to-solve-the-metacrisis/770 "2026-06-21T13:16:29Z")
I’d like to conduct an open, informal study with the goal of better understanding and cataloguing approaches to solving the metacrisis. I’m not expecting this goal to be achieved by this study. I just think it would be … --- ## [New Epistemic Deal: Morality](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/new-epistemic-deal-morality/739)
**Author:** [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [June 19, 2026, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/new-epistemic-deal-morality/739 "2026-06-19T10:11:59Z")
I was going to write a point-by-point response to this: https://www.twophasecosmology.com/en/ecocivilisation-concepts/new-epistemic-deal But any given point looked pretty heavy on its own, so I decided to launch the thre… --- ## [New Epistemic Deal: Epistemic Privilege for Science](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/new-epistemic-deal-epistemic-privilege-for-science/741)
**Author:** [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 18, 2026, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/new-epistemic-deal-epistemic-privilege-for-science/741 "2026-06-18T10:44:49Z")
I was going to write a point-by-point response to this: https://www.twophasecosmology.com/en/ecocivilisation-concepts/new-epistemic-deal But any given point looked pretty heavy on its own, so I decided to launch the thre… --- ## [Publishing the ORA Polycrisis Directory: over 40 organisations working on global polycrisis response, with a focus on the Global South](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/publishing-the-ora-polycrisis-directory-over-40-organisations-working-on-global-polycrisis-response-with-a-focus-on-the-global-south/765)
**Author:** [@rufuspollock](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/rufuspollock)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2026, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/publishing-the-ora-polycrisis-directory-over-40-organisations-working-on-global-polycrisis-response-with-a-focus-on-the-global-south/765 "2026-06-15T17:32:34Z")
Announce In 2023 we (at Life Itself) mapped over 40 organisations working on global polycrisis response, with a focus on the Global South. We are now publishing that directory. Many directories of organisations work… --- ## [Meta-History](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/meta-history/754)
**Author:** [@dvdjsph](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/dvdjsph)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/meta-history/754 "2026-06-12T22:39:55Z")
Meta history is like big history, but bigger. It’s still a study of history, and may still touch upon grand historical arcs and even cycles, patterns, spirals, rhymes, and so forth, but it does something bigger still: e… --- ## [2R Prerequisite Tree: How to Cause the Change?](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/2r-prerequisite-tree-how-to-cause-the-change/750)
**Author:** [@dvdjsph](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/dvdjsph)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 9, 2026, 8:14am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/2r-prerequisite-tree-how-to-cause-the-change/750 "2026-06-09T08:14:12Z")
Just to keep on the same page, let’s agree that everything in the document is provisional and up for discussion/debate. If you would like to see specific changes, please comment in the document itself. If you would like … --- ## [2R Conflict Resolution: What to Change to?](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/2r-conflict-resolution-what-to-change-to/748)
**Author:** [@dvdjsph](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/dvdjsph)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/2r-conflict-resolution-what-to-change-to/748 "2026-06-08T20:56:15Z")
Just to keep on the same page, let’s agree that everything in the document is provisional and up for discussion/debate. If you would like to see specific changes, please comment in the document itself. If you would like … --- ## [2R Future Reality Tree: What to Change to?](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/2r-future-reality-tree-what-to-change-to/749)
**Author:** [@dvdjsph](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/dvdjsph)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2026, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/2r-future-reality-tree-what-to-change-to/749 "2026-06-08T20:51:07Z")
Just to keep on the same page, let’s agree that everything in the document is provisional and up for discussion/debate. If you would like to see specific changes, please comment in the document itself. If you would like … --- ## [2R Current Reality Tree: What to Change?](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/2r-current-reality-tree-what-to-change/747)
**Author:** [@dvdjsph](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/dvdjsph)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 8, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/2r-current-reality-tree-what-to-change/747 "2026-06-08T20:48:25Z")
Just to keep on the same page, let’s agree that everything in the document is provisional and up for discussion/debate. If you would like to see specific changes, please comment in the document itself. If you would like … --- ## [AI for Cultural Enlightenment](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/ai-for-cultural-enlightenment/751)
**Author:** [@JonahW](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/JonahW)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2026, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/ai-for-cultural-enlightenment/751 "2026-06-06T14:36:02Z")
Crosspost from my substack: AI for Cultural Enlightenment - by Jonah Wilberg I was recently invited to give a talk at the London Initiative for Safe AI with the following brief: The core question for the evening is:… --- ## [What is Second Renaissance Subgroup: Session 4](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/what-is-second-renaissance-subgroup-session-4/745)
**Author:** [@rufuspollock](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/rufuspollock)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 5, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/what-is-second-renaissance-subgroup-session-4/745 "2026-06-05T16:27:19Z")
Session 4 of Second Renaissance Research Subgroup: What is the Second Renaissance Meeting Structure & Purpose Fourth of six-week subcircle series testing format vs. speaker-of-the-week model Focus on Second Renaissance… --- ## [Free will thought experiment](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/free-will-thought-experiment/727)
**Author:** [@Justin](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/Justin)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [June 4, 2026, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/free-will-thought-experiment/727 "2026-06-04T11:25:14Z")
Let us imagine a scientist places a subject into stasis, connected to a neural interface. This interface is able to interact with the subject’s brain to the extent that it can create feelings, sensations, perceptions and… --- ## [Are we allowed to be human in academia? On mental health, suppressed selves, and the curiosity we came in with](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/are-we-allowed-to-be-human-in-academia-on-mental-health-suppressed-selves-and-the-curiosity-we-came-in-with/735)
**Author:** [@pchvykov](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/pchvykov)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2026, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/are-we-allowed-to-be-human-in-academia-on-mental-health-suppressed-selves-and-the-curiosity-we-came-in-with/735 "2026-06-01T18:49:02Z")
“Until you make the subconscious conscious, it will control your life and you will call it fate.” — Jung A question I’d like to put to this forum: What parts of yourself do you have to leave at the door when you walk i… --- ## [New Epistemic Deal: Consciousness](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/new-epistemic-deal-consciousness/719)
**Author:** [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2026, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/new-epistemic-deal-consciousness/719 "2026-06-01T12:01:45Z")
I was going to write a point-by-point response to this: The New Epistemic Deal | Two-Phase Cosmology But any given point looked pretty heavy on its own, so I decided to launch the threads one at time. This one is on poi… --- ## [New Epistmic Deal: Subjective Lived Experience](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/new-epistmic-deal-subjective-lived-experience/733)
**Author:** [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2026, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/new-epistmic-deal-subjective-lived-experience/733 "2026-06-01T11:41:50Z")
I was going to write a point-by-point response to this: The New Epistemic Deal | Two-Phase Cosmology But any given point looked pretty heavy on its own, so I decided to launch the threads one at time. This one is on poi… --- ## [Second Renaissance Goals and Teleology](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/second-renaissance-goals-and-teleology/729)
**Author:** [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [May 31, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/second-renaissance-goals-and-teleology/729 "2026-05-31T15:40:07Z")
Does Second Renaissance have a specific destiny or goal? Is that goal embedded in the nature of reality itself? The content below is a fork of off a different thread involving Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos. The questio… --- ## [A substack article about some thoughts sparked by books I read](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/a-substack-article-about-some-thoughts-sparked-by-books-i-read/728)
**Author:** [@beaferra97](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/beaferra97)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 30, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/a-substack-article-about-some-thoughts-sparked-by-books-i-read/728 "2026-05-30T19:43:10Z")
Are people making fewer kids because something deep inside is telling us that we don’t want to raise them in a world with this paradigm? --- ## [New Epistemic Deal: Praeternatural Phenomena](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/new-epistemic-deal-praeternatural-phenomena/726)
**Author:** [@RobertBunge](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/u/RobertBunge)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [May 30, 2026, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/new-epistemic-deal-praeternatural-phenomena/726 "2026-05-30T19:10:26Z")
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