Suggestions for terms for the Lexicon

This is a thread for collecting suggestions for terms to add to the Second Renaissance & Liminal Lexicon)

It is a wiki post so you can either comment or add a suggestion directly. Comments are useful to clarify why you think a term is important. Bonus if you provide a shortish definition and/or references.

Core terms

  • Great Turning
  • Metamodernism (Political)
  • Moloch
  • Second Renaissance
  • Valueception
  • Wisdom

Potential terms

These are terms that are maybe more peripheral but still relevant

  • Relevance realization
  • Effective Altruism
  • …

Existing lists for this effort

Existing materials or efforts similar to this

Please add existing efforts at lists or lexicons

Time Between Worlds

(I’m too lazy to offer a definition - whatever Zak Stein says - anyone else care to try?)

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:+1: any other quick suggestions - no need to provide definitions.

Game B
Islands of Coherence
Anthropocene
Spiral Dynamics
AQAL
Integral
Transjective
Emergence

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Participatory Knowing
(rooted in lived, relational experience, rather than abstract or detached cognition)
Biocultural Regeneration
(synthesis of ecological restoration and cultural renewal. Found in indigenous movements, permaculture, and syntropic agroforestry, etc)
Living Systems Thinking
(rooted in viewing reality as composed of nested, self-organising systems. Related to Capra, Bateson, and systems theory.)
Mycelial Learning
(drawn from fungi, but metaphorically to represent decentralised, resilient, living learning)
Gaian Consciousness
(Emerges from deep ecology, Lovelock’s Gaia theory, and indigenous cosmologies.)
Technocapital Singularity
(the unholy convergence of technology and capitalism reaching runaway feedback. A shadow version of the “Great Turning.”)
Dao/Tao, Sunyata, Chi/Qi, Source…
(notion of fundamental nature, what is behind form - prevalent in Eastern thought but also Western - in short, universal across all societies, but suppressed because it leads to the notion that all is connected and interdependent - which threatens hierarchies and systems based on separation, i.e the system we have dominating today)
“Ex lumine omnia orta sunt, ad lumen omnia redeunt; in lumine omnia mutantur, sicut in lumine omnia sunt” (for those who like Latin :sweat_smile:)

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Great suggestions @RobertBunge @Justin

Aside: re participatory knowing

Is participatory knowing distinct from knowledge by acquaintance as in e.g. Russell’s classice 1912 essay “Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description”. See also Knowledge How (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) and this thread epistemology - Propositional knowledge vs. Procedural knowledge vs Knowledge by acquaintance - Philosophy Stack Exchange

Vervaeke’s 4Ps model is very common in liminal discussions. I like it a lot and use it all the time.

Yes, exactly. And at least of those 2/33 (propositional, performative and potentially participatory) are very standard in epistemology stretching way back. e.g. that Russell essay.