Neural Stone
Neural circuits create our desires, feelings, & behavior—stained with the possibility of
self-destruction & deception—& once sculpted by socio-genetic forces, neural wiring resists
reform for good, like a stone.
Neural Stone aims to provide fresh ideas to define & defend the individual & institutional
good.
Individuals
Why do brains prefer to follow what is popular in society, and are there any consequences of
such computational ease?
Why do the initial years of life matter the most, and why is change difficult or just impossible later in life?
Why can a billion minds believe the ideas of one mind and act on them too, under the delusion of free will?
How do evil ideas continue to live from one mind to another and create avoidable suffering across generations?
Why are schools failing our kids and us, and why do even the best minds in the best universities can just parrot popular propaganda?
Why is self-destruction common in humans but not in other animals, and why have science and technology accelerated it?
Can we protect new minds from the dangers of ideological indoctrination and develop the ability to independently think?
In the era of artificial general intelligence, how can we cultivate in our children the ability to harness their innate biological intelligence to acquire new knowledge and skills, voluntarily or on demand?
How do we protect kids from modern meaninglessness, existential confusion, hedonism, addictions, and mediocrity, and instead develop a will to live and contribute to the continuation of life?
Why do the initial years of life matter the most, and why is change difficult or just impossible later in life?
Why can a billion minds believe the ideas of one mind and act on them too, under the delusion of free will?
How do evil ideas continue to live from one mind to another and create avoidable suffering across generations?
Why are schools failing our kids and us, and why do even the best minds in the best universities can just parrot popular propaganda?
Why is self-destruction common in humans but not in other animals, and why have science and technology accelerated it?
Can we protect new minds from the dangers of ideological indoctrination and develop the ability to independently think?
In the era of artificial general intelligence, how can we cultivate in our children the ability to harness their innate biological intelligence to acquire new knowledge and skills, voluntarily or on demand?
How do we protect kids from modern meaninglessness, existential confusion, hedonism, addictions, and mediocrity, and instead develop a will to live and contribute to the continuation of life?
Institutions
Why do we fight?
Why are biological and ideological conflicts different, and why does the distinction matters?
Why do social solutions become problems and lead to the self-destruction of highly functional social systems?
Why are social systems extremely complex to manage and eventually collapse?
Why do popular ideas fail to address the underlying socio-genetic complexity?
How do politicians use immutable inherent inequalities of life to gain and hold on to power, and how do we reason through it?
How can we run new social experiments without breaking what is working?
When current constitutions are failing to preserve the developed world, what fundamental changes should be introduced in future founding documents?
Why are biological and ideological conflicts different, and why does the distinction matters?
Why do social solutions become problems and lead to the self-destruction of highly functional social systems?
Why are social systems extremely complex to manage and eventually collapse?
Why do popular ideas fail to address the underlying socio-genetic complexity?
How do politicians use immutable inherent inequalities of life to gain and hold on to power, and how do we reason through it?
How can we run new social experiments without breaking what is working?
When current constitutions are failing to preserve the developed world, what fundamental changes should be introduced in future founding documents?