Look across disciplines and  contexts for common patterns. Peter Kaufman says to pull from 3 buckets with the largest sample size: universe ~ 3B years (natural sciences), earth ~500M years (life sciences), and human history ~100K years (social sciences).

Here is a transcript of his lecture.

Keywords & Nodes

Compounding is a powerful force if you overcome variance drain.

Emergence occurs when a system exhibits properties or behaviors that the parts do not have on their own.

Science and spirituality (religion) are complimentary.

The map is not the territory.

Perhaps primary consciousness is inherent in the universe.

Gaia Theory states the Earth itself is a single organism.