Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Corey deVos frames AI as the next “information technology leap” that won’t just reshape society—it may reshape human intelligence itself. But he also steel-mans the darker possibility: we might be accelerating faster than our “chimp brains” can adapt—like what happened when smartphones and social media “democratized discourse” and the cultural operating system destabilized. His key insight: our attention has expanded faster than our circle of care, leaving us aware of billions of “others” before we’ve developed the capacity to hold them as “us.” The antidote he offers is a “Big History” frame—zooming from the Cambrian explosion to AI and out to cosmic time—which can snap us out of petty fixation and re-ground us in the obvious truth: we’re all in this together on a tiny planet in a hostile universe.
Excerpted from "From the Cambrian Explosion to the Human Explosion"
Watch the full discussion here:
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#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #BigHistory #MeaningCrisis #SocialMedia #CulturalEvolution #HumanDevelopment #IntegralTheory #SystemsThinking #FutureOfHumanity
Corey deVos frames AI as the next “information technology leap” that won’t just reshape society—it may reshape human intelligence itself. But he also steel-mans the darker possibility: we might be accelerating faster than our “chimp brains” can adapt—like what happened when smartphones and social media “democratized discourse” and the cultural operating system destabilized. His key insight: our attention has expanded faster than our circle of care, leaving us aware of billions of “others” before we’ve developed the capacity to hold them as “us.” The antidote he offers is a “Big History” frame—zooming from the Cambrian explosion to AI and out to cosmic time—which can snap us out of petty fixation and re-ground us in the obvious truth: we’re all in this together on a tiny planet in a hostile universe.
Excerpted from "From the Cambrian Explosion to the Human Explosion"
Watch the full discussion here:
integrallife.com/from-the-cambrian-explosion-to-the-human-explosion
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #BigHistory #MeaningCrisis #SocialMedia #CulturalEvolution #HumanDevelopment #IntegralTheory #SystemsThinking #FutureOfHumanity
![Reintegrating DEI: Beyond the Culture Wars [PREVIEW]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hYl-YTWx-rg/mqdefault.jpg "Reintegrating DEI: Beyond the Culture Wars [PREVIEW]
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https://integrallife.com/reintegrating-dei/
What does DEI look like if we remove the politically loaded terms and ideas and focus on a developmental understanding instead? What might we see if we ourselves can take a broader and deeper view into this divisive and important cultural moment that is reshaping our world?
A postmodern view, one that has moved beyond the strict confines of rationality, is what has brought awareness of many of DEI’s principles and claims to the foreground of our culture. This developmental perspective can see things that pervious perspectives were blind to, and at its best, DEI shows us a world in which cultural assumptions, the social construction of the self, and the limitations of rationality and science can create powerfully unseen bias against certain groups.
What does this look like, from the mature DEI viewpoint? What can it really see, what are its own hidden assumptions, and why is it causing so much societal friction that is overheating everything from school board meetings to national politics?
In Europe, we are seeing the rise of the far right. In America, we see Trumpism fighting to turn back the clock on many of DEI’s policies. And many in the middle have seen even the best-meaning DEI initiatives produce frustrating unintended and hypocritical consequences, such as illiberalism, exclusivity in their demands for inclusivity, homogeneity in their call for heterogeneity, and intolerance in their desire for tolerance.
A robust and thorough understanding of the primary worldviews at play can help us to better appreciate what’s really being seen, how each stage is showing us important truths even as they create their own problems that need solving.
In this talk, Keith Martin-Smith explains the developmental levels in detail that allowed DEI to form in the first place, as well as the levels from which DEI is often expressed (and resisted) from, allowing us to more clearly see and understand the cultural wars we are all experiencing.
The goal of this talk is to bring greater understanding and empathy for those advocating the DEI view, as well as for those fighting against it, all framed by a broader and deeper understanding of the evolution of our personal and cultural worldviews and how they interact with each other.")
