Finding Sense in our World of Chaos
and Restoring the Balance
Chapter Index
Each of the chapters is derived from the draft of a book unlikely now to be published. Converting to blog form will take a little time. Please bear with me.
An Introduction
1. Blowing out the Light
The seeds of new beginnings in 9/11's ever spreading disaster.
2. Morality in Crisis
The very modern disappearance of the common good.
3. Foundations for Trust
Extending the influence of mother love.
4. Basics of Balance
Finding the foundations of morality in universal principles.
5. Complexity’s Moral Rules
The practical morality of nature's complex adaptive systems.
6. Earth History
Looking at our present situation through the eyes of the past.
7. Why Things Go Wrong
The seeds and the soil that enable human delusion to grow.
8. Delusion’s Evolutionary Role
Delusion’s destructive power set in its evolutionary context.
9. Paranoia’s Progression
Paranoia's role in driving us progressively to the edge.
10. The AI Alignment Fallacy
Identifying the ultimate cause of AI’s destructive behaviour.