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Our brain houses a very complex, mostly subconscious model of how the world works. We use this model to make our largely intuitive decisions like what to eat, whom to trust, how to vote and what is right and what … Continue reading →

Cultivate expertise Designing good government policy is much more difficult than designing the 747. But even the 747 was not designed by people with a desire for control and a persuasive personality. The engineering community seeks out expertise, apprentices it, … Continue reading →

This is a copernican idea. Democracy is not the centre of right government policy, engineering is the centre of our well being! I am a naive, nerdy engineer who has a dream, a vision that we can engineer a better … Continue reading →

We have this fantasy that if every country in the world was a democracy, we would have a workable world. Democracy cannot make good government policy. Was Brexit good policy, did the Tump administration make good policy, is Netanyahu making … Continue reading →

How to govern ourselves is the most existential problem that mankind faces today. We may eventually all die because of global warming but the bad governing policy decisions being made by the world power structure every day is killing and … Continue reading →

The language of words that humans have evolved over the last 50 thousand years or so, have helped make us the dominant species on earth but have also become the biggest millstone around our necks. Rudyard Kipling said “Words are … Continue reading →

Biolosgical evolution has given us words and the physiology to speak, hear and understand them. Biology always has limitations so we rely on our technology if we want to go faster, further or higher than biology allows. Our articulated legs, … Continue reading →

Words do not have an unambiguous meaning. The meaning of a group of words is in the mind of the speaker and the mind of the listener. Each are coming from a different context and different experiences with those words. … Continue reading →

The following is what a conceptual map might look like for a debate on abortion. This represents the view of one person, in practise it would represent the collaboration of many from all sides of the abortion debate. It should … Continue reading →