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Brendan Graham Dempsey

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Brendan Graham Dempsey is a writer, mythologist, and Director of Research at the Institute of Applied Metatheory whose work centers on the meaning crisis and the reconstruction of spirituality after postmodernism. Holding an advanced degree from Yale in religion and culture, he is the author of Metamodernism and the multi-volume Metamodern Spirituality Series, exploring how metamodernism opens space for renewed sacred frameworks that synthesize scientific worldviews with mythic depth and transcendence.

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Systems ThinkingInformation TheoryComplexity ScienceEvolutionary BiologyEmbodied CognitionEpistemologyPhilosophy of MindRelational OntologySymbolismCultural EvolutionEcologyRelevance RealizationConsciousness StudiesCognitive ScienceUTOK

Connected Observers

Daniel Schmachtenberger3Gregg Henriques3Jamie Wheal2Zak Stein1Iain McGilchrist1John Campbell1

Ideas in the Observatory

  • From Thermodynamic Survival to Cultural MeaningThe ink remembers the paper
    87%
  • Mapping the Four Planes of Cosmic EmergenceThe grammar of the unfolding universe
    82%
  • Relevance Realization and the Optimal GripThe art of ignoring the infinite
    82%
  • The Evolution of Brains as Predictive Models

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Systems ThinkingInformation Theory
A rehearsal for the end of surprise
78%
  • The Transition from Genetic Memory to Neural LearningThe moment life learned to remember itself
    82%
  • The Self-Organizing Logic of Sacred ValuesThe gold standard weighed against entropy
    87%
  • Genetic Information and the Evolution of MeaningWhen the flame begins to remember
    82%
  • Information, Entropy, and the Persistence of FormA figure carved from the noise
    78%
  • The Energetic Cost of Ordered ExistenceThe desperate architecture of the improbable
    78%
  • The Continuity of Meaning from Matter to CulturePurpose is a property of the storm
    78%
    • Complexity Science
    Evolutionary Biology
    Embodied Cognition
    Epistemology
    Philosophy of Mind
    Relational Ontology
    Symbolism
    Cultural Evolution
    Ecology
    Relevance Realization
    Consciousness Studies
    Cognitive Science
    UTOK

    Connected Observers

    Daniel Schmachtenberger3 sharedGregg Henriques3 sharedJamie Wheal2 sharedZak Stein1 sharedIain McGilchrist1 sharedJohn Campbell1 shared
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