Category: Money

Reclaiming Humanity: Lessons from Prof John McMurtry’s Vision of a Life-Centric World | ChatGPT4o

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  • The Rights of the “Human” over the “Non-Human”: The Undeclared World War of Human Rights versus Corporate Rights.
  • Life Value, The Common Life Interest of Legitimate Rights and Social Justice
  • Human Life: Beyond Money, Ideology and Productive Forces
  • The Universal Human Life Necessities: The Life Ground of Economics and Human Rights Defined
  • HUMAN VOCATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: Contributing to Society, Realizing Oneself as a Human Being
  • Corporate Globalization versus The Civil Commons by which People’s Lives are Sustained
  • Why Contemporary Justice Theory Fails: The Missing Common Interest of Human Rights and Reason
  • Beyond Equivocal Equality and Masking Myths: Grounding Justice in What We All Need to Live as Human Beings
  • Challenging the Ruling Global Corporate Conglomerates. Regaining the Real Economy
  • “Social State” versus “Corporate State”: FROM EUROPEAN FASCISM TO “GLOBAL MONEY-SEQUENCE ABSOLUTISM”
  • TOWARDS GLOBAL DISORDER: How the Corporate Rights System Straddles the World
  • HUMANITY’S EVOLUTION AND THE GREAT REVERSAL: An Anatomy of the Corporate Right Counter-Revolution
  • History’s Long War for Liberation: Reclaiming the Life Rights which have been Won
  • Essay: Key Takeaways from John McMurtry’s Essays on the Corporate Rights System and the Evolution of Human Society
    • The Corporate Rights System and Its Global Domination
    • The Great Reversal: From Social Progress to Corporate Absolutism
    • The Life-Value Alternative
    • Reclaiming the Real Economy
    • Lessons from Historical Struggles
    • The Role of International Law and Institutions
    • Conclusion: A Call to Action
  • Article Outline: Lessons Learned from John McMurtry’s Essays
    • Introduction
    • I. Understanding the Corporate Rights System
      • A. Definition and Characteristics
      • B. The Role of Corporate Rights in Global Governance
    • II. The Erosion of Human Rights and Social Justice
      • A. Contrast Between Corporate and Human Rights
      • B. The Great Reversal
    • III. The Role of Civil Commons in Advancing Human Rights
      • A. Definition and Importance of Civil Commons
      • B. Threats to Civil Commons
    • IV. The Need for Life-Value Understanding
      • A. Principles of Life-Value Ontology
      • B. Practical Steps for Reclaiming Life Rights
    • V. Case Studies and Examples
      • A. Positive Examples of Life-Value Integration
      • B. Negative Examples and Warnings
    • VI. Conclusion
      • A. Summary of Key Lessons
      • B. Call to Action

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The Silent Seizure: How Vested Interests and Systemic Polarization Undermine American Democracy | ChatGPT4o

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  • Has the American system of governance been captured by vested interests and are the polarizations and dysfunctionalities as a results of passive-aggressive power-laundering by the ruling class as some of this machinations may have been enshrined in their constitution?
  • Can you go in some more details giving specific illustrative examples?
  • Can you provide a title for an article summarizing this power capture?
  • Can you create an image representing this?

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Holarchies Over Hierarchies: Rethinking Economic Growth with Ken Wilber’s Insights | ChatGPT 4o

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  • Can you unpack Ken Wilber’s insights into postmodernism’s aperspectival madness, performative contradictions and their confusing healthy from unhealthy hierarchies and how a developmental-contextualized perspective constructed world view based on this understanding of the intrinsic habits of the developing interiors is the way to continue to grow and develop?
  • How can these insights be applied to define healthy versus unhealthy economic growth?
  • How can economic growth framed in unhealthy domination hierarchical terms affect the other SDGs, and how by refraining economic growth in healthy actualization holarchical terms will make a world of difference in perceptions and outcomes?
  • How can the degrowth ecosocialist movement as championed by Jason Hickel among others benefit from the insights presented here?
  • So is true to say that the degrowth ecosocialist movement would degrow unhealthy domination growth but grow healthy actualization growth while minimizing consumption and waste by creating a safe and just space within the healthy boundaries of sufficiently provisioning the social foundations and respecting the planetary boundaries?
  • Can you write an article summarizing this grand narrative?
  • Can you give possible titles for blog articles representing our discussion?
  • Can you create a vibrant image without words reflecting this?

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Integrating Predictive Coding and Life-Value in Healthcare: A Holistic Approach | ChatGPT4o

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    • For a dissipative, far-from-equilibrium system to persist in time, what minimum conditions have to be satisfied?
    • Stuart Kauffman mentions three closure constraints. What are they?
    • What is causal closure by Matteo Mossio and Alvaro Moreno?
    • How has Deacon’s thermodynamic perspective added to this?
    • Can you reframe this in biosemiotic terms?
    • “This autonomy is achieved through the dynamic interplay of semiotic processes that regulate energy flows, material exchanges, and information processing.” Can you unpack this for me please?
    • When you say make decisions, how is this related to the work of predictive coding and the cognitive sciences?
    • How does Lisa Feldman Barrett’s emotional constructive perspective and energy budgeting optimization scheme fits in here?
    • How does Katherine Peil-Kauffman’s emotional sentience fit in here?
    • He does this seamless integrative framework relate to pain and pleasure and hence why suffering and its alleviation?
    • And how does this relate to the concepts of good and evil?
    • How does McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology fit in here?
    • How do the clinical concepts of symptoms and signs in disease management fit in here and how does this translate into public health concepts?
    • How do the complementary interpretive germ and terrain theory be reconciled and integrated here?
    • Then given this life-enhancing framework of understandings, why all of these life-degenerating trends?
    • How do the innate conflicts between money-value and life-value result in emotional and cognitive and relational and ecological dissonance, and how can this be rectified?
    • How can this understanding help transform our financial and economic and political and legal systems so that money-value resonates with life-value and the aforementioned are not captured and corrupted by money-valued vested interests?
    • Can you give a list of possible blog article titles reflecting this integrative framework of understanding?
    • Can you write a detailed article summing up all we have learnt during this discussion?
    • Can you construct a vibrant image reflecting this?
    • Can you reproduce the same image but without words?

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Embracing the Sacred Value of Life: A Spiritual Approach to Economic Healing | ChatGPT4o

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  • What is spirituality according to Wilber’s Integral Theory?
  • What is his definition of spirituality?
  • If the focus of ultimate reality is life itself, and the focus of ultimate concern is its value, what are the connections and relationships between spirituality and life-value onto-axiology?
  • In light of the above, in the context of this ultimate reality of life with its ultimate life concerns, what is healing and its relevance?
  • If one substitutes money as the ultimate reality and its ultimate concern is its value, what are the implications of this world view?
  • If money is a collective cultural and social construct in this world, where the ultimate reality is life and the ultimate concern is its value, what would the implication of this world view be?
  • How can this realization now help to ground, anchor and steer our individual consciousness and behaviours and our cultural contexts and social systems in this Great Healing Project?
  • Can you summarize Raine Eisner’s “Cultural Transformation: Building a Partnership World”?
  • What are the SWEI of the CPS?
  • How then can we help actualize a Healing Economy based on the Four Cornerstones for a Partnership Society enlisted earlier, and how can the SWEIs help to ground, anchor and steer us in the Great Healing Project?
  • How can Fullerton’s Regenerative Finance and MMT assist in financing this Caring and Healing and Valuing of All Life Economy?
  • Can you provide suggestions for a blog article embodying the spirit of this healing?
  • Can you give suggestions of possible blog article titles reflecting the spirituality of the entire discussion?
  • Can you create a vibrant image recognizing the simplicity and profundity of the value of caring for and healing of all life?

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Rising Above: Overcoming Barriers to Life-Enhancing Reforms in a Digital Age | ChatGPT4o

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  • Can you unpack how modern monetary theory principles bases on right and left value systems give different possibilities and outcomes based on biophysical and thermodynamic constraints?
  • If we bring into consideration fiscal spending by sovereign monetary states on global militarism and industrial subsidized agricultural practices, what does MMT principles suggest in terms of potential positive and negative outcomes in terms of the provisioning of social life needs and being held to account by biophysical and thermodynamic constraints of the planet?
  • But why is it so difficult by the powers-to-be to see that the more public investment in life protection and enhancing activity and less on destroying our social and ecological life support system within the fiscal flexibility of functional financing is the only way to deal with strengths and shortcoming and opportunities and challenges that create life-value virtuous generator functions that respects all of our social foundations and planetary boundaries all aligned within the constraints of thermodynamic efficiencies and resilience?
  • Are there signs that this formidable shift is happening any time soon?
  • Isn’t there potential for capture for surveillance purposes and misinformation by big tech and big media to increase the barriers to these life protecting and enabling reforms, and how as a collective can we use our creative parallel processing intuitive and empathic human capacities to reduce those barriers for life transformative changes?
  • Can you suggest several titles for a blog article that best captures and motivates a call to action?
  • Can you create a vibrant image without words inspiring this individual and collective change we want to see in the world using depth psychology principles?

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Synergistic Governance: Integrating Life-Value Onto-Axiology into Modern Monetary Practices | ChatGPT4o

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  • Explaining Life-Value Onto-Axiology | The Primary Axiom of Life Value and the Universal Human Life Necessities and Principles of their Provision by Prof John McMurtry – TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE (bsahely.com)
  • How can MMT help in transforming the principles above into policies, proposals, programs and practices for peace and prosperity for people and planet?
  • For accountability and transparency and good governance purposes, given the principles of above, how can double-entry book keeping based on stock-flow balance sheets be created to facilitate the creation of a regenerative, embracing, cohesive, synergistic, trustworthy, coherent and conscious society?
  • Can you suggest possible titles for an article that reflects the above?
  • Can you construct a poem reflecting this?
  • Any suggestions for possible memes?
  • Can you also construct a parable to distill the wisdom here?
  • If one can reformulate and repurpose the Great Commandment, The Lord’s prayer and The Beatitudes in life-value onto-axiological terms, what would they look like?
  • Is there a life-value onto-axiological equivalent in meaning to Amen?

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From Disempowerment to Flourishing: Unpacking the Neoliberal Capture of Money Mechanics | ChatGPT4o

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  • What is the difference between the healthy universal recognition of individual human rights and the unhealthy machinations of individualism, and what are the historical and cultural antecedents of these polarizing outcomes given our human developmental potentials?
  • So it appears that while we were empowering individuals politically to develop their potential life capacities, we at the same time were disempowering them economically and socially to actualize their true life capabilities. Is this an accurate assessment of this fundamental imbalance?
  • How can McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology framework assist in this grand holistic reform project?
  • How can the insights from Modern Monetary Theory be used to unpack how neoliberal capture of the money mechanics creation process is a major player of this disempowerment and how by now having holistic coherent life-value onto-axiology fiscal policies in the driver’s seat, more of the influencers of economic and social change would begin to see the light and catalyze the transformation we all now desperately desire?
  • Can you suggest several possible titles for a blog article on what you have unpacked so far?
  • Can you create an image without words that reflects this?

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Functional Trade Policy: An Integrative MMT and Life-Valuing Approach to Global Economics | ChatGPT4o

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  • How has Warren Mosler’s and Bill Mitchell’s different philosophical and political views affected in positive and negative ways the growth, development and evolution of MMT into the public and private spheres of engagements?
  • What is the basis for the statement in that in foreign trade, from an MMT perspective, imports are “good” and exports are “bad”?
  • What is Steve Keen’s view on this issue?
  • But is this not narrowly focused? What about real constraints related to biophysical limitations, sufficient social needs provisioning, thermodynamic efficiency, supply-chain security and just-in-case precautionary based principles that are needed to widen the boundaries of discourse and factorization to distill the wisdom some more from MMT? How would his then add to the arguments thus far?
  • Just like you have functional financing in MMT that challenges the perceived limitation of fiscal spending, is there a similar concept of functional financing in foreign trade discourses?
  • Given the spectrum and spread and inhomogeneities of nation states monetary sovereignty capabilities, floating or fixed foreign exchange rates, food and energy and resource and skills production capabilities variabilities and insecurities, does this not give amplifying selective advantages to the sovereign monetary states and disadvantages to every one else?
  • How can applying life-valuing functional trade policies and life-protecting and life-enhancing governance structures guided by MMT principles at the international level be conceptualized and operationalized in a life coherent manner.
  • Can you give possible titles for a blog article reflecting the essence of this discussion?
  • Can you create a vibrant image reflecting the essence of this conversation?

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Towards Learning the Life Capital Solution (An Essay as part of the Festshrift for Prof John McMurtry) | Bichara Sahely (2024)

This essay honors and extends John McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology by arguing that contemporary health, social, and ecological crises share a common root: a life-blind social value system organized around private money sequencing rather than the sequencing of life. Drawing on the author’s medical practice and multi-year correspondence with McMurtry, the paper introduces life-capital — the wealth of means of life that reproducibly generates more means of life through time — as the missing integrator across clinical medicine, public policy, and planetary stewardship. It sets out McMurtry’s Primary Axiom of Value (value = that which enables a more coherently inclusive range of thought/feeling/action) and the Universal Human Life Necessities as testable, operational criteria for designing institutions, laws, and programs that measurably enable life rather than degrade it. The essay calls for open access to life-relevant knowledge, a shift from extraction to life-value addition, and practical rationing to life necessities (not scarcity), and it closes with action-questions spanning AI, public health, reconciliation, and institutional learning. An Appendix sketches how the life-capital lens unifies “One Health” across people, animals, ecosystems, and knowledge systems.

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