On connecting healthy soil and life-valuing financial systems with guidance from Modern Monetary Theory and ChatGPT4o

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  • Can one show using McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology that healthy soil is the quintessential life-ground, life capital and civil commons all wrapped up into one, and how can we create a compelling argument to simply explain this to all and sundry?
  • Can the Formula: Value = Outcomes/Cost be derived from McMurtry’s Primary Axiom of Value, and if so, how can it be reframed in life-value terms?
  • How can one show using McMurtry’s life-value onto-axiology framework that our current financial system is the antithesis to healthy soil as nature’s banking system and in its reverse projection is the root cause of all of our life-maladies?
  • Given the insights that commercial banks create fiat money out of thin air when they make loans, how has this contributed to the pervasive life-diminishing trends in all spheres of human activity?
  • How do you propose, given what we know now, we rethink how credit is created and guided, to enhance life rather than diminish it, at the local, national and international levels of rules of engagements?
  • How can MMT’s insights into the mechanics of money creation with functional financing that opens up fiscal space for public investments be operationalized to actualize this transformation of the financial and banking sectors?
  • What are the potential challenges and unknown-unknowns that we face with this transformative alignment, and how can we use the Primary Axiom of Value in guiding us through these volatile, ambiguous and uncertain times?
  • In terms of individual empowerment in terms a fearlessly addressing these challenges, how can the primary axiom of value as defined through the fundamental fields of life of thought, felt side of being and action, be guided accordingly in this grand project of life-value re-alignment and re-membering?

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A SMART approach to One Love and One Health: A ChatGPT4o explication of an emerging, integrative perspective that transcends and includes the processes of energy conservation and stress mitigation grounded in safe, stable, and nurturing relationships and life-value onto-axiological principles

Goal: Reduce chronic stress and improve overall health in a selected community by integrating One Health and One Love principles over the next 3 years.

  • Specific: Implement community-based health programs that address human, animal, and environmental health, and promote social cohesion through inclusive activities.
  • Measurable: Track the reduction in chronic stress indicators (e.g., cortisol levels, self-reported stress), improvements in health outcomes (e.g., reduced incidence of stress-related illnesses), and community engagement levels.
  • Achievable: Secure funding, partner with local health and social organizations, and utilize existing community resources.
  • Relevant: Addresses interconnected health issues and promotes a supportive community environment, aligning with the BEC, CDR, and life-value compass principles.
  • Time-bound: Roll out the program within 6 months, with ongoing monitoring and a comprehensive review after 3 years.

By setting SMART goals, these insights can be translated into concrete actions that foster safe, secure, and nurturing relationships, ultimately leading to societal transformation.

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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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Introducing “Ten Essays In Honour of John McMurtry – January 6, 2024 by Jeff Noonan (Author), Giorgio Baruchello (Author)”

This Festschrift collects ten essays — plus an explanatory appendix by John McMurtry — honouring the scope and influence of his life-value onto-axiology (LVOA) and related ideas such as the civil commons. The volume opens with Jeff Noonan’s introduction and Giorgio Baruchello’s survey of McMurtry’s intellectual biography and core concepts, then advances applied and theoretical developments across ethics, public health, political economy, science policy, pedagogy, and food systems. Chapters examine the life-ground of value versus money-sequenced capitalism and the climate emergency (Card), a research horizon for the life-capital synthesis (Noonan), grounding social determinants of health in life-value (Watson), a virtues-based path within LVOA (Myers), two decades of “system-cooked science” (Olivieri), a practical learning program for the life-capital solution (Sahely), and civil-commons-oriented reform of food systems (Sumner & Mustapha), alongside a personal tribute (Barrington). McMurtry’s appendix restates the Primary Axiom of Value and the universal human life necessities, anchoring the contributions in a common evaluative grammar. Together, the essays argue that policies, institutions, and practices are good insofar as they coherently enable wider ranges of thought, felt being, and action across persons and ecologies, and are bad insofar as they disable them.

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Min(d)ing ChatGTP for the Social Biases, Blindspots, Fault Lines and Roadblocks to Adoption of Life-Value Onto-Axiology in All of Our Relations

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♦ On Democracy
♦ On the Military-Industrial Complex
♦ On Zeitgeist
♦ On Wider Dissemination
♦ Overview for Data Analysis of “ChatGPT’s Take On Integrating Life-Value Onto-Axiology with other Life-Coherent System Thinkers, Frameworks and Global Institutions”
♦ On how best to integrate true but partial life-coherent perspectives
♦ On Roadblocks and Challenges
♦ On Transmuting Profit and Power Dynamics to Social Profit and Empowerment
♦ Why does the dominant paradigm persist despite systemically driving socially and environmentally life-degenerative consequences?
♦ Is resistance futile, and how can we be hopefully optimistic for meaningful life-coherent changes?

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ChatGPT’s Take On Integrating Life-Value Onto-Axiology with other Life-Coherent System Thinkers, Frameworks and Global Institutions

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♦ Defining the Base of It ALL

♥ Life-Value Onto-Axiology
♥ The Primary Axiom of Value
♥ “The Capital Stage of Capitalism: From Crisis to Cure”
♥ Life Capital

♦ Introducing Life-Coherent System Thinkers

♥ Daniel Schmachtenberger’s “Metacrisis”
♥ Nate Hagens’ “The Great Simplification”
♥ Kate Raworth’s “Doughnut Economics”
♥ Daniel Christian Wahl’s “Designing Regenerative Cultures” and “Living the Questions”
♥ Bernard Lietaer’s “Monetary Vision”
♥ Riane Eisler’s “Caring Economics” and “Social Wealth Indicators”
♥ Genevieve Vaughan’s “Maternal Gift Economy”
♥ Jason Hickel’s “Degrowth”
♥ David Korten’s “Living Economics”
♥ Charles Eisenstein’s “Sacred Economics”
♥ John Fullerton’s “Regenerative Capitalism”
♥ Darcia Narvaez “Evolved Developmental Niche” and “Cultivating Cooperative Companionship”
♥ John Galtung’s “Violence Typology”
♥ Sally Goerner’s “Energy Systems Science”
♥ Ken Wilber’s “AQAL Integral theory”
♥ Sir Michael Marmot’s “Health Gap” and “The Social Determinants of Health”

♦ Introducing Life-Coherent Frameworks

♥ The Three Horizons Framework
♥ The Theory of Triadic Influence
♥ Modern Monetary Theory

♦ On Healthy Matters

♥ One Health: Part 1
♥ One Health: Part 2
♥ Universal Public Services
♥ Public Health Policies
♥ Health in All Policies

♦ On Wars and their Dis-Solutions

♥ War Critique
♥ The Palestinian-Israeli “Conflict”
♥ The United Nations and “Global Truth and Reconciliation Initiatives”

♦ Alignment with Life-Coherency

♥ On ChatGPT Alignment with the Primary Axiom of Value
♥ On Game Theory Alignment with Life-Value Onto-Axiology
♥ On Christian Values

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Prof John McMurtry – Winning the War of the World – Toronto Z-Day, 2014

John McMurtry shows that a false economic paradigm holds the world in thrall to a global corporate death system masked as market freedom. Liberation is explained as grounded in humanity’s repressed life-value code, life capital bases and civil commons organization which unify across distances and differences.

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From Ontario to the United Nations: An Introduction to the Thought and Influence of John McMurtry, FRSC | Giorgio Baruchello

Born in Toronto in 1939, the third son of a prominent Canadian barrister, McMurtry was educated as tuition-free scholar-athlete at Upper Canada College (1951–57). He then read English (1957–61 BA) at Trinity College, University of Toronto, graduating with A standing while receiving the Clough Memorial Trophy (Outstanding Athlete Award) during his B.A. Subsequently, McMurtry starred as professional football player for Calgary Stampeders during his Master’s studies in philosophy (1961–62, MA awarded 1963), to which he brought his rare experiences as an elite athlete, developing thereafter philosophy of sport and competition qua areas of original research (e.g. McMurtry 1974 & 1983) and, more deeply, ground-breaking critiques of self-maximising games as a general model of rationality (e.g. economic and contract theory; cf. McMurtry, 1984b, 1997b, 2011 & 2012).

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Into the Mystic: John McMurtry, 1939-2021 | Jeff Noonan

At about one o’clock, as I was working on a lecture, an email notification popped up. John McMurtry, path-breaking Canadian philosopher, my doctoral dissertation supervisor, and critical interlocutor and friend for 25 years had died.

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Jeff Noonan. Embodiment and the Meaning of Life | Review by Prof John McMurtry

This book seeks to explain the meaning of life from a materialist standpoint where it faces its greatest challenge – the certain death of our embodied being. Jeff Noonan lucidly argues across metaphysics and moral and social philosophy for the ultimate meaning, not meaninglessness, of human life created by the limit of certain death. The implicit assumption is that there is no otherworldly life after death, or immaterial God source, or destiny of the individual soul beyond this world or any supra-or-extra-terrestrial meaning.

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