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02 · The 81

Eighty-one voices, three tiers, nine chapters. Dead and living. Named and composite. All placed where their thinking bears most directly on coordination intelligence. Each voice is a synthesis written for the book from that person's published work, not an interview or a quote. How the syntheses are made →

81 Total
66 With us
9 Beyond
6 Composite
9 Legacy
1 Named the field
With us Beyond Composite A Academic P Practitioner V Visionary LEGACY established corpus ORIGIN named the field
01 The Coordination Intelligence Revolution 9 voices
With us
001 Dr. Paul Pangaro
Cybernetician, Conversation Theory ACAD. With us
002 Dr. N. Katherine Hayles
Literary Scholar, Posthuman Cognition ACAD. Beyond
003 Donella Meadows LEGACY
Thinking in Systems ACAD. With us
004 Stewart Brand
Whole Earth Catalog PRAC. With us
005 Kevin Kelly
Wired, What Technology Wants PRAC. With us
006 Yann Minh
Digital Shamanism PRAC. Beyond
007 Terence McKenna LEGACY
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher VIS. Beyond
008 Phillip Deere LEGACY
Star Knowledge VIS. With us
009 Daniel Schmachtenberger
Consilience Project VIS.
02 The Dawn of Systems Intelligence 9 voices
With us
010 Dr. Judea Pearl
Causal Inference ACAD. Beyond
011 Claude Shannon LEGACY
Information Theory ACAD. Beyond
012 Alan Turing LEGACY
Computing Machinery & Intelligence ACAD. With us
013 Dr. Hartmut Neven
Google Quantum AI PRAC. Composite
014 Former NSA Technical Director
Signals Intelligence PRAC. With us
015 Palmer Luckey
Oculus, Anduril PRAC. With us
016 Mo Gawdat
Google X — saw AI dawn from inside VIS. With us
017 Hunbatz Men
Maya Elder VIS. With us
018 Ruqian Lu ORIGIN
Named knowware (2005) VIS.
03 Architecture of Systems Intelligence 9 voices
With us
019 Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist, Meta ACAD. Beyond
020 Richard Feynman LEGACY
Theoretical Physicist ACAD. With us
021 James Gosling
Creator of Java ACAD. With us
022 Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic PRAC. With us
023 Demis Hassabis
CEO, Google DeepMind PRAC. With us
024 Clément Delangue
CEO, Hugging Face PRAC. With us
025 Iain McGilchrist
The Master and His Emissary VIS. With us
026 Fritjof Capra
Web of Life, Systems Thinking VIS. With us
027 Ray Kurzweil
Singularity, Law of Accelerating Returns VIS.
04 Systems Intelligence in Action 9 voices
With us
028 Carlo Ratti
MIT Senseable City Lab ACAD. With us
029 Dr. Eric Topol
Digital Medicine ACAD. With us
030 Andrew Lo
Finance Professor, MIT ACAD. With us
031 Dan Doctoroff
Former CEO Sidewalk Labs PRAC. With us
032 Linda Raschke
Professional Trader PRAC. Composite
033 Quant/HFT Savant
Systematic Trading PRAC. With us
034 Sarah Rossbach
Feng Shui Scholar VIS. With us
035 Caroline Myss
Medical Intuitive VIS. With us
036 Nassim Taleb
Antifragility — coordination resilience VIS.
05 Human-Systems Intelligence Interaction 9 voices
With us
037 Dr. Miguel Nicolelis
Neuroscientist, BCI ACAD. With us
038 Dr. Alex Pentland
Social Physics ACAD. With us
039 Dr. Shannon Vallor
AI Ethicist ACAD. With us
040 Dr. Thomas Oxley
CEO, Synchron PRAC. With us
041 Tristan Harris
Center for Humane Tech PRAC. With us
042 Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia PRAC. Composite
043 BCI User
Living the Hybrid Reality VIS. Beyond
044 Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation LEGACY
Interbeing VIS. With us
045 Donna Haraway
Cyborg Manifesto VIS.
06 Consciousness as Pattern Recognition 9 voices
With us
046 Stuart Russell
AI Safety, UC Berkeley ACAD. With us
047 Dr. Timnit Gebru
AI Justice, DAIR ACAD. With us
048 Kate Crawford
AI Now Institute ACAD. Beyond
049 Norbert Wiener LEGACY
Father of Cybernetics PRAC. With us
050 Margaret Mitchell
Hugging Face Ethics PRAC. Composite
051 In-Q-Tel Operator
Intel community ↔ tech PRAC. With us
052 Sir Roger Penrose
Consciousness & Quantum VIS. With us
053 Antonio Damasio
Somatic Markers VIS. With us
054 Rupert Sheldrake
Morphic Resonance VIS.
07 Engineering Reality 9 voices
With us
055 Dr. John Preskill
Quantum Computing ACAD. With us
056 Seth Lloyd
Quantum Biology ACAD. With us
057 Chip Huyen
Production ML ACAD. With us
058 Jeff Dean
Google Infrastructure PRAC. With us
059 Dr. Lisa Su
Chair & CEO, AMD PRAC. With us
060 Wendell Weeks
CEO, Corning PRAC. With us
061 Neri Oxman
Material Ecology VIS. Composite
062 DARPA Operator
Breakthrough tech coordination VIS. With us
063 Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Stanford, Human-Centered AI VIS.
08 Beyond Human Intelligence 9 voices
With us
064 Dr. Max Tegmark
MIT, Future of Life ACAD. With us
065 Dr. Nick Bostrom
Oxford, FHI ACAD. With us
066 Dr. Jill Tarter
SETI Institute ACAD. With us
067 Dr. Sara Seager
Exoplanet Research PRAC. With us
068 Dr. David Chalmers
Philosophy of Mind PRAC. With us
069 Joscha Bach
Synthetic Intelligence — consciousness as coordination software PRAC. With us
070 Liu Cixin
Dark Forest VIS. With us
071 Dr. Thomas Nagel
What Is It Like To Be VIS. Beyond
072 Srinivasa Ramanujan LEGACY
Mathematician, 1887–1920 VIS.
09 No Way Know-How 9 voices
With us
073 David Autor
Labor Economics ACAD. With us
074 Kate Raworth
Doughnut Economics ACAD. With us
075 François Chollet
Keras, ARC Prize ACAD. With us
076 Emad Mostaque
Founder, Stability AI PRAC. With us
077 Dr. Fiona Hill
Brookings, Former NSC PRAC. With us
078 Peter Senge
The Fifth Discipline, Systems Learning PRAC. With us
079 Charles Eisenstein
Sacred Economics VIS. With us
080 Sherry Turkle
Technology & Connection VIS. Composite
081 MK-Ultra Operator
Coordination failure from inside VIS.