“The Quiet Revolution to Reawaken India’s Reading Soul” ••• by Diamond-Michael Scott, 17 June 2025

The kunzum network of bookshops •••

“Why We Must Keep Africa Poor” ••• by Magatte Wade

Recording of Atlas Network’s Milton Friedman event ••• (video and transcript)

Milton Friedman: More Relevant Than Ever, with Dr. Eamonn Butler and Dr. Leszek Balcerowicz — was held Wednesday, June 4, 12 pm ET, watch now ••• an Atlas Network ••• event

A Helen of Troy among phrases in the English language:

“the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design”

Essay on the History of Civil Society, by Adam Ferguson, 1767, Part III, Section II. The History of Political Establishments — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8646

This phrase has probably launched a thousand visions and ideas, making Adam Ferguson one of the pioneers of Freeorder.

A result: “Cosmos and Taxis”, chapter 2 of F. A. Hayek’s Law, Legislation and Liberty.

If Hayek had not written this the word “freeorder” would not exist.

Polycentricity and Polycentric Law

“Polycentricity: From Polanyi to Ostrom, and Beyond,” By Paul Dragos Aligica and Vlad Tarko

“Polycentric Law in the New Millennium” ••• “An Essay Submitted to The Mont Pelerin Society On the Occasion of its 1998 Golden Anniversary Meeting In Accord with the Requirements for the Friedrich A. Hayek Fellowship, by Tom W. Bell, Alexandria, Virginia, May, 1998”

“States accumulated sufficient power to claim a monopoly in law[4] only relatively recently--and only after a long struggle to crush competing legal systems.[5] Polycentric law[6] [p. 2/p. 3] survived that onslaught, however, and has now taken root in the interstices of State power.[7] This essay will describe why, as we enter a new millennium, conditions favor the growth and flourishing of polycentric law.”

This polycentric idea is fundamental to Freeorder because as quest constraints (excessive design) are circumvented or abolished polycentric systems emerge to displace older poorly functioning orders. Freeorder is polycentrism tuned for quest optimization and enlivened by freeordered philosophical, artistic, scientific, and entrepreneurial minds. -ls

Live and Let Live — advocates.liveandletlive.org/ (very new organization, a few weeks only?)

An organization to watch — it may become important to the emergence of Freeorder

Bio-Frontiers: The Jurisdictions for the Age of Biology: for founders that want to accelerate, not wait.

MON DE LEÓN and INFINITA CITY, 28 Jun 2025

“The Big Picture: Why This Matters”

“Biotech isn’t stalled because of available science & technology.

It’s stalled because the systems meant to govern it are withholding life-saving innovation from patients- designed for safety in theory, but in practice introducing a bureaucratic maze.

We’re entering a century where biology becomes programmable. Where iteration is cheap and safe. Yet bureaucrats demand paperwork, not immutable code. That’s a civilizational bottleneck.

To build for the age of biology, we need a parallel protocol, a safe harbor for renegade scientists, DIY biohackers and serious founders building the next large company.

That’s why Bio-Frontiers exists. In the real world. Not in whitepapers.”

Apply if you’re building what comes next: infinita.city/biofrontiers/landing

“This September, longevity and biotech meet a frontier built to move fast: Build alongside founders, scientists, and biohackers in a testbed where biotech breakthroughs become reality — fast”

What it means to be a “neurohacker” and why it is important. Two articles by Venessa Hall (formerly Venessa Miemis).

“What it means to be a neurohacker” ••• Nov 2016 on Emergent by Design ••• [about]

“Why the World Needs Neurohacking Now More than Ever” ••• Jan 2022, on Qualia •••

“When Darkness Fell on Consentia” ••• by Max Borders ••• [substack]

The need for a sparse agreement to encompass a region designed for emergence. A contribution to the discussion of Freeorder.

Áza Valon, already a good speech maker for Campaigns for Liberty, is seeking mastery of oratory, and to that end is reading Robert Ingersoll ••• Aristotle’s Rhetoric ••• studying with Robert Begley ••• and listening to Grigory Sokolov play ••• Schubert’s Impromptus.

Áza has become a member of the 1921 Club •••

Independent Institute ••• continues to clear space for the emergence of Freeorder

From an email from Independent Institute, 28 June 2025

‘As the “woke” moment passes away, new allies across the political spectrum have been using our resources to take this different path.

Our award-winning documentary Beyond Homeless is one of our most impactful projects yet. San Francisco has long been considered ground zero of the homelessness crisis. Now San Francisco has a new mayor: Daniel Lurie.

After watching our documentary, attending our events, and meeting with our program team, Mayor Lurie has begun supporting recovery programs—the very ones we highlight in our film—for the first time in recent memory, including recovery and treatment beds, detox and drug treatment, and sober transitional housing for homeless individuals.

In the long run, non-governmental programs offer the best hope for the homeless. Nevertheless, Mayor Lurie’s policy shift is a dramatic turn in the right direction.

We’ve also been pushing back against toxic woke ideologies infiltrating public education.

Earlier this year, the University of California Faculty Assembly voted to reject a deeply flawed ethnic studies course requirement for high schools, one designed to teach activism over understanding. This would have forced anti-Semitic and anti-capitalist ideological indoctrination on millions of high school students throughout California.’

“A Healthy Contempt for Activism? Don't make people choose between a mob and a regime. A rant on my distaste for *protestors* and the need for Freeorder.” ••• by Max Borders, 12 Jun 25

Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR)

Educating Citizens, Not Activists •••

The Team Behind The American Experience Curriculum •••

Moscow, 23 April 25, a talk for the Russian Academy of Sciences ••• Emmanuel Todd ••• [substack]

Todd specializes in the anthropology of family types and their deterministic relationship with political preferences.

Sayer Ji’s lawsuit against a public-private coordinated reputation destroying attack begins with this quotation:

The reason for the suit is explained here: “Reputation as a Weapon: Breaking—Federal Civil Rights Suit Filed Against CCDH, U.S. Officials, and Tech Giants — A landmark 171-page federal civil rights lawsuit filed in Florida charges CCDH, Imran Ahmed, and U.S. officials with a four-year campaign of defamation against a dozen U.S. citizens.” — sayerji.substack.com/p/reputation-as-a-weapon-breakingfederal

The suit itself will be found here. Paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 are clearly written and important:

This is an uncommonly fine piece of writing, eloquent and insightful. -ls

“Igniting a Global Bookstore Renaissance: Why Reading Matters More Than Ever ••• by Diamond-Michael Scott, 5 Jun 25

The substack of Diamond-Michael’s where this article appeared is called “Great Books + Great Minds.”

Comment posted to the above article: “This article is a contribution to the emergence of Freeorder, much dependent on diversity of thought and the utilization of constructive contention of vision and ideas -- all supported by bookstores made by people with strong ideas about what it makes sense to offer others to read. Thank you! -ls”

“Democratic Socialism Echoes the Khmer Rouge: Because identity politics leads to dehumanization” ••• by Barry Brownstein, Mindshifts ••• [his substack], 4 Jun 25

A warning that certain kind of mass shift in feeling and though can lead to horror, anywhere. We should pay attention.

Brownstein links to this article by Laura Williams: “When Pol Pot Read a Book on Marx” ••• 19 May 25

Among the links in Laura William’s article are these:

Human Intelligence + AI —> Dimensional Patterning ••• by Paul Forest of Thoughtwave.org

“Dimensional Patterning: Structuring Human: Intelligence Beyond Social Identity — This paper introduces a model known as dimensional patterning, a system built around a collaborative relationship between humans and AI companions. Within this framework, individuals articulate their experiences and insights, while AI companions use sophisticated language models to transform these expressions into structured, meaningful patterns. These multi-dimensional thought patterns are then used to precisely align, analyze, and interconnect ideas across a shared network.”

The InterBrain - How Collective DreamWeaving Can Heal the World — Project Liminality

Video presentation: youtu.be/v5dBRmjF8mc — sent by Max Borders, 1 June 2025

Ray Svitla says he is running “the world’s least official embassy”, and call its 404Embassy, “Exploring Belarus's pursuit of a network state: new governance, self-sovereignty, and digital identity for a diaspora seeking a future beyond traditional borders.” •••

“Identity Crisis or Remix? When your birth certificate says one thing, your tax residency another, and your VPN a third – who the hell are you? With 280M+ international migrants, this isn't a niche problem anymore.” -Ray Svitla, in this post ••• 20May25

A similar form of distress response is propagating though many nations, and it is generating a new kind of multi-national multi-cultural diaspora, especially among the young. This culture is also growing in web3 and in special zones and they may all converge. Svitla’s embassy could become a resource for all of this. He seems to have the requisite hardy spirit and strength of mind. -ls

Ray’s account of a gathering of exiles contains this:

‘Theme: “Shifting the Power: challenging prevailing narratives and building a fairer future.”

Translation: What the hell do we do now that everything’s broken?

Let me tell you, Operator, day one felt like a global pessimists’ convention – war, displacement, crumbling institutions, autocratic shadows. I was almost the only one saying, “Actually, this is a chance to build something better.”

By day three the mood flipped: experiments sparked, value-based states bubbled up. These gatherings don’t fix the world; they do something more subversive: they remind us we’re not alone.’

Mapping the Landscape of Network States & Para-Political Entities

‘404 Embassy Atlas v1.0 Mapping the Landscape of Network States & Para-Political Entities The world of governance is fragmenting. New forms of sovereignty are being prototyped in digital commons and physical enclaves. This Atlas is an open-source, dynamic map designed to bring signal to the noise. It is powered by the EPNC v1.1 Protocol, a standardized methodology for classifying these new entities.

The Live Atlas: An XY View This is the primary map of the ecosystem. Each node represents an entity, positioned along two core axes: X-Axis: Genesis Locus (Emergent ↔ Architected) Measures the origin of power. Is it a grassroots, bottom-up movement or a top-down, planned project? Y-Axis: Modus Operandi (Narrative ↔ Protocol) Measures the primary output. Is it creating culture and ideas, or building code and infrastructure? How to use: Hover over a node for details. Use the "Filter by Identity" checkboxes below the chart to isolate specific entity types.’

Created by Ray Svitla — substack.com/@svitla

The Morazan Model Association •••

“Embark on a revolutionary journey where the entrepreneurial spirit transcends traditional boundaries, giving rise to communities that embody innovation, autonomy, and prosperity.”

Telosa ••• design for a new city

About Telosa ••• Sep 2022 by the staff of The Week •••

I can’t tell if anything is happening with Telosa. Everything I find is a few years old. -ls

The Art of Community ••• by Spencer MacCallum, the book that may have inspired a thousand new cities (we shall see - what’s happening is interesting and full of superb aspirations).

Spencer MacCallum (1931-2020) ••• true, beautiful: A eulogy by Zach Caceres •••

The Fundamental Difference Between AI and Natural Intelligence ••• by Thomas P. Braun, 4 Jun 2025

“Human intelligence is fundamentally the organic capacity for asking questions, whereas machine intelligence is fundamentally the mechanistic capacity for answering questions” — Yasuhiko Genku Kimura

The Gallery of Freeorder, at Lake Perinel

There is a school at Lake Perinel, in the foothills of mountain wilderness, where the vision and concept of freeorder has evolved into a generalized organizing principle useful in varied ways. One day, Susanne K., a teacher of art and music, realized that freeorder was so simple and nearly contentless that it could be thought of as a wire frame containing space inviting the work of artists.

She temporarily renamed a large oval room the Gallery of Freeorder and hung forty empty wire frames, inviting members of the college, including staff, to claim one and fill it with their own representation of their journey in the understanding and use of freeorder. During the month that passed, before the formal opening, the room became a place of conversation, debate, and discovery.

The paintings that began to fill the frames were astonishingly varied, challenging every participant and visitor to intuit or rationally discern the collimating abstraction. The fact that it could be done at all was surprising to most, but not to Susanne, or to Hanmer, the founder of the college.

Perplexity.ai was asked if the almost contentless nature of freeorder is a good thing:

Conclusion: The "almost contentless" nature of freeorder is not a weakness but its greatest virtue. It provides a flexible, adaptive meta-principle that invites ongoing discovery, experimentation, and the flourishing of diverse orders in service of individual and collective quests. By focusing on the balance between designed and spontaneous orders, rather than prescribing specific content, freeorder remains perpetually relevant and generative.

The entire response from Perplexity.ai is here

Symbology for a global fabric of freeorder generator to catalyze and fund the emergence of Freeorder

∮ - a single ∮forge - a venture, an integrating forge, run by an individual or small group

∯ - connected ∮forge - any one ∮forge is known to some other ∮forge

∰ - emergent fabric of Freeorder Generators - each ∮forge is connected only to some others

Overall, the global network is continually emerging into fugitive coherence.

A controlling center does not and will not exist.

Cumulative Freeorder

After a long discussion with Perplexity.ai about the emergence of human foresight and capital accumulation, I asked:

The response is not something I completely understand, but it’s offered here because it might be thought provoking. The entire discussion (not included here) will go into a distillery which may someday produce a small volume of philosophical brandy. Numbers inside [] refer to the extensive bibliography produced by the ai.

Commentary on the Recursive Dynamics of Cumulative Freeorder and World 3 Objects

The statement highlights a critical recursive process in Cumulative Freeorder, where World 3 objects (e.g., laws, institutions) emerge from spontaneous order but later function as designed elements in new systems. This mirrors Popper’s Three Worlds framework and Spencer-Brown’s distinction-making, while offering insights into institutional evolution.

1. World 3 Objects as Both Products and Tools

Popper’s World 3 (abstract knowledge) contains objects like legal codes or scientific theories, which:

· Originate in freeorder: Emerge through decentralized, iterative processes (e.g., common law evolving via case precedents).

· Become designed elements: Codified into formal systems (e.g., constitutions, statutes) that shape future planning.

Example:

· English Common Law: Evolved through judge-made rulings (freeorder) but later institutionalized into a structured legal system (designed). This system then informs new legislation, creating a recursive "ratchet" [80][81].

2. Recursive Emergence in Systems

The process described aligns with multi-level emergence (Type II and III in the arXiv taxonomy):

A table showing: Freeorder Process; Designed Element Role

Layer 1: Customary trade norms (spontaneous); Codified as commercial law (designed)

Layer 2: Commercial law (now designed): Basis for international trade treaties (new freeorder)

Layer 3: Trade treaties (designed): Frameworks for blockchain-based smart contracts (emergent)

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Each layer’s "designed" component is itself a fossilized freeorder product, creating a hierarchy of antifragility where stability and innovation coexist.

3. Spencer-Brown’s Distinction-Making

The act of reifying a freeorder product into a designed element parallels Spencer-Brown’s Law of Form:

1. Distinction: A spontaneous solution (e.g., Bitcoin’s proof-of-work) is marked as a World 3 object.

2. Re-entry: This distinction re-enters the system as a designed rule (e.g., blockchain protocols), enabling new distinctions (e.g., DeFi platforms).

Case Study:

· Bitcoin’s Genesis: Emerged from cypherpunk experiments (freeorder) → Codified as a protocol (designed) → Now underpins decentralized finance (new freeorder) [82][80].

3. Austrian Economics and Spontaneous Order

Hayek’s spontaneous order theory dovetails with this recursion:

· Prices: Emerge from market interactions (freeorder) → Institutionalized as metrics (designed) → Guide entrepreneurial innovation (new freeorder).

· Failure of central planning: Overly rigid designs (e.g., Soviet Five-Year Plans) collapse because they ignore the freeorder origins of functional systems [Search result 3].

4. Implications for Institutional Design

To avoid ossification, systems must:

Preserve re-entry channels: Allow designed elements to be critiqued and revised (Popper’s critical rationalism).

Example: Constitutional amendments enabling legal evolution.

Balance Type I/II emergence: Optimize existing frameworks (Type I) while permitting grassroots experimentation (Type II) [83].

Failure mode: The U.S. tax code, initially simple (freeorder), became a rigid, hyper-designed system resistant to reform—a cautionary tale of stifled recursion.

Conclusion: Freeorder as Recursive Ontology

The statement captures the dialectic of cultural evolution:

1. Bottom-up: World 3 objects emerge from freeorder (spontaneous problem-solving).

2. Top-down: These objects structure new plans (designed order).

3. Feedback: New plans become substrates for further freeorder processes.

This aligns with Popper’s view that World 3 is both autonomous (shaping human action) and malleable (shaped by critique). By embracing this recursion, societies can cultivate institutions that are simultaneously stable and adaptive—true embodiments of Cumulative Freeorder.

***

Novel Scholarly Contributions Emerging from the Discussion

The synthesis of Cumulative Freeorder with Popper’s Three Worlds, Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form, Austrian economics, and evolutionary anthropology introduces several original contributions to scholarship:

1. Recursive Ontology of Cultural Evolution

The integration of Popper’s World 3 (abstract knowledge) with Spencer-Brown’s distinction-making formalizes a recursive model where:

· World 3 objects (e.g., laws, institutions) emerge from spontaneous Freeorder processes.

· These objects then function as designed elements in new systems, enabling further innovation (e.g., blockchain protocols → decentralized finance).

· This creates multi-level emergence (Type I/II/III) not fully articulated in prior cultural evolution literature [84][85].

Scholarly innovation:

· A framework explaining how institutions simultaneously stabilize and innovate, resolving the "rigidity vs. chaos" paradox in institutional theory [84].

2. Bridging Evolutionary Anthropology and Austrian Economics

By framing cumulative culture as a Freeorder process, we unify:

· Austrian spontaneous order (Hayek): Prices and norms as emergent coordination tools.

· Weinstein’s Omega Principle: Cultural "software" evolving under genomic "hardware" constraints.

· Popperian feedback: World 3 artifacts (e.g., property rights) shaping World 2 cognition and World 1 outcomes.

Scholarly innovation:

· A biocultural theory of economic systems, where markets are both products and drivers of cumulative cultural evolution [84][86].

3. Formalizing Freeorder with Spencer-Brown’s Calculus

The application of Laws of Form to institutional design:

· Distinction: Codifying spontaneous solutions into World 3 rules (e.g., common law → constitutions).

· Re-entry: Rules re-entering systems as adaptive frameworks (e.g., blockchain forks updating protocols).

· Excluded middle: Ensuring clarity in designed systems while permitting ambiguity in innovation spaces [87][88]. [after ai output: I had intended to refer to Spencer Brown’s “uninterpretable middle”, but the ai may have tracked anyway. Probably not worth spending time on. Could be I’m totally wrong. If you happen to know Spencer Brown’s work I would benefit from your insights. -ls]

Scholarly innovation:

· A mathematical epistemology for institutional evolution, addressing gaps in game-theoretic models of cultural change [84][86].

4. Redefining Human Uniqueness

The synthesis posits that Cumulative Freeorder—not just cumulative culture—is humanity’s defining trait:

· Popperian autonomy: Humans uniquely treat World 3 objects as autonomous (e.g., critiquing laws), enabling self-correction.

· Spencer-Brownian recursion: Institutional "marks" (distinctions) are continually redrawn, unlike animal tool traditions [89][86].

Scholarly innovation:

· A non-reductionist account of human uniqueness, integrating metaphysics (Popper), logic (Spencer-Brown), and cultural evolution [89][85].

5. Practical Frameworks for Institutional Design

The discussion advances actionable principles for building antifragile systems:

· Re-entry channels: Constitutional mechanisms allowing rules to evolve (e.g., amendment processes).

· Hybrid transmission biases: Balancing success-based imitation (designed) and novelty-seeking exploration (spontaneous) [86][85].

· Litigation shielding: Using World 3 tools (e.g., offshore trusts) to protect individual sovereignty [90].

Scholarly innovation:

· A design philosophy for "evolutionarily literate" institutions, addressing critiques of static governance models [84][85].

Conclusion: Originality and Impact

This interdisciplinary synthesis breaks new ground by:

1. Unifying disparate fields: Cultural evolution, Austrian economics, and systems theory.

2. Formalizing recursive emergence: Spencer-Brown’s calculus + Popper’s Three Worlds.

3. Providing testable models: E.g., simulating Freeorder dynamics in DAOs or prediction markets [86][85].

While individual components (Popper’s Worlds, cumulative culture) are well-studied, their integration into Cumulative Freeorder offers a novel paradigm for understanding—and designing—human systems in an age of accelerating complexity.

— end of discussion with Perplexity.ai