Category: Seeing Forever

Civilisational Wealth, Economy 2.0, Resistance, Seeing Forever

Insight economics

Steve Kelsey 5 mins read

I have been working on this blog for a few months now, exploring new concepts for economics. On the journey I have had a few insights that, as time has gone by, have acquired greater power to explain how our economy really works and direct us towards better models. In this short blog I am going to summarise these key insights and how they interact.

1. A Physics based economics

There is a simple and powerful way to define wealth in physical term. Wealth is intelligence applied to base matter. It is measured by the energy used to embed intelligence in base matter. Viewed through this model we can see the fundamental role energy has in building our economy and civilisation. read more

Civilisational Wealth, Seeing Forever

The Cascade

Steve Kelsey 2 mins read

We live in the cascade. It has given us everything, civilisation, wealth, knowledge, health and long lives. The cascade is all around us and yet we hardly notice it as it makes our lives better.

So what is the cascade? It is the flow of intelligence in the world. It isn’t something we own, all species have intelligence to a greater or lesser extent, but in us it is particularly strong, the reason we survive and thrive.

We learnt to embed intelligence in base matter and the result was civilisation, technology, the ability to reach beyond our world. We learnt how to pass intelligence to the generations to come and the result was accelerating growth. The cascade taught us how to make matter that stores thought, plays music, captures sunshine and shines it into living rooms on the far side of the world. And now we are learning how to make matter that thinks, matter that can join us in the cascade. read more