Thanks Michael but DO refer to what I asked Brent, please. From my observations, it appears that the paradigm we’re in has groomed clock thinkers and doers — we truly cannot solve our biggest problems with the same ‘clock’ logic used to create them. I’m drafting some articles to try to explain this … taking quite awhile as I’m also trying to address cognitive dissonance …

Referencing your ‘clock’ point about growth:

“Karl Popper, the great philosopher of science, once divided the world into two categories: clocks and clouds. Clocks are neat, orderly systems that can be solved through reduction; clouds are an epistemic mess, “highly irregular, disorderly, and more or less unpredictable.”

The mistake ( esp of modern science) is to pretend that everything is a clock, which is why we get seduced again and again by the false promises … We want to believe we will understand nature if we find the exact right tool to cut its joints. But that approach is doomed to failure. We live in a universe not of clocks but of clouds.

fyi, the only paradigm humanity has ever known is ‘of clouds’ …