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  • At least one hour per month, contemplate the big picture.
  • At least one hour per month, think about how you are investigating a question for which you'd like to figure out the answer.
  • At least once per month share your work-in-progress through econet channels such as this wiki.

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Econaut Investigatory question Deepest value Relationship with truth
Bugajev, Andrej Who am I? What is the relationship between self-identity, the meaning of life, and the right way to live? love for oneself: inner harmony between self-identity, the meaning of life and the right way to live. Truth as the choice which is in harmony with me.
de Vries, Ben Where to obtain capital for my desalinization invention? How can we and all people get better access to funding in a necessarily capitalist context? Reciprocation
Friedman, Daniel What are the enabling conditions for symbolic coherence? Interaction Truth as actual reality.
Harland, John How do you augment dynamical systems theory to have a sharper physics or metaphysics? Being a respected example in favoring other people's needs above my own compulsions to stimulate and ruminate. The well-being, mental and physical health, of my family and people I love. The mystery of sentience, the subjective experience of life. Truth as a difficult path
Kulikauskas, Andrius What is a science of love and how does it ground a culture based on the investigatory mind, where we live by investigating, thus by absolute truth? Living by truth Truth as absolute view
Macurdy, Steph Where is there structure in randomness? To witness genius and beauty in the Universe. So long as I hold before me the ideal of an absolute observer, of a truth in the absence of any view point, I can only see my situation of being as a source of error. But once I acknowledge this situation and my own finitude within it, then I can see myself as the starting point of all truth.
Northrop, Jere How does Nature think?, How do simple organisms make sophisticated decisions continuously? Goldilocks Maximum Entropy Principle. Intuitive aesthetic judgement of what is about right to do the best you can and do no harm. Truth as aesthetic principle. Truth as a guiding principle of compassionate cooperation within the constraints of evidence.
Pahl, Bill What kind of universe do we live in? To be as alive as I can be Truth as perspective in time and space
van Loo, Montijn Is the act of will (quantum nudger of chance) the act of faith (trust fueled by energy from beyond)? Do all of our moral disagreements arise from our aesthetic disagreements or our narrative disagreements? How can we test this practically? Our will to true beauty (beauty of us and beauty of truth) Truth as ego judger.