See also Registry for people who aren't econet investigators.
Econet investigators make three commitments:
- 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.
Econauts
Our Investigators
| Econaut | Investigatory question | Deepest value | Relationship with truth |
| Buchanan, Ryan | How do subtle effects, higher order effects, such as moods, influence our lives? | Specificity | Truth as a subjectively beautiful theory that gives meaning to the established facts of the world. |
| Cakir, Enes | What is the link between creativity and pathology? | Openness to be able to be transformed through the reality of experience, the possibilities that there is something new to learn from everybody and from every subject. |
| 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 | How, and from where, do growth and order emerge? What is the best construction of a monetary system for representing energy? | 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. |