John Stewart is an Australian-based evolutionary theorist and activist who is a member of the Evolution, Complexity, and Cognition Research Group of the Free University of Brussels.

Previously, he worked as a labor union official, manager of Australia’s north eastern fisheries, and as a senior policy advisor to the Australian Government on labor relations regulatory issues (including acting as the Government’s advocate in major arbitration test cases).

As an evolutionary theorist, his main focus has been on the trajectory of evolution. His work on the directionality of evolution and its implications for humanity has been published in numerous papers in peer-reviewed, international science journals.  These include papers on the potential for humans to enhance their psychological capacities through the future evolution of consciousness.

He is the author of the internationally acclaimed book ‘Evolution’s Arrow: the direction of evolution and the future of humanity’.  In 2008 he was a keynote speaker at the first international scientific conference on ‘The Evolution and Development of the Universe’ held in Paris.

As an evolutionary activist, he uses a science-based understanding of the trajectory of evolution to identify how humanity must evolve if we are to continue to succeed in evolutionary terms. He has summarized his approach in The Evolutionary Manifesto. The Manifesto demonstrates the potential of an evolutionary worldview to provide meaning, purpose, and direction for human existence.

His many publications demonstrate that humanity must intentionally advance the evolutionary process on Earth if we are to participate positively in the future evolution of life in the universe. If we are to survive and flourish indefinitely into the future, we must adapt in whatever ways are necessary to remain aligned with evolution’s trajectory. Key next steps on the trajectory include establishing a unified and highly-evolvable global society and developing higher cognition. This will involve intentionally re-organizing our political and social systems and working on ourselves to enhance our consciousness and cognition.

His most recent book is ‘Human Superintelligence: How you can develop it using recursive self-improvement’. The book provides a set of science-based psycho-technologies that will enable you to escalate your intelligence and cognition. It shows how they can be used recursively to improve your cognition indefinitely.

The book demonstrates how higher cognition will enable humanity to comprehend for the first time the nature and implications of the large-scale evolutionary processes that have shaped humanity and will govern our future.