{"id":4422,"date":"2024-10-02T02:34:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T02:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humansuperintelligencebook.com\/?page_id=4422"},"modified":"2025-01-02T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T08:58:07","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/humansuperintelligencebook.com\/about-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"About the book"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4422\" class=\"elementor elementor-4422\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9bd20f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e9bd20f\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b0e93c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5b0e93c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-addebc9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"addebc9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What the book delivers:<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a99e2f7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a99e2f7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4746 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/humansuperintelligencebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Stairway-Best-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/humansuperintelligencebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Stairway-Best-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/humansuperintelligencebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Stairway-Best.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><\/p><p>Whatever your goals, enhanced cognition will help you achieve them. It will enable you to develop better strategies for getting what you want.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The same applies to humanity in general.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><ul><li>The spread of higher cognition will change everything. It will generate a Second Enlightenment and a genuine science of complexity. A new kind of human being will enter history and evolution.<\/li><\/ul><p>This book provides science-based psychotechnologies that can escalate your intelligence and cognition. It shows how to use them recursively to improve your cognition indefinitely.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><ul><li>The psychotechnologies will enable you to enhance your thinking, then use your improved cognition to enhance your thinking further, then use this to produce further improvements, and so on, open-endedly.<\/li><\/ul><p>Key enabling psychotechnologies provided by the book scaffold an ability to \u2018stand outside\u2019 your thinking and \u2018see\u2019 it as \u2018object\u2019.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><ul><li>This critical capacity will enable you to \u2018see\u2019 and evaluate the thinking strategies that you now use.<\/li><li>Whenever they fail, you can identify the reasons and remedy the deficiencies.<\/li><li>The book shows you how to do the same for the hierarchy of meta-thinking strategies you use to develop your thinking strategies.<\/li><\/ul><p>As part of the self-scaffolding process, you will actively seek opportunities to test and improve your cognitive strategies.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><ul><li>Finding a flaw in your thinking or meta-thinking strategies provides you with an invaluable opportunity to enhance your cognitive capacity.<\/li><\/ul><p>The capacity to \u2018stand outside\u2019 your thoughts and feelings is invaluable for escaping and remedying maladaptive thinking. However, as the book shows, it can also be used to escape maladaptive emotional responses and conditioning that may otherwise sabotage achieving your goals.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The psychotechnologies also include methods to scaffold metasystemic cognition \u2013 a capacity to build mental models of complex phenomena.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><ul><li>This higher cognition will give you the ability to comprehend and manipulate complex circumstances.<\/li><\/ul><p>The spread of metasystemic cognition is essential if human civilization is to survive the complex existential threats we face. These challenges cannot be solved by the cognition that underpins mainstream science and spread during the First Enlightenment.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><ul><li>This cognition is largely limited to developing mechanistic, reductionist models. They are too simple to model complex phenomena and produce a genuine science of complexity.<\/li><li>The spread of metasystemic cognition will drive a Second Enlightenment. It will enable a new kind of science that can solve the complex challenges that threaten us.<\/li><\/ul><p>The book demonstrates how higher cognition will enable humanity to comprehend for the first time the larger-scale evolutionary processes that have shaped humanity and will determine our future.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><ul><li>Significantly, metasystemic cognition will enable you to see that evolution has a trajectory that includes a critical role for humanity, individually as well as collectively.<\/li><\/ul><p>Fulfilling your evolutionary role has the potential to provide a life that is meaningful and purposeful in a much larger scheme of things.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c7af01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9c7af01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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