Daisyworld
June 5th, 2022

Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.

  • Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.

  • Joanna R. Macy
Daisyworld Homeostasis
Daisyworld Homeostasis

**Daisyworld exists to enable effective regeneering of biogeophysical, psychosocial and spiritual realities. We are a motley crew of organisers, designers, scientists, engineers, artists. **

A primary focus for us and a crucial initiative that acts as a keystone for many others is to enable a surface-based solar radiation management system as described by MEER.org here. The MEER Reflection strategy seems crazy at first - we need to cover 3% of Earth’s surface in mirror arrays - but sit with it a moment and consider the context.

The world is realising that due to our lack of climate action solar radiation management is absolutely essential in order to avoid climate breakdown. If we do not take this task into our own hands - as a decentralised sense-making hivemind - our future will be decided for us and the dangers are significant.

Surface-based solar radiation management is clearly the most effective geoengineering approach proposed. The strategy meets material, economic and time constraints. It would be durable and produce compounding regenerative synergies at micro and macro scales.

Our role is to listen and act; sense and respond; accept our precarious context in human history, and commit to possibility. Whatever that may mean, we will see. Hopefully, Daisyworld can play a role in addressing the metacrisis.

Daisyworld is expressly focused on what is possible to create rather than “solving” existing problems. Through imagining possible futures islands of coherence emerge, and then archipelagos of pluralism.

Daisyworld is inspired by Gaian processors

Gaia theory describes Earth’s biosphere as a product of all organisms interacting with their inorganic surroundings. Gaia is a synergistic and self-regulating complex system tending towards optimal conditions for life.

The great services generated by our Gaian system are undeniably awesome. Until recently, sapiens have played a key role in ensuring harmony across the multitude of ecosystems and bio-regions we inhabit. However, today our species collectively stands at odds with life. We are fowling our nest and destroying our children's futures. Or more accurately a small percentage of the human population is controlling flows of fossilised energy and the habits of billions.

There are plenty of sceptics who dismiss Gaia theory as being pseudoscientific, claiming that natural selection cannot possibly work at the biosphere level. There are many reasons why traditional evolutionary biology disapprove of Gaia theory. As I understand, Gaia theory describes such a vast complex system - literally every dynamic on Earth - that it cannot be subject to isolation and reductive analysis. It is an intuitive system detectable by the inner wisdom in all of us, and serious scientists hate that idea.

I sense a simple response, that would no doubt be considered naïve, to this criticism is to say “look in the mirror.” We are supposedly the ‘Anthro-’ in Anthropocene. Human beings are the most immense geological force present on this planet today, and, we are self-aware biological agents born from the same evolutionary history as the more-than-human world. For better or worse, we shape and affect every nook and cranny; every habitat and every ecosystem.

Our species has for time immemorial has not only been a Gaian ally but a Gaian element. Indigenous perspectives and practices work in partnership with the land as part of the land. Many indigenous cultures are fighting for survival, and all of us who have lost our indigenous heritage, can only really survive The Great Simplification - as ecological-systems theorist Nate Hagen calls it - if we make the regeneration of these living cultures paramount. Not only for their inherent right to exist, but also to learn from, collaborate with, celebrate, and integrate their wisdom into the future stories that will enable regenerative transformation. Because indigenous thinking can indeed save the world.

Noam Chomsky issued, once again, a warning to humanity at the American Solar Energy Society's 51st Annual Conference, June 21, 2022, he said,

We are at a unique moment in human history. Decisions that must be made right now will determine the course of future history, which is very much in doubt. There is a narrow window in which we must implement measures to avert cataclysmic destruction of the environment. Measures that are quite feasible…

What is currently destroying our future is not human nature or inclination, it is the dominant story . Stories change constantly and it is time to revise the metanarratives that have led us astray. Fortunately, cryptoeconomics is rapidly generating legitimate alternatives to traditional power structures, and regenerative cryptoeconomics is enabling win-win-win mechanisms for individuals, communities and the commons.

Daisyworld as a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) aims to play a role in regenerating our world. We aim to generate collective imaginations of possible futures and we aim to design funding mechanisms to determine and enable effective regeneering.

Vision

Daisyworld cultivates two things that act in synergy:

  1. An environment for divergent exploration and dialogue to produce collective manifestations of possible futures.

  2. A roundtable of convergence and coordination design using decentralised and polycentric governance systems.

Mission

Generate a maximally effective climate emergency response that is holistic and autopoietic.

Core value proposition:

Decentralising the deployment of effective regeneering initiatives in order to generate maximal beneficial outcomes (MBOs) is the purpose of Daisyworlds existence. This is a vision we can all pursue according to our own unique situations, preferences, motivations and passions.

Regeneering MBOs incorporates subjective and objective accounts of reality. Regeneering is about generating and distributing the eight forms of capital as described by Appleseed Permaculture.

MBOs are primarily determined using Warm Data, which is described as transcontextual information. Traditional data, in contrast, describes only the parts of a system, while Warm Data describes interplay in context. Enabling regeneering initiatives such as MEER.org’s surfaced based solar radiation management strategy involves dramatically altering massive amounts of landscapes. Warm Data will enable an understanding of the affected communities’ perspectives, including objections, support and innovations.

Daisyworld’s fundamental belief is that cultivating relationships is paramount in generating an effective regenerative transformation. Daisyworld plans to enable a story-sharing initiative called Mycelium Network Dialogue. Sharing our stories in a safe and respectful atmosphere symbiosis naturally emerges, creating a community of belonging. These conversations will catalyse grassroots support and innovation in regeneering planetary systems.

Daisyworld is but one of many impact DAOs determined to ensure planetary homeostasis.

Values

  • Believing in a vital and beautiful future

  • Antifragile Systems Thinking

  • Polycentric Pluralism

  • Fractal Sovereignty

  • The Small Group as a Unit of Transformation

  • Interbeing - belonging

  • Imagination - Liminal Possibility Questing

  • Community

  • Intuitive Design

  • Beauty + Art + Fun

  • Public Goods

Daisyworlds Four Dimensions

1) Funding - Receptor

2) Distribution - Effector

  • Collectively designed funding distribution mechanisms enabling effective regeneering

3) Token - Petals (PTLS)

  • Meaningful money energetically tied to regenerative activities.

4) Mycelium Network Dialogue (MND)

  • MND is a story-sharing technique enabled by web3 data sovereignty

  • MND is a generative substrate for collective intelligence and wisdom.

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The Power of Group Pertinence is not to be underrated
The Power of Group Pertinence is not to be underrated

The Anthropocene is like a wise old bird stuck in a neo-liberal cage, Daisyworld aims to set it free.

This article is a work in progress and is subject to revision. Last revised 12-July-2022.


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