The metacrisis is fundamentally a problem of fragmented consciousness that optimizes isolated metrics and individual parts without considering effects on the whole system, analogous to cancer cells that maximize their own growth at the expense of the organism they inhabit, which eventually leads to self-termination
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Daniel SchottenbergerEvidence Quote
“a cancer cell will optimize itself at the expense of things around it and in doing so it actually is on a self terminating curve because it ends up killing the host and then killing itself”
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