Welcome to another Triple AI Podcast episode, where we connect with some of the most beautiful minds in the world and discuss ways we can create a Mindful and Smart Civilisation, one with planetary awareness. In this episode, we connect with Jeremy Lent and discuss one of his books, “The Web of Meaning”, and explore his integrative worldview and ways accessing universal wisdom can become more popular in the tech industry.
Who is Jeremy Lent?
Jeremy Lent, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilisation’s existential crisis and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. His award-winning books, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning and The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, tracing the historical underpinnings and flaws of the dominant worldview and offer a foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a flourishing future. He has written extensively about the vision of, and pathways toward, ecological civilisation and is the founder of the global online community The Deep Transformation Network.
The Way Forward: Integration
In the Web of Meaning, Lent argues that we can build an alternative society that leads to sustainability and abundance for all if we take an integrative and systemic approach to science and ancient wisdom and bring the best of both domains together. This is in line with our approach in Triple AI Therapeutic, where we use the ancient wisdom of the conference of the birds and the seven valleys of love to transform the current technocentric paradigm towards people-centricity, eventually leading to building Mindful Smart Cities. Indeed, this is a journey where our worldviews and associated identities undergo a profound transformation. Lent takes the reader into these uncharted territories in the Web of Meaning. From exploring how the Taoists approach reality to the scientific revolution and paradigm, the book shows how our sense of self has changed as we moved further away from what Lent calls the “Original AI” or Animate Intelligence towards a mechanic worldview.
Billions of years before the emergence of the Internet and personal computers, ancient bacteria learned how to control their inner states to survive. Similarly, cells seem to know how to repair themselves and keep the organism healthy. The message of Lent is that there is more to what constitutes intelligence. Therefore, the modern world should integrate ancient wisdom if it seeks a meaningful evolution.
“Our modern society has been consciously designed to sabotage our well-being, and how, by learning and applying life’s own principles, we can build an alternative.”
