Human Superintelligence: How you can develop it using recursive self-improvement

There are many books and articles that outline findings made by complexity science. But there are almost none that identify how you can develop the thinking that was used to produce those findings. None reveal how individuals can develop the higher cognition that will be necessary if they are to contribute to the emergence of a genuine science of complexity. In contrast, this book sets out specifically to provide methods and practices for developing higher cognition. The book argues that the ability to construct and utilize mental models of complex phenomena is essential if humanity is to overcome the existential challenges that currently threaten the survival of human civilization on Earth. Furthermore, it argues that this metasystemic cognition is essential for the development of a genuine science of complexity – the analytical/rational cognition that underpins current mainstream science is largely limited to generating only mechanistic reductions of complex phenomena. Our current analytical/rational cognition has been very effective for driving the development of mechanistic technology and reductionist science. But it is not fit for the purpose of enabling us to manage the complex challenges that increasingly beset us individually and collectively. The book recognises that most potential readers are likely to be highly skeptical about its claims to enable the scaffolding of metasystemic cognition. The website for the book attempts to dispel this skepticism by making the first chapter of the book freely available. The chapter is designed to evoke the realization that the methods detailed by the book are plausible, and that currently almost no one uses the methods systematically, despite their enormous potential.