Resurrecting Civility Podcast Live (Introduction)

This video introduces a podcast series (a Zoom conversation, broadcast live to YouTube) focused on the creation of a new science of computational politics. That science emerges from the creation of a high-information-flow network of rich communities. In a rich community, information drawn from (optimally) a full range of experience about the world by members united in a common worldview is parallel processed in communities that become richer through growth in ordered causal contact with the world as they progress. As Alasdair MacIntyre has taught us, the incommensurable differences that emerge between such communities can be overcome through information exchange that preserves such causal contact, with the historical record of such encounters between rival traditions constituting a new source of data for a new master science. This new science fills the role of Aristotelian politics, but enriched by all that we have since learned about the sciences generally and about computational science most recently. Because such a science aims at a fully integrated theoretical and practical account of the world, it requires not only new forms of communication among disciplines, but more fundamentally new forms of social arrangements where the emerging implications of thus-far-successful world views are lived out in communities whose understanding and values these worldviews express. This discussion will take a medium-resolution pass at this whole new direction for human self-understanding and organization, including how to begin leveraging available technologies for setting up a high-information-flow network of rich communities and begin to generate data from it.