Introduction

We have included John Stewart's new book review of Human Superintelligence because it describes how to develop the critical Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking skill set. This new thinking and analysis process is also crucial to our climate change analysis work at Job One, and we want as many other people to learn it as soon as possible.

If our leaders and politicians learned it, they would be far better able to make wiser decisions about the climate change emergency and the many other world problems involving complex adaptive systems.

The Human Superintelligence book review

I just finished reading a new book by John Stewart called Human Superintelligence: How you can develop it using recursive self-improvement.

The subtitle definitely does not do this book’s comprehensiveness justice.

Human Superintelligence is a bold throw down and challenge to every Mensa member, polymath, valedictorian, salutatorian, or autodidact worldwide looking for their next big intellectual challenge. But, before I share my experience of this book and its techniques, a few words should be said about the author. 

John Stewart is a well-published evolutionary theorist. His work on the principles of progressive evolution has significantly advanced original thinking about the most profound principles of evolution. His publications on Progressive Evolution are earning him the underground nickname of “the new Darwin of the 21st Century.”

At this point, you may wonder what would cause or even qualify an evolutionary theorist to write a book on human superintelligence. The answer comes from the discovery that to understand and model the multiple, overlaying complex adaptive systems that create evolution and reveal the deeper framework principles of Progressive Evolution, one first has to be able to model and analyze complex adaptive processes at what could only be called a new level of human superintelligence.

In other words, John Stewart had to first develop human superintelligence within himself to model and discover the most profound principles of Progressive Evolution. Additionally, after years of trying to teach progressive evolution principles to others and failing consistently, it became clear to Stewart that his students also had to develop superintelligence before they could effectively understand Progressive Evolution and, more importantly, the many complex adaptive systems currently determining the fate of human civilization (climate change, politics, economics, ecology, etc.).

Stewart’s new book Human SuperIntelligence begins with a beautiful and vulnerable narrative of how he developed superintelligence over his lifetime and understood how to develop human superintelligence in others. In the book's later sections, Stewart shares the many techniques one must diligently practice to develop superintelligence within oneself. 

Stewart admits he is autistic, and his writing style can occasionally be repetitive and nonlinear. But most often, he brilliantly and convincingly argues that the processes of developing superintelligence only partially surrender to traditional linear thinking and transcend being understood using only the past's rational, analytical thinking methodologies.

This book is designed for the highly motivated who want to reach their fullest intellectual potential. It is also far from a light read. To achieve something that only a few other people have gained during their lifetimes, the reader must put in consistent effort and learn a breakthrough new thinking methodology that far transcends the rational, analytical thinking for the First Enlightenment and the birth of science. 

This new methodology is called Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking. It is derived from the work of a former Harvard professor, Otto Laske. Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking is very complex.  It is so complex that one must be at least 27 years old to do it effectively. (Under 27, one does not have enough synaptic brain connections to do this kind of high-level modeling and processing.)

For the first time, Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking allows humanity to model complex adaptive systems at a level that far exceeds the capabilities and capacities of rational, analytical thinking. Using the new Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking, you can “see” a single, continually transforming, and evolving moment (or series of moments) from 28 unique and powerful perspectives. The difference between the old rational, analytical thinking versus the new Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking can be described as being able to see the details and nuances of the relationships, processes, contexts, and transformations of the world at a 4,200 computer screen dpi resolution when previously you could only see the world at a computer 420 dpi screen resolution.

Unfortunately, Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking is not the only new skill you must learn to develop human superintelligence. You will also need to become skillful in turning your internal subjective thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and ideas into external objects you can view dispassionately and objectively. Stewart says this objectification of internalized thoughts and feelings ability is one of the most challenging skills you must acquire to develop human superintelligence. 

Making your subjective internal thoughts become like exterior objects that can be quickly reviewed and manipulated is not an entirely new skill. Meditators who have practiced for years can sometimes do this with their thoughts and emotions. Additionally, some lucky individuals who have reached Harvard professor Robert Keegan's fourth or fifth highest stages of social-emotional development have developed the skill naturally.

In summary

To develop your superintelligence, one will have to:

1. 1. Diligently study the heavy lift of the 28 dialectical perspectives described in intricate and nuanced detail by Otto Laske in his new three-book series, Advanced Systems Level Problem-solving. Approaching real-world complexity with dialectical thinking. Once you have mastered that, you have at least the foundation of Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking.
   2. Be able to treat your thoughts and emotions objectively. And,
   3. Listen to Stewart's many tips in his life story and detailed descriptions of what one must go through and do to succeed.

There are also a few foundational skills that can be very helpful once one has developed superintelligence and is proficient in the new Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking. The paradox around these skills is that if you have them now, you will have to suspend these analysis approaches, at least temporarily, to master Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking. This is because dialectical meta-systemic thinking is so different and far transcends them when it comes to the modeling and analysis of complex adaptive systems. 

Don't worry if you don't have all the foundational skills now. These skills should be easier to develop after you have achieved superintelligence.

Those foundational skills are:

1. 1. Classic logic.
   2. Rational, analytical thinking,
   3. System thinking, and 
   4. Statical analysis.

I can attest that this book will deliver on its big promises, but only if you put in the intense intellectual effort, practice wisely, and persist despite slowly increasing success for most people. You will develop superintelligence if you do what he recommends and bring a significant level of your intellectual bandwidth to the challenge.

For those who succeed, the rewards are super-abundant wherever understanding and solving problems that involve the world’s many complex adaptive systems is required. Superintelligence is particularly useful in the humanities, where its Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking skills will produce abundant beneficial new research results.

By mastering the superintelligence skill subset of Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking, you can write your career ticket worldwide. Your peers will wonder how you know what you know and how you solve problems with new solutions that nobody previously had any idea how to find. Using your developed superintelligence, you will begin to stand out to others in the know, like Matt Damon stood out in the movie “Good Will Hunting.”

Towards the end of Stewart’s empowering book, he describes what else naturally happens to you after you acquire human superintelligence. That description is a beautiful and inspiring invitation to gifted individuals worldwide to experience and help create a superintelligent human future and a rich and beneficial Second Enlightenment era for humanity.

In conclusion, if you know someone who is gifted (or at least thinks they are), please forward this book review to them. Challenge them to move beyond the First Enlightenment rational, analytical thinking to the new Second Enlightenment Dialectical Meta-systemic Thinking, the perfect thinking methodology for managing the complex adaptive systems of today and the rapidly escalating challenges facing humanity’s future.

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Lawrence Wollersheim wrote this book review and uses the principles and tools of Stewart’s Human Super Intelligence daily. He is a lead research analyst at the Universe Institute and the Job One for Humanity think tanks.