Enlightenment by command

Summary

Complexity thinker Dave Snowden backs Lene Rachel Andersen’s critique of the Inner Development Goals for “trying to cram people into a predefined mould.” Inner-change models, he argues, predate our understanding of consciousness as “a distributed function involving the brain, the body, the familiar narratives of society and the physical world”. So change means stimulating a system “to allow new patterns to emerge.”

Rationale

Dave, whom we interviewed, objects to the Inner Development Goals much as we grew wary of ‘shift’: inner and outer are entangled, so dispositions aren’t “software in the head”.