Critical conversations for the future of human civilization.
The Consilience Project publishes novel research at the leading edges of global risk mitigation, governance design and culture. Our content explores the key challenges and existential threats facing humanity, and the underlying problems with current approaches for addressing them. We outline how our social systems and institutions need to be redesigned if free, open, non-authoritarian societies are to survive.
Our Context
At no other point in history has humanity faced such a wide range of novel catastrophic risks. Our civilization has never been more vast, complicated, and fragile. This systemic fragility is exacerbated by new technologies, geopolitical instability, an ecological crisis and a reliance on global economic supply chains. These interlocking, interrelated problems are known collectively as the metacrisis. The Consilience Project’s primary aim is to clarify and reveal the nature of the metacrisis to enable comprehensive solutions to global problems. Our work recognizes the interconnectedness of humanity’s challenges: any solution must factor the underlying drivers of each one.
Our Project
We publish research and analysis to help guide decision-makers and leaders towards the critical paths necessary to address the unique challenges of our time. The content published here is for any individual, group or institution trying to innovate around global coordination challenges, catastrophic risks and social technologies.
The Consilience Project is a publication of the Civilization Research Institute (CRI), a charitable think tank focused on reducing systemic fragility and advancing new forms of governance and coordination. CRI seeks to inform the next era of human collaboration and collective intelligence to ensure human and ecological thriving.
Our Team
The Consilience Project consists of a core team of passionate people from a wide range of disciplines.
Daniel Schmachtenberger
Project Strategy Social philosophy, collective intelligence, risk mitigation.
Samo Burja
Geopolitical Intelligence Founder, Bismarck Analysis, Research Fellow, Long Now Foundation.
Zak Stein EdD
Psychometrics & Education Expert in psychology and philosophy, previous Co-Founder at Lectica Inc.
Jess Webb
Social Network Intelligence, Founder, Aizle Analytics, Former All Source Intelligence, JSOC, NSWDG.
Ben Landau-Taylor
Economic Intelligence Senior Researcher at Bismarck Analysis, focus on industrial economics.
Thomas Ermacora
Future-Oriented Design Award-winning urbanist, architect, and futurist, Skoll Fellow, Fellow at Singularity Institute.
Editorial & Policy Public policy, defence & security, neuroscience, art. Former UK Government, Cambridge Fellow.
Christopher Eddy
Philosophy & Social Theory Governance, catastrophic risk, humane tech, cognitive science, logic, metaphysics
Deepa Purushothaman
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Author, speaker, and researcher on systemic racism and the advancement of women of color in corporate America.
Tristan Harris
Technology Ethics Co-Founder at the Center for Humane Technology. Technology ethicist, philosopher, systems thinker.
Nate Hagens PhD
Natural Resource Economics and Risk Focuses on the interrelationship between debt-based financial markets and natural resources.
R.P. Eddy
Intelligence & National Security CEO of Ergo, Fmr Director at the White House National Security Council, Senior Diplomat. Economics, natl. security and geo-politics. Investor. Best selling author.
Tyson Yunkaporta PhD
Cultural Research Lecturer and Author on Indigenous Knowledge, academic, researcher, educator, art critic.
Peter Sforza
Geospatial Intelligence Analyst Director, Center for Geospatial Information Technology. Complex systems, resilience, regenerative systems.
Sanjiv Sidhu
Business & Supply Chain Intelligence Cofounder and Chair of 09 Solutions. Supply chain management, artificial intelligence.
Dan Shalmon PhD
National Security Policy Research experience employing qualitative and quantitative methods for clients in national security, education and public policy.
Liv Boeree
Game Theory & Existential Risk Science Broadcaster, Astrophysics, game theory, existential risk.
Jamie Wheal
Cultural Architecture Executive Director of the Flow Genome Project and Co-Author of the Global Bestseller Stealing Fire.
Evelyn Gosnell
Behavioral Economics Applies behavioral economics insights in product design, with a focus on technology.
Jim Rutt
Complexity and Technology Chairman, Santa Fe Institute. Former CEO of Network solutions. Complexity science, politics, economics.
Adam Robinson
Market Intelligence President at Robinson Global Strategies, Founder at Princeton Review, Chess Master, Top Financial Advisor.
Rob Schuham
Co-Founder of Undercurrent, COMMON, and Fearless; former Chief Digital Advisor, Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.
Directed product strategy across Apple Media Divisions.
John Mattison MD
Medical Strategy Former Chief Medical Information Officer and Associate CMO at Kaiser Permanente.
Justin Rosenstein
Technology and Governance Co-founder of Asana, programmer of software, organizations, cultures, & systems in service of love. Co-Founder, One Project.
Tomas Bjorkman
Financial Intelligence Founder, Investment Banking Partners AB, Chairman, EFG Investment Bank. Member, Club of Rome.
Raj Vaswani
Technology & Data Innovation, product development, and product management. Data science, IoT, global utilities, information technology.
Nora Bateson
Complex Systems Director of research at the Bateson Institute, transcontextual research, in ecology, economy, social change, health, education, and art.
Alex Gladstein
Open Societies Chief Strategy Officer at Human Rights Foundation. Faculty at Singularity University. Advisor at Blockchain Capital.
Michael Slaby
Digital Strategy CTO & CIO Obama campaign. Chief strategist, Harmony Labs. Technology, politics, and impact strategies.
Gilbert Morris
Professor, Financial Centre Expert, Economist, Diplomat, Historian, Author.
John Robb
Military Intelligence Air Force, Special Ops, Military Intelligence. Expertise in counterterrorism and unconventional warfare.
Molly Maloof MD
Medicine & Biosciences Integrative physician and medical researcher in the areas of longevity and human potential.
Jordan Hall JD
Strategic Intelligence
Founder at DivX, Founder of Game B,trustee, Santa Fe Institute.
Peter Demitry MD
Research & Strategy Ret. Colonel, Associate Surgeon General of the US Air Force, fighter pilot. Director of NFIM.
Michel Bauwens
Peer-to-Peer Social Dynamics & Technology Founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives, and the Peer-to-Peer Cooperative.
Jeffrey Ladish
Security Research Cybersecurity and biosecurity; Existential risk expert.
Andrew Huberman PhD
Neuroscience Tenured Professor of Neurology at Stanford Medical School; brain dev., brain plasticity, and neural regeneration.
Phoebe Tickell
Decentralization & Democratic Practice Decentralization, distributed governance, horizontal practices. Collaborative and transparent decision-making and financing.
Kunal Sood
Impact Entrepreneur XFellow, CEO of #WeThePlanet, impact entrepreneur, disruptive innovator & curator.
Jamie Daves
Media Strategy
Founder Current TV, Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Investor.
Kyle Gresham PhD
Materials Science
Ret. Colonel, Director of US Air Force Research, nanotech, bioweapons containment.
Greg Thomas
Cultural Intelligence CEO Jazz Leadership Project, Senior Fellow at Institute for Cultural Evolution, author, educator.
Jenny Stefanotti
Design thinking Founder, Dent. Public policy, philanthropy, design, technology, behavioral economics, design methodology, and venture capital.
Bill Twist
Environmental Law Co-Founder of Pachamama, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.
Eric Mathur PhD
Biosciences Senior scientist at the Human Genome Project; leader in molecular biology.
David Fuller
Journalism & Media Channel 4 News (UK), BBC Newsnight, Guardian, Buzzfeed. Founder, Rebel Wisdom.
Marc Collins Chen
Future of Cities Founder, Board Member, and former CEO of Oceanix: Sustainable Floating Cities. Former Minister of Tourism for French Polynesia.
Isaac Lee
Media Former Chief Content Officer of Univision and Televisa.
John Vervaeke PhD
Cognitive Psychology and Science Professor of cognitive psychology and science at the University of Toronto.
Rob Goldman
Social Media Former VP of Advertising at Facebook.
Scott Barry Kaufman PhD
Social Psychology Cognitive Psychologist, Professor at Columbia University, author, Former Scientific Director at The Imagination Institute.
Matt Ellison
Diplomacy & International Security Hoover Institution, Stanford. Associate Editor, Palladium. Advisor, Bismarck Analysis.
Bill Melton
Technology and Economics Founder and CEO of CyberCash. Founder of VeriFone, Inc. Former Board Member of the Santa Fe Institute.
Jonathan Rowson PhD
Philosophy and Strategy Co-founder and Director at Perspectiva, Chess Grandmaster, 1999. Author.
Alexander Bard
Philosophy Co-Author of Futurica Trilogy, Music Producer, Co-founder of Stockholm Record.
Mihaela Ulieru PhD
Intelligent Systems & Organic Governance Founder of the International Industrial Informatics, President of IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy, Technology Alchemist Innovating at the nexus of AI/IoT/Blockchain.
Arthur Brock
Economics & Systems Co-founder of Holochain, Software Architect, decentralized social and technological systems.
John Perkins
Economic Intelligence Author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; Former Advisor to the World Bank, United Nations, U.S. Treasury Department. Founding member of The Pachamama Alliance; Activist and lecturer.
Yasmine El Baggari
Economic and International Intelligence Founder and CEO at Voyaj, US State Department “Engage America” Ambassador, and Researcher at Harvard University; Blogger and speaker at international conferences.
Aneel Chima PhD
Clinical Psychology & Human Systems Director of Health and Human Performance at Stanford’s Flourishing Project, Co-founder of At The Core.
Rachel Howard PhD
Biological Research Microbiology, interdisciplinary biosciences, epistemics.
Joseph Romero
Culture, News & Journalism Editor-in-chief of Culturekiosque, journalist for Le Monde & Wall Street Journal Europe.
Eugenio Battaglia
Product Engineering
Web3 Researcher at curvelabs.eu, Director at meaning.systems
Lucian Tarnowski
Collaboration & Coordination
Executive Director of Civana, Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum.
Alex Morrise PhD
Machine Learning
Theoretical physics, string theory, machine learning, data science, deep learning, adaptive learning.
Advisor and Team Disclaimer
Aligned with the principle of Consilience and the mission of this project, we seek earnest and well-considered perspectives on topics from all sides of an issue and through the lens of different disciplines. Our advisors all support the project’s central aim of better public education and dialogue: that does not mean they agree with or endorse every perspective in each article we write, nor does the Consilience Project necessarily agree with or endorse all the perspectives on issues each of them may have shared in other places.
Similarly, while everyone on the team contributes to the project and is aligned with the mission as a whole, that does not mean each piece represents the view of each team member, nor that the personal posts of team members elsewhere online represent the views of the project.
The views expressed in the articles are those of The Consilience Project as an organization, which assumes full responsibility for the content.
Partner Organizations
Helena is a problem-solving institution that addresses urgent global issues through non-profit, for-profit, and legislative projects.
Bismarck is a firm that analyzes institutions, from governments to companies, focusing on the causes of societal decay and flourishing.
The Center for Humane Technology is an independent nonprofit organization whose aim is to drive a comprehensive shift toward humane technology by changing the way technologist think about their work and how they build products.
Ergo delivers tailored intelligence and advisory services to help our private and public clients overcome multifaceted challenges and capture opportunities in over 200 nations.
Our Ethical Committments
In an effort to address the erosion of trust in the media and guard against the biasing forces that arise from perverse incentives and human fallibility, we have implemented the following commitments:
Universal access to information is foundational to a functioning open society. For the duration of this project, none of our content will ever be behind a paywall.
This is a purely donation-supported endeavor, with no competing agendas beyond the stated mission. Neither the content nor its host site will serve as an income stream for the project in any way. To eliminate the possibility of manipulation or preference modification of our content, we will never sell our readers’ data or display paid advertisements of any kind.
As a US 501c3 non-profit organization, our finances are reported transparently to the federal government and publicly available on the FCC website.
To protect our content from influence, we will not accept funds from any person or organization that seeks to influence content through their support. Moreover, we will consider any actor that even suggests a conditionalized donation as a potential source of harm to the information commons and investigate accordingly.
Our commitments regarding freedom from financial influence present real limitations to our ability to fund the team. If we are limited in what we can raise with these commitments in place, then we will simply be smaller and do less with full integrity. We will not rationalize compromise for scale.
With the exception of possible occasional guest posts by specific individuals, we will attribute all articles to the collective authorship of the House. This serves both our readers and our writers in a variety of ways:
The anonymity of authorship means readers are engaging with the content itself rather than the personality of its author, circumventing writer preference or mistrust on the basis of perceived content “ownership”.
Anonymity allows our writers to be as truthful as possible without concern for professional, personal, or political repercussions or retribution.
Anonymity insulates our writers from motives of individual ego by eliminating any incentive to alter content to maximize an article’s popularity.
Anonymity encourages the entire research and writing team to support all work rather than having preferential focus on pieces for which they are lead author.
We will continue to seek out team members and advisors from across the spectrum of political perspectives, industries, epistemic disciplines, as well as cultures and regions of the world. This multiplicity of viewpoints provides a more complete picture of any given issue. It also serves as a mitigating factor against our own human susceptibility to bias and group reinforcement.
In our “Under the Hood” sections, we will show the evidence and methods of analysis we used to arrive at our conclusions. Rather than guarding our methods like trade secrets in a competitive environment, we will open-source all of our resources and processes in the hope that others will replicate, adapt and improve upon our methods of sensemaking and reporting.
Our Financials
We will be filing and publishing our 2020 990 form in November of 2021 on our website and GuideStar. You can view our federal extension application here.
The articles on this web site may be redistributed in other media and non-commercial publications as long as the following conditions are met. The redistributed article may not be abridged, edited or altered in any way without the express consent of The Consilience Project. The redistributed article may not be sold for a profit or included in another media or publication that is sold for a profit without the express consent of The Consilience Project.
Critical conversations for the future of human civilization.
The Consilience Project publishes novel research at the leading edges of global risk mitigation, governance design and culture. Our content explores the key challenges and existential threats facing humanity, and the underlying problems with current approaches for addressing them. We outline how our social systems and institutions need to be redesigned if free, open, non-authoritarian societies are to survive.
Our Context
At no other point in history has humanity faced such a wide range of novel catastrophic risks. Our civilization has never been more vast, complicated, and fragile. This systemic fragility is exacerbated by new technologies, geopolitical instability, an ecological crisis and a reliance on global economic supply chains. These interlocking, interrelated problems are known collectively as the metacrisis. The Consilience Project’s primary aim is to clarify and reveal the nature of the metacrisis to enable comprehensive solutions to global problems. Our work recognizes the interconnectedness of humanity’s challenges: any solution must factor the underlying drivers of each one.
Project Initiative
Our Project
We publish research and analysis to help guide decision-makers and leaders towards the critical paths necessary to address the unique challenges of our time. The content published here is for any individual, group or institution trying to innovate around global coordination challenges, catastrophic risks and social technologies.solution must factor the underlying drivers of each one.
Project Partners
Our Team
The Consilience Project consists of a core team of passionate people from a wide range of disciplines.
Eugenio Battaglia
Product Engineering
Web3 Researcher at curvelabs.eu, Director at meaning.systems
Lucian Tarnowski
Collaboration & Coordination
Executive Director of Civana, Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum.
Kyle Gresham PhD
Materials Science
Ret. Colonel, Director of US Air Force Research, nanotech, bioweapons containment.
Jamie Daves
Media Strategy
Founder Current TV, Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Investor.
Jordan Hall JD
Strategic Intelligence
Founder at DivX, Founder of Game B,trustee, Santa Fe Institute.
Alex Morrise PhD
Machine Learning
Theoretical physics, string theory, machine learning, data science, deep learning, adaptive learning.
Christopher Eddy
Philosophy & Social Theory Governance, catastrophic risk, humane tech, cognitive science, logic, metaphysics
Matt Ellison
Diplomacy & International Security Hoover Institution, Stanford. Associate Editor, Palladium. Advisor, Bismarck Analysis.
Alex Randall PhD
Editorial & Policy Public policy, defence & security, neuroscience, art. Former UK Government, Cambridge Fellow.
Aneel Chima PhD
Clinical Psychology & Human Systems Director of Health and Human Performance at Stanford’s Flourishing Project, Co-founder of At The Core.
Yasmine El Baggari
Economic and International Intelligence Founder and CEO at Voyaj, US State Department “Engage America” Ambassador, and Researcher at Harvard University; Blogger and speaker at international conferences.
John Perkins
Economic Intelligence Author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; Former Advisor to the World Bank, United Nations, U.S. Treasury Department. Founding member of The Pachamama Alliance; Activist and lecturer.
Arthur Brock
Economics & Systems Co-founder of Holochain, Software Architect, decentralized social and technological systems.
Mihaela Ulieru PhD
Intelligent Systems & Organic Governance Founder of the International Industrial Informatics, President of IMPACT Institute for the Digital Economy, Technology Alchemist Innovating at the nexus of AI/IoT/Blockchain.
Alexander Bard
Philosophy Co-Author of Futurica Trilogy, Music Producer, Co-founder of Stockholm Record.
Jonathan Rowson PhD
Philosophy and Strategy Co-founder and Director at Perspectiva, Chess Grandmaster, 1999. Author.
Bill Melton
Technology and Economics Founder and CEO of CyberCash. Founder of VeriFone, Inc. Former Board Member of the Santa Fe Institute.
Scott Barry Kaufman PhD
Social Psychology Cognitive Psychologist, Professor at Columbia University, author, Former Scientific Director at The Imagination Institute.
Rob Goldman
Social Media Former VP of Advertising at Facebook.
John Vervaeke PhD
Cognitive Psychology and Science Professor of cognitive psychology and science at the University of Toronto.
Isaac Lee
Media Former Chief Content Officer of Univision and Televisa.
Marc Collins Chen
Future of Cities Founder, Board Member, and former CEO of Oceanix: Sustainable Floating Cities. Former Minister of Tourism for French Polynesia.
David Fuller
Journalism & Media Channel 4 News (UK), BBC Newsnight, Guardian, Buzzfeed. Founder, Rebel Wisdom.
Eric Mathur PhD
Biosciences Senior scientist at the Human Genome Project; leader in molecular biology.
Bill Twist
Environmental Law Co-Founder of Pachamama, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.
Jenny Stefanotti
Design thinking Founder, Dent. Public policy, philanthropy, design, technology, behavioral economics, design methodology, and venture capital.
Greg Thomas
Cultural Intelligence CEO Jazz Leadership Project, Senior Fellow at Institute for Cultural Evolution, author, educator.
Kunal Sood
Impact Entrepreneur XFellow, CEO of #WeThePlanet, impact entrepreneur, disruptive innovator & curator.
Phoebe Tickell
Decentralization & Democratic Practice Decentralization, distributed governance, horizontal practices. Collaborative and transparent decision-making and financing.
Andrew Huberman PhD
Neuroscience Tenured Professor of Neurology at Stanford Medical School; brain dev., brain plasticity, and neural regeneration.
Jeffrey Ladish
Security Research Cybersecurity and biosecurity; Existential risk expert.
Michel Bauwens
Peer-to-Peer Social Dynamics & Technology Founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives, and the Peer-to-Peer Cooperative.
Peter Demitry MD
Research & Strategy Ret. Colonel, Associate Surgeon General of the US Air Force, fighter pilot. Director of NFIM.
Jamie Wheal
Cultural Architecture Executive Director of the Flow Genome Project and Co-Author of the Global Bestseller Stealing Fire.
Molly Maloof MD
Medicine & Biosciences Integrative physician and medical researcher in the areas of longevity and human potential.
John Robb
Military Intelligence Air Force, Special Ops, Military Intelligence. Expertise in counterterrorism and unconventional warfare.
Michael Slaby
Digital Strategy CTO & CIO Obama campaign. Chief strategist, Harmony Labs. Technology, politics, and impact strategies.
Alex Gladstein
Open Societies Chief Strategy Officer at Human Rights Foundation. Faculty at Singularity University. Advisor at Blockchain Capital.
Nora Bateson
Complex Systems Director of research at the Bateson Institute, transcontextual research, in ecology, economy, social change, health, education, and art.
Tyson Yunkaporta PhD
Cultural Research Lecturer and Author on Indigenous Knowledge, academic, researcher, educator, art critic.
Raj Vaswani
Technology & Data Innovation, product development, and product management. Data science, IoT, global utilities, information technology.
Tomas Bjorkman
Financial Intelligence Founder, Investment Banking Partners AB, Chairman, EFG Investment Bank. Member, Club of Rome.
Justin Rosenstein
Technology and Governance Co-founder of Asana, programmer of software, organizations, cultures, & systems in service of love. Co-Founder, One Project.
John Mattison MD
Medical Strategy Former Chief Medical Information Officer and Associate CMO at Kaiser Permanente.
Market Intelligence President at Robinson Global Strategies, Founder at Princeton Review, Chess Master, Top Financial Advisor.
Jim Rutt
Complexity and Technology Chairman, Santa Fe Institute. Former CEO of Network solutions. Complexity science, politics, economics.
Evelyn Gosnell
Behavioral Economics Applies behavioral economics insights in product design, with a focus on technology.
Nate Hagens PhD
Natural Resource Economics and Risk Focuses on the interrelationship between debt-based financial markets and natural resources.
Liv Boeree
Game Theory & Existential Risk Science Broadcaster, Astrophysics, game theory, existential risk.
Dan Shalmon PhD
National Security Policy Research experience employing qualitative and quantitative methods for clients in national security, education and public policy.
Sanjiv Sidhu
Business & Supply Chain Intelligence Cofounder and Chair of 09 Solutions. Supply chain management, artificial intelligence.
Peter Sforza
Geospatial Intelligence Analyst Director, Center for Geospatial Information Technology. Complex systems, resilience, regenerative systems.
R.P. Eddy
Intelligence & National Security CEO of Ergo, Fmr Director at the White House National Security Council, Senior Diplomat. Economics, natl. security and geo-politics. Investor. Best selling author.
Tristan Harris
Technology Ethics Co-Founder at the Center for Humane Technology. Technology ethicist, philosopher, systems thinker.
Deepa Purushothaman
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Author, speaker, and researcher on systemic racism and the advancement of women of color in corporate America.
Ryan Walsh
Directed product strategy across Apple Media Divisions.
Gilbert Morris
Professor, Financial Centre Expert, Economist, Diplomat, Historian, Author.
Rob Schuham
Co-Founder of Undercurrent, COMMON, and Fearless; former Chief Digital Advisor, Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.
Future-Oriented Design Award-winning urbanist, architect, and futurist, Skoll Fellow, Fellow at Singularity Institute.
Ben Landau-Taylor
Economic Intelligence Senior Researcher at Bismarck Analysis, focus on industrial economics.
Daniel Schmachtenberger
Project Strategy Social philosophy, collective intelligence, risk mitigation.
Jess Webb
Social Network Intelligence, Founder, Aizle Analytics, Former All Source Intelligence, JSOC, NSWDG.
Zak Stein EdD
Psychometrics & Education Expert in psychology and philosophy, previous Co-Founder at Lectica Inc.
Samo Burja
Geopolitical Intelligence Founder, Bismarck Analysis, Research Fellow, Long Now Foundation.
Joseph Romero
Culture, News & Journalism Editor-in-chief of Culturekiosque, journalist for Le Monde & Wall Street Journal Europe.
Rachel Howard PhD
Biological Research Microbiology, interdisciplinary biosciences, epistemics.
Advisor and Team Disclaimer
Aligned with the principle of Consilience and the mission of this project, we seek earnest and well-considered perspectives on topics from all sides of an issue and through the lens of different disciplines. Our advisors all support the project’s central aim of better public education and dialogue: that does not mean they
Partner Organizations
Helena is a problem-solving institution that addresses urgent global issues through non-profit, for-profit, and legislative projects.
Bismarck is a firm that analyzes institutions, from governments to companies, focusing on the causes of societal decay and flourishing.
Project Commitments
Our Ethical Committments
In an effort to address the erosion of trust in the media and guard against the biasing forces that arise from perverse incentives and human fallibility, we have implemented the following commitments:
Politicians, journalists, and everyday people on all sides intentionally mislead with facts, mischaracterize opposing views, and dehumanize those with whom they disagree. Social media has started to change our basic habits of communication by amplifying and incentivizing bad faith tactics.
Politicians, journalists, and everyday people on all sides intentionally mislead with facts, mischaracterize opposing views, and dehumanize those with whom they disagree. Social media has started to change our basic habits of communication by amplifying and incentivizing bad faith tactics.
Project Transparency
Our Financials
We will be filing and publishing our 2020 990 form in November of 2021 on our website and GuideStar. You can view our federal extension application here.
The articles on this web site may be redistributed in other media and non-commercial publications as long as the following conditions are met. The redistributed article may not be abridged, edited or altered in any way without the express consent of The Consilience Project. The redistributed article may not be sold for a profit or included in another media or publication that is sold for a profit without the express consent of The Consilience Project.