Johannes Jaeger
An Evolving Web of Complex Relations
guest post for the substack of the "Love & Philosophy" podcast
Sep 7, 2025
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The coming metacrisis necessitates us to explore and play with all kinds of aspects of our lives, even the fundamental ones. This is an essay admonishing humanity to work on more meaningful, robust, and supportive interpersonal and romantic relationship structures. It is the quality of the relationship that matters, not what kind of structure one chooses!
An Evolving Web of Complex Relations
guest post for the substack of the "Love & Philosophy" podcast
Sep 7, 2025
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The coming metacrisis necessitates us to explore and play with all kinds of aspects of our lives, even the fundamental ones. This is an essay admonishing humanity to work on more meaningful, robust, and supportive interpersonal and romantic relationship structures. It is the quality of the relationship that matters, not what kind of structure one chooses!
Johannes Jaeger
Why TAME is lame ...
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Mar 23, 2025
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Explains why there is no substance to Michael Levin's pseudo-philosophical framework called "Technology Approach to Mind Everywhere" (TAME), why it amounts to an ultra-reductionist approach to biology, and why Levin fundamentally misses the point when it comes to understanding living systems.
Why TAME is lame ...
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Mar 23, 2025
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Explains why there is no substance to Michael Levin's pseudo-philosophical framework called "Technology Approach to Mind Everywhere" (TAME), why it amounts to an ultra-reductionist approach to biology, and why Levin fundamentally misses the point when it comes to understanding living systems.
Johannes Jaeger
Toward a Metamodern Science - The Machine View is Blocking our Vision
guest post for the website "What is emerging?"
Aug 14, 2024
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A manifesto for a science that goes beyond the machine view of the world.
Toward a Metamodern Science - The Machine View is Blocking our Vision
guest post for the website "What is emerging?"
Aug 14, 2024
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A manifesto for a science that goes beyond the machine view of the world.
Johannes Jaeger
Understanding Living Systems
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Apr 5, 2024
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This blog post arose out of a conversation between Jaeger, Eduard Willms, Tobias Luthe, and Daniel Christian Wahl, as part of the Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems teaching platform of the Systemic Design Labs at the ETH Zurich.
It accompanies a little video I made together with artist Marcus Neustetter, which explains the difference between living and non-living systems:
Understanding Living Systems
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Apr 5, 2024
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This blog post arose out of a conversation between Jaeger, Eduard Willms, Tobias Luthe, and Daniel Christian Wahl, as part of the Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems teaching platform of the Systemic Design Labs at the ETH Zurich.
It accompanies a little video I made together with artist Marcus Neustetter, which explains the difference between living and non-living systems:
Johannes Jaeger
Assembly theory is cool ... but it doesn't quite do what its inventors say it does.
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Oct 9, 2023
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A widely-read critique of assembly theory that was later turned into a peer-reviewed article upon request of the editor of the Journal of Molecular Evolution.
Assembly theory is cool ... but it doesn't quite do what its inventors say it does.
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Oct 9, 2023
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A widely-read critique of assembly theory that was later turned into a peer-reviewed article upon request of the editor of the Journal of Molecular Evolution.
Johannes Jaeger
The Thing about Epistemic Humility
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Sep 15, 2023
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Argues that the point of epistemic humility is not to hold back when criticising views that are obviously and fundamentally flawed, but to be humble about one's own views of the world.
The Thing about Epistemic Humility
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Sep 15, 2023
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Argues that the point of epistemic humility is not to hold back when criticising views that are obviously and fundamentally flawed, but to be humble about one's own views of the world.
Johannes Jaeger
Machine Metaphysics and the Cult of Techno-Transcendentalism
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Mar 5, 2023
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Describes the vision of contemporary tech-utopians as a resurrection of the medieval Catholic myth of salvation, and their politics as that of neo-feudalism, or freedom for the few.
Machine Metaphysics and the Cult of Techno-Transcendentalism
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Mar 5, 2023
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Describes the vision of contemporary tech-utopians as a resurrection of the medieval Catholic myth of salvation, and their politics as that of neo-feudalism, or freedom for the few.
Johannes Jaeger
Pushing the Boundaries
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Sep 9, 2022
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This essay explains what the project is, why it is important, and why it is justified (and, in fact, necessary) to take money from the John Templeton Foundation to do this kind of research.
Pushing the Boundaries
post on Jaeger's own "Untethered in the Platonic Realm" blog
Sep 9, 2022
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This essay explains what the project is, why it is important, and why it is justified (and, in fact, necessary) to take money from the John Templeton Foundation to do this kind of research.
