Adaptive Accretionism

Overview

Adaptive Accretionism synthesizes multiple frameworks into a singular philosophy. It integrates:

• Scarcity Theory: Understanding that the origins of social and economic hierarchies are rooted in the quaternary megafauna extinction. The concept of "property rights" in it's fullest extent, originated as a response to the collapse of abundance following the extinction of megafauna. This historical event created the foundations of competition over resources, leading to hierarchies of ownership and power.
• Staggered Circular Community: A Staggered Community Cycle model based on fluid, adaptive roles that allow individuals to occupy different niches, promoting communal resilience in the face of changing resource availability. This imagines a society where individuals occupy community niches that are the intersection between individual desires and proclivities and community derived needs. These dynamic roles prevent the solidification of hierarchies and promote collaboration over competition.
• Moral Philosophy Grounded in Epistemic Accretion: A An evaluation framework for Ethical Systems built on the gradual adjustment of epistemological grounding across time, integrating human and non-human life into a cohesive, non-hierarchical ethical system.It rejects static moral rules and instead promotes an ongoing, ecological integration of ethical behavior.
• Unincorporated idea: Using observed human behavior to determine where faith turns into environmental expectations. Examples: Driving over a bridge, Flying in a plane, Driving in a car: are all "acts of faith" in the sense of people are relying on systems that will and do fail, but do not consider that in their use of the system. The fact that people do not consciously make this calculation - yet they ignore these faith positions because they do not acknowledge faith is needed - indicates that there are foundational assumptions about the world that are variable in human planning.

Cohesive philosophy

Adaptive Accretionism brings together these ideas into a cohesive framework that responds to scarcity not through competition, but by fostering communal cooperation and moral knowledge-building. The philosophy is rooted in circular, adaptive community dynamics and the continuous accumulation of ethical and practical wisdom.

By merging dynamic resource management with a flexible, evolving moral system, Adaptive Accretionism envisions a world where individuals and communities thrive by adapting to changing conditions without resorting to competition or rigid hierarchies.