Well, I thought I'd go back and comment on the article you linked, only to find I did comment the day after you posted it.
Rather than repeat that comment, I thought I'd add some thoughts on over-all systems thinking;
As you reference in the article, we do like to solve the immediate problems, which amounts to patching the tears in the previous patches. Yet how far back does that go? Haven't we been doing it since the dawn of civilization? Consider democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic societies. It would seem to the Ancients, gods were metaphors. Monotheism equated with monoculture. The tribe. One people, one rule, one god.
I think the biggest fallacy is our concept of time.
As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so we model time as the present going past to future. Yet the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.
There is no physical dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.
Rather than the "fabric of spacetime," it is more like a tapestry being woven of strands being pulled from what was woven.
Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound, as frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.
Energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.
As consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past, it would seem consciousness manifests as energy. Though it is the digestive system processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the patterns, signals from the noise. Thus the tendency to obsess over the patterns and try to carve them in stone/math, rather than stepping back to see the processes generating them.
Not to drag this out, as everyone's time is short, but considering galaxies are the energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in, this is an over-all thermodynamic system.
We are linear, goal seeking creatures in this cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality. It's like we haven't really come to terms with the implications of the world being round, not flat.
