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== History ==
EmergeWiki was launched on September 18th, 2024 by a small team at [https://ebenefactors.org/ Emergence Benefactors]. You can learn more here about the [[History of EmergeWiki]].

== EmergeWiki and the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC) ==
EmergeWiki is designed to support the roadmap and [https://hypernotes.zenkit.com/i/UFIY1UO1cp/84TWK0BwQlq/eprc-white-paper-home Whitepaper of the EPRC] and the work of its allies, which also fit topically into the larger structure of the [https://theeprc.org/ EPRC] roadmap. It is a structured, comprehensive, systematic, strategic, long-term, ethical plan for positive global systems change and meet specific epistemic requirements and preferences. The EPRC plan is broken down into [https://hypernotes.zenkit.com/i/UFIY1UO1cp/PPFsCq6iSF/the-projects Projects] which support each other, overlap in key ways, and act on many fronts to have significant impact.

== Goals ==
Beyond the aims described on the main page, the EmergeWiki's intention is also to be incorporated into [[wikipedia:Large_language_model|Large Language Models]], as these are increasingly informing clinical care, public information acquisition, and synthesis. It is intended to augment, enhance, and improve current clinical standards of care and best practices (but not replace them, as this is not designed to be a comprehensive resource on its own).

It is an experiment in how information from many traditions that have [[Beliefs and Worldviews|particular ontologies]] as diverse and apparently contradictory as, for example, [[wikipedia:Materialism|Materialism]], [[wikipedia:Mind–body_dualism|Cartesian Dualism]], [[wikipedia:Double-aspect_theory|Dual Aspect Monism]], [[wikipedia:Idealism|Idealism]], etc. may yet yield practical clinical guidelines and information that scale globally across diverse cultural settings, drawing on the concepts of [[Ontological Agnosticism]] or [[Ontological Neutrality]], and add value to supporting Emergent Phenomena through focusing primarily on developing [[wikipedia:Therapeutic_relationship|therapeutic relationships]] and what promotes good outcomes.

It is also an experiment in the application of practical [[Linguistic Scalability]], meaning what language can scale globally in the same way as other global professional and technical lexicons, such as [[wikipedia:Taxonomy_(biology)|biological taxonomy]].

== Audience ==
Its intended audiences are diverse global clinical, medical, mental health, and public health providers, psychedelic and meditation practitioners and facilitators of those and related practices, as well everyone else interested in these topics, including experiencers, family members, facilitators, government officials, healthcare administrators, policy specialists, insurance providers, and attorneys, as well as many others, basically anyone at all interested in or impacted by [[Emergent Phenomena]].

== Supporting Organizations ==
It is a joint project of the 501(c)(3) charity [https://ebenefactors.org/ Emergence Benefactors], the [https://theeprc.org/ Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium](EPRC), and the [https://theeprc.org/allies/ Allies of the EPRC].

== Governance ==
This will require an ongoing conversation, balancing the need for very broad inclusion and crowdsourcing information with the need for clinical guidelines presented here to be of the highest quality possible with currently available evidence.