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worldview
By Bernard Goossens
Developing
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To Conduct Global evolution
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Program
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Introduction
According to Aerts et al. A Worldview is a
symbolic system of reference in which everything
we know about the world and ourselves is
represented into an integrated global picture,
one that illuminates reality as it is presented
to us within a certain culture.
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Introduction

• The fundamental questions are
• What is?
• Where does it all come from?
• Where are we going?
• What is good/evil?
• How should we act?
• What is true/false?
• Where do we start?

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Introduction
What can still be called a worldview, depends on
how wide we choose the range of cultures
that actually give rise to worldviews. E.g. from
bacteria up to human societies .But why not
down to viruses?
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Introduction

• Worldviews Consciousness have common
  properties
• boundary ambiguity
• fundamentally emergent
• signs of intrinsic relationship

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Memory evolutive system ()
MES category based model of emergence,
complexity, hierarchy organization up to
consciousness Applications biology, medicine,
sociology, ecology, economy, meteorology
cognitive sc () by Jean-Paul Vanbremeersch
(physician) and Andrée Ehresmann (categorician)
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Memory evolutive system
System Evolution successive complexification
processes of
patterns (P) of interacting objects (Ni) taking
their own identity colimit
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Memory evolutive system
Simple link binding of a cluster of links
between objects of decompositions
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Memory evolutive system
Complex link composite of simple links binding
non-adjacent clusters
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Memory evolutive system

• Multifold Objects as Key to Emergence
• Simple links represent nothing new
• Complex links represent emergent properties
• since it depends not only on the constituents of
  N and N" of the lower level but on the whole
  structure of this lower level, through the
  existence of a complex switch balancing between
  P' and R.
• N multifold object

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Memory evolutive system
The Multiplicity Principle If a system has
multifold objects, so do all its successive
complexifications. The quantum system satisfies
the MP. The MP is satisfied by all natural
systems, which have evolved from it or its
sub-systems by successive complexifications.
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Memory evolutive system
A Mathematical Model of Consciousness The
emergence of consciousness relies on the
formation the Archetypal Core (memory
sub-system), formed of multifold objects, which
integrates the main sensorial, proprioceptive,
motor experiences, , with their emotional
overtones, and connects them in patterns with
strong links, quickly activated and gradually
strengthened.
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Memory evolutive system

• Consciousness
• Holist' extended landscape
• (dynamic memory structure)
• in which are effected
• Retrospective Causal Analysis
• (process to find the causes of events)
• Prospective Complex Planning
• (process to select long term strategies for the
  future)

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From Consciousness to Worldview

• A Brief history of my own consciousness
• DNA molecule (about 108 atoms)? Automatic
  control (genetic system)
• Self-aware child (increase in atoms with a factor
  of 1019)? Self-development
• Towards whole-aware adult (63 consecutive
  doublings)? Responsibility implied a general
  reference frame to guide my decisions need for a
  worldview.

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From Consciousness to Worldview
Hierarchical representation of levels of
information processing in our brain
Consciousness is emerging gradually as an
increasing ability of a control system to reflect
on his world over increasing ranges of time,
space, complexity etc.
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From Consciousness to Worldview
Cybernetic definition of a worldview A
Worldview is the holistic model to represent
realityused by a conscious control systemto
define and orient its actionsin order to achieve
its goals,taking into account the effectson its
world as a whole.
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Drivers andRequirements to develop Rational
Worldviews
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The process ofWorldview developmentcan be
schematized
New theories should embrace successful old
theories. In this way new theories will allow to
recover former salient results as special case
approximations.
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Trends, Topics, Tools Principles impacting
actual worldview development
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Theoretical physicssuffer a dichotomy

• General Relativity
• based on fundamental first principles (covarianc
  e, equivalence, geodesics)
• does not include quantum motion (continuous but
  non-differentiable acc. to Feynman)
• Quantum Mechanics
• based on axioms, lacking fundamental
  understanding
• (complex state function, Schrödinger equation,
  correspondence principle, Von Neumanns and
  Borns postulates)
• Above this incompatible conceptual foundation
  both theories use a completely different
  mathematical apparatus.

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Fundamental physicsare still in infancy

• At present there is no theory able to make
  predictions at the extremities of the physical
  world, the smallest and largest time and length
  scales.
• Also at the intermediate scale our classical
  world is not devoid of fundamental problems
  chaos complexity.
• We are missing an integrated theory encompassing
  all scales in nature.

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Relativityas a philosophy

• A relativistic approach to physics means
• Analyze the dependency of the expression of
  physical laws on the particular reference system
  used.

• But the Principle of Relativity can be
  generalized to a universal method of thought
  and expressed by postulating that
• The laws of Nature must be suchthat they apply
  to reference systems whatever their state.

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Scale relativity

• Then it is suggested that the principle of
  relativity also applies to laws of scale.
• The characteristic scale of a given phenomenon
  is defined as the state of scale of the
  reference system.
• We now set the Principle of Scale Relativity

The laws of physics must be such that they apply
to coordinate systems,whatever their state of
scale.

• This is translated mathematically into the
  scale covariance requirement for the equations
  of physics.

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Solid reasons forfractal Geometry

• A continuous and non-differentiable space is
  fractal.
• Fractal coordinates acquire an explicit
  dependence on resolutions and diverge when the
  resolution interval tends to zero.

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The theory ofScale relativity ()

• Is thus based on the giving up of the hypothesis
  of manifold differentiability, which is a key
  assumption of Einstein's GR.
• The coordinate transformations remain continuous
  but can be differentiable (and therefore it
  includes GR) or non-differentiable (a necessary
  condition to include QM).
• The standard laws of classical physics (motion in
  space / displacement in space-time) are completed
  by new scale laws (in which the space-time
  resolutions are used as intrinsic variables,
  playing for scale transformations the same role
  as played by velocities for motion
  transformations).
• () by Laurent Nottale (astrophysician)

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SpecialScale relativity

• Two impassable length-time scales, invariant
  under dilations, appear in the theory.
• Asymptotic behavior replaces the zero and the
  infinite, and play for scale laws the same role
  as played by the speed of light for motion.

Minimal horizon scale Planck length-scale Maxima
l horizon scale Cosmological constant scale
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Further developmentof Scale relativity

• Pure scale-laws
• (i1) Galilean scale-relativity (recovers
  standard QM)
• (i2) Special scale-relativity (variable fractal
  dimension)
• (i3) Scale-dynamics (distortion from strict
  self- similarity includes log-periodic
  corrections to scale invariance)(i4) General
  scale-relativity (new interpretation of gauge
  fields)(i5) Quantum scale-relativity
  (non-differentiable scale transformations)
• Induced effects of scale laws on equations of
  motion
• Scale-motion coupling

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Universal Structuresof Evolution

• Subjective experience human activity
  accelerates.
• How to understand that, qualitatively
  quantitatively.
• Can we fit this in a lager theoretical frame?
• There is a groundbreaking but controversial
  study ()
• Covering wide multidisciplinary range of
  phenomena at very different scales of our world.
• By analogy to jumps between species involving
  bifurcations, the proposed general
  self-structurating evolutionary processes likens
  a "tree of life.Branch" lengths represent time
  intervals between the nodes. Nodes represent
  successive major events of the system.
• () of Laurent Nottale, Jean Chaline
  (paleontologist), and Pierre Grou (economist).

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Universal Structuresof Evolution
First approximation by simplest law Self-similar
fractal tree (power law). Log-periodic
corrections based on request of scale
covariance. (see previous scale-dynamics) Such a
law corresponds to discrete scale invariance and
log-periodic acceleration or deceleration,
characterized by a critical point of convergence
Tc, which varies with the lineage in question.
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Universal Structuresof Evolution

• Prediction for human societal evolution
• Approach to super critical point in 2080 30y.
• Culmination point likening a phase change.
• Most far-going than anything what happened to
  forms. of human cooperation since Neolithic age.
• Point is mathematical limit spread to earlier
  times.
• due to physical effects (finite resources
  diffusion, saturation)

Conclusion It is of capital importance to
transform our social organizations at a global
level because of the obviously insufficient
capacity to evolve of the actual structures.
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Universal Structuresof Evolution
Already in 1987 The Club of Rome published in a
new synthesis about evolution and its future
() Global societal evolution is a series of
subsequent crisis, characterized as unstable
(chaotic) transitions leading to unforeseen new
structural and functional modes by the mechanism
of bifurcations. Those bifurcations represent
the points of potential choice for the
future, insofar as goals are defined. ()
Ervin Laszlo (systems philosopher, founder
president of the Club of Budapest)
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Universal Structuresof Evolution

• Two classes of societies are recognized(with
  big structural and functional differences at the
  system level)
• Generalist core societies (relatively strong
  adaptive)
• Specialist peripheral societies (vulnerable,
  dependant)
• Two levels of goals are formulated
• Goals on the system level
• define functional modes of whole societies
• Goals on the human level
• human values and aspirations
• endeavored by societal modes

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The futureof Global Society

• System Level Goals
• Specialized niche societies
• Supported to learn to control supranational
  currents using coordinated and cooperative
  structures.
• Generalist societies
• Give up part of their already fictive
  sovereignty and promote better supranational
  coordination organizations.

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The futureof Global Society

• System Level Goals
• Economical politics and international financial
  structures
• Reformed to develop conditions for trust.
• Abort practices regulations, which hinder
  cooperation.
• Replace them with other, which correspond to the
  new horizons of social evolution.

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The futureof Global Society

• System Level Goals
• Effective action plans to counter catastrophic
  bifurcations and promoting system convergence
  will lead to dynamic stability as the whole would
  become more integrated and organic.
• Human Level Goals
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• Societal organizations should be non-repressive,
  flexible and democratic goal oriented systems
  with high degree of freedom for the subsystems.

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The futureof Global Society

• Tasks for Researchers
• Specialized societies
• Supported in the transformation of their
  dependency relations to generalist functions and
  self-supporting skills.
• Generalist societies
• Further increase their adaptivity, regarding all
  evolutionary imperatives.

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The futureof Global Society

• Tasks for Humanists
• Assure, during the global transformation, that
  the societal organizations develop and keep
  flexible democratic operation, through
  participation and compromise. (rights of
  individuals versus societies, egalitarism versus
  liberalism, planning versus spontaneity)
• The goal oriented alternatives should be
  considered and evaluated with respect to the
  people.
• Ethical mature priorities should be set.

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The futureof Global Society

• Tasks for Administrators
• Build critical mass of personalities
• with adequate skills.
• Convince them from the importance
• of their task.
• Assure required communication channels
• with governmental and non-governmental
  organizations and companies.
• Inform as many people as possible
• of the new facts and insights to gain ever more
  people for those effective and actualized ideas
  and movements.

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The futureof Global Society

• Tasks for engaged Citizens
• Adopt a goal oriented behavior
• in times of turbulent societal transformation.
• Create and impose ideas and movements,
• which can develop to new foundations of society.
• Influence the events of societal transformation
• in favor of humanely desirable solutions.
• Assure a controlled bifurcation
• of the destabilized social system towards a new
  human-dynamic regime.

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The futureof Global Society

• Conclusion about societal evolution
• The global system is consciously observed from
  within, resulting in the possibility to influence
  it.
• It is high time to make use of this unique and
  truly fantastic opportunity to orient the future
  global development.
• This is probably the only way humanity will
  survive the actual frightful combination of
  highly developed order and complexity in our
  individual brains and the underdeveloped order
  and complexity in our global society.

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On the ascent of a superorganism

• The Power of the Global Brain ()
• The Global Brain is the outcome of the worldwide
  integration of computer and human networks to the
  nervous system of a Social Superorganism.
• Then its mind will be the globally integrated
  virtual domain, supported by the global brains
  material substrate.
• The Global Brain will be empowered with hardly
  conceivable cognitive capacities.
• () Francis Heylighen (evolutionary
  cybernetician, founder director of ECCO)

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On the ascent of a superorganism
The Power of the Global Brain But, in order to
become an effective survivor, the Global
Brain will have to become superconscious and
consequently develop a superworldview, integrat
ing global knowledge, values and methods for
global action control.
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On the ascent of a superorganism
The Power of the Global Brain Although knowledge
increases freedom to choose and achieve
goals,this should be balanced by responsibility
for the effects of those actions. Empathic
holism could be the guidance for sustainability
and ethical considerations in the selection of
goals and actions.
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On the ascent of a superorganism
The Infirmity of Global Action Are the actual
efforts, to develop a superworldview, adequately
spread over the different subtasks of worldview
construction? It is my opinion that todays
praxeology is highly insufficient and should
retain all attention in order to urgently develop
the means by which to effectively control our
actions affecting the global environment.
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On the ascent of a superorganism
The Infirmity of Global Action Action control
needs rational decision making. How can we
optimize this complex process, while fulfilling
the democratic requirement of maximum involvement
via representation, realized through election,
without falling in the actual trap of short term
governance? We should seriously think of future
mechanisms of rational selection instead of
irrational election and polling.
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On the ascent of a superorganism
The Infirmity of Global Action With high
priority we should develop a Meta Governance
Theory as part of a superworldview to
facilitate globally coordinated conscious
action, urgently required to conduct global
evolution.
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On the ascent of a superorganism
The Infirmity of Global Action As first step for
each individual, at its own level, we could adopt
a behavior according to a Universal
Cybernetic Manifesto   Keep on formulating and
publishing your goals. Keep on discussing and
adjusting your goals. Keep on respecting your
engagements.
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Developing a worldview to conduct global evolution
Because nothing is more threatening than growing
indifference. Thank You!
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Developing a worldview to conduct global evolution
Discussion The shamefully outdated idea (1960)
of still setting today our goal to become one of
the wealthiest regions in Europe, instead of the
most integrated and fittest (2000). Should we not
resign to long for more and focus ourselves on
performing better, in order to pursuit the ideal
of a really organic economy and society (e.g.
cradle to cradle).
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References and Bibliography

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References and Bibliography