FQXi Contest 2012-2014. General conclusions.
Extremely hot topic of the Contest FQXi Essay 2014 "How Should Humanity Steer the Future?" gives the chance to sum up the results of Cotests 2012-2014 and discussions in which I took part.
Today is a very serious time for Humanity. 100 years passed since the beginning of the 1st World war. 75 years passed since the beginning of the 2nd World war. For the period of "Cold war" 1946-1991 occurred 108 local wars and the military conflicts. For the last 23 years - 23 wars and the conflict. In 1962 the Mankind endured "Caribbean Crisis". Here is a message to start a new Cold war .
The world and Humanity is again on the verge of a split that could lead to nuclear war, "nuclear winter", death of humanity and all life on Earth. Homo ludens again prepares the "big game", as Homo sapiens sapiens was asleep again. Humanity must remember today all earthlings killed in all the wars in history.
In basic science "crisis of representation and interpretation" (T.Rmanovsaya), "crisis of understanding" (K.Kopeykin).
FQXi Essay Contest 2014 gives the chance to answer a question immemorial and especially actual today: "What to do?"
I. Global security. Creation of new Global System of Existential security on the new principles, overcoming of the closed block mentality XVI-XX centuries. Restart the UN from "UN 2.0" to "3.0 UN.". Revitalization of the UN towards global nuclear disarmament, national cultures, international cooperation and public diplomacy. Creation of the World Programme of joint exploration of outer space and the World Ocean. Introduction of Esperanto as the official language of the UN and the international language. Relocation of the UN headquarters in Iceland. Deepening of democracy, conscious transition from "Democracy 2.0" to "Democracy 3.0" - democracy of the Information age. Creation of system of global existential taboos. I completely agree with Flavio Mercati "U-turn or u die".
II. Science. Refouding of Knowledge. The transition from "Paradigm parts" ("paradigm segment") to integrative paradigm ("over generalizing") - "The whole paradigm" ("The Great Paradigm"). New return to the sources and primordial senses: logos-topos-ontos-eidos-ethos-nomos, "grasp" primordial structure of space, understanding the nature of time and information. Ontological (structural, cosmic) memory - core, the semantic attractor of the new conceptual structure of the Universum. Creation of the "general framework structure"(D.Gross, an interview "What is in the space-time") establishes ontological foundation, framework and carcass of knowledge. Creation of a new eidos of the Universum ("Sky eidos"), new scientific picture of the world of the Information age in the spirit of the great philosophers of the 20th century Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Edmund Husserl, which will include the limit meanings of the "LifeWorld" and Human: «The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world." Overcoming the semantically poor picture of the world based on the hypothesis "In the Beginning was Big Bang ..." and the transition to the picture of the world on the basis of ontological Superaxiom "In the Beginning was Logos ..." ("Metalaw," «Universal law». «The law of laws", "Law sky"). Conscious transition from "Closed science" to "Open Science" with open competitive basis and principles aimed at accelerating the development of knowledge.
III. Education. The transition from the medieval closed system of education to the creative open education system of the Information age, forming an open ethical personality. Introduction of the principle of historicity in fundamental education. Philosophy and Ethics should be basic disciplines in the education system. I support the great idea of «the Worldwide Futurocentric Education Initiative» by Marc Séguin.
IV. Economics. Transition from an economy of existential chaos, opposing Nature to Ethical Eco-Economics, that saves the environment and people.
V. Europe - peace outpost. Creation of a New European Security System on new existential principles, promotion and development of the idea of "Greater Europe" as a "union of the peoples"(E.Kant) from the Azores in the west to the east of the Diomede Islands.
John Wheeler and Henry David Thoreau left all Earthlings good covenants to more reliably steer the Future: "Philosophy is too important to be left to the philosophers". "It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."
We need a Big Dream and Great Common Cause for reliable steer the Future, to save Peace, Nature and Humanity. Great Dream always go alond with Freedom without fear, Hope, Love, Justice.
Philosophy is very good and faithful navigator on the way. New "Generation SkyPe» says all Humanity: "We start the path...".
I thank all the contestants, FQXI's team and Contest Partners for the opportunity to participate in the Contests.
Sincerely,
Vladimir Rogozhin