Hi Leo,

Your essay is quite imaginative - your really think "outside the box"! I particularly like your quote, from Arthur C. Clarke,

"The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play."

I agree with you on the importance of education. In my essay, I argue that to optimize the effect of education on our ability to successfully steer the future, we should refocus the curriculum on issues that are the most important for the future of humanity... what I call the "Futurocentric Curriculum". If you have the time to check out my essay, rate it and comment on it, I would greatly appreciate it!

Marc

    Dear Marc,

    We share the same goal and idea.

    "If humanity is to successfully steer the future, its citizens will need to rise to the challenge and become future-literate. Let us bet that knowledge is a good thing, and that the more numerous are the citizens of the world who have a sound basic understanding of the way the world is and evolves, the more happy, prosperous and secure the future of humanity will be.

    Let the Futurocentric Education Initiative begin. Educators of the world, the future is in your hands!"

    I give you a full mark 10.

    Best of luck,

    Leo KoGuan

    Dear Leo KoGuan,

    I found your essay very interesting. Xuan Yuan seems a fascinating thinker, who almost five thousand years spoke about human rights and freedom in a way very close to the way we see them today. Also, I like very much your words "Thus, because each is working for his/her dreams and aspirations, everyone is super creative, super innovative and super productive in his/her creation and distributions of his/her objects of desire." I also agree that people are slaves because of their mortgages, and while this seems fair, because they are given the opportunity to have a house or a car, the truth is they are enslaved for this, and are not protected at all against the real estates price manipulations. This kind of issue should be covered by the most basic insurance, but it is not: some get incredibly rich by manipulating the market and destroying other's lives. You advocate and support freedom from catastrophic insurance of all types, from unwanted and boring jobs, and free education and health. We are free in theory to do various of things, the price being that to free ourselves from some chains we have to accept others, for instance, if we want to have access to health care and to education for our children, we can't be free from unwanted and boring jobs, and so on. We are always forced into compromises of any kind. In Romania (my country), compromise happened during the communist regime before 1989, and now it happens again under various regimes that fight for the power. It is so nice that from time to time people who honestly try to help and give free lunches appear. I wish you good luck with the essay!

    Best regards,

    Cristi

      Dear Cristi,

      We share the same dreams and aspirations. You wrote: "Man is a lost child, trying to find his way. The main purpose of science, technology, ethics, politics, religion, should be to understand and support humans, their freedom and right to happiness."

      I rated your essay highly.

      Best wishes and good luck,

      Leo KoGuan

      Greetings Leo KoGuan,

      Your essay was a delight to read, and I think you are one of the best at articulating the future we would all like to have - of any of the essay authors. Xuan Yong's Da Tong is more than just a Chinese Dream; it is an enviable state of affairs for any society to achieve, and one to which all enlightened human beings aspire. The main deterrent is the prevailing influence of ignorance, which is causing governments and corporations to scale down their efforts and funding for research - as well as higher education - at a time when they are what is most needed to assure progress and boost the economy long-term. Short sighted leaders have made it difficult to realize the dream, and to actualize what Xuan Yong called Da Tong.

      Perhaps we need Operating System 2.0 today! But are people ready for a scientific ethical and legal system? I have been working for a number of years now to create a framework for qualitative or subjective search engines and databases, and I've even included some of the fruits of my research in that area in my FQXi essays, so it will be clear to all that this model follows from my prior work. Personally; I'd rather work with R2-D2 and C3PO than work for a Terminator style robot, and this is a necessary step in that direction. However; if we did create this technology, and fed into the computer works of the great philosophers, religious texts, legal documents, and so on; it would calculate percentage truth-values for various assertions contained therein.

      Of course; it will cause the worst scandal in history when people realize that a computer is being made the arbiter of their religion. This is why such things must be handled with some sensitivity. It is also why I think the proposal of Jens Niemeyer for a repository of knowledge is important to humanity's survival, and deserves the development and use of such technology. This goes way beyond the Dewey decimal system, and could be a way to achieve a scientific level of fair representation - which is a necessary step in your plan - but will ordinary humans be willing to set cherished beliefs aside, in order to realize a bright future instead of dystopia? I hope we can both help make things better.

      All the Best,

      Jonathan

      Greetings Jon, grateful for your kind remark. I wish you are doing well here and now, Leo KoGuan

      Hi Leo,

      High aim is most admirable, (low aim is a crime). This essay has the highest goals and gets my admiration. I also like your concept of the Planck Mind.... Perhaps it should be listed along with the other Planck Units :)

      Logic, Mystery, Play, Humanity, New and Ancient Knowledge who could ask for more!

      Good to see you in another essay contest. Wishing you success in everything!

      Don Limuti

        Leo,

        How wonderful to escape the modern western domain that struggles so badly to face up to infinity and eternal life. I feel we are in many ways embedded into a deep rut with understanding limited by the walls. Many claim practical considerations preclude what they call 'flights of fancy'. I don't agree. I've 'practically' shown how we can scientifically derive eternal rebirth through regular and infinite recycling of our very protons with unlimited energy, explaining a host of anomalies. But this year I open the crack around that shell by showing that 'spooky' quantum effects are purely classical effects we haven't understood. Will it be another 4,000 years before we do? If seems perhaps so the way we thin, so all the more refreshing to be shell-shocked by a whole new and ancient view.

        I commend you, and I wonder if my recycling cosmic eternity isn't really very close that of the ancients. The second law does not survive as entropy is a temporaray state. Most of the greats have proposed versions without the ontological construction. The 'big bang' is all the more remarkable as a fatherless survivor fed only by our fear of thinking beyond some defined point and to infinity.

        Very best wishes

        Peter

        Reading for after you've read the essays; Eternal proton recycling.

          5 days later

          Hi Leo,

          Finally got to read your essay. I like it.

          I totally agree with you when you say: "man has the unalienable right to pursue his/her own personal goal in life" and "from each to each according to his/her dreams and aspirations".

          Where we may be slightly different is your emphasis on "collective will" while I emphasize individual freedom in my essay (here). I look forward to your comments.

          -- Ajay

            I repost my comment in this blog.

            Peter,

            I think your essay is outstanding and very creative. I like it very much. We don't agree on everything. At least I agree that "there was no boundary between the classical and quantum worlds". If I may explain that KQID theory is monism. Therefore there is only one physics and one entangled hologram Existence. KQID Five Ones: one source Qbit( 00, +, -), one principle of "Giving first Taking later", one theory of "bit is it, and it is bit", one formula Ee^iτ = A + S ⊆ T that iteratively produce unitary one (1), that creates and distributes one entangled hologram Existence. We are all connected.

            Your essay is a masterpiece, it is unique and it is creative. I rated your essay the highest score ten (10). I noted from your comment that many trolls in this contest thus I noted that be fire I voted you got 5.9 average score voted by 42, now it is 6.0 voted by 43.

            I wish you the best and hope we can become friends,

            Leo KoGuan

            Ajay,

            I agree with your conclusion that "Humanity can succeed at this by steering the global public to play, dream and tinker with science." On your comment on "collective will" here means that we collectively as individuals are working together to achieve Xuan Yuan's Da Tong. For example, Ajay is one person but he is made of about 75 trillions of cells that are working collectively as one Ajay.

            Thanks for your comment. And I will repost this in your blog.

            Best,

            Leo KoGuan

            China is well on the way to taking over as the worlds greatest power and the Earth will be a better place for it. Great essay

              Hi Don,

              You made my day! by giving me the best compliment possible. You commented above that my essay is "Logic, Mystery, Play, Humanity, New and Ancient Knowledge who could ask for more!"

              You are so kind, and we thus do have future! We must treat each other well and we will have fun and prosper together. This is our logical goal that we all share. We must eliminate ignorance and Scarcity, hence, humanity shall have a great and unlimited future. We shall work together to bring about wisdom, knowledge and abundance; so that we all share a good life together.

              I hope we can collaborate someday.

              Best wishes,

              Leo KoGuan

              Hi Petio,

              You are so kind. We will follow up later after the contest. Yes the great unity in diversity is our common goal.

              Best wishes in everything,

              Leo KoGuan

              I repost my comment here.

              Dear Alexander and Preston,

              Wonderful and important essay. Yes I concur that "Minds are central; they are the foundation of humanity's past, its present, and its future." Yes science is the most important of mankind discovery and treasure. Without it, we shall extinct as a species. However, uncontrolled science not governed by Scientific Outlook Rule of Law and Principle would also doom our species because we will create our own final creation, they would cause us to extinct as a species. Just like our previous ancestors of single and multicellular cells created and distributed us, Homo sapiens, we regard our ancestors as inferior species that fit only as our goods and we eat them.

              However this gift of abstract thought is threaten by self interested government-religious and even pseudo-scholars alliance. Science could be made as the tool of oppression and it can be silence like it was in the past both in the West and East. We must be alert to this real danger lurking from everywhere. That is why we must eliminate ignorance and scarcity and we must advance wisdom, knowledge and abundance as quickly as possible before the force of darkness reigns supreme again. We must work together to build the force of light reigns not only our earth but also the whole universe. Xuan Yuan's Anti-entropic Operating System 2.0 as the force of light reins all Existence.

              From my research in China, science started a very long time ago about 5000-4711 years ago founded by Fu Xi and Xuan Yuan who founded the concept of Bagua that all things are represented by digital eight trigrams (Ôÿ░ Ôÿ▒ Ôÿ▓ Ôÿ│ Ôÿ┤ ÔÿÁ ÔÿÂ ÔÿÀ). Interestingly, Pythagoras similarly stated about two thousands years later: "All things are numbers." Somehow and fortunately, Pythagoras' abstraction of reality despite of up and down took hold in the West. Unfortunately, Fu Xi and Xuan Yuan's science as the abstraction of reality did not take hold in China as was the case in the West. I would add the Aristotle's conception of A = A as a crucial layers of abstraction that help launch the scientific revolution in the West and now the whole world. However, I must note that Aristotle's hypothesis A = A has been overthrown with the discovery of Quantum Mechanics. Now science is facing a great challenge as you put it from "conventionalism" and I would add from special interested group who would like man to be kept in the dark and not able to see the light. They want to keep Humanity in the darkness covered by ignorance and scarcity. So that they will be in charged and would get most of the benefits.

              Please look at and comment on my essay. I rated your important essay 10 as it deserved.

              Thanks for sharing and hopefully we shall work together in the future to improve the state of Existence.

              Best wishes,

              Leo KoGuan

              Dear Alex,

              Excellent essay. I found your reply to John above is more compelling to me pertaining to your conversation with Prof. Prigogine because I incorporated the concept of time as ONE dimension and it is in the zeroth dimension of time. KQID theory postulated that 3D time is space and 3D time as space is moving orthogonally inside time Lm, Minkowski Multiverse timeline in the zeroth dimension.

              In KQID, The Qbit (00, +, -) uses one formula KQID-Euler Ee^iτ = A + S ⊆T to compute, simulate and project its Einstein complex coordinates (iτLx,y,z, Lm) to form our holographic Multiverse. The Ee^iτ = A + S ⊆T produces iteratively normalized unitary (1) as the Shakespearian meme-actor ΙΨ(CTE) that creates, distributes and operates in our relativistic stage Ψ(iτLx,y,z, Lm) hologram Multiverse. Therefore, KQID reveals that space is only 3D of time (iτLx,y,z) moving along inside of our Multiverse timeline (Lm). Time is permanently pregnant with our Multiverse and our Multiverse is the fetus of time. Our Multiverse and we are moving along inside this asymmetrical timeline (Lm). Thus, KQID is monism and is so simple: meme actor ΙΨ(CTE) and its self-created relativistic stage Ψ(iτLx,y,z, Lm). Thus, ΙΨ(CTE) and Ψ(iτLx,y,z, Lm) are the same player with different roles. Both is actually the Qbit itself. Everything is connected and it is one and only Qbit (00, +, -). Absolute simplicity that spawns infinite complexity that we observe. From absolute zero entropy to infinite entropy that is expanding without ending without cost to Existence and to our Ancestor Qbit.

              You wrote amazingly similar idea: "In fact, all we know, all we experience about reality is always past: we cannot see the present, we usually suffer it, one way or another. So the things, in one occasion I said to Prigogine, "well Professor, then there exists only one dimension, namely, TIME, and what we actually call SPACE is nothing but the trace of time, this is to say, past". Professor Prigogine looked pensive after my statement; few minutes later he said that my idea looked a little bit extreme, however I might be right since I was young..."

              I rated your highly to push up your rating up from 5.4 to 5.6 to be the top 40, so that your essay would be further evaluated fairly by FQXI judges. I hope we will become friend and perhaps even work together in the future. If you are available I would like to invite you to be our distinguished research fellow in Shanghai. Here is my email: leo@shi.com.

              I will repost this in my blog.

              Best wishes,

              Leo KoGuan

              I repost my comment here.

              Dear Torsten,

              Excellent essay. I like it. I do believe that not only technology but Existence itself is subject to mutation, selection and co-evolution. In my KQID theory, Existence mutated, selected and co-evolved as a one entangled hologram Existence every absolute digital time T Ôëñ 10^-1000seconds.

              KQID-Euler Ee^i¤ä = A + S Ôèå T.

              I rated high to boast you rating up because it must be so.

              Good luck!

              Best wishes,

              Leo KoGuan

                Dear Leo,

                thanks for your time to read my essay.

                I agree with you (but was not brave enough to state in my essay) the whole existence is itself subjkect to evolution. Many thanks for the rating (I do the same for you)

                I'm really impressed by chinese philosophy for a long time. The thoughts are quite non-linear and holistic (in contrast to the linear and local thinkling in the wetsern world). I'm totally agree wit your KQID theory but it seems interesting.

                Berst wishes and good luck for the contest

                Torsten

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                Dear Torsten,

                Thanks for your kind words. You are very kind and our species is kind, only scarcity, ignorance and condition that they find themselves (only the minority as part of mutation, selection and co-evolution) make them sometimes evil. Most people even in hardships are still doing good for themselves and for others. Our species by nature is good and it is Leibnitz's best of all possible worlds.

                Like our ancestors before, they applied their science and technology of their time, we must do the same. We must use our accumulated unity of knowledge and action to deal with our species existential risk of extinction as real as any moment of our sum-over-histories. We must unify with diversity all thought in humanity and science, East and West. KQID has done this. KQID unifies Existence into one entangled hologram Existence in one source, one principle, one theory, one equation and one entangled Existence. KQID Five Ones and KQID Five Laws of Existence are actually only one and only our Ancestor Qbit(00, +, -) that computes, stimulates and project Existence onto our world. Thus, KQID is monism and is so simple: meme actor ΙΨ(CTE) and its self-created relativistic stage Ψ(iτLx,y,z, Lm). Thus, ΙΨ(CTE) and Ψ(iτLx,y,z, Lm) are the same Shakespearian player with different roles with different exits and entrances. Both is actually the Qbit itself. Everything is connected and it is one and only Qbit (00, +, -). Absolute simplicity that spawns infinite complexity that we have observed as the Wheeler's observed phenomenon. From absolute zero entropy to infinite entropy that is expanding without ending without cost to Existence and to our Ancestor Qbit.

                Best wishes to all contestants who are brave enough to subject themselves to humiliation and defeat, so that others would live in dignity and be victorious in life. Let life lives free here, now and forever.

                Leo KoGuan