Chinese Dream is Xuan Yuan\'s Da Tong by KoGuan Leo

Dear Leo,

Very original and deep essay. Yes, indeed, to more reliably steer the Spaceship called Earth, Humanity must have a "Great Dream" and "The Great Common Cause". Chinese philosophy helps create the reality of such a Dream. It is extremely important that you updated the concepts "Dao" and "Law". I believe that they lie at the base of a new model of the Universe of the Information age . And even more deeply in the Knowledge Based - "magic matrix Luò Shu". "Dao" and "Law" allow more confident to overcome the dangers that meets Humanity and the Earth in Space. Science can give Humanity a lot. But it must be open to Humanity . Great Dream always go alond with Freedom without fear, Hope, Love.I wish you success in the contest and research! It's time. We start the path. The New Era and a New Generation demanded action. «Let's sing together a song of delight».

High regard,

Vladimir

Dear Vladimir, thanks for your generous comment. Fu Xi-Xuan Yuan Bagua is connected with the "Lo shu magic square" that if we add up the numbers in each diagonal, column, and row , we always get fifteen (15). My KQID is also based on Fu Xi-Xuan Yuan's digital Bagua that represents nature as well as human society. I read and rated highly your original essay. I am glad to be part of Gaia concerned citizens. I am rationally optimistic that we have great future and the best has yet arrived because of you the participants.

Best wishes,

Leo KoGuan

Leo,

It was a delight to meet a soul-mate who understands as I do that education and mobility are human entitlements just as necessary as food, clothing and shelter.

"Man is born free but enslaved everywhere by No-Free Lunch Economic System, the economic and philosophical paradigm of today."

Indeed. I can't see that the world will be safe for democracy unless we discard this cynical myth, and learn to be wealthy together.

Strong score from me.

All best,

Tom

Hi Leo,

Thank you for your kinds words. I'm glad you liked my essay so much. I look forward to reading yours and others this weekend, after my last final in my technical program.

Warmly,

Aaron

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 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

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

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.

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

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