REFLECTION ON MODES OF FUTURE THOUGHT
(an invited paper for the Big History Congress, 2011)
Lazar Puhalo
Modes of Future Thought: Can strategic concepts move beyond ideology? Political Ideologies and “GlobalThought”: Can there be a Synthesis of Scientific Theories and Spiritual Traditions?
Big History encounters a universe’s movement into greater complexity rather than its entropy. We are engaged in studying the great difficulty and limitedness with which such an apparent anomaly occurs. Our own biosphere, which, following the thought of Panov and others, includes human civilisations and technologies, is one island of this increasing complexity. Such complexity brings with it fragility and vulnerability, and this is a theme that should be of special interest to us, as our own biosphere is at the point of a singularity which must be examined in all earnestness.
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