LAZAR PUHALO
Modes of Future Thought: Can strategic concepts move beyond
ideology? Political Ideologies and “Global Thought”: 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 Panov1 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.
SINGULARITY AND MODELS A Definition
Singularity
The term “singularity” will be defined in different ways by some of the disciplines that speak at this conference. We all agree, however, that our biosphere is at a critical point, which we generally refer to as a “singularity.” In terms of the overall subject of Big History, a singularity is a convergence of compound crises on a global scale. For the context of this paper, we will define the “singularity” as a crisis of transition from Axial I into Axial II, from the First Axial Era into the Second Axial Era. Here, “singularity” designates the critical point in a phase transition which creates a structural conflict among differing premises for the conceptualization, interpretation and expression of systems.
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Thank you for these insights; I felt a great sense of seasonal hope and creativity in reading the piece. In my work in, and in my thinking on, the modern prison, and on the absolutes and rigid, distorted theological ideologies keep us locked in the very axial age thought which gave birth to the concept of the modern prison, I truly needed to read this. I will certainly look forward to developing the insights gained.