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A foresight of religions based on historical evolution and darwinian approach inspired by ethologyTRANSCRIPT
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http://2100.org Thierry Gaudin
Religions : from history to foresight
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Do you see triangles ?By Kanizsa (Trieste)
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We have not chosen our beliefs
We give our agreementto the tale of the planet
Don Miguel Ruiz, nagual
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Look at religions through ethology :
1-beliefs are built by human mind
2-they are inspired by survival conditions, that change
3-practices are selected through darwinian processes.
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Hunters-gatherers:chamanism
1-the man of knowledge : the chaman
2-the initiatic trip, the second birth
3-the places and processes of communication with spirits
Memory bird
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settlement (-8500) :The goddesses
Çatal Hüyük
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Urban developments(-3000)
Selection of seeds
Surplus
markets
accountingmetrology
writing
schools
check
courts
calculus
caravans : taming of the camel and the horse (-3000)
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Mesopotamia :Gilgamesh
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Likely scenario :-3000, camel and horse are domesticatedmassive urban development : trade is developing
caravans <- predators (from central asia…)protectors -> kingdoms
Trade + conflicts -> Guiles, deceits
Zarathustra : an upper level is needed where truth is to be claimed
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Daevas Ahuras
Vedic India (~1000-1700BC) : knowledge and power
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Ahura Mazda
Zarathustra (~700 ~1700 BC) : merging knowledge and power
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Knowledge Daevas
Power Ahuras
Life
~1700 ? BC
Zoroastrian
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Persia Achemenid (7°-3° BC)
Ahura Mazda :Solar divinity
Forces of lifeand lightOrmuzd
Daevas->DaïmonAhriman
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Knowledge :Devas
Power :Ahuras
life
Post vedic India
Brahmanic
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The three functions in India
Spirituality(Brahma)
creative destruction (Shiva)
Protectionof life (Vishnu)
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The Sadus
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6th century BC, century of the spirit :
Confucius, Lao TseuBuddha
PythagoreGreek philosophy startpoint
Milet and EpheseSynagog and Torah ?
Distinction between what is and what is not (Parmenide)
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5th century BC ; 12th century AD
From faith to institutions
Mani(216-276)
St Augustin(354-430)
Muhammad(570-632)
Christ(0-33)
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12th century : a love storyAlberoni : l’innamoramento, native state
Christianism
Judaism
IslamAl Andaluz
Alonso X Averroes
Maimonides
Ibn Arabi : Man is the pupil of God
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Rûmi
Ibn Arabi
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Institutional reaction :1099 : Pope Innocent III : first inquisitorialprocedure against heretics : « Vergentis Insenium »1132 : Inquisition becomes the dominicans mission1248 : Montsegur stake15 May 1252, Innocent IV : Bull « ad extirpanda »
Institutional creation : the european universitiesBologna, Paris, Oxford
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The centuries of the spirit :15°BC : Zarathustra ?6° BC : Lao Tseu, Confucius, Bouddha, presocratics3° AD : gnostics12° AD : Al andaluz18°-21° AD : the enlightenments -> the planet
Similar messages :Zarathustra claims for truthSocrates too ; he drinks the poisonChrist chases merchants out of the temple : crucifiedMani : all religions say the same thing -> rackedMuhammad chases merchants out of MeccaGalileo : « eppur si muove » ; Giordano Bruno executed
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Terrestre :
Vasco de Gama XIVe
Maritime :
Christophe Colomb XIVe
Navigateur portugais
ligue hanséatique XIIIe s.
route de la soie
Les mondialisations successives
L’atlas de Cantino1502 : seulement 10 ans après Christophe Colomb
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Let the memory speak
First stop
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Printing and protestantism
Gutenberg, 1468
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Valladolid controversy
Bartolomé Las Casas 1550
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Industrial revolutionScottish enlightenment
Knowledge spread out by printing
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Industrial revolution1750-1980 in Europe
Steel, cement Combustion
Taylorism
Microbiology
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Masters and owners of Nature (Descartes)
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Cartesian philosophy of knowledge
Subject
Object
Industrial revolution : Scientism
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Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon
Cognitive industrialisation A machine to see
everything A furtive power cameras in the streets
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Industrialisation
To marriage in Moon sect
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In 1953, Martin Heidegger, in an engineering school, talks « Die frage der teknik » :
1- the essence of technology is nothing technical
2- the essence of technology is the being itself
3- the essence of « modern » technologyis the ge-stell
In the most extreme danger also grows salvationInhabit earth as a poet (Hölderlin)
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After the memory speach
The third millenium
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Cognitive revolution1980-2180
Polymers Electricity
Optronics
Bio-ecology
Con
verg
ing
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By land
Vasco de Gama XIVe
By sea :
digital : Internet
hanseatic league XIIIe
The silk road
Globalisation since -3000
Cantino’s atlas 1502 : only 10 years after Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus 1492
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Internet penetration 2010world 28,7%
Au 74,8Fr 68,9Sp 62,6It 51,7Fi 85,3 D 79,1UK 82,5Port 48,1Swe 92,5Isl 97,6Nl 88,6Be 77,8Ir 65,8Dk 86,1
India 6,9Pakistan 10,4Kazakhstan 34,3Indonesia 12,3Thaïland 26,3China 31,6Vietnam 27,1Singapour 77,8Malaisia 64,6Taiwan 70,1Japan 78,2Hong-Kong 68,8Korea 81,1
Venezuela 34,2Mexico 27,2Brazil 37,8Peru 27,0Argentina 64,4Chile 50,0
Canada 77,7USA 77,3
Algeria 13,6Egypt 21,2South Africa 10,8Tunisia 34,0Morocco
33,0
Source : internetworldstats.com
In 2025, more than 75% on the whole planet. Polycultural Internet. Telecom operators challenging banks…
Se 55,9Sk 74,3Sv 64,8Bo 31,2Ro 35,5Po 58,4Cz 65,5 Ru 42,8Gr 43,2Hu 61,8Cr 50Mn 44,1Ma 51Li 59,3Es 75,1La 67,8 Al 43,5
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Babel is back
Basic : 600 wordsAuthor : 6000Language : 60000 words
X 6700 languagesTechno : 6 Millions items
Unicode : 65536 signs
Intelligence at all levels : Global and regionalManagement illusion : 400 words to control the world
Biological diversity :6 to 30 Millions
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The time barrier
We are not living in an information society, but in a« disinformation society »
Classical economics assumed that actors were perfectly informed lucid and watchful. The basic assumption being false, the theory is not valid any more
Desorientation is everywhere : Hyperchoice (Toffler), cognitive overload… and what about Gramsci’scultural hegemony ?
MagritteThe therapist
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Mind your brain…
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Children drawings (Bade Wurtemberg)
TV : less than 1 hour a day
TV : more than 3 hours a day
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Diversity of beliefs
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The world seen by Huntington
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Kali
The hidden divinityof economy :
Creative destruction(Schumpeter)
mobilises trillions of $and requires human sacrifices
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Destruction of Kali’s temple
Excess of creative destructionturns to destructive destruction
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Cloud
The three functions (Dumezil)nowadays
Creative destruction(capitalism)
Protection of life (ecology)
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The key question of foresight, which will be even more present in the coming decades, is the disruption of the equilibrium between nature and human species.
The greenhouse effect, the reduction of biodiversity, the exhaustion of sea resources and the destruction of tropical rainforests impose behaviours opposite to the current watchwords of productivity, consumption and competition.
If the Internet is intended to work as a planetary nervous system, is it able to become the base of a global consciousness of the whole human species, enough to reverse the regulations of its behaviours ?
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Anxious care for Mother Earth : Rio summit 92
49« Mother earth » (Gaïa, Lovelock)
Female divinity : humanity survival depends on the planet
TociIxquicCoatlicueEhuacueyeCuerauaperiPeuameMam
Seen Fromspace
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Cognitive revolutionBiological model : recognition
Living being Living being
Enter the future
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Empathy, observed at neural levelsteps over the barrier between species (Lorentz, Lestel)
New « Valladolid controversy » : have animals a soul, and other living beings too?
Empathy would be also the basis of collectivebeings : tribes, firms, NGO’s… and now virtual communities
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Charles Darwin thinking path
Beginning of life, 3,4 Billion yearsRNAs, the messengers
0,8 billion years : polycellulars appear mutual recognition, cooperation and specialisation
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Nature’s information inventions :
The nervous system
Music, danse, speech
Vision
Internet, global nervous system
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The roots of the past :Tibernitus garden
We are not made of matter
Matter flows through our bodies ; identity stays
Identity is made of communication processes
Apoptosis : cellular suicide by lack of communication
55Monet’s nymphéas
Human beings are the follow up of the evolution of consciousnessConsciousness raised from elementary to global,From the cell to the plant, then to the animal, thento humans…And soon to the whole biosphere
56Earth seen from the sky
The « struggle for life » vision (Spencer) shows onlya small part of life, natural pruning.
The essence of life is made of cooperation, symbiosis of cells, individuals, organisations, species
This cooperation is made of information exchange flows,recognition and anticipation. It is the rise of consciousness.
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« cosmic speculation garden »
Spencer’s vision, the « struggle for life » inspiredeconomic and political thinking since the industrial revolution (real politics, competitivity…)Facing the limits of the planet, maintaining this vision would lead to collapse (Jared Diamond)
Thus, evolution of consciousness needs a great step forward
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Declining : Rising :
From heteronomia to autonomia : the values
De WaalSimondonCyrulnik
DominationConquestPerformance
EmpathyIndividuationResilience
Authors :
2 missions in the scealed dome. From 26 september 1991 to 26 september 1993. From march to september 1994
Biosphere 2 : Noah’s (Utanapisti) arch of the third millenium
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How many different species for a stable ecosystem?How many different species for a stable ecosystem?
61To Homo Sapiens
Foresight for 21st century
From Homo Coca-colensis
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Thanks for your attention
Time has come To dream another future