The mind of global human society. A new approach to investigating the future |
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| Authors: | Yvon Provençal |
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| Affiliation: | Cegep de Granby , 3, Place Bellerive, #2104, Laval, Granby, Québec, Canada , H7V 1B2 Fax: |
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| Abstract: | In this essay, I present a new approach, called “ideometry,” which may lead to a new way of integrating knowledge and investigating the future of scientific conceptions. Conceptions are examined in themselves, independently of the reality they are supposedly describing. This is done formally by means of a new concept, “alterity.” A consequence of this formal consideration is a possible “super‐mind” of global human society, a very large and complex, growing system, analogous to a child's brain. |
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| Keywords: | integration of knowledge knowledge systems general evolution alterity formalization |
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