Dear Willi,
now my son Benedict has set up a blog, as we have agreed to that. The "future post" is lifted from the baptism!
This future post, we have two yes meant to be very interesting experiment: a book in open letters, for all those interested. We want to create our "Future Post" nice and slow a revolutionary vision of the development of our world, both from a scientific perspective and from our personal experience. As in a Ping-Pong game, we should do about this "future post" We challenge each other again and again, each "ping" of a letter from me a "Pong" followed by a letter from you. Together, these letters should finally an ever ongoing intellectual investigation of the fundamental issues of development, but also with the implications of the findings, which we will work to society, science and economy, will be. Neither of us knows where we will conduct our experiment at last. The only thing we really want to make is that we should be in this discussion, no conventions, no "political correctness" and no prejudice. We want to go in front of everyone interested Lesrinnen and readers simply one of those open and pay for me so enriching discussions I have often had the good fortune to be able to carry with you!
Maybe I should, however, to provide an introduction to our "Future Post", even hold some of my basic thesis. The other is to represent my colleagues once the "Editorial policy" our "future post" so they know whether it pays for them, also continue to read this post. On the other hand, I certainly hope you can find enough material in this thesis to give me a due "Pong" to slam on my playboy "Ping" to the ears. For each ping-pong can only be good if you make a regular impact on the network. Well, going on:
The world as I see it:
The watershed is there
We are facing a huge turning point. A new age in which humanity is networking with each other and with nature, stands in front of the door. This age is not because we wish for and fulfilling prophecy. It is a very logical step in the development of mankind. Sustainability will be the characteristic paradigm of this new age. It comes from, whether we like it or not.
This new age is the result of a profound change in our world. Such changes are natural steps in the development of mankind, they occur in more or less regular intervals. The Copernican Change that has pushed people from the center of the universe and has established the natural science as an explanation, was the last of such Spirit Contact.
The current era is based on the findings of science of the 20th Century. Relativity theory, quantum physics and the theory of self-organization are the key words of this turnaround. Without these individual insights here to take (we will have plenty of room for science in this blog!), One can conclude that suddenly this new world view reality not fixed, but something permanent run-off, is processual. Nothing is more "alone" and isolated, all things are In connection and exchange of energy and matter. Perception as an active process between parts of a whole becomes a "production process" of reality.
The new Holistic and Networked reality
This new world view is not only a cultural process, but a holistic development that embraced all aspects of our society. The recognition of the interconnectedness within our global society, but certainly also with the surrounding world in our increasingly political action. We have famines in other continents in the televisions in our living room, we see conflicts in the Middle East as our conflicts, we see its effect on migration, culture conflict and even terrorism. We see our impact on global climate (which we will say in this blog a lot more and also to the current view of contradictory!) As a global challenge of human society. All these changes in "software" of our human society is still relatively new, they are an expression of this new world view and the technology that it brings.
Here we come to one very interesting aspect of world view change and turning point: they both are already there and manifest. They act not only by their intellectual attraction: it is the meat and become better metal and plastic. Without quantum physics, no microchip no computer, no cell phone, not even a modern car or even an airplane. In turn, these technologies change our cultural software. We are connected to everything about them, we have instantaneous information about everything we do, at every small laptop hang all the knowledge of mankind as a giant hologram of information in the form of the "www", the "world wide web". It says already in his name all .
But we are also networked otherwise cheerful. We cling to power grids, networks of gas, of water networks. Without them, our company is no longer viable, as the threatening experiences of very short, only hour-long power cuts every Affected close to bring urgently.
Therefore, my basic thesis is simple: We have been living in the era of sustainability, interconnectedness, the new world view. We just do not know.
The new science
remains in this new era, not one stone upon another, there is an equally radical break in history as it was the beginning of the mechanistic modern times compared to the scholastic Middle Ages. Of course, that includes the science, its methods, and above all their findings.
In this new age, everything is processual, descending. Nothing is fixed, as they say here in Austria so beautiful. Even science, not even their findings (by the way of course, not ours, we will present in this blog here). A key result of this process-is the loss of the right to absolute truth, science has used to rise. Science is the process of intellectual engagement with reality, an act of reflection.
moves the science is not less but more in the center of social discourse that our cultural development. Science will be released from their unpleasant and static Richter role it currently makes in an unworthy manner in the form of opinions and counter opinions at the mercy of the powerful. Rather it is the cane of society, necessary voranzutasten to be, vital to warn of dangers. Only if the company that has a white cane and also uses it properly, will get along in this new age where everything is networked, complex and in flux.
This also means that many of the brazen yet any 'natural laws' are suddenly in the nakedness of their real importance there. They are nothing more than man-made theories, more or less confirmed by reality, but not "true" and "forever". They are just waiting for that someone can break it, as has already written to Karl Popper. Therefore, they are not very helpful. They are necessary to precisely get ahead and out further research. They are milestones, no checkered flags.
For this reason, we also in our blog quite openly address some of these sanctuaries quite cheeky. Although we also do not claim to full truth. But we might have some interesting contributions to the basic understanding of development. This will be our main focus: We are not the major trends that interested in their interpretation. We want to discuss how to develop structures that there are new ways to explain basic characteristics of development and how these findings affect our very practical decisions. Our intellectual table tennis match is not to future research be. It is intended to show how to make the future!
So greetings to Berlin
Your Michael
