The future of mankind is actually the main issue. Even if the Earth at some point in its existence faces a real threat of extinction, humanity, having made predetermined efforts, can survive and continue to exist.
The whole question is whether humanity will be able to develop so far as to be able to survive.
Pessimistic scenarios of the future of humanity.
We begin with pessimistic scenarios, which, if embodied in reality, could lead to the death of humanity in the future.
We will not consider global cataclysms that can radically change the future of mankind, since on the site page a general theory of interactions called the end of the world - 11 versions of the end of the world, we have described in sufficient detail all possible threats from without. Here we look at internal threats that can, in our opinion, also lead to the dark future of humanity.
1. Rise of the machines.
Such a pessimistic scenario has been worked out in sufficient detail by Hollywood screenwriters, and, unfortunately, the direction of human development at the moment clearly indicates that such a scenario is the most likely. We will only continue the thought by showing that the victorious machines themselves will eventually be destroyed under the influence of external environmental factors, malfunctions in the operation of computer programs that control them. But the main reason for the death of objects with artificial intelligence will not be this. The future of mankind is largely determined by the human desire for self-development, which it will simply not be possible to endow with machines. As the saying goes: life is life.
2. Degradation.
The future of humanity is also at risk due to another feature of the human brain. Many of the people, and I am no exception, continue to harm themselves, although they are well aware of this. Examples include smoking, drinking alcohol, drugs and other psychotropic drugs. Moreover, the actions of the governments of some states clearly indicate their certain interest in the development of these types of businesses. In the future, humanity may face the problem of the total use of drugs containing drugs or the drugs themselves, and the efforts of advertising seem to be aimed at teaching our children to consider drugs as something vital, everyday. Medicines are transformed from a remedy into a food product, and this is fraught with very serious consequences in the future of mankind.
3. A separate line we pose the problem of the use of genetically modified foods.
No doubt, GMOs can solve the problem of hunger on Earth. However, imagine the following, very likely variant of the future of humanity. Scientists, under pressure from corporations, justifying themselves by external causes, allow the production of genetically modified foods, and such foods are in widespread use, quickly replacing conventional, organic food.
But suppose that GMOs have a depressing effect on reproductive function. Such an impact, for example, will reduce by 5% the birth rate of progeny capable of breeding in the tenth generation. Due to the effect of animation after 20 generations, 10% of those born will not be able to have normal children. When such a trend will be detected. It will be impossible to change anything anymore, because people who have not consumed “new” products simply will not remain. The population of the Earth will gradually, but with acceleration, approach zero.
4. The problem of overpopulation of the Earth may arise in the future
And if the development of modern chemistry, physics and biologists continues to stagnate, as has been happening for the past 50 years. This is not the fault of scientists, it is their misfortune. Science ran into an insurmountable restriction, whose name is "QUANTUM". And as long as physics relies on a quantum approach, it will not be possible to break through the ceiling. Fortunately, there was a way out on this issue, and finally an alternative theory to quantum mechanics was created that does not resort to virtuality and uncertainty in the description of physical processes. This is a general theory of interactions.
5. The most unobvious, but, in my opinion, the most insurmountable is the threat of primitivization of human intelligence. Our logic is currently built on the recognition of the indisputability of the fact of the existence of two supposedly really existing categories - truth and falsehood. My argument against this approach is as follows. WHAT we see depends to a large extent on WHERE we look. In addition, WHAT we see depends on WHO and HOW it looks. There is only one conclusion from this: truth and falsehood are relative categories, passing into each other. The scientific approach, in my opinion, will give the best result if scientists discard their categorical judgments and use the method of continuous logic, which allows, so to speak, the falsity of truth and the truth of lies.
Primitivization of intellect is manifested at the moment in the absence of a unifying philosophy of knowledge and learning.
We show the perversity of the logic of people with a few examples.
The scientist who created the working theory of the use of semiconductors in radio electronics receives a monetary reward in the form of the Nobel Prize only 30-40 years after its discovery, which, in fact, changed our entire civilization. And he might not have received it. While some athlete, we note, even a mediocre athlete, earns this money for two to three years. This, in my opinion, indicates the wrong priorities of long-term planning.
Mankind is investing billions of dollars, euros or rubles in mineral exploration, the generation of energy from which can ultimately lead to the death of civilization, instead of directing efforts towards stimulating scientific research that could result in a complete abandonment of use non-renewable natural resources.
But most importantly, our education system is “imprisoned” for this kind of “knowledge”, which consists in an unreasonable repetition of the opinions (and often misconceptions) of the scientific luminaries of the past. We do not teach children to think, analyze. We instill in them the habit of acting like robots, copying their actions for the hundredth and thousandth time, although they very often do not bring the desired result. Our children’s ears are clogged with headphone plugs, their eyes are fixed on TV screens or computer monitors, and the meaning, including the meaning of life, is not captured by them. And if it goes on like this, then they cease to remember the meaning at all. This is what I call the primitivization of intelligence. But enough of the crap.
The future of mankind is an optimistic forecast.
1. Hope for a sharp acceleration of human progress
The hope for a sharp acceleration of the progress of mankind is given by some recent scientific theories that have recently appeared, offering a new understanding of the structure of the world and mind. The future of mankind, if it applies these theories in practice, will expand the horizons of knowledge to an unprecedented breadth. The main of these theories, I consider the general theory of interactions. Relying on it, humanity will step over the barrier in the form of a discrete, two-dimensional logic based on diametrically opposite concepts: true - false, yes - no, profitable - unprofitable, right - wrong. Mankind will be able to realize that it is beneficial to many, when it is disadvantageous to some, that error can be the right decision under certain conditions, that the attraction between material objects may be the result of repulsion between the parts of these objects, and so on. The second theory, capable, in my opinion, of reversing the idea of \u200b\u200bhuman brain activity and understanding of the world, can be the views set forth in the book of N. N. Vashkevich "Systemic languages \u200b\u200bof the brain." And do not dismiss it without having studied it in sufficient detail, based on the fact that it (the theory) distinguishes from all the wealth and variety of languages \u200b\u200bthat exist on our planet, only two, Russian and Arabic. Some should stand out in the end. And with the thought of the protective function of Russia and the Russian language for the whole Earth, I think many will agree. Those who disagree can be reminded that it was the Russians and the nationalities living in the territory of modern Russia who saved Europe from the invasion of the Tatars in the Middle Ages, calmed the French in the 19th century, extinguished the fascist fire of the middle of the last century, and now they are intermediaries that establish dialogue between the East and the West.
A question requiring a serious approach involving many experts. Because it is interesting and extremely important. Resource Scientific American interviewed prominent figures in the field of science and technology, which we also often write about and refer to in order to find out from them what the future of mankind will be.
Does humanity have a future outside the Earth?
“I think it is a dangerous fallacy to strive for mass emigration from Earth. There is no place anywhere near in the solar system as comfortable as the summit of Everest or the South Pole. We need to deal with world issues here. Nevertheless, I think that in the next century there will appear groups of privately funded adventurers who will populate Mars, and then, possibly, other places in the solar system. Of course, we must wish these pioneers good luck in using all methods of cyber and biotechnological adaptation to a foreign environment. Over the course of several centuries, they will turn into a new species: the posthuman era will begin. Traveling beyond the limits of the solar system will become the lot of post-humanity - organic or not ”
Martin Rees, an English cosmologist and astrophysicist.
When and where do you think we will find extraterrestrial life?
“If Mars abounds in microbial life, I suspect that we will find it within 20 years - if it will be quite similar to our life forms. If an alien life form is very different from what we have here on Earth, it will be difficult to detect. In addition, it is possible that any germs remaining on Mars are rare and located in places that the robotic landing module will be difficult to find. Jupiter’s satellite Europe and Saturn’s satellite Titan seem to be more suitable places. And Titan is perhaps the most interesting place in the solar system to search for life. It is rich in organic molecules, but very cold and does not have liquid water; if life on Titan exists, it will be very different from life on Earth. ”
Carol Cleland, professor of philosophy and co-researcher at the Center for Astrobiology at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Will we ever understand the nature of consciousness?
“Some philosophers, mystics and other talkers with foam at the mouth prove the impossibility of ever understanding the true nature of consciousness. However, there are not many reasons for such defeatist statements, but there is every reason to believe that one day, relatively soon, science will come to a naturalized, quantitative and predictive understanding of consciousness and its place in the Universe. ”
Krishtof Koch, President and CSO, Allen Institute for Brain Sciences.
Will the world ever get adequate medical care?
“The world community has come a long way towards health equity over the past 25 years, but these successes have not reached the corners of the world farthest from civilization. Deep in the rainforests, where people are cut off from transportation and cellular networks, mortality is very high and access to medical services is limited, plus the quality of healthcare is disgusting. According to the World Health Organization, a billion people live their lives without ever seeing a medical professional because of their remoteness. Directly recruited community health workers could narrow this gap. They could even fight epidemics like Ebola and maintain access to basic health care when hospitals are forced to close their doors. My organization, Last Mile Health, today employs more than 300 healthcare workers in 300 locations across Liberia. But we cannot do this work alone. If the global community is serious about ensuring access to health care for all, it should invest in health workers who can reach the most remote locations. ”
Raj Punjabi, co-founder and CEO of Last Mile Health and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.
Understanding the brain: will it change criminal law?
“In all likelihood, the brain is a causal machine in the sense that it goes from one state to another depending on previous conditions. The consequences of this for criminal law are absolutely zero. Firstly, all mammals and birds have prerequisites for self-control, which are modified in the process of training with reinforcement (reward for the right choice), especially in a social context. Secondly, criminal law is aimed at the safety and welfare of the population. Even if we could identify the prerequisites unique to serial rapists of children, for example, they would simply be forbidden to move freely, because they are prone to relapse. If we, for example, concluded that a certain Boston priest John Jogen, who was trying to seduce about 130 children, “is not to blame for having brains, so let him go home,” the result would be unrest, no doubt. When gross justice takes its place in the criminal justice system, which is rooted in the long-standing adoption of impartial laws, everything becomes terrible very quickly. ”
Patricia Churchland, professor of philosophy and neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego.
What is the chance that Homo sapiens will survive the next 500 years?
“I think the chances of our survival are very good. Even the biggest threats - nuclear war or environmental disaster that could result from climate change - are not catastrophic in the sense that they will completely erase us. And this is our bugbear, in which our electronic offspring will grow up and decide that he can live without us, you can get rid of him just by disconnecting ”
Carlton Davis, Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of New Mexico.
How close are we to preventing a nuclear disaster?
“Since 9/11, the United States has devoted considerable attention to policy issues to reduce the dangers of nuclear terrorism, increasing the security of highly enriched uranium and plutonium and removing them wherever possible. An act of nuclear terrorism could kill 100,000 people. But still, thirty years after the end of the Cold War, there is a great danger in a nuclear disaster involving thousands of nuclear explosions and from several tens to hundreds of millions of deaths due to a possible nuclear confrontation between the United States and Russia.
Remembering Pearl Harbor, the United States retained its nuclear forces in the event of a possible first strike by which the Soviet Union could try to destroy all available US forces. Today we do not expect such an attack, but each side still maintains about 1,000 intercontinental nuclear warheads in a state of full combat readiness. Since the flight time of a ballistic missile is only 15-30 minutes, decisions that can lead to hundreds of millions of deaths must be made within a few minutes. The possibility of an accidental nuclear war or even hackers who provoke a launch remains.
The Cold War is over, but the Doomsday Machine, which was born out of the US rivalry with the USSR, is still with us - and its cocked
Frank von Hippel, Professor Emeritus of the School of State and International Relations. Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University, one of the founders of the Princeton program on science and global security.
Will sex become obsolete?
“No, but having sex to conceive children is likely to become much less common. After 20-40 years, we will be able to extract eggs and sperm from stem cells, possibly the skin cells of our parents. This will allow for easy pre-implantation genetic diagnosis of a large number of embryos - or for easy modification of the genome for those who want to edit embryos and not choose ”Sex of the Future - read
Henry Greeley, director of the Center for Law and Bioscience at Stanford University.
Can we once replace all the tissues of the human body in the process of engineering?
“In 1995, Joseph Vacanti and I wrote for this magazine about a breakthrough in the creation of an artificial pancreas, about fabrics based on plastic, such as artificial leather and electronics, which could allow blind people to see. All this has come, in the form of real products or is undergoing clinical trials. Over the next several centuries, it is entirely possible that each fabric can be replaced in a similar way. The creation or regeneration of tissues, such as those in the brain that are extremely complex and poorly understood, will require a huge amount of research. However, there is hope that research in this area will proceed quite quickly and help people with brain diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer's, quickly enough. ”
Robert Langer, professor at the David Koch Institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Can we avoid the “sixth extinction”?
“It can be slowed down and then stopped if urgent measures are taken. The main reason for the extinction of species is the loss of habitat. That is why I emphasize that it is necessary to collect a global reserve (reserve), which occupies half of the land and half of the sea, if necessary. In addition to this initiative (and the development of the science of species ecosystems to a level that will be better than the present), it is necessary to discover and characterize the 10 million remaining species or so; today we have found and named just 2 million. In general, it is necessary to expand the ecology, to include in it what the living world should be, and this, in my opinion, will become the largest initiative in science until the end of the century. ”
Edward Wilson, professor emeritus at Harvard University.
Is it possible to feed on a planet without destroying it?
"Yes. Here's what you need to do: reduce cereal waste, household waste and meat consumption; integrate high-quality grain technologies and management methods; educate consumers about the challenges faced by farmers in developed and developing countries; increase government funding for agricultural research and development and focus on promoting the socio-economic and environmental aspects of agriculture that characterize sustainable agriculture ”
Pamela Ronald, Emeritus Professor, Genomic Center and Plant Pathology Division, University of California, Davis.
Are we colonizing space?
“It depends on the definition of“ colonization ”. If we mean the landing of robots, then this has already been done. If sending microbes from the Earth so that they live and grow, then no, unfortunately, we have not achieved this yet - except perhaps inside the Curiosity rover, where there is a heat source and which was not completely warmed up like a Viking.
If you mean sending people anywhere for a long period of time, without reproduction, this will happen in the next 50 years or so. Perhaps there will even be a certain level of reproduction, in the end, primates remain primates. But if the idea is to build an independent environment in which people can exist with the most modest help from the Earth - colonies like the "European" colonies that were built outside Europe - then this will happen far in the future, if at all. At present, we do not quite understand how to create a closed ecosystem that will be protected from interventions caused by an influx of organisms or non-biological events (for example, “Biosphere-2”), and I suspect that the problem of a closed ecosystem will be much more complicated than it thinks the vast majority of supporters of space colonization. We have to solve a wide range of problems, such as air handling. We have not even colonized the underwater space of the Earth. Colonizing space, in which there is no atmosphere at all, is even more difficult. ”
Katarina Conley, planetary protection specialist at NASA.
Will we find a second earth?
“I bet yes. We have already found out that planets near other stars are much more widespread and diverse than scientists had imagined just a couple of decades ago. And we also found that the key ingredient for life on this planet - water - is common in space. I would say that nature rather gathered a wide range of planets, including the Earth, and we just have to look for them ”
Aki Roberge, an astrophysicist exploring exoplanets at NASA's Goddard Space Center.
Will we find a cure for Alzheimer's?
“I’m not sure that it will be a medicine as such, but I really hope that in the next ten years there will be a successful treatment that modifies Alzheimer's disease. We have already begun preliminary tests for the prevention of the disease even before the person has symptoms of the disease. And we do not need to treat Alzheimer's - we just need to delay dementia for 5-10 years. Estimates show that a five-year delay in the terrible and expensive stage of dementia in care will reduce the cost of maintaining a patient by 50%. In addition, it follows that many older people will be able to die by dancing ballet, rather than in a nursing home. ”
Raise Sperling, professor of neurology at Harvard School of Medicine.
Can wearable technology determine our emotions?
“Emotions include biochemical and electrical signals that reach every organ in our bodies - allowing, for example, stress to affect our physical and mental health. Wearable technology will allow us to quantify the patterns in these signals over long periods of time. Over the next ten years, wearable technology will become synoptics of our own health: they will guess your condition next week with 80 percent accuracy, based on your recent actions. But unlike the weather, smart wearable technology will also be able to identify patterns that we can use to reduce unwanted “storms”: get enough sleep to reduce stress by 60% over the next four days, for example. In the next 20 years, wearable devices and tests obtained with their help will also significantly reduce psychiatric and neurological disorders. ”
Rosalind Picard, founder and director of the Affective Computing research group at the Mass Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Will we find out what dark matter is?
“Whether we can determine what dark matter is depends on what it turns out to be. Some forms of dark matter can be detected due to the smallest interactions with ordinary matter, but otherwise they will be elusive. Others can be detected by their effect on structures like galaxies. I hope we can learn more through experiments and observations. But I can’t guarantee it. ”
Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Harvard University.
Can we take control of intractable brain diseases like schizophrenia or autism?
“Disorders like autism and schizophrenia remain elusive because neuroscience has not found a structural problem that can be fixed. Some believe this is because future answers are hidden solely in biochemistry, and not in neural circuits. Others argue that neuroscientists should start thinking in terms of the general architecture of the brain, rather than specific neural failures. Nevertheless, when it comes to the future, I recall the remark of the Nobel laureate Charles Townes that the new idea is wonderful because you don’t know about it. ”
Michael Gazzaniga, director of the SAGE Mind Studies Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Will technology eliminate the need for animal drug testing?
“If human organs-on-chips prove their reliability and consistently rediscover the complex physiology of human organs and disease phenotypes in unrelated laboratories around the world, as the first studies to prove the concept showed, we will see how they gradually replace the animal model. This will ultimately lead to a significant reduction in animal tests. It’s important to note that these devices will also open up new approaches to drug development that are not available with today's animal models, such as personalized medicine and the development of treatments for specific genetic subpopulations using chips that use cells of specific patients. ”
Donald Ingber, Founding Director, Wiss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University.
Will gender equality be achieved in science?
“Equality between men and women can be achieved, but we cannot just sit back and wait for it to happen. We need to “correct the numbers,” attracting more women in science and technology. We need to improve institutions, rethink career and family relationships, and show new leadership opportunities. More importantly, we need to improve people's attitudes by harnessing the creative power of gender analysis to discover and innovate. ”
Londa Schibinger, professor of history of science at Stanford University.
Do you think we can one day predict natural disasters, such as earthquakes, in hours or days?
“Some natural disasters are easier to anticipate than others. Hurricanes appear in a few days, volcanoes often prepare to erupt in a few hours or days, tornadoes come in a few minutes. Earthquakes are perhaps the most difficult. What we know about the physics of earthquakes suggests that we cannot predict them in advance. We can only predict damage to the soil immediately before the earthquake, thus providing a few seconds or minutes for alarm. To leave the city, this time is not enough, but to get to a safe place is quite ”
Richard Allen, Director of the Berkeley Seismology Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.
Let us examine how modern philosophy approaches the concept of “future” and projects global problems on it. Modern philosophy will mean "fundamental ontology" arising from the depths of the philosophy of existence or (which is the same thing) existentialism. The term "fundamental" means that which is based on itself, and the term "ontology" (the doctrine of being) emphasizes that we are talking about being itself, i.e. that independently of human subjectivity, but at the same time determines being-man-in-the-world.
If we look at the future of a person from these perspectives, then it depends not on some “objective” laws of development, but solely on certain ideas and concepts that dominate the people's minds about the future and its laws, according to which people act and thereby realize these concepts and representations. The philosophical ontology is called upon to free people’s consciousness from the rule of false and alienated concepts. In one of his earliest works, On the Concept of Time in the Historical Sciences (1916), M. Heidegger (founder of fundamental ontology) explicitly set the task of freeing the account of history from the prevailing ideas in the historical sciences of objective time, of the objective laws of the development of society in time .
In his fundamental work, Being and Time, Heidegger states that the future of a person depends on the person himself, on the decisions he makes at every moment, and on the actions corresponding to these decisions. But the activity and decision of each person depends on how he currently thinks of his being, his past, present, future. And only in this case, if a person understands his existence as developing according to objective laws, then he will act accordingly and implement this idea of \u200b\u200bhis future. But the results of this activity will not be determined by the "objective laws of development", but by those opportunities that were hidden in being. The future will correspond to the ideas of man only if he correctly interprets being, i.e. took him as his own.
From the point of view of phenomenology (the forerunner of philosophical ontology) all social consciousness is “false”, and any objective content of consciousness is incompatible with “freedom of existence”. Therefore, in contrasting individual and mass consciousness, the philosophy of existence calls on man to free himself from the dominance of objective consciousness and objective truth and thereby become a “free creator” of his future, outside of any objective laws of development.
Denial of the objective laws of development implies the absolutization of the subjectivity of consciousness, i.e. appeal to its transcendental grounds. The subjective self-awareness of a person is not just a passively contemplative reflection of one’s own existence, but there is always a certain relation of a person to himself. According to Heidegger, the difference between a person’s being and being an inanimate object is that a person always knows about the imminent possibility of death that threatens him, he is afraid of death and from the fear of “transition to nonexistence” creates an idea of \u200b\u200ban unceasing being in time, a certain regular future , about the possibility of delaying or even avoiding the "end of being." So, a “concern” or “concern” arises in the consciousness of prolonging one’s being, that subjectivity specific to a person arises, which characterizes his self-consciousness. This idea of \u200b\u200ba natural future turns out to be only a product of the “alienated” mode of existence of primary free self-consciousness, when it came under the dominance of “usually” public consciousness and itself began to exist in the form of “phenomena” of this alienated consciousness. Introduction to Philosophy / Ed. I.S. Bazhenova. M .: INFRA-M. 2001.S. 201-205 ..
“The future is what I should be, because I may not be,” argues another representative of existentialism, J.-P. Sartre. In other words, for the French philosopher, the future is a “project” of subjective desire arising from fear of “nothing,” the threat of a transition to “non-being.” Consciousness interprets its subjective “project” of the future as the result of certain objective laws. However, the successful implementation of these “projects” is not yet proof of the objectivity of the laws of development, but only the result of the fact that many people have the same interpretation of their future, created their “projects” on the basis of the same faith in the laws they create and acted accordingly. It is enough to free people's minds from this faith - and the "imaginary objectivity" of laws will evaporate. The future in the light of philosophical ontology is not a product of rational calculus, as it seems to Marxism in the face of scientific communism. The future is the result of subjective "projects", the product of people's faith in the "imaginary" laws of development, this is the result of people's activities on the basis of such "false" concepts and ideas about the logical development of society.
Without awareness of the future, there can be no philosophical awareness of history at all. But the future cannot be the subject of scientific research, because only what can be considered as something real, i.e. what has already happened and therefore has become available to the researcher. The future is not explored, but only premonitored, and only the soul of a poet or philosopher, shocked and especially tuned, becomes clairvoyant.
Man does not know his future. Moreover, such knowledge would be “spiritual death” for him. Trying to comprehend the future, we experience a feeling that supports our existence, for, not knowing the future, we participate in it, seeing it in its integrity and unpredictability. In this case, it is always necessary to distinguish the forecast of the event from the declaration of his will Kurbatov V. History of Philosophy. Abstract. Rostov-on-Don, Phoenix Publishing House, 1997. S. 277 ..
The life of a modern person is far from ideal. Technogenic civilization mediated the achievement of human well-being, forcing him to be in a vicious circle of empty goals. A man stopped thinking and taking care of himself directly - he forgot about himself. He trusted himself with soulless technology, turning into one big demand generating supply. Their unaccountable satisfaction created an illusion, creating a new kind of human activity - earning. This illusion has turned earning into an indisputable condition of the very possibility of well-being today. But can a person who has dedicated himself to something that has nothing to do with himself achieve prosperity? Can he buy it to earn in this way? The events of September 11 in the United States showed that this is becoming a risky business. Today, man has found himself in a double trap of civilization: he has become alien to himself and deprived of the very possibility of any well-being, since it can only be individual, man-made, and the ideology of the user is incompatible with the worldview of the creator. Favorite work is a rarity, a happy family is unprecedented. Man today is placed in conditions when immorality becomes the only accessible degree of freedom for him, and there is no question of well-being anymore. It is possible to spend the earned money only on that which is valueally identical to the way of obtaining these funds - this law of value adequacy is unshakable and has no retroactive effect. The “life-giving” aspect of human life rightly sets the value qualification, the upper limit of the values \u200b\u200bavailable for human consciousness — a person is worth what he does, what he chooses as a source for the opportunity to live. This means that attempts to establish life at the state level, or to seek a better life in some kind of anti-state activity, are equally unpromising, since they proceed from the values \u200b\u200bthat are characteristic of a given society. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe state, for centuries hatched by great minds, today, in the heyday of technology and information integration, when conditions can finally be created for the full realization of human, creative potential, when each person can become a creator of his own well-being, has become impregnable everyone. The centuries-old idea of \u200b\u200ban effective state, which has given us technological freedom today, threatens to engulf society under itself, since it is oriented, first of all, to the super-aging task of protecting itself from a specific external enemy and is absolutely unsuitable for the latest threats of humanity, since it is simply incompatible with the idea of \u200b\u200bthe spiritual formation of man. The ideological support of confrontation depletes society in the absence of an object of confrontation, which simply cannot exist all the time. The absence of a real enemy in the context of globalization turns any ideology that does not contain the concept of a single humanity, not based on noospheric principles, into a rapidly manifesting utopia. Today, all obstacles to the spiritual development of man have been removed, which means the lack of unity of mankind, its competitive fragmentation is artificially maintained.
The future of a person is very difficult to predict. There are so many different theories from complete cyborgirization to total annihilation. But, despite such prospects, there is already a need for some missing opportunities. This need has always existed among people with disabilities, but recently, given the modern growth of the information flow, we can consider some kind of disabled almost everyone. It is possible that soon the artificial analogues of human organs will surpass their prototypes completely. Then the question of “implant or not implant” will be even more relevant.
It is possible that the first implants (some of their similarities already exist) will very much resemble microcomputers. But there is another possibility, they can be completely similar to the "device of nature" but be artificial.
Such implants will advance the digital revolution of the twentieth century to a higher level. Instead of a large number of rather bulky devices: digital peripherals, televisions, computers, VCRs, telephones ... one small implant will be used, which will fulfill all the functions of modern "assistants" of a person and many others that will allow a person to rise to a higher level, to find new opportunities. After all, what we use, in essence, remains advanced stone axes, with which a person has been especially heavily weighted lately, trying to expand his capabilities. And, perhaps, the appearance of implants is the logical conclusion of the current technological revolution and the beginning of a new round of development ...
You can fantasize about the future long enough. Perhaps the interaction of the implants directly with the nervous system will allow you to fall asleep on the seashore, to the pleasant sounds of the waves without being physically there. The concept of "virtual reality" will no longer describe a gross substitution of visual images, but will truly become a second world, even more incredible and very interesting.
It is likely that in the near future an ordinary person will look like this:
The evolutionary process for humans ended a very long time ago. We practically do not differ from our ancestors who lived in the 5th century or earlier. People of the 21st century are made only by education and modern society. It is obvious that the capabilities of the average person are rather mediocre and in the modern informational sea, not everyone feels normal, far from all. Mankind has only one way to cope with emerging problems - to change, adapt to the necessary conditions. But the lack of help from nature forces a person to perfect himself, to change himself independently. It is implants that can become the tool that will allow a person to overcome their natural limitations.
Future of humanity
The future of humanity is the result of the embodiment of our thoughts today.
The future, in all its wealth and diversity, is created today by each of us. So let's make it have no place for evil and violence, lies and crimes. Let's create our future bright and joyful, free and interesting.
The future has always worried representatives of human civilization. Someone tried to look into the future simply out of curiosity, while the majority sought to penetrate the horizon of the present with purely practical purposes.
The future beckons and scares, appears mysterious and promising, or, conversely, gloomy and hopeless. Much of your future outlook depends on your current state. When we are happy with life, the future seems promising to us. If at the moment, you are experiencing a black line, then the future is drawn to you in dark colors. Therefore, in order to change your attitude towards the future right now, change your current state.
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The future, from the point of view of science, is closely connected with the concept of time, the various concepts of which we will briefly outline. The consequence of this approach is the ability to look into the future, and get accurate information about what will happen after a certain period of time. There are clear contradictions in the two approaches to the future. Recently, there has been a clear interest in a third, somewhat unifying, concept, namely, continuous cyclic time. With this approach, there is a rather significant probability of a fairly accurate prediction of the future based on an analysis of similar events that occurred earlier. Apparently, this method was used by the ancient Mayans. |
Technological and intellectual progress is the result of the embodiment of the aspirations of our civilization directed to the future. There are several dimensions with which it is supposed to measure progress.
The Kardashev civilization scale assesses development in terms of the magnitude of the natural resources used by mankind in a given period.
Moore’s law, as a criterion for progress in the information age, suggests focusing on the speed of modern computers.
In both cases, in our opinion, such an assessment suffers from a clear bias towards the human environment, instead of considering the intellectual development of the representative of human civilization as an indicator of progress. It is the degree of intelligence, the dynamism and creativity of thinking, as well as the versatile physical development that should be the only, but constant, criterion for progress.
Otherwise, focusing on the two criteria above, we can come to a situation where a player immersed in a virtual environment using an ultra-modern computer and consuming a giant amount of electricity for his household needs, who can only press the keyboard buttons will be associated with a highly developed representative of humanity.
From general words about the future, we will move on to specific areas in which the level of development seems to us the most significant.
In the first place we put the future of mankindas a reasonable interconnected community of people highly developed intellectually and physically. Under the physical development of a person in the future, we consider the development by people of the sense organs used at the moment, as well as methods for detecting and deploying hidden human abilities.
Next, we describe some of the predictions for the future that scare or, conversely, reassure us. In this section, we also consider current trends in the development of engineering and technology in various fields. Denying the possibility of the real existence of parallel worlds, we nevertheless admit the probability of the exchange of information between humanity and other intelligent civilizations of the Universe (their level of development can be considered parallel to our world, since a higher and significantly lower level of development of intelligence is possible in the Galaxy) .
Will humanity ever manage to do without a state in the future, and how?
My answer to this question is yes. And it is based on an analysis of the functions that the state now performs. We list these functions:
- defense against external attacks;
- law enforcement;
- redistribution of material values \u200b\u200bfor the common good;
- monetary and legislative regulation.
Now ask yourself a question. Will government activity be necessary if two main (at the moment) issues are resolved:
- supplying the population with food and providing people with housing;
- the formation on the basis of the availability of food and housing, and modern education and the education of more humane inclinations in people.
In short, whether it will be necessary to steal and deceive, fight and hypocrites in the UN, if everyone can be provided and so (based on the achievements of science and the production of the future).
If it is not necessary, then there is no need to monitor compliance with laws in this area.
I think that in the future the Earth will be organized on the principle of a highly developed modern commercial company.
Those who want to work get all the opportunities to realize their ambitions and spiritual aspirations.
Those who want to be dependent also have this opportunity (they are provided as modern pensioners).
The planet’s development strategies are discussed publicly, and decisions are made on the basis of intelligent rating management (see details).
Threats to the future, in our opinion, also lie at the level of intelligence and consciousness, and not in the sphere of lack of energy or materials (including food).
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We are all passers-by in the world. We come into it and leave, without even making an attempt to find out the purpose of our appearance in it, stay. Everyone is at a crossroads, and no one knows what is happening, including those who believe that nothing is happening. How to escape from various problems and confusion? What forces control us? How to identify and direct them correctly? No one knows. The hope is only in our egoism, that thanks to it we will achieve success: we will develop, build, progress! So we moved from ancient times and now have come to a modern society of mass neurosis, where the global level problem is uncertainty in life, in tomorrow. And it gradually leads to the question: am I living and acting right?
Everything comes from uncertainty, because no one is able today to vouch for what will be tomorrow. The lack of knowledge about such a law of nature that would include the meaning and reasons for the appearance of man on Earth, who came after the inanimate, plant and animal levels of nature - this is all our trouble, constipation, if you like. If the meaninglessness of existence continues, then we will face devastation, degradation, degeneration and disappearance of a person from the face of the Earth, with the exception of those who still find the notorious meaning of life and begin to live according to its prescription.
The inability to manage events, to confront surprises, to predict them, ignorance of the causality of phenomena - this is the source of uncertainties in life. Because of this, we feel a lack of strength and come to despair.
A few words about the past and the future in terms of a system called "humanity." The past could be so and not quite, depending on the swing amplitude of the pendulum writing history: who should please? Or simply by following the myths inside that are built by upbringing, environment, education, you can correct the story in your own way. She’s past, she cannot kick or spit in the face, but I want to live, and live well. Moreover, imagine a lower organization of society, i.e. the past is easy for us, because we judge it by ourselves, give the actions of those people our own explanation. But since the current level of egoism is much higher than before, it is difficult or impossible for us to understand their motivation, based on weaker egoistic desires.
The future is hidden from man. This gave him a kind of free choice: to study the unknown, but ruling over us, laws of nature or to remain in ignorance. If the future were known to man, then he would not be faced with a choice and would act as an automaton, in addition to his own will. Then it would not be a person, i.e. independent, and some result of the action of nature.
The future is hidden, but try to guess. It is not only cloudless, but also the airless, waterless, growthless animal future. So we are guided by what is happening on the planet. Therefore, no one wants to think and care about the future. In the meantime, the biggest thing a person is capable of in his understanding of the future is to talk about probability.
Yes, we know a number of factors that influence its outcome, but there are other determining factors that we know nothing about. The incompleteness of this knowledge leads only to partial predictability of the result of our today's actions, i.e. future, and therefore always a risky speculation. After all, how are forecasts made? Uncertainty about the future develops the art of customizing, and modern methodology allows you to "prove" anything. With its help, you can justify any causal relationships that come to mind. And to refute - too. Scientific luminaries, hungering for the Nobel and other awards, are engaged in this.
If we knew the reason for our creation, its purpose, we could understand where we are going over time. Unfortunately, we have not yet reached the understanding that development without a precisely directed vector will lead us to defeat. And a person will not want to change his fate if he does not fail in it. He will not come to the realization that it is impossible for him to remain in limbo until, as they say, life compels him. "There is no smarter than experienced."
When a person is satisfied with what is happening, he does not need to be in search; if he is dissatisfied, he protests, looks for why he is feeling bad. And he will begin to ask: where did it come from? What is the reason? What should we do? First, he wants to feel good. But gradually he begins to see that it is impossible that only one thing is good - it will not help, because the world is global. A person is getting smarter and already understands that it is necessary for others to feel good too. And then it comes to the realization that in the first place they feel good.
The only way to get rid of pain forever is to find its cause. We need knowledge of the laws of nature by which we exist. And this is possible only if we find common ground with her, all of us, without exception. It is not enough for us that globalization has connected us with each other as elements of one mechanism. It is important to initially know what program, why we will act! And then a person will feel that the uncertainty of existence has disappeared, and a clear high goal now determines the life of a person and his fate. It turns out that the future of mankind depends only on understanding how disastrous the path in uncertainty is, and then it will invest itself in studying, knowing the law that governs the world.
Source - Internet newspaper United World
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