Читать «Нелинейное будущее» онлайн - страница 317

Акоп Погосович Назаретян

§1.1.1.5. The fifth vector of evolution: Restrictions in physical violence. Bloodshed Ratio as a cross-cultural index………………………….. 85

§1.1.1.6. The techno-humanitarian balance and the sixth vector of evolution: Virtualization……………………………………………102

Ch.1.1.2. Phase transitions in social history & prehistory…………………..121 §1.1.2.1. “A dove with a hawk’s beak” & the life-asserting neurosis………..122 §1.1.2.2. Cultural pseudo-speciation, selection & crises in the Paleolithic…..136 §1.1.2.3. The Neolithic: At the threshold of society-nature & inter-tribe cooperation………………………………………………………….150 §1.1.2.4. The Urban Revolution: “Habitual” & written law………………….164 §1.1.2.5. “Morals for bronze” & “morals for steel”: The origins of critical thinking……………………………………………………………...176 §1.1.2.6. Prehistory & the formation of “indust-reality”. Disappointments of industrial paradise………………………………………………..195 §1.1.2.7. The Century of Humanism? ………………………………………..211 §1.1.2.8. On the counterfactuals in history: From free will to evolutionary hyperbole……………………………………………………………229 Ch.1.1.3. A Complexity-Theory view of evolution……………………………235 §1.1.3.1. Sustainable non-equilibrium & types of crisis. The Law of delayed dysfunction & the Rule of redundant variety………………236

§1.1.3.2. Evolutionary dynamics: The Law of requisite variety & the Law of hierarchical compensations……………………………..247

§1.1.3.3. Complexity: Structure, energy & information. Intellect as Maxwell’s Demon…………………………………………………..252

Section 1.2. From the Big Bang to the Olduvai…………………………………….265

Ch.1.2.1. Mega-evolution: Planetary & cosmic contexts of human history…………………………………………………......265

§1.2.1.1. The constructs of World, Global & Universal (Big) history………..265

§1.2.1.2. Versions of Universal history……………………………………….271

§1.2.1.3. Universal history, cybernetics & synergetics……………………….277

Ch.1.2.2. Continuity of the evolutionary mechanisms………………………..283

§1.2.2.1. Collisions of sustainable non-equilibrium in the biosphere………...283

§1.2.2.2. Expansion of evolutionary hyperbole, and – again on the counterfactuals……………………………………………………...290

§1.2.2.3. The cosmological arrow of time…………………………………….295

Part II. Humanitarian determinants of the future………………………………...301

Section 2.1. The midst of the 21st century: The Singularity Puzzle……………....301

Ch.2.1.1. “The laws of nature” & creative mind……………………………..301

§2.1.1.1. The Snooks-Panov Vertical. Mind as an agent of universal evolution…302

§2.1.1.2. The two key questions for strategic forecasting……………………306

Ch.2.1.2. The challenges of the 21st century…………………………………..320

§2.1.2.1. What is meant by “Global crisis”? …………………………………320

§2.1.2.2. Humanist culture and human biology………………………………322

§2.1.2.3. “Knowledge-enabled destruction”………………………………….325

§2.1.2.4. Attractors & scenarios………………………………………………329