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Living Cognitive Society:
A "digital" World of Views

Viktoras Veitas

Weaver (David Weinbaum)

The Global Brain Institute, Center Leo Apostel
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

http://FreedomAndConstraint.github.io/Vienna2015Presentation

[..] "thou hast made danger thy calling;
therein there is nothing contemptible.
Now thou perishest by thy calling: therefore will
I bury thee with mine own hands."

Friedrich Nietzsche. "Thus Spake Zarathustra".

Living Cognitive Society:
A "digital" World of Views"

The current situation
of the global society

Living Cognitive
Society

The [disruptive] impact
of the ICT

The current situation of the global sociotechnological system

Unless you have been under a rock,
you know that the world is changing fast...

Chaos versus Hierarchy?

Society is ... "viscous":

.. but we still think in terms of hierarchies.

Three perspectives of sense-making

Factual necessity

Value-based perspective

Pragmatics-based perspective

Courtesy: Murat Turan @korsaatchi

Worldview:

Our
aspirations

1) Exploration, growth and development;

2) Stability and safety;

Our
"tendencies" and possibilies

1) Survival;

2) Abundance;

3) Dystopia...

Our
approaches to governance

1) Domination of individual states...

2) World government;

3) Distributed governance;

Reflexivity
of the social systems

Friend or foe?

Friend?

Friend!

Foe?

Foe!

"I think the most
important question facing humanity is,
'Is the universe a friendly place?'

This is the first and most basic question
all people must answer for themselves.[...]"

Albert Einstein.

Living Cognitive Society

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Scalable system

Interactions between scales

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A World of Views:

Social subsystems -
embodiments of worldviews

The Global Brain is A World of Views

Structure:
A World of Views

Dynamics:
assemblage theory and cognitive development

Integration / coupling

Disintegration / decoupling

Integrated
focal scale

Integrated
focal scale

Disintegrated
focal scale

Interplay of internal and external relations

Cognitive development:

an ongoing balancing of internal and external relations and interactions across the emerging boundary of an individual towards increasing cognitive complexity

Emergence of a cognitive agent

Scheme of cognitive development

Synthetic
cognitive
development

Coupling
between structure and dynamics

Metastability

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1. the phenomenon when a system
is permanently in a configuration other than
the system's state of least energy;

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2. the basins of attraction
are in permanent flux
(no stable state of least energy);

Progressive determination of structure and operation:

$$S_1 \rightarrow O_1 \rightarrow S_2 \rightarrow O_2 \rightarrow S_3 \rightarrow...$$

The [disruptive] impact of the
ICT

Interactivity

The factors of social complexity

Hyper-connectivity

Accelerating change

Diversity

Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie

Agatha Christie
(detective novels and short stories)

Mary Westmacott
(romances)

Nicolas
Bourbaki

I. Set theory
II. Algebra
III. Topology
IV. Functions of one real variable
...
IX. Spectral theory

Juridical persons

satoshin@gmx.com

Decentralized/distributed
autonomous organizations/corporations

Fluidity

Distributed social governance

Questions?