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http://2100.org Thierry Gaudin

Religions : from history to foresight

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Do you see triangles ?By Kanizsa (Trieste)

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We have not chosen our beliefs

We give our agreementto the tale of the planet

Don Miguel Ruiz, nagual

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Look at religions through ethology :

1-beliefs are built by human mind

2-they are inspired by survival conditions, that change

3-practices are selected through darwinian processes.

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Hunters-gatherers:chamanism

1-the man of knowledge : the chaman

2-the initiatic trip, the second birth

3-the places and processes of communication with spirits

Memory bird

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settlement (-8500) :The goddesses

Çatal Hüyük

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Urban developments(-3000)

Selection of seeds

Surplus

markets

accountingmetrology

writing

schools

check

courts

calculus

caravans : taming of the camel and the horse (-3000)

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Mesopotamia :Gilgamesh

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Likely scenario :-3000, camel and horse are domesticatedmassive urban development : trade is developing

caravans <- predators (from central asia…)protectors -> kingdoms

Trade + conflicts -> Guiles, deceits

Zarathustra : an upper level is needed where truth is to be claimed

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Daevas Ahuras

Vedic India (~1000-1700BC) : knowledge and power

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Ahura Mazda

Zarathustra (~700 ~1700 BC) : merging knowledge and power

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Knowledge Daevas

Power Ahuras

Life

~1700 ? BC

Zoroastrian

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Persia Achemenid (7°-3° BC)

Ahura Mazda :Solar divinity

Forces of lifeand lightOrmuzd

Daevas->DaïmonAhriman

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Knowledge :Devas

Power :Ahuras

life

Post vedic India

Brahmanic

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The three functions in India

Spirituality(Brahma)

creative destruction (Shiva)

Protectionof life (Vishnu)

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The Sadus

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6th century BC, century of the spirit :

Confucius, Lao TseuBuddha

PythagoreGreek philosophy startpoint

Milet and EpheseSynagog and Torah ?

Distinction between what is and what is not (Parmenide)

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5th century BC ; 12th century AD

From faith to institutions

Mani(216-276)

St Augustin(354-430)

Muhammad(570-632)

Christ(0-33)

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12th century : a love storyAlberoni : l’innamoramento, native state

Christianism

Judaism

IslamAl Andaluz

Alonso X Averroes

Maimonides

Ibn Arabi : Man is the pupil of God

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Rûmi

Ibn Arabi

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Institutional reaction :1099 : Pope Innocent III : first inquisitorialprocedure against heretics : « Vergentis Insenium »1132 : Inquisition becomes the dominicans mission1248 : Montsegur stake15 May 1252, Innocent IV : Bull « ad extirpanda »

Institutional creation : the european universitiesBologna, Paris, Oxford

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The centuries of the spirit :15°BC : Zarathustra ?6° BC : Lao Tseu, Confucius, Bouddha, presocratics3° AD : gnostics12° AD : Al andaluz18°-21° AD : the enlightenments -> the planet

Similar messages :Zarathustra claims for truthSocrates too ; he drinks the poisonChrist chases merchants out of the temple : crucifiedMani : all religions say the same thing -> rackedMuhammad chases merchants out of MeccaGalileo : « eppur si muove » ; Giordano Bruno executed

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Terrestre :

Vasco de Gama XIVe

Maritime :

Christophe Colomb XIVe

Navigateur portugais

ligue hanséatique XIIIe s.

route de la soie

Les mondialisations successives

L’atlas de Cantino1502 : seulement 10 ans après Christophe Colomb

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Let the memory speak

First stop

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Printing and protestantism

Gutenberg, 1468

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Valladolid controversy

Bartolomé Las Casas 1550

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Industrial revolutionScottish enlightenment

Knowledge spread out by printing

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Industrial revolution1750-1980 in Europe

Steel, cement Combustion

Taylorism

Microbiology

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Masters and owners of Nature (Descartes)

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Cartesian philosophy of knowledge

Subject

Object

Industrial revolution : Scientism

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Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon

Cognitive industrialisation A machine to see

everything A furtive power cameras in the streets

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Industrialisation

To marriage in Moon sect

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In 1953, Martin Heidegger, in an engineering school, talks « Die frage der teknik » :

1- the essence of technology is nothing technical

2- the essence of technology is the being itself

3- the essence of « modern » technologyis the ge-stell

In the most extreme danger also grows salvationInhabit earth as a poet (Hölderlin)

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After the memory speach

The third millenium

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Cognitive revolution1980-2180

Polymers Electricity

Optronics

Bio-ecology

Con

verg

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By land

Vasco de Gama XIVe

By sea :

digital : Internet

hanseatic league XIIIe

The silk road

Globalisation since -3000

Cantino’s atlas 1502 : only 10 years after Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus 1492

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Internet penetration 2010world 28,7%

Au 74,8Fr 68,9Sp 62,6It 51,7Fi 85,3 D 79,1UK 82,5Port 48,1Swe 92,5Isl 97,6Nl 88,6Be 77,8Ir 65,8Dk 86,1

India 6,9Pakistan 10,4Kazakhstan 34,3Indonesia 12,3Thaïland 26,3China 31,6Vietnam 27,1Singapour 77,8Malaisia 64,6Taiwan 70,1Japan 78,2Hong-Kong 68,8Korea 81,1

Venezuela 34,2Mexico 27,2Brazil 37,8Peru 27,0Argentina 64,4Chile 50,0

Canada 77,7USA 77,3

Algeria 13,6Egypt 21,2South Africa 10,8Tunisia 34,0Morocco

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Source : internetworldstats.com

In 2025, more than 75% on the whole planet. Polycultural Internet. Telecom operators challenging banks…

Se 55,9Sk 74,3Sv 64,8Bo 31,2Ro 35,5Po 58,4Cz 65,5 Ru 42,8Gr 43,2Hu 61,8Cr 50Mn 44,1Ma 51Li 59,3Es 75,1La 67,8 Al 43,5

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Babel is back

Basic : 600 wordsAuthor : 6000Language : 60000 words

X 6700 languagesTechno : 6 Millions items

Unicode : 65536 signs

Intelligence at all levels : Global and regionalManagement illusion : 400 words to control the world

Biological diversity :6 to 30 Millions

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The time barrier

We are not living in an information society, but in a« disinformation society »

Classical economics assumed that actors were perfectly informed lucid and watchful. The basic assumption being false, the theory is not valid any more

Desorientation is everywhere : Hyperchoice (Toffler), cognitive overload… and what about Gramsci’scultural hegemony ?

MagritteThe therapist

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Mind your brain…

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Children drawings (Bade Wurtemberg)

TV : less than 1 hour a day

TV : more than 3 hours a day

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Diversity of beliefs

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The world seen by Huntington

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Kali

The hidden divinityof economy :

Creative destruction(Schumpeter)

mobilises trillions of $and requires human sacrifices

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Destruction of Kali’s temple

Excess of creative destructionturns to destructive destruction

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Cloud

The three functions (Dumezil)nowadays

Creative destruction(capitalism)

Protection of life (ecology)

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The key question of foresight, which will be even more present in the coming decades, is the disruption of the equilibrium between nature and human species.

The greenhouse effect, the reduction of biodiversity, the exhaustion of sea resources and the destruction of tropical rainforests impose behaviours opposite to the current watchwords of productivity, consumption and competition.

If the Internet is intended to work as a planetary nervous system, is it able to become the base of a global consciousness of the whole human species, enough to reverse the regulations of its behaviours ?

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Anxious care for Mother Earth : Rio summit 92

49« Mother earth » (Gaïa, Lovelock)

Female divinity : humanity survival depends on the planet

TociIxquicCoatlicueEhuacueyeCuerauaperiPeuameMam

Seen Fromspace

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Cognitive revolutionBiological model : recognition

Living being Living being

Enter the future

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Empathy, observed at neural levelsteps over the barrier between species (Lorentz, Lestel)

New «  Valladolid controversy » : have animals a soul, and other living beings too?

Empathy would be also the basis of collectivebeings : tribes, firms, NGO’s… and now virtual communities

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Charles Darwin thinking path

Beginning of life, 3,4 Billion yearsRNAs, the messengers

0,8 billion years : polycellulars appear mutual recognition, cooperation and specialisation

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Nature’s information inventions :

The nervous system

Music, danse, speech

Vision

Internet, global nervous system

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The roots of the past :Tibernitus garden

We are not made of matter

Matter flows through our bodies ; identity stays

Identity is made of communication processes

Apoptosis : cellular suicide by lack of communication

55Monet’s nymphéas

Human beings are the follow up of the evolution of consciousnessConsciousness raised from elementary to global,From the cell to the plant, then to the animal, thento humans…And soon to the whole biosphere

56Earth seen from the sky

The « struggle for life » vision (Spencer) shows onlya small part of life, natural pruning.

The essence of life is made of cooperation, symbiosis of cells, individuals, organisations, species

This cooperation is made of information exchange flows,recognition and anticipation. It is the rise of consciousness.

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« cosmic speculation garden »

Spencer’s vision, the « struggle for life » inspiredeconomic and political thinking since the industrial revolution (real politics, competitivity…)Facing the limits of the planet, maintaining this vision would lead to collapse (Jared Diamond)

Thus, evolution of consciousness needs a great step forward

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Declining : Rising :

From heteronomia to autonomia : the values

De WaalSimondonCyrulnik

DominationConquestPerformance

EmpathyIndividuationResilience

Authors :

2 missions in the scealed dome. From 26 september 1991 to 26 september 1993. From march to september 1994

Biosphere 2 : Noah’s (Utanapisti) arch of the third millenium

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How many different species for a stable ecosystem?How many different species for a stable ecosystem?

61To Homo Sapiens

Foresight for 21st century

From Homo Coca-colensis

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