Sustainable Development and Sustainability Education?
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Conclusion The philosophical background of Vernadsky concepts is Cosmism, a holistic representation of the Universe. The two fundamental laws of Vernadsky's concept of biosphere are: 1) The biogenic migration of chemical elements in the biosphere tends toward a maximum of manifestation. 2) The evolution of species, intending towards the creation of new forms of life, must always move in the direction of increasing biogenic migration of the atoms in the biosphere. Both do not contradict the famous Plato's definiton of hylozoic view in Timaeus, the old Docta Ignorantia and Concordantia Catholica (Nicholas of Cusa) and many more fundamental discoveries. Both cover most of known evolutionary theories, like Charles Darwin's, Selectionism, Jean Baptist Lamarck, Karl Ernst von Baer, Lev Berg, Henri Bergson and others. They do not contradict the old and proven I Ching (Wilhelm, Baynes, 1967) structures of human reflection: two-dimensional diversity. The first dimension - reflection of some primary event, the second dimension - reflection of reflection (reproduction of this reflection). The latter has been already implemented in IT and it is called metaprogramming. Therefore conceptual solutions of sustainable (development), sustainability (education) and (civic society) system all based on critical thinking are feasible, realistic and they could be implemented even at the local level; they accept that the genetic system serves not only as a tool for conservation of information but for its optimal emergent generation. As all linguistic terms in natural laws, including molecular genetics actually define the edge between natural science and humanitarian knowledge the argued integrated approach form a closed loop. Therefore the integration process of science, education, business and politics should enjoy a priority. Language first, as it is alive since it is used and the life of language is language game: an open process without frames.(Gahringer, 1959; Drapela, 2004) Contact address Jan Campbell, Dept of Human Resource Management, University of Economics Prague, W.Churchill Sq. No. 4, CZ 130 067 Prague 3 Telephone: +420 720 154 999, office: +420 224 098 312 E-mail: jan.campbell@vse.cz and jancam@jancam.eu
The Tractatus is notorious for its interpretative difficulties. In the decades that have passed since its publication it has gone through several waves of general interpretations. Beyond exegetical and hermeneutical issues that revolve around particular sections there are a few fundamental, not unrelated, disagreements that inform the map of interpretation. These revolve around the realism of the Tractatus, the notion of nonsense and its role in reading the Tractatus itself, and the reading of the Tractatus as an ethical tract. Sense (of humor or irony) or better, purpose (of life and our activities) and ideas (we are able and willing to produce) do exist outside of space and outside time as we recognize them from applied definitions; they do exist above the reality as we percieve it. Thanks to this the purpose and ideas meet with reality in no-location. This means that the purpose and the idea infuence the reality all the time (continuously), never specifically (no concrete action) and nowhere (no concrete location). Therefore it is so difficult understand for the ordinary professionals, thinkers or students who develeped a habit to divide the world into locations and identify in terms of material and informational objects that both, a purpose and an idea have no specific location. Metaphore: How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. (Pualos, J.,M. 1980 Mathematics & Humor: A Study of the Logic of Humor. University Of Chicago, ISBN 978-0-226-65024-1 In the context of all the beforesaid all movements, reforms and other actions of the past, current and in the future, which may be taken or appear in the West, Russia and East within societies (and therefore within civilizations), and which are focused mostly on economic issues aiming avoiding social unrest or even wars are hardly prognosticable with current methods at both macro and micro levels. At the macro level the state can act with police, penalties and prison one can make a prediction and prognosis. At the micro level, in the family, workplace and within the individuum, the state is quasi helplesss. It can hardly do anything against this ifluence, because to oppose one paradigm is possible only by employing another one. Paradigm is like a glass wall: you dont see, but you feel it when you touch it. A physical power (police, penalties prison a.o.) and controll (of movement, information, registration a.o.) are principially local and have therefore a local character. Purpose(s) and idea(s) are non-local. They have no local sense and there is no local purpose. Therefore to expect a success of non organic reform or actions is a foolishness aminig to winn time. A pragmatism alone cannot deliver solutions to the current challenges. Any solution with a potential for a success would therefore need to be based on a different ideas, strategies and tactics all based on specific tasks. In the Western societies, including the NATO, EU with its current trends (UK considerding a referendum to stay or to leave the EU, Greece, Portugal and other countries to leave the EURO currency or not, and so on, novelty approach is required. In Russia the situation is similar. As a society with Eurasian characteristics it doesn't need a national idea, about which we can hear from time to time with reference to the history. Russia needs a national task. Once this has been understood and considered, the West and also the East may experience and deal with more asserttive Russia. We can observe initial symptoms of it already now. It would benefit the whole world. For Asia applies an analogy. Not only because at the cognitive level the individual forms a collective and keeps at the same time its individuality - meaning that there is no boundry between the individuum and the collective (actions) - but also because one and the same idea as a (re)source of a purpose can influence two and many different people or collectives in no way related to each other in material or informational sense or otehrwise linked together. This important statement suggests that there is no difference between non-locality and trans-personality. It has important practical applications within an integration process. An individual can be manager or engineer and the collective, the society the subject of actions to be managed, investigated or engineered. At this point seems to be worth mention, that such an understanding of a cognitive level does not contain an information and rationale, but that it is enough to have an independent purpose and idea. The areas in which such a cognitive approach can be applied successfully covers Prognostics, in which physical and cybernetic appraoch does not offer binding solutions, Economy, where we can easily observe an increase of cognitive factors in economic activity and individual's behaviour, Marketing and Intra-marketing, which cannot ignore anymore cognitive factors at all, HR deveopment and management including Organisational development, where the management of know-how represents a serious challenge to all applying current school books methods and where the challenges facing young companies and organisations are subject teleological and old(er) one causal reasoning. As one can see, the old genie Goethe with his Anschuungs-Theorie, hundert years before we could comprehend it, Paul Kammerer (1880-1926) with his Law of seriality, which was found even by Einsten as not an absurd idea (Das Gesetz der Serie, never translated into English, stating that all events are connected by waves of seriality, unknown forces that would cause what we would perceive as just the peaks, or groupings and coincidences), Cybernetics as defined by Norbert Wiener (1894-1964 ) - Information is information, not matter or energy – (1948) Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine,Paris, (Hermann & Cie) & Camb. Mass. (MIT Press) ISBN 978-0-262-73009-9 with is numerous definitons (see below) and last but not Vernadsky's Biosphere concept don't contradict each other and leads inevitably to the urgent need for looking at the current state of our science, education, business and power from principally different poit of view should we really wish to preserve the life on our Planet. Definitions of Cybernetics according to Wikipedia: "Science concerned with the study of systems of any nature which are capable of receiving, storing and processing information so as to use it for control." -- A. N. Kolmogorov "The art of securing efficient operation." -- L. Couffignal "'The art of steersmanship': deals with all forms of behavior in so far as they are regular, or determinate, or reproducible: stands to the real machine -- electronic, mechanical, neural, or economic -- much as geometry stands to real object in our terrestrial space; offers a method for the scientific treatment of the system in which complexity is outstanding and too important to be ignored." -- W. Ross Ashby "A branch of mathematics dealing with problems of control, recursiveness, and information, focuses on forms and the patterns that connect."-- Gregory Bateson "The art of effective organization."-- Stafford Beer "The art and science of manipulating defensible metaphors."-- Gordon Pask "The art of creating equilibrium in a world of constraints and possibilities."-- Ernst von Glasersfeld "The science and art of understanding."-- Humberto Maturana "The ability to cure all temporary truth of eternal triteness." -- Herbert Brun "The science and art of the understanding of understanding."-- Rodney E. Donaldson "A way of thinking about ways of thinking of which it is one."-- Larry Richards LITERATURE AND REFERENCES
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12 A term used by some geologists to designate the later portion of Quaternary time marked by man's existence. Thus it includes all of recent time and an indefinite portion of the Pleistocene period characterized by the presence of human intelligence. 2 3 In the known work " Theoretical biology "(2002) Ervin Bauer for the first time has formulated " The General law of biology ", consisting in the following: “All and only alive systems never are in balance and execute at the expense of the free energy constant work against balance required by the laws of physics and chemistry under existing external conditions.And, “It is characteristic for alive systems that they at the expense of the free energy make work against expected balance.” 4 Vernadsky stated, life is a powerful geological force. Darwin was well aware of the reciprocal influence of organism and environment<...>as a formalization instrument of paradoxical relationships of biological systems and environment. Yüklə 200 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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