Steering Human Evolution: Eighteen Theses on Homo Sapiens Metamorphosis

ISBN-13: 9780367409401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 198 str.

Yehezkel Dror

Opis

Being both interdisciplinary and based on personal experience of the author, this book adds up to a novel paradigm on steering human evolution. It will be of great interest to scholars  of modern history, evolution sciences, future studies, political sciences, philosophy of action, and science, and technology and the general reader.

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Introduction 1. Thesis One: there is total novelty under the sun: meta-evolution 2. Thesis Two: humankind is Homo creator 3. Thesis Three: humanity probably fails supermind test 4. Thesis Four: action now! Fateful neogenesis challenges 5. Thesis Five: action delayed: ripening neogenesis challenges 6. Thesis Six: tumbling into metamorphosis 7. Thesis Seven: stunned humanity will convulse 8. Thesis Eight: between kismet and karma 9. Thesis Nine: steering human evolution, however hazardous, is mandatory 10. Thesis Ten: ‘who shall decide’ is the historic question 11. Thesis Eleven: political leaders 2.0 are the main answer 12. Thesis Twelve: pluralist decision teams transform governance 13. Thesis Thirteen: without a global humankind-protecting regime the future is grim 14. Thesis Fourteen: humanity-craft guides evolution steering 15. Thesis Fifteen: rights of future require human duties now 16. Thesis Sixteen: globally demos is the foundation 17. Thesis Seventeen: motivation is the master-key 18. Thesis Eighteen: contained catastrophes are our best chance Epilogue: without a Second Axial Age progress may lead into spiritual wilderness