It is important to understand that any attempt to set moral values and ethical rules and then to proceed to enforce them, is as immoral as the immorality it attempts to overcome—in a fair and open society. In a world with many believes any belief set and enforced on others instantly breaches this basic requirement of morality.
The philosopher Kant along with most moral philosophers furthermore agree that a basic moral obligation is to not treat humanity as a mere means. This obligation extends to also treating ourselves as part of humanity and not as a mere means to self-gratification or increasing status by enforcing our ideas of morality onto others. By blindly following a certain belief with concrete moral values and then continuing to promote similar beliefs and criticize and judge others in breach of such values, not only do we treat humanity as a mere means to strengthen personal beliefs and gain self-recognition, but it disregards others and their beliefs. So there clearly is no higher morality in setting a list of moral rules and then enforcing them onto others, especially using, deprivation, threats or force to gain support. There is however lots to be gained from constantly searching for and improving a universal ethic constantly adjusting its values to progress towards a more livable world and ethical society for all it contains.
Currently we are negotiating two worlds: one with no power, neglect, poverty and poor health, and another generally set by economists in a world of power-play, control, nervousness and uncertainty— both clearly can be improved. Established as issues affecting us all, this concern has progressed beyond moral judgment or an attempt to set another belief system, in as much as revealing inevitable weaknesses in the current system in urgent need of change. Change is also newly understood as a prerequisite for both progressive knowledge and understanding in our search for a better, safer and more functional world. Subsequently this is a duty and not another mere proposition to be followed by dogma and concrete rules.
From accession to impartial knowledge also mostly flow the performance of altruism. This in turn further reciprocating our capacity of knowing and improving our understanding of each other, our world and subsequently our morality. For this reason, a free media and open education remain essential in evolving both our knowledge and morality. Unaltered and constantly updated knowledge is vital to any evolutionary epistemology. Ridding knowledge of being suspicious of manipulation is a moral obligation to help reciprocally advance our understanding and improve our interconnected world and its unanimous concerns. Reducing existing biases in the distribution or attempts to sway the interpretation of knowledge, is a barrier to an expanding network with its links based on trust and respect set in a secure ethos. Such an interlinked network can also create the opportunity for all to confidently participate in our search for a better world and support each other. Furthermore, for knowledge to be useful, it needs to constantly improve the overall human condition. How we now beginning to understand a new evolution to function, meet these criteria. As part of a perceptive web critically depending on trustworthy links, it simultaneously is flexible and constantly adapts itself to changing conditions and new demands.
The most significant impact on our morality, and in support of moral philosophers such as Kant, came from realizing how we now have to inevitably confront life as a delicately interconnected ongoing perceptive change, with progressive knowledge as an equally ephemeral base. More and more aware of what we are and how we function, we have come a long way from a Post Copernican universe and Darwin’s evolving ape. We also now realized science still cannot tell us what matter is, even down to its smallest particles (electrons and beyond) but only progress our understanding of what it does; and perhaps with some level of accuracy predict how it may behave under set conditions. With us responsible for setting and measuring these conditions, and with everything interacting and evolving in an expanding universe, constantly evolving new unknowns and more mystery, the task now appears to be growing in complexity and forever ongoing. Above all it comes with enormous moral responsibility and ethical requirements. We can perhaps see how the intrinsic nature of matter will perhaps remain forever elusive as a vital requirement for life in an expanding network, yet it
A cold quiet Beijing the morning of the Covid official announcement of the Covid outbreak.
remains a disciplined action. This elusiveness of matter subject to persistent change is now becoming apparent as the key ingredient of a perceptive evolution, and a conclusive ‘theory of everything’ may perhaps be an unobtainable goal. Our evolution is slowly emerging as an expanding interactive response in a growing cognitive-web, inter-dependent, from sub-atomic level right up to the human brain and extending into, who knows, but the idea of a ‘thought up’ universe is becoming quite plausible.
Realizing in the sciences that the only thing we know about the intrinsic nature of matter is that some of it – the stuff making up mammalian brains – involves experience based on evolving perception and awareness, the material world is slowly losing its substance. Even here everything is also constantly changing, responding and adjusting and branching out in escalating complexity. Electrons and protons make-up atoms and atoms in turn protein molecules, brains and all else we call life as we experience it— thoughts about thoughts. All these atoms and molecules interact and respond to change, stimulating each other in an escalation of life in a living universe. We now see RNA and DNA deploying more complex protein molecules serving in escalating responses to new levels, simultaneously creating more mobility and pliability to diversify in this self-enhancing escalation of complexity we call life.
In physics the crux also came in having to recently face a confidence-breaking choice. Physicists realized they have to either suppose that the intrinsic nature of fundamental particles only involves set experience of measurements of their objective values, such as waves or mass, or we suppose that they simultaneously have some entirely unknown intrinsic nature we cannot measure. Forced inarguably now to accept the metaphysical drive of macroscopic things as continuous and interlinked with the nature of microscopic things, and with both continuously interacting and changing, inevitably we confront more complexity, discontinuity and ongoing mystery— as we perceive this. This obscurity however is crucial and a congruent with a unified view coming from both evolutionary biology and physics, where new evidence leading us in the direction of what can only be seen as particle responsiveness or what physicist now refer to as panpsychism. With particle responsive only predictable up to a point, we have already mentioned how some prominent quantum physicists are leaning towards this idea. If perceptive beings responsive to each other, their world and place in an interactive expanding universe, does not awaken us to some ethical commitments in a ‘thinking’ universe what else will? Such a newly understood interconnected evolution not only continue to amaze us with its escalating complexity and interactive obligations, but re-emphasizing our moral roots set in a cognitive evolution with endless potential. This universe now appears to ‘think itself up’ into growing complexity and will not surrender to ‘set ideas’ as it expands in this cognitive force.
With this new awareness also came yet another major dilemma in the physical sciences, how can there be one rule for the objective world before a measurement is made, and another that jumps in after the measurement? We now have to renew our thinking to at least three awareness levels— the perceiver of change, the change in the perceived and as containments of a perceptive network. We clearly have to consider that this expanding network driven by change may remain forever elusive and unmeasurable, all we can do is evolve as participants in measuring objective values while evolving as interconnected ‘presences’, hoping for some accuracy based on this ‘inaccuracy’. In the end they will remain mysterious and unpredictable while we exist and change in this expansive universal interconnected responsiveness. This unpredictable mystery of an infinite unknown is also exactly what drives a perceptive evolution and escalate our moral demands. Ethical commitments make it function to its full capacity, and this is where we can and must evolve beyond treating it as a mere means of exploitation of objects and each other. In thought and morality, we can secure our progress into a universe where anything is possible, hope is realistic, and dreams can come true.
Set now in such a multidimensional perceptive change with its ethical demands, our duty is to make wise assessments in predicting short term outcomes of how measured objects may interact and behave in harmony to continuously evolve a better world for all and serve in a growing cognitive network. We can sense the unnecessary extra burden on this process if still complicated by attempts to manipulate, control, exploit or configure measurements and matter to fit personal short-sighted needs and serve false belief systems secured by egocentric links. Such unethical actions, generally immune to change, are also not useful in making good science, assist in understanding a growing cosmic network, or duty bound to follow a universal ethic. Science and life, both set to continuously progress in harmony and evolve cognition and understanding in a network must immunize itself against pseudoscience, financial sway and solipsism, and exploitation of ‘human capital’. We should on all levels avoid setting a rule or theory and then attempt to make and evolving world and universe fit our fixed values but rather evolve our theories and values continuously and ethically with new understanding. A model based on these values and adaptability is proposed in conclusion here.
How new science is now serving as a guide to reduce bias and create a model for more adaptable healthcare systems.
It becomes increasingly difficult to concede to the dogma of fixed beliefs and rules when we see both natural science and quantum physics progressing by constantly evolving one theory from another as an essential need. There is now increased responsibility on both science and society to act both ethically and flexibly as vital parts of a trustworthy interactive universal network. Placing this under the restrictive power of an outdated economic model we can clearly see the imperative need to urgently evolve here and make adjustments to obtain something more pragmatic and flexible.
We have now entered an era of ‘interconnectionism’ well advanced from a freak solitary mutation exposed to a disinterested natural selection process mechanically operating based on a fight for survival. We are now busy discovering how the inanimate world interconnect and ‘communicate’ with the biological world, rhizomatically growing ethical demands on all levels.
This dramatically changes not only the way we see ourselves entirely, but how an unmeasurable awareness conducts these interactions between species and now also pre-biotic levels. Darwin would certainly be surprised, if not shocked!
We now see an evolution even on a molecular level as responsive, interconnected on all levels and vitally dependent on changing and changeable environments as part of a progressive interconnected cognition.
This major shift in awareness and understanding also comes with renewed moral responsibility. Set on levels of interaction never dreamt of before we now have to expand our knowledge and concepts of morality to also include— infinite change, the environment and inanimate world as part of a comprehensive universal evolutionary package. Current outdated Cartesian belief systems and a myopic economic model simply can no longer hide behind unproven set concepts, or be driven by ‘physics envy’, they have to be more pragmatic. Even more frightening is if this has become tenet as is currently the case. As discussed so far, and now more aware of our evolving universal moral demands, we can no longer hide our innate egocentrism behind a selfish gene or an outdated model. We now have to consider progress as part of a unanimous cognitive evolution in a ‘thinking’ universe. This new understanding will progressively and inescapably affect us on all levels. It may excuse some of our historic immorality and ignorance but no longer has time to tolerate a faltering ethic well past its use-by date, or serve as a realistic concept anymore.
From this understanding a new ethos in healthcare can also emerge if we pay heed to newly gained wisdom. We now have evidence even on cellular level demanding an ethic of equality, fairness and honesty. Such an ethic being universal, extend its duties rightfully to all levels of existence. This includes maintaining healthy environments as suitable avenues to peacefully interact and develop ourselves without fear, exclusion or suppression.
Regardless of extinction theories and our own fragility in a world threatened by climate change, selfishness, political demagoguery, unemployment, meteorite strikes or global famine we are combined in an inescapable intrinsic awareness and universal ethic with infinite promise and hope. All that is required from us, is to act wisely and be part of this universal ethos slowly unfolding our cognitive presence, into a universe we are inescapably part of.
Starting with the current outdated economic model, clearly distancing itself from moral concerns and urgently in need of adjustment we must all participate in change now. Our survival is now seen as a combined effort with outcomes dependent on a unanimous effort affecting and considerate of every link in an expansive network.
As the caretakers of our physical and mental health, the current ethos in medicine also demands a significant update. We need to rapidly change its format to address combined concerns on all levels affecting the cognitive wellbeing of suffering sentient beings wherever possible, including the environment without cost barriers. Here above all we should not be threatened or restricted by a failing and outdated economic model or corporate mentality.
Emerging from this new knowledge are now new opportunities to
continuously evolve progressive models.
Starting with economics and medicine we can now employ models and guidelines in a new ethos that are adaptable and receptive to continuous change and match global needs and new demands, and simultaneously function in a universal ethic.
Such models should continuously re-invent itself, reduce bias and remain truthful, functional and backed by a pragmatic progressive science, while evolving knowledge in a cognitive network. Subservient to a universal ethic, rather than false beliefs or egocentric needs, it opens itself to help reduce the ongoing strife fueled by cultural and religious differences.
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We can conclude by presenting one such model based on our new knowledge here:
This model in order to suit progressive needs meet the following criteria:
· Fit an ethic of universality and avoids dogma
· Be adaptable and changeable as escalating needs change.
· Evolve knowledge free from self-centered biases.
· Openly and freely interconnect pragmatic knowledge as part of an expanding network
· Constantly confront evolving unknowns in search of better comprehension towards an improved world,
· Support un-manipulated knowledge in a universal ethic where resources are justly distributed.
From this platform we interconnect an operate in three Spheres of Perception.
Goal directed, pragmatic, reducing bias and with some protection against the impact of false belief systems and egocentrism, interconnecting ideas in these three Spheres of Perception—between a Physical Space of Reasoning, Logical Space of Reasoning and the Metaphysical, problems can evolve set in a universal ethic. This model is hallmarked by being non- restrictive in progressing our knowledge and epistemology to adjust to evolving needs.
In such a model, workable solutions to current problems are placed in the three spheres defined then as:
1) The Physical Space of Reasoning. This sphere of pragmatic and realistic ideas can be networked and configured with things as they actually exist. Although even here concepts may reside ephemerally, as we now understand the ephemeral nature of knowledge, we understand the Physical Space of our reasoning as a refined locale for evolving truthful and pragmatic knowledge. This fits the Popperian proposal where tentative theories can reside, serving as workable but falsifiable solutions to a specific problem, persistently turning tentative theories and solutions into new problems. These problems then recycled back to the metaphysical or again returned to the Logical Sphere— defined below. With change as the only constant, and also as the vital drive for a perceptive evolution, the Physical Space of reasoning not only serves as our pragmatic and bias-reduced operating platform to a functional world but is vitally interlinked to the Logical Space of Reason and Metaphysical, while constantly adjusting itself to create a better world. This is the sphere that put a human on the moon, gave us electricity and transplanted a human heart.
2) The Logical Space of Reasoning is the subjective sphere lacking clarity and open to discourse but vital to our model to furnish the constant changing demands of an insatiable Physical Space of Reasoning and its ongoing need for workable ‘tentative’ theories. The logical space of reasoning is also where all concepts are filtered for reliability and value. This overworked logical space is where much argument and dispute arise due the equivocality it is set in. Much of political, religious and economic debate spend enormous effort and time in attempts to convince the Physical Space to accept subjective data without clear evidence or based on swayed values or false beliefs. The needlessly exploited Logical Space is also where attempts are constantly made to sway opinion and outcomes for personal gain or support and result in most conflict and suffering, we witness around us.
3) The Metaphysical, it can also be called the unknown and hold two vital elements in our model. One is that it constantly evolves with the other two spheres—as our knowledge changes so too does the metaphysical. The other is that this sphere acts as the vital drive for a perceptive evolution. Just think about it, if all was set and understood in a ‘theory of everything’ there would be no point to a perceptive interactive evolution. In fact, the very word evolution would cease to exist and cognition meaningless under one set theory ‘explaining everything’, unless this theory allows for change. And as soon as it does create allowance for change, so too does the theory remain untrue to its initial claim and falsifiable.
Our model and concept as proposed here may have some future value in block-chaining together data from numerous Physical Spaces of Reasoning’s’, simultaneously evolving knowledge in various operating systems from healthcare to many other fields. Hallmarked for openness, interconnectivity and pliability in all spheres this model adopts principles from recent knowledge in evolutionary biology and the physical sciences.
Operating in acceptance of constant change and placing our thought process into these three spheres, we have a method to reduce bias and stimulate clear thinking. The model creates scope for creating equal and open discourse and expand ideas and yet expose opinion to fact and logic to prove and disprove uncertainties argued in the more equivocal Logical space of reasoning. As a workable model able to scale down biases before harbored in the Physical Space of Reasoning, it serves to improve our ability to evolve our knowledge more truthfully, without disregard of the implausible and remain continuously active in our search for a better world.
It is based on the same principles we see in evolutionary biology functioning on molecular level, where constant change is perceptive to the changes around an organism or cell, and it responds accordingly to formulate pragmatic outcomes from existing ones. Our model, likewise, driven to expand a network in escalation of complex and interconnected ideas, is able to assist an orderly, yet pliable, branching network set in an intrinsic awareness of pragmatic needs.
Such a model equipped to confront constant change and entirely flexible can simultaneously evolve our morality and truthful knowledge to more responsively adjust to a progressive society and its changing needs.
Utilizing this or similar pliable and adaptable models, we can escalate our morality and account for fairness on all levels in sharing our delicate environment, resources and knowledge with refreshed interest and universal moral understanding. This will reemphasize and include the importance and urgency of a respectful, trusting and functional global society — interlinked to equal access to clean environments, good education, resources and housing. Now becoming a global ethical concern and a goal directed duty in a Physical Space of Reasoning we can no longer say it is ‘not profitable’, as clearly now no profit can be measured against the demands of creating overall well-being in a respectful and civilized society in a universal ethic. Functioning in a Physical Space of reasoning, rather than confused in a strife torn Logical space of reasoning with all its egocentricism and biases, we are also no longer lost in the metaphysical but driven by it.
Current business models and politicians can draw on such models to adapt outdated economic and belief systems, or else be left behind in the progress offered by a new universal evolution. This paradigm shift and the potential of creating new models can also set the background for a new era in healthcare where everyone can reap the benefits and have equal access to our evolutionary advances set in a cosmic awareness and universal ethic— with happy doctors returning patients to healthy environments.
Educational facilities will need to progress beyond merely selling knowledge to students based on how the material world works with the vague promise of increasing their value in a society focused on reaping profits off ‘functional’ human capital. With knowledge constantly subject to change they need to persistently make students more aware of not possessing knowledge but ethically interconnecting it to a respectful society as part of combined universal cognitive effort. Cleverness will be set in a cosmic awareness and seen as how you can help others and the environment within a receptive society rather than outmaneuvering competitors with ‘privileged’ knowledge set in a war-like survivalist mentality. Perhaps a good start may be creating more awareness of this model and the emerging potential panpsychism as revealed by physicists. Current business models and false belief systems struggling to remain confident and again lagging well behind here, have serious concerns and catching up to do.
The value of such a model set in its adaptability is unquestionable. The how to spread and introduce it then remains as our principal challenge and some suggestions will be proposed in the next section.
Once ignited however, the concept and the importance of healthy environments and abolishing poverty will be re-energized. We may expect clean environments and high standard education to become more freely accessible with eradication of slums and unhealthy living conditions a goal directed global effort and concern— no longer hiding behind those unsubstantial words, ‘it is unprofitable’. Cost limitations will no longer be seen as a valid excuse by stronger governments and be far less controlled by corporations. Focused now on pragmatic and ethical outcomes, juggling an economy furnished already by debt will hardly seem a worthy pursuit. Sixty-nine trillion dollars as the world clock ticks at the time of writing this and the enormous profits made in interests every second by those furnishing this debt will be rejected as illogical, well before it enters the Physical Space of logically thinking in a thinking universe.
Idealism is now no longer a worthy accusation. Set in this new wisdom, disregarding the well-being of other sentient beings and the environment, or hiding behind mythical beliefs or the directives of a cruel economic system, is also no longer forgivable merely as another form of ignorance. Now considered a moral crime, the new unanimous ethos is based on pragmatic outcomes and solutions, rather than quick fixes based on cost cutting and discourse around profitability swayed by selfish personal or corporate interests. In a new ethos of healthcare, the providers will operate with equality under a universal ethic addressing all levels of involvement in creating healthy minds, bodies and include the environment— treating life without price tags attached to it.
Material value will be reduced and balanced against the value of human effort with healthy housing and environments readily available and affordable for all.
A market driven economy competing for control over resources will be replaced by an economy focused on conscious awareness, open and pragmatic knowledge with equality in sharing of resources and knowledge. Set on goal directed outcomes to best serve everyone, egocentrism will be seen as both intellectual and moral immaturity and a crime against humanity and a futures society.
HOW do we get from here to there and put our new models to work?
There is a distinct difference between knowledge and wisdom and knowing and applying knowledge wisely. Knowledge changes all the time and can be manipulated, as we are well aware. Wisdom in turn is universal, aligned with universal truths and continuously adjusts to pragmatic needs. Wisdom with such an alliance, once set free is also indestructible. We can acquire and claim to possess knowledge and meaninglessly boast about it while it changes, but it is only once wisdom gained form knowledge is shared in a combined perceptive network that it becomes useful. We are subsequently dependent on our combined wisdom to improve our world.
The first task then is to create public awareness and fuel concern amongst policymakers to open themselves to change and act wisely. This could place pressure on the main benefactors, secure in the profits reaped under current systems as those most likely to resist any change. Involving them in discussion groups where their value and need of adjusting to our combined destiny can be emphasized. On the opposite side it will involve urgent action to reduce the burden on developing minds. Currently anxiously measuring their self-worth in terms of material wealth while struggling to pay back student loans and find a niche a financial hierarchy, many faces precarious employment markets in an uncertain future, we also need input form here. These anxious young minds are in need of truthful knowledge unaffected by ‘market trends’, after all they are the inheritors of what presently appears to be a shaky future when viewed in economic terms and the new generators of future wisdom. With the current main benefactors of today’s wealth soon to be forgotten, all they can also realistically leave behind is, their wisdom and how they improved the world morally and environmentally as participants in a universal network, with zeros behind bank accounts as empty as the number and forgotten knowledge itself.
We can establish some key points gathered from our discussion and model so far to initiate this enormous task ahead of us. A task every one of us sooner or later will inevitably become a part of in our search for morality and wisdom.
CHANGE.
We have never before had the potential to introduce new ideas so widely and openly to so many. There is also a palpable subconscious global need for change currently— this I have also personally experienced after many years of living and working in diverse countries. The concept of change and new ideas as a universal moral demand can now be widely broadcast, thanks to the internet. Social media, discussion groups and conferences, to name a few, can introduce new concepts. Once an idea is ignited as pragmatic and truthful with the promise of global social and ethical benefits, it can and will infiltrate our society on all levels, with the only resistance perhaps from old school economists and die-hard industrialists. Now exposed to inarguable wisdom even this resistance will eventually crumble.
History offers us many examples where corruption and false beliefs or self-centered interests eventually fragmented under the truth and societies’ awareness of a need to change. Previously always preceded by much conflict and suffering, thankfully this time we are armed with more benign methods— knowledge, an internet of things and the option to interconnect more widely with shared concerns in shared understanding and new wisdom.
NETWORKS
Networking currently reminds us of business driven to sell more stuff. These business-driven and professional networks however have an inherent conflict in their design. They tend to build links based on narrowly set shared interests and benefits. Here again evolution can teach us much by showing the strength of building more diverse and open networks not driven by self-centered benefits and narrowly defined groups. In focusing on bias reduction, using our model and creating truthful and pragmatic links with ideas in the physical space of reasoning, such networks will be stronger and spread more rapidly. New developments in neurology can teach us much here about how networks branch out in support of even the weakest link, but this is best left as another topic covered elsewhere — a useful read is, Cognitive Development, Flavell John H; Miller Patricia H; Miller Prentice- Hall, 1993.
Now using open networks reduced in biases and set in a universal ethic we can link diverse ‘Physical Spaces of Reasoning/s’ to interconnect ideas and concerns. These networks then stronger and more pliable than outdate concepts, reputed for suppressing and destroying links or forcing manipulated ideas from the Logical space into the Physical space, now also more likely to proximate itself to wisdom.
INTERACTION
People need to be healthy, happy and free to be the best they are designed to be. Young minds are especially vulnerable here, and by creating healthy and trustworthy social platforms to interact without pretense or inferiority we can build stronger networks and more confident young minds. Images promoted by marketing in search of profits again stands out here but so also does religious groups and educational facilities promoting prestigious education to those that can afford it, and in doing so leaving others behind. Sincere open interaction focused on truth and trust can revive a universal morality where cultural, religious and socioeconomic barriers are exposed as meaningless actions from a bygone era. Some social platforms have already emerged expressing open tolerance for differences. I came across one the other day while online promoting social gathering for ‘geeks’ (yes that’s what they proudly like to be called) to meet and interact. Renewed focus and funding can be placed on the advancement and development of diverse groups, emphasizing similarities and strengths and sharing differences rather than creating socioeconomic barriers or xenophobia.
INTERCONNECTION
Linking community via environmental enrichment programs is a critical part of a new combined effort. The current trend again is to create two separate worlds, even here on a level where we daily cross-exist. There is one world driven by substantial funding where environments are developed and enriched, constantly aiming to excel in creating beauty but open only to those who can afford to gain access. The other is a world slowly being left behind and ignored, existing as a dull pragmatic environment focused on only providing essential basic needs. Here environments are generally dull, neglected and serve only utilitarian needs, perhaps based on an elitist concept that only an ‘elected few can appreciate beauty and art’. We can all conjure images of how street art whimsically and with much criticism attempt to brighten up these drab environments.
Meanwhile we continue to step around the growing numbers of homeless on the sidewalks of our cities. This while many artists, architects, social workers and designers of all sorts, creative and budding with ideas, sit around bowing to corporate or hoping to serve the needs of one of these big names. Obviously interconnecting and involving these artists and creative people in environmental enrichment programs have enormous employment benefits for governments. Less obvious perhaps is how it can also indirectly help to reduce the escalating levels of drug and alcohol abuse in Western societies. We have tasks and challenges all over and many books and articles to be written still on these important topics. However, now it is time to act and no longer talk or merely write articles, so often pushed to the bottom of search engines designed to favor those who please their anxieties or addictions for buying and selling.
Another possibility then is to interconnect and create a network of under-employed artists and intellectuals to become part of environmental enrichment programs in less ‘glamorous’ areas. Linking with other networks likewise operating in their physical space of reasoning to other ideas to help those in need, and so the network can expand.
When it comes to doctors and nurses, the mind-set change is a matter of continuing education to avoid a controlling business model in healthcare. Numerous avenues already exist here with some unsponsored conferences and more topics on controversies in healthcare and independent paper presentations already emerging. Stimulating thoughts around the model as suggested here as only one example can trigger thinking in changing the current ethos, growing new networks. Interconnecting professionals from different backgrounds have enormous potential, to stimulate new ideas but also with the potential to create new employment opportunities. I good idea is to place people form diverse professional backgrounds to work on problems and new developments instead of narrowly selected experts in a specific field only.
Likewise, creating awareness in business circles of the need to change should be emphasized at professional gatherings. Introducing new ideas such as our model here on how to adapt in a rapidly changing arena can be introduced at conference gatherings and internal meetings. Stimulating minds in creating a new economic model emerging from a new template set in science and a universal ethic will at least appeal to some thinking business minds and get some heads turning. Recognition of the enormous potential this holds and all the new doors that may open up for a global society should be widely broadcast— internet, discussion groups and meetings are all potential avenues.
The need for change can be hard to ignore once these new concepts take root in a new era.
Recently we are returning to see the value of small independent businesses in creating more employment opportunities than under corporate control, where staff is shared, and jobs are subsequently vulnerable to impersonal decisions and exploitation of desperate markets. Under the current model the real-estate costs have also escalated out of control making it difficult if not impossible for small businesses to remain viable, so they sell out to corporations. We can thus assume interest from small business support groups and activists for affordable housing in attractive environments. Interconnecting on all such fronts and bringing people together (remember networking) can help business to sincerely and authentically realign itself and tackle these challenges currently left to the mercy of the larger corporations and those in power.
Indeed, in recent years there have been calls from all over for the financial system to reinvent itself. Student groups such as the Post-Crash Economics Society, and Rethinking Economics triggered interest. Hardly well acknowledged and rather quietly in 2017 the United Kingdom based Economic and Social Research Council announced that it was setting up a network of experts from outside economics whose task it would be to ‘revolutionize’ the field. Since there have been countless books on the topic and rather subdued calling for involvement and intervention by non-economists. The need for change and experimenting with new ideas is becoming more ubiquitous and in need of sensible directives. Again, a goal directed universal ethic and pragmatic model can be valuable here.
In 2008, the French physicist and hedge-fund manager Jean-Philippe Boucharde delivered a paper ‘Economics Needs a Scientific Revolution’ published in Nature magazine. In a recent update in 2017, he concluded in an update published in the Financial Times: that: ‘If we don’t embrace new methods of modeling the economy, we will be as blind to the next crisis as we were to the last one.’ And the next one could be really bad.
As with all advances that affect existing social structures, resistance and ignorance will historically come mainly from the current benefactors who stand to lose most, simultaneously seeing little wrong with the current system.
Paradigm shifts, and replacements of existing theories are easier accepted as part of progressive scientific process and universal morality than set in an economy clinging to outdated principles, here it is seen as a threat. With demands shifting under new wisdom clearly doing what is profitable may no longer suffice— unless we redefine what is profitable. Economics can no longer remain an outsider in an epistemology constantly evolving new paradigms and driving constant change and wisdom. A purpose driven branching network of escalating awareness infiltrating to those still complacent or ignorant of this need is more practical and urgent than ever before.
The call for a pluralistic system reconciling current environmental concerns with social needs and for fair distribution of resources is now inherent in the thoughts of a quiet but expanding multitude in many disciplines. Most, sadly so, many are too involved with their own narrow fields or dependent on their income from current benefactors of this outdated system, to voice their hidden concerns. Anthropology, astrophysics, social science, physics, medicine, education, philosophy and evolutionary biology are only a few fields more realistically in touch with life and the human condition that can help introducing change more so than falling economic models. We clearly should draw on such knowledge in helping to create more pragmatic models to also urgently revolutionize our society and morality.
Media will play a big role. We cannot claim to a be a free or democratic society if we exist under corporate controlled information and media outlets playing into the hands of a few stakeholders. The internet on the one hand preaching commitment to freedom of expression and on the other hand openly welcoming a cost-based hierarchy is also creating and easy avenue for control by those who can afford to increase visibility. Here we should prevent it from becoming no more than a new greed driven advertising and distasteful marketing tool. The same issue affects bookstores promoting books backed by marketing revenue rather than content and can only further blemish the already profit based only interests of promotors and restrict the natural flow of ideas and opinions. Change will revive interest in topics with more relevance and substance.
With networking, awareness and action globally individual citizens can support this move away from mere profit seeking healthcare enterprises by identifying, selecting and supporting healthcare facilities renowned for their dedication to a universal morality.
Involving doctors and practitioners in discussions around this topic could take many forms, from social group meetings to affiliations with medical and veterinary conferences. Renewed focus should be placed on the value of adaptable individualized style practices rather than corporate models and the lure of drug sale revenues. These practices will emerge, pragmatically network with community needs and be identified and gain support in the way they function and operate independently to heal, and relay updated knowledge, rather than sell brand name drugs. On ground level many doctors and veterinarians are already quietly aware of this rising need to now establish networks to furnish a growing demand.
The vital key is again the introduction of a new and adaptable models through education on all levels. Conferences, social gatherings, media outlets, online discussions and publicly circulated articles to name a few. Set now in an internet of things reaching out to billions and forming networks has never been more within our means. Circulating promising new ideas for public opinion affecting a significant part of our daily existence becomes an achievable moral duty.
The writing of this manuscript and the proposal of a model is a single example of only one action taken. With enough exposure in a growing network, millions can be reached, suffering reduced, and lives and environments enriched—and each of us become a valued link in a caring network. The now outdated technique of educating human capital for exploitation by rich industrialists and corporation masquerading behind a means of fertility control, clearly did not work. The end result is now witnessed as ongoing exploitation of both environment and resources set in a faltering morality where surplus human capital is seen as waste and left to their own devices. Gladly it can now be replaced by advancing an ethic where sharing of resources in an ethos of respect and harmonious coexistence can more humanely naturally set fertility in an environmentally interconnected society. Such a society sharing resources aware of the significance of their actions in a universally interconnected evolution.
In sensing consonance, instead of disparity between the structure of molecules, the universe and our perception of matter (and each other), we are also proximate ourselves closer to both morality and beauty, including again the miracle of healing and assisting those in need. Thanks to new understanding in science, we are becoming more aware of the morality and approach needed for such interactions in an interconnected universe—driven to function ethically. Sensing a pattern of interconnections and congruous interchanges that result in workable truths, whether it is a melodious piece of music, prose or art or helping those in need, we can proximate ourselves better with universal truths and also goodness and the beauty of life on all levels. Now more interconnected, open to each other and universal truths we are much better equipped to explore our infinite universe.
Liberated by interactive and openly interconnected Spheres of Perception and forced by the urgency of having to sensibly address pressing global threats, we simple have no more excuses to delay any action.
Healthcare as the guardians of our physical and mental health will, as has often been the case, be principal participants in leading the revolutionary change — perhaps the last of a barbaric past before sharing a more moral period in our new era of universal evolution.
Greetings from China
Theo Holtzhausen
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