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Self‐guided/conscious evolution
Author(s) -
Banathy Bela H.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.506
Subject(s) - consciousness , focus (optics) , closing (real estate) , agora , sociocultural evolution , cognitive science , evolutionary psychology , biological evolution , sociology , modern evolutionary synthesis , process (computing) , epistemology , computer science , psychology , philosophy , biology , anthropology , political science , law , physics , optics , genetics , programming language , operating system
I start out by mapping the evolutionary journey of our species. I focus on the cultural evolution of the last 50,000 years of our seven million year journey. Studying the journey I have learned how evolution has worked in the evolutionary design space and what its principles and rules are. This led me to attain evolutionary consciousness. Evolutionary consciousness became the springboard to leap into conscious evolution and propose ways and means by which to engage in self‐guided evolution. In closing, I introduce an evolutionary design process, metaphorically called the Agora Project: building new agoras in the 21st century. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.