Евгений Именитов - Человек 2050 [litres]

The laws of the earthʹs noosphere and biosphere, which impede the plans of the Club of Rome and endanger our civilization in case of these plansʹ implementation, put forward the following counterarguments:

First. One of the main properties of «living matter» is its ability to reproduce and self – reproduce. Reproduce itself-one of the main laws of life, allowing it to be continuous. For non-living matter, including controlled by artificial intelligence, this rule and this law donʹt apply, and it cannot be reliably prescribed. The living entity will always defend the living entity, and it is not only the humanitarian principle that governs it, but the law of life that is firmly embedded in it. There is no such a law for non-living matter.

Second. The level of human civilization is objectively limited by the population of the Earth covered by a certain level of education, mental activity and mutual communication. It can be argued that the Earth as a whole is a single thinking mechanism. When looking at our planet from space, it is easy to notice the similarity of its shadow side (not illuminated by the Sun) with the human brain. This global brain, like the brain of an individual, has its own biofield. Its potential depends on the number, interaction and activity of individual units – people. More about this I wrote in my book «The Future is inevitable. World order against the background of chaos» (Moscow, publishing house «Algorithm»), which was published in 2017 in Russian. The rule is: if the covered population falls, the level of its technology will follow it and will fall too. This is inevitable, and no artificial intelligence will allow to keep this level, at least for a long time.

Third. Modern man is becoming increasingly dependent on his artificial environment, in the absence of which his ability to survive is sharply reduced. The probability that a modern man, taken at random from the urban environment, will be able to survive in the wild for at least a short time without preparation, tends to zero. In case of any disaster (when everything goes wrong), which in recent decades has become a favorite Hollywood theme, this man will not survive. And being alone or in a minority (that is, in a small team), he will not be able to reproduce the technology of survival of modern society (to repair or restore equipment: heating, water treatment, etc., to provide himself with food, to protect).

Fourth. For any statistical sample of the human community the same Pareto ability distribution applies. This means that if you choose from 1 billion people 50 million geniuses (5 %), annihilating the rest, after a certain time (1–2 generations) in 100–150 million people you will again have only 10–15 % of capable people and only 5 % of them – geniuses.

Perhaps this is due to the fact that the intrauterine formation of the human psyche and abilities depends not only on DNA and heredity, but also is determined by the connection of the fetus and the noosphere through sensory mechanisms (probably at the level of electromagnetic interaction). There is a long and well-known phenomenon of telepathic connection between loved ones, «tuned on the same wavelength» when strong shocks or emotions between them can be transmitted over long distances in a dream and in the waking state. We also feel the gaze of another person and other intangible influences. All this is impossible without the aura of the environment, without the noosphere of the Earth, discovered and examined by Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and other scientists.

The above arguments, taken together, mean that it will not be possible to significantly reduce the population of the Earth and to enclose the intellect in an artificial shell, while preserving the achievements of our civilization. This decision and these plans of the Club of Rome are suicidal for ordinary people, and even more – for the world elite.

We can assume that, causing a catastrophe with its reforms, the world elite will lead our civilization to a complete collapse. And if somewhere in the Amazon jungle or remote mountains people survive, the elite or their descendants will just die.

This will happen either because of the excessive trust in the artificial shell, or because of the loss of those qualities that allowed living beings to fight and to survive for millennia.

Here and there on our planet the scientists find artifacts made with a high level of technology and having an age of hundreds of thousands and millions of years, which confirms the hypothesis that our civilization is not the first technologically advanced social system in the history of the Earth.

We must try to follow the narrow path over the cliff and not to make the mistakes that are already obvious. That is why in this letter I want to offer you a different scenario and a different way.

The main defining goal is the image of the person of the future. In the model of the caste society of the Club of Rome we do not have a single image, a single ideal and a reference point. However, all that should exist.

The society of the future should replace the elitist model with the egalitarian one. I happened to live in the USSR for a short period (1979–1991) at its sunset, and I can personally say that the egalitarian model adopted in the USSR was successful. At a time when a person is formed (the period of training in primary and secondary school), a huge number of people in the USSR had the opportunity to acquire a good education and a broad Outlook. Of course, not everyone used it. However, this is not a reason to «lower the bar».

According to various studies, the quality of mathematical education in the USSR began to decline since the early 1950s, approximately synchronously with this, the level of scientific and technical potential of our country decreased. Until the 1950s, the teaching of mathematics in Russian schools had been based on the textbooks of the tsarist teacher Andrei Kiselev, the most simple, systematic, but at the same time setting a high pace in the development of the material by students. The high quality of educational materials and the system of education are extremely important, because it is their purposeful and deliberate reduction that has led to the stagnation and degradation of the entire education system in our country and around the world.

The intellectual side of a person is directly related to his behavior in everyday life, as it determines the structure of requests and needs. I am convinced that the total corruption that has now struck my country would have existed to a much lesser extent if the level of education and spirituality of society had not fallen to a minimum. It is not about propaganda, but about the actual intellectual and moral level of the population.

Another consequence of intellectual underdevelopment worldwide is apathy (indifference) to the suffering of others. The soul, like the body, is necessary to educate. The callousness of illiterate people turns off deterrents for politicians, and this is fraught with the threat of serious shocks.

It is necessary to start changing the situation through raising the level of education in the global society.

Mathematical education should be the main axis of the development of skills and learning abilities, including mathematics, logic, as well as analytical games (chess) and so on.

The second educational axis is the study of national and foreign languages, literature and history.

The third is the study of the Sciences of man and the world around him: biology, human medicine, physics and chemistry, geography, astronomy.

The new model of teaching students should be focused on the study of the aptitudes and abilities of students throughout the period of training with the definition of the areas of greatest abilities. Techniques for this are known. The training profile can and should be adjusted during this period if the priorities were initially identified incorrectly. The training should be designed so that students work with a load, with a somewhat high bar, which guarantees a high level of knowledge and analytical skills.

A separate side of education should be medical and sports training of schoolchildren, as now we teach children to use different complex electronic devices, but do not teach them to know and rationally exploit their bodies.

I will object that in any sample there will be children weakly motivated and not inclined to intensive training. On the other hand, we will get a large number of well-trained and highly motivated passionaries, not all of whom will be able to find a place in life that meets their needs. This is fraught with aggravation of internal social contradictions. In past centuries, this led to religious wars, Crusades, etc.

I donʹt think these problems are impossible to be solved. Poorly motivated children may be profiled in a narrow labour creative specialties and also in sports.

Highly motivated passionaries in their excess will have the opportunity to prove themselves in the areas of development associated with high risk. We are talking about the development of resources of the oceans, the bowels of the earth and the space.

In any case, we can and should be focused on the training of the Creators, not the consumers. We must prepare people who will be able to be responsible for the future of our planet.

The second important step should be a change in the structure of social needs from the dominance of material needs to intangible.

We must take a different place: not consumption, but knowledge, work and movement must take the place of shopping and other dominants of the consumer society of the XX century.

We must stop selling, advertising and buying unnecessary and redundant things. We must understand that excessive production and consumption are really destroying our planet. In the structure of our needs their place will be replaced by the knowledge, the work and the movement (sports, travel, expeditions). In this area, computer technology will help us, as it will allow us to collect and clarify information about the needs of people, consolidating it and coordinating production with the necessary consumption.

Will we face the problem of overpopulation?

I answer: we will not collide if we trust the human nature. To limit a person in the matter of procreation can and should not be an external factor, but internal, that is, his own consciousness.

The history already knows examples: in Jared Diamondʹs book «Collapse» are explained some cases when inhabitants of isolated Islands in the Pacific ocean started to control the birth rate themselves. It was their own decision, and such mini civilizations lasted millennia.

A Man as a spiritual being cannot live without a dream. I believe that in the twenty-first century our dream should be a massive journey into Space. We must discover transportation technologies those are cost-effective and environmentally friendly so that many people can begin to explore outer space.

I also share in this issue the point of view of the Soviet scientist and science fiction writer Ivan Efremov, who in the 1960-1970s wrote that for this (to come to the space) humanity must first of all overcome the moral barrier.

If we build a caste cannibalistic society, we will put an end to the plans for space exploration. They will become unrealizable. The service of man to man, the love of neighbor are the necessary conditions to overcome this barrier.

Speaking about the moral barrier, I think it is necessary to add from myself that, overcoming it, we will inevitably have to answer the religious question: about God, we trust.

Being Orthodox, I know the answer to this question for myself.