by Ervin Laszlo on May 16, 2012
I was delighted and honored to have the following article posted in the Pathways to Family Wellness magazine Spring 2012 issue. The article, as printed in the New Edge Science section of the magazine, is available in pdf format.
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I call it “quantum consciousness”: the consciousness we access when we use the potential of our quantum-computer brains. The brain is a macroscopic quantum system, yet we use it as if it were exclusively a classical biochemical system. With its quantum-system functions, our brain can receive information not only from our eyes and ears, but directly from the wider world with which we are “entangled”–nonlocally connected. Insightful people throughout history, whether shamans or scientists, poets or prophets, have extensively used this capacity, innate to all human beings. Today it is widely neglected. This impoverishes our world picture, and causes a nagging sense that we are separate from the world around us.
I believe that quantum consciousness could be the next stage in the evolution of our consciousness–and that this evolution could be our salvation. Let me explain.
The first thing I ask you to note is that human consciousness is not static, fixed once and for all. It’s the product of a long evolutionary development, and is capable of further development. In the 50 thousand–year history of the species we proudly call homo sapien, the human body didn’t change significantly, but human consciousness did. And it can change again.
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by Ervin Laszlo on March 24, 2012
Vienna as a strong and traditional hub of the current cybernetics and systems sciences in Europe
After 40 successful years a relaunch of the international research meeting occurs.
From the 10th to 13th of April, 2012, the 21st European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research take place at the campus of the University of Vienna.
More than 150 contributions from international scientists are dealing with the global challenges of our time. Technical, biological and social systems are at the focus. Current research wants to understand complexity, to be able to work with it in order to face the global challenges and opportunities. Transdisciplinarity, mutual learning and research with each other, is the basis of radical innovations. Here, the symposia offer a variety of theoretical and practical reflections on topics such as Systems Thinking, Agent-Based Modeling, from biology to IT and bio-informatics, Urban Design, complexity and management, innovation management and social responsibility of business, to management of complex disaster operations, and a strong focus on effective, vibrant and resilient organizations and crisis management.
The European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research will create a strong European hub for the international systems science in Vienna. Based on a 40-year tradition a new culture of knowledge networking with a focus on two major aspects will be developed. On the one hand, once again the roots of the systems science will be cultivated in Vienna, in the sense of strengthening and deepening the knowledge. And on the other hand, the current social relevance will be illustrated by illuminating the impact and the practical applications of systems science.
In doing so the promotion of young scientific talents and the opportunity to network with the living founders of the systems science are in the foreground. To reach this target the Bertalanffy Center as the organizer sponsors a contest for outstanding research by graduate students.
Starting 2012 the participants of the European Meetings will present the core of their jointly developed knowledge in a publication for the general public after the meetings.
by Ervin Laszlo on March 21, 2012
Barbara Marx Hubbard, visionary and evolutionary leader, is hosting a very special Birth 2012 event: Conception Day 2012. Celebrate and activate the Birth 2012 campaign nine months toward our planetary birth day! A live telecast from Los Angeles, California will take place on March 22, 2012. Watch from your home, office, or live gatherings worldwide. The event will include special messages from the Birth 2012 “Welcoming Committee”: Neale Donald Walsch, Jean Houston, Michael Beckwith, Jack Canfield, Lynne Twist, James O’Dea, Lynne McTaggart, Ervin Laszlo, Rinaldo Brutoco, Oscar Miro-Quesada, Dot Maver and Ashok Gangadean.
