Shortening the intellectual distances in Europe: psychological publishing activity in Bulgaria (original) (raw)
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MEMORANDUM addressed to the Worldwide Research-University sites by Prof Nicolae Bulz
ReserchGate submission 18-11-2024, 2024
ABSTRACT: There is a current sustained point of view that <<Within the contemporary Knowledge Society coexisting with intrusive forms of the “Artificial Intelligence in interactions that involve anxiety, fear, insecurity, and fascination and among the not-so-well-formulated questions that have well-structured answers” (Mengalli, Carvalho and Galvão, 2023)>> it is not easy to foreseen/forecast on the near state of our e-World. People look for images with commands and they return images that they do not know the source. There are studies of the current author (Bulz, 2023) presenting the still possible transit from the Knowledge Society towards a Consciousness Society. But this means, also, to attain a step-by-step social and collective ‘new type’ of consciousness “that tends to be linked to a social identity shared with people from diverse cultures” [with the ‘synthetic-conclusive’ terms of the above cited co-authors (Mengalli, Carvalho and Galvão, 2023)]. In this study, it is to inform about a (re)research of the past and the future for innovative social change, which consists -here and now, mainly- by the proposal (as a MEMORANDUM stance, arguing ‘To the WORLDWIDE RESEARCH-UNIVERSITY SITES’) on a university and/or research entity initiating of a “Interdisciplinary Center of PEACE ENTREPRENEURS - PROGRESS ENTREPRENEURS versus our (RE-)HUMANIZATION”. It is evoked -as a ‘representational’-operative entitlement of this MEMORANDUM addressing about our ‘meta’-motivation for (RE-)HUMANIZATION – i.e. << WHAT WERE WE MADE FOR? >> || [Eillish, 2023] WHAT WENT WRONG? || [Lorenz, 1974] WHAT COMES NEXT? versus the “Knowledge in Crisis”, and the ‘University Practical-Innovative Re-Specializations’ [domains expected to be acted into the contemporary Universities]. If our near stages creative approaches would be inter/trans/co-and-multi disciplinary, then this third millennium would be some-how consonant to a contemporary “challenge to reduce the social gap between humanity's aspirations and everyday social limitations and such confrontation is related to a technological expansion and is a historical ‘in continuity’ trend [from the first Neolithic Revolution (uprising Agriculture and Domestication of Animals)]. Creativity dynamically defines/shows the deepest sense of our humanity and the tensional desire for human (meta/trans-)representation, but it is not enough to generate it computationally [also citing the accurate formulation of the co-authors (Mengalli, Carvalho and Galvão, 2023)]. Let rise up a kind of RESPONSIBLE plan (versus BOTH: the SOCIETAL SECURITY and EVOLUTION) - and proposing the respective required implementation in a university and/or a research entity initiating this “Interdisciplinary Center of PEACE ENTREPRENEURS - PROGRESS ENTREPRENEURS versus our (RE-)HUMANIZATION”, then, this study is comprising the ‘per se’ MEMORANDUM within its PROLOGUE. This PROLOGUE contains the following sub-paragraphs: AA: Where are the HUMANS? BB: But, what are the characteristics of ourselves -the contemporary HUMANS- within our comic/dramatic/tragic slices of our individual and collective life on this unique Blue Planet? CC: About our surprising {co-evolution co-generation} of a “primal-puzzle” [of life-conscience], that mostly ‘fashionable survive’ by/for/through the existence of a chameleonically comic/dramatic/tragic “dual-puzzle” of hope-trust-quite love recursively tending to a not terrestrial future – to a fuzzy and/or subtle life-consciousness. DD: About our absurd centennial ’travel’: ‘war-peace-war’. EE: About our Faustian ‘Fight/Conflict-Consensus/goodness-mirroring-badness/ badness-reverting-goodness’: but the ‘end’ of the play is not knowable at all – but-but each of us is playing and re-playing on different and different slices... FF: About our POSSIBLE REDRESS of the respective “dual-puzzle” by/through/with/ VERSUS {‘Generosity-Creativity-Solidarity Triad’, ‘Spirituality-Biodiversity’, ‘Real World/e-World’, ‘Logic of Life --- Life of Logic’, ‘Creative Partnership of Welfare’, ‘Natural and Artificial Intelligence and Life’}. There are 12 quasi-explicative lines into this FF sub-paragraph. This study stands on a long-term emulated background of post-Rene DESCARTES’ (+ February 11, 1650) {analysis; synthesis; thesis/anti-thesis – elicited Cartesian space}, and on a post-expression of an ‘open’ MIND-BODY DUALISM (1641) from which, with university and academic respect, would be presented/proposed/took up some cognitive and possible currently actional patterns of/from/by an active nucleus of ‘RESPONSIBILITY’ (‘SECURITY’ – ‘EVOLUTION’). Then, there are presented a set of explanatory slices (here and now: 10 slices), as these could be sustained into an epistemic corpus – but also, there is thesis-tic-ally contained a respective still gnoseological facet [‘in a dramatical wait’ for a societal feed-back to grasp an anti-thesis-pattern and still possible ‘positive’ outlook – as far as possible from a ‘war-peace-war’ stance]. Are all these a stimulus towards an Earthly accepted mood of dialogue, negotiation, and ‘change’? If ‘YES’, then there could be delimitated a nexus of {CYCLES; RHYTHMS; LABYRINTHS} of/from/by ourselves and our changeable 21st century human society. If ‘NO’, otherwise standing solution could exist, and/or worse by/than/just there could be continued the actual cognitive quasi-opposition to DIALOG and, more, quasi-opposition to NEGOTIATION… (supportable?) But sure, more, only and only based on a higher-cognitive-standing generation of system analysts… creatively would be (hypothetically-)real possible ‘some’ elicited complex responds to the contemporary ‘Knowledge in Crisis’ (within what would be an ‘alternative’ [into a complex poly- revision] to the ‘war-peace-war’ stance: * {Initiating and forward up the third and fourth (…?...) life-cycles EDUCATION; ** Re-formation towards a truly e-MAGISTRATURE OF ADMINISTRATION); *** Revising a truly e-re-construction of our ‘centennial lost’ but re-found LIBERTY – as much as possible as a WORLDWIDE UNDERSTANDING/EXPLANATION, DIALOGUE AND NEGOTIATION – focusing both on the INDIVIDUAL HUMAN, and on the SOCIETAL HUMAN; **** Re-formation towards a truly holistic e-reformation of PROSECUTION as a ‘quite sacred’/’sacerdotal’ nexus of meta-balanced REWARD/PUNISHMENT on this part-by-part Earth – as a most mesmerizing space-time-causality (hypothetic) reality}. 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