Cognitive revolution quest: human civilisation prospects

Area 09 – Ingegneria industriale e dell'informazione

Civilisation distinguishes from wilderness, because of life-quality enhancement, built by men’s activities and contrivances. Progress puts up by agrarian and industrial ‹revolutions›. Survival faces over-waste/pollution, linked to natural recovery options. Ecology becomes impending ghost: decay affects the tangible cosmos; the shaping information does not avoid entropy drifts. ‹Knowledge›, only, is abstract men’s invention: the engineering approach would address a cognitive ‹revolution›, to help allaying the falloffs.
The tactic trusts anthropic principles and explores relational intelligence chances. The book develops on six chapters. After introductory hints (chap. 1), the anthropic principles get endorsements by universe’s settings (chap. 2) and rationality routes (chap. 3). The principles sanction known humankind political (chap. 4) and social (chap. 5) achievements; in default, the interpersonal abstraction still supplies cognitive ‹revolution› skills (chap. 6). The civilisation, in the last frame, displays provisional attainments: ‹sustainability› is interim anthropic gain.

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