Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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720611 | IFAC Proceedings Volumes | 2009 | 6 Pages |
The generosity is supposed to be a related deeper turning point. An equivalent type of statement may be referred to solidarity. Homo Sapiens, as a species, are distinguished clearly from other species by their socio-cultural nature, drawing on a deep inner universe of cultural meanings and values which inform both individual and group behaviours. These meanings are created phenomenologically in the gestalt of consciousness, framed in the context of deep value-systems which shift as a result of psychological, biological (and existential) realities. Recent research has begun to uncover the complex waves and patterns associated with these shifts. They indicate a dynamically stable system which underpins human activity at the level of both the individual and the civilisation. In this context, technology is a materialisation of the culture of our civilisation and its material nature as a cultural meaning needs exploration and understanding. On in this way can we really begin to understand the trajectory (or multiple trajectories) of our current civilisation, with all its new connectivities and disconnectivities mediated as they are through information and other technologies.