THE EVOLUTIONARY MANIFESTO Our Role in the Future
Evolution of Life
John
Stewart, Member of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition Research Group, The
Free University of Brussels
John Stewart is an Australian evolutionary thinker who is a member of the Evolution,
Complexity and Cognition Research Group of the
Free University of Brussels.He has
worked as a labor union official, manager of Australia’s
north eastern
fisheries, and as a senior policy advisor to the Australian government
on labor
relations regulatory issues.His
main interest
is in the development of an evolutionary worldview that reveals to us
who we
are, and what we should be doing with our lives.His work on the directionality of evolution
and its implications for humanity has been published in a number of key
papers
in international science journals.These
include papers on the potential for humans to enhance their
psychological
capacities through the future evolution of consciousness.He is the author of the
internationally
acclaimed book ‘Evolution’s Arrow: the direction of evolution and the
future of
humanity’.More
recently he has
finalized ‘The Evolutionary Manifesto’ which outlines an evolutionary
worldview
and explores its relevance to humanity.The
Manifesto demonstrates the potential of the worldview to provide
meaning and
purpose for human existence, and uses it to identify the actions that
we need
to take if humanity is to fulfill its potential to contribute
positively to the
future evolution of life in the universe.
Key
Academic Publications:
**NEW** John Stewart's latest book has just been published.
It identifies how individuals can scaffold metasystemic thinking in
themselves and others.This level of cognitive capacity is essential if
individuals are to fully understand the evolutionary worldview and to
identify what they need to do to advance the evolutionary process on
Earth. The book is titled Human Superintelligence: How you can develop it using recursive self-improvement.
The Website for the book contains materials that will enable you to
quickly and conveniently assess whether the book has relevance to your
goals and interests. The Website is at HumanSuperintelligenceBook.com You can download a free electronic copy of the full book in either PDF or EPUB format from the Evolutionary Manifesto website here.
For example, see this discussion with John Vervaeke:
And
here is a discussion with John Bunzl about the evolutionary imperative
for humanity to move to a unified, cooperative and highly evolvable
global society that is enabled by appropriate global governance:
The Global Governance Initiative
The
"Global Governance Initiative" is an attempt to get evolutionary
science to confirm that there is an evolutionary imperative for
humanity to transition to a cooperative, sustainable and highly
evolvable global society. This transition is essential if human
civilization is to overcome the threats to its survival that are
emerging in the form of the possibility of nuclear war and
environmental degradation (including global warming).
As
part of this initiative, the following four emails have been sent to
over 700 evolutionary scientists whose work deals to some extent with
the large-scale evolutionary processes that have shaped life on Earth
and that will determine its future: first email; second email; third email; and the fourth email.
The
third email contains links to separate emails that were sent to 15
leading evolutonary scientists in an attempt to get them to use their
reputations to lead the initiative.
Another Global Governance Initiative
This is another strategy directed at assisting the emergence of a
unified, cooperative and highly-evolvable global society. Such a
society will need to be underpinned by global governance that is
capable of aligning the interests of Nation States, corporations,
individuals and other entities with the interests of the planet as a
whole. When this is achieved, it will no longer be in the interests of
governments, corporations and others to act in ways that degrade the
environment or that produce wars.
The strategy relies on the fact that throughout the evolutionary
history of life on Earth, the emergence of larger-scale cooperative
organisations has always first required the emergence of a source of
power that can manage the organisation in ways that support cooperation
and prevent free-riding etc.
It is highly improbable that such a source of global power could be
achieved at this time through 'bottom up' processes e.g. by
individiuals banding together in support of strategies that can
institute a global system. Somewhat counterintuitively, a far more
likely potential source of global power is a coalition of the extremely
wealthy.
I have written two Sub Stack articles that draw on an evolutionary
perspective to identify the feasibility of such a strategy and how it
can be organised:
Help to promote discussion of the evolutionary worldview
Feedback
from those who read the Manifesto
indicates that whether or not they are prepared to embrace the new
evolutionary worldview immediately, they generally agree on one thing:
as a matter of urgency, the Manifesto should be
widely circulated and subject to extensive discussion and serious
consideration.
You
can help to promote this debate and consideration by circulating copies
of the Manifesto
or links to this website as widely as possible. For example,
you could
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Strategies for Advancing Evolution
What
can intentional evolutionaries do to advance the evolutionary process?
A 24 page document 'Strategies for advancing evolution' is
online here
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