The 7 C's of Future Knowledge

Velikovsky on `Memes' One Sunday in the Very Near Future

The 7 C's of Future Knowledge

The 7 C's of Future Knowledge

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Evolutionary Culturology

An extract, from the textbook Elements of Evolutionary Culturology (2nd ed., 02023, pp 169-170):

"In Evolutionary Culturology, the 7 C’s of future knowledge area study of:

(1) creativity,(2) computers, (3) communication science, (4) collaboration,

(5) criticalthinking, (6) cybernetics, and (7) consilience.

In order to prepare for our future, the evolutionaryhistorian and futurologist Yuval Noah Harari - in the excellent 21 Lessons forthe 21st Century (Harari, 2018, p. 262) - suggests teaching our young “the four C’s”: Criticalthinking, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity.

The new meta-meta-Scienceof Evolutionary Culturology suggests also three additional - andequally important topics - resulting in a newfound ability to `sail The SevenCs’ :

1. Creativity

2. Computers

3. CommunicationScience

4. Collaboration

5. CriticalThinking

6. Cybernetics/SystemsThinking

7. Consilience(the unity of all knowledge/all domains in culture)

Reasonsfor studying and thus acquiring skills and knowledge in these sevenkey Cs, are as follows:

1. Creativity–by this term is meant CreativityScience, or the scientific study of creativity, since J. P.Guilford, in 1950 (Guilford, 1950; Runco &Pritzker, 2020; Sawyer, 2012), namely: How is anythingthat is new, useful, and surprising achieved by members of the Field inany Domain in culture, not just in STEAM(Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Humanities, Mathematics)? Inshort: How are problems solved? How do geniuses do it? Howdo our AI smart systems (or, intelligence amplifiers) doit? Since all of life (including: all work) is problem-solving, How might weall better identify, and solve our problems?

2. Computers–Computer literacy is an obvious requirement to staycurrent with advances in global knowledge (ideas, processes, and products).Over half the people in our world now have an internet connection (Clement, 2020) and the increasing trend of internet adoption is onlyexpected to increase. For educators–particularly those educating the youngergeneration of the world–the inheritors of the future, an excellent article is`An Overview of Computational Thinking’ (Cansu & Cansu, 2019).

3. Communication–Following the technological revolutions in cognition (70,000years ago), agriculture (11,000 years ago), science (500 years ago), industry(250 years ago), and information (70 years ago) – thanks to The Scientific Enlightenment(Pinker, 2018) – we currently exist in The Information Age (Harari, 2015), and are entering the Novacene Age, the age ofhyperintelligence (Lovelock, 2019). Whether working with people or robots, effective (oreven optimal, error-free) communication (accurateinformation-gathering and processing) is now essential. To paraphrase NorbertWiener, the founder of Cybernetics (the study of messages, in systems): To liveoptimally, is to live with optimal information.

4. Collaboration–Most work tasks are achieved ingroups, organizations, companies; sole traders collaborateand co-operate with their customers or clients. Humans are an ultrasocialspecies (Campbell, 1983). Small and large-scale co-operation has enabled humanityto predict, control, and optimize (or, to science) the behaviorof many of the other dominant lifeforms on Earth.Given the global problems we currently face, we benefit more from workingtogether, in order to survive and thrive. Altruistic cooperation (collaboration) beats selfish individualist competition (DS Wilson, 2019, 2020). See also The Second Law of fractal HOLON/partons, wherebyunits on the same level either co-operate, compete, or do co-opetition.

5. Critical Thinking–Immersed in information, we all mustfilter the good from the bad information (ideas,processes, products). On macro scales of information, protective anti-virussoftware and `fake news’ filters on electronic social media can protect againstfalsehoods, lies, mal-, mis-, and dis-information. Ona micro (personal) scale, mental immunity via Critical Thinking skillsis equally crucial (e.g. Norman, 2021). Think like a scientist.Everyone needs a good `baloney detection kit’. (Seealso: The EthiSizer.)

6. Cybernetics/Systems Thinking–Understanding the theory ofmessages (Altmann & Koch, 1998; Shannon &Weaver, 1949; Wiener, 1989) as part of SystemsThinking and the Systems Worldview (Capra & Luisi, 2014) is now essential. We all live inside ecosystems; as organisms, we too are systems (containing biological algorithms). Evolution occurs in ecosystems, both biological, andcultural. Understanding how evolution (mechanisms of change) works, enables prediction,control, and optimization of life, and the environment, and the minimization ofglobal suffering.

7. Consilience–Gone are the days of the `Two (separate) Cultures’ ofArts and Sciences (Snow, 1959). Synthetic knowledge ofthe Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts/Humanities is now required (Boyd et al., 2010; Carroll, 1995; Carrollet al., 2016; Watson, 2016; Wilson, 1998). Another term for consilience is the convergence of the sciences (Watson, 2016). Information is power; Evolutionary Science is the mostpowerful information. Once you understand one domain via the fractal HOLON/partons perspective of Ev Cult, you can understand all domains; the skills are transferable,

Ways to usethis tool / model: Use The 7 C’s to prepare future generations, for their future with AI.

Complementary SupplementaryMaterials: For more Suggested Exercises, Worked Examples,and Further References, see: https://evolutionary-culturology.blogspot.com/2022/06/exercises.html

For more onSTEAM, see: https://storyality.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/storyality128-evo-criticism-stem-and-steam-walker-2013/ and Walker, A. S. (2013). A Missing Link: Building STEAMwith Literary Darwinism. EvoS Journal:The Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 5(1), 15-50.

See: Simonton, D. K. (2009a). Genius 101. Springer.

See: Ashby, W. R. ([1956] 1972). Design for an IntelligenceAmplifier. In C. Shannon & J. McCarthy (Eds.), Automata Studies (5th ed., pp. 215-234). Princeton UniversityPress.

See: Shannon, C. E., & Weaver, W. (1949). The Mathematical Theory of Communication.University of Illinois Press.

See: Wiener, N. (1989). TheHuman Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society. Free Association Press.

For example, archaea,bacteria, viruses, plants, and animals.

This is onekey function of The EthiSizer AI.

See: McIntyre, L. C. (2019). The Scientific Attitude: Defending science from denial, fraud, andpseudoscience. MIT Press. And see: Popper, K. R., & Schilpp, P. A. (1974). The Philosophy of Karl Popper (1st ed.).Open Court.

See: Chapter12, `The Fine Art of Baloney Detection' (pp. 194-211) of Sagan, C. (1996). TheDemon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Headline."

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References

`Elements of Evolutionary Culturology' (2023)

`A Selection of Empirical Data, Charts, Tables, & Graphs, from The Meta-Meta-Science Of Evolutionary Culturology' (2023)

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