El cambio cuántico: Cómo el nuevo paradigma científico puede transformar la sociedad (Coleccion Nueva Ciencia)

by Ervin Laszlo

Proposing a shift from the materialistic and scientific approach to reality to a multidimensional world view of multiple interconnected realities, this innovative exploration offers a new map of reality. This map is based on the realities long-known and maintained by the world’s great spiritual traditions and acts as a guide to the various environmental, geopolitical, and scientific upheavals characteristic of the modern world. Arguing that understanding the interconnectedness of the changing world and its changing map is important, this discussion proposes that it is also necessary in order to navigate and overcome the collective and individual challenges humankind is facing. Proponiendo transitar del mecanicismo y el materialismo científico hacia una visión multidisciplinaria de varias realidades interconectadas, esta exploración innovadora ofrece un nuevo mapa de la realidad. Se basa el mapa en las realidades conocidas y mantenidas desde hace tiempos por las grandes tradiciones espirituales del mundo y actúa como una guía a los diversos trastornos medioambientales, geopolíticos y científicos del mundo moderno. Arguyendo que es importante entender la interconectividad del mundo cambiante y su mapa, esta discusión propone que también es necesario navigar y superar los desafíos colectivos e individuales que está abordando la humanidad.

Genres: Science, Psychology, Philosophy

240 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2008

About the author

Ervin Laszlo is a systems philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has authored more than 70 books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings.

Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, and serves as the founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is also the recipient of the highest degree in philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, as well as of the coveted Artist Diploma of the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest. Additional prizes and awards include four honorary doctorates.

His appointments have included research grants at Yale and Princeton Universities, professorships for philosophy, systems sciences, and future sciences at the Universities of Houston, Portland State, and Indiana, as well as Northwestern University and the State University of New York. His career also included guest professorships at various universities in Europe and the Far East. In addition, he worked as program director for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). In 1999 he was was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Canadian International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.

For many years he has served as president of the Club of Budapest, which he founded. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, member of both the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy.

Reviews

[Michael Weaver]

Lazlo does a great job addressing the macroshifts in sustainability, development, and economics through theoretically outlining those changes, by presenting a different way of introducing that change to society and offering innovative guidance to R&D and science during that process. He scales the macroshifts to a micro level so that they are applicable to the reader.

[Lindsey Peng]

.its kinda disappointing...i was hoping it talking more on the biological evolution trends to social evolutionary trends because I have heard a much better developed theory on it before and wanted to follow up on that

i am not a physic students by all means but I can't help to feel alarmed and feel like he used logic fallacies in his use of numbers and physics to prove his point of unity.. I am extremely alarmed when I see the support of spirituality using a field of science that has not been confirmed and uniformlly agreed...

for example, he jumped from an scientific observed entanglement in quantum particles directly into connectedness of rocks, minds and universe without explanation how the physical laws are transferrable across the different sizes

He's also one of the philosophers examining the self sampling assumption, biasing that our existence is fined tuned and highly improbable and it cannot be come from luck. However, our presence in the sample completely vitiates the computation of the odds. This idea that we are here, that this is the best of all possible worlds,and that evolution did a great job seems rather bogus in the light of the
silent-evidence effect.

The constant appearing of suggestions and conclusions without elaborations worries me ,Despite I intrinsically agree with many of his suggestions, I am alarmed and skeptical. , . .

Also the format of the writting is quite interesting--alot of bulleting paragraphs. . . Not the best fun to read book out there either.You can also tell the author is alittle arrogant through his writting .. i believe alot of writters are since they are wise enough to suggest such creative ideas but showing it through your writting really dosn't help adding patience to read something that's not formatted so well in the first place.

[Erica]

I enjoyed this book more than Science and the Akashic Field -- I guess because it spoke to my particular mindset perfectly. We need to change and Dr. Laszlo is herald and World Shift!

[Jennifer Nidalmia]

This book set a solid foundation back when it was published in 2008 and yet much of it is already out of date. It’s good to see where we have come from and what has informed our current theory. I especially appreciated the chapters on coherence and non-local phenomena.

[Karin]

Lazlo explains in simple language the concepts of interconnectivity, how society can face these challenges with a positive outcome. This is an enjoyable read.

[Michael]

Constructive suggestions towards encouraging a global paradigm shift. Loosely based around systems philosophy, but not really about systems philosophy. A good introductory book.

[Jaimie van den Dungen]

Good read

[Dan Zarfati]

An interesting book but there were a lot of wishful thinking on some parts. A lot of new age thinking.

[Raúl]

buen ensayo. Pero si habéis leído antes a Capra, Rifkin, Tart o Ken Wilber no os aportará nada nuevo . pocas páginas . Puede estar bien para quién quiera iniciarse en la teoría de sistemas y cuestiones semejantes.