Knowledge-oriented society: The problem of surviving the permanently uncertain future and the Requirement of Permanence

Abstract

Mankind has inherited the earth. But, up to now there is little hint on the meaning and the purpose of this inheritance. Science, thus far, has explained only a tiny fraction. The real issue is identified as the problem of surviving the permanently uncertain future. Technically, the problem can be called the Requirement of Permanence. All the knowledge discoveries of the past, the present, and the future and all the wisdom of the universe accumulated from the infinite past seem to be aimed at satisfying this Requirement of Permanence. And, by the best account, merely looking at the living system on earth, the problem seems to have been solved, as far as the universe in concerned. However, science, dealing with certainty, has missed the essence of the problem, which is solving the permanently uncertain future. The solution is expanded and further explained by Post-Science Social Science based on the solution of value, Post-Science Life or Computer Science based on the solution of complete automation, and Post-Creational Fuzzy Logic for describing the fuzzy reality resulting from the sacrifice of precision in the expansion of the range of tolerance of error of a creation for surviving all the possibilities of the uncertain future. The same solution for solving the problem of the uncertain future is used for solving the problems of financial crises and complexity crises, which will plague our society in the Age of Abundance. Post-science promotes the concept of a future cooperative society of abundance guided by knowledge. A knowledge-oriented, not power or money-oriented, society is needed to solve the problem of surviving the uncertain future permanently. Only knowledge will give mankind the right to inherit the earth and to connect to the wisdom of the universe.