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{"title":"The Nature of Consciousness: Contentless Consciousness Theory","authors":"Yung‐Jong Shiah","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2023.2226595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2023.2226595","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this paper, the author describes his Contentless Consciousness Theory (CCT), specifying two types of consciousness: delusional and contentless. Contentless consciousness is the true consciousness. The consciousness most of us have is delusional consciousness. We can eliminate the delusions of consciousness and their psychological structures by pursuing self-enlightenment. Eventually the delusional consciousness is transformed into contentless consciousness, a state of total liberation and authentic happiness. The three kinds of empirical evidence for supporting CCT are also described which are near death experiences, mediumship, and reincarnation. Finally, the paper concludes by providing 8 possible applications and topics for future research.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"32 1","pages":"616 - 634"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85937890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sentiment and Presentiment in Twitter: Do Trends in Collective Mood “Feel the Future”?","authors":"D. Radin","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2023.2216629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2023.2216629","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Meta-analyses of experiments investigating human behavioral and physiological reactions to unpredictable future events suggest the existence of a poorly understood ability to “feel the future.” Is this effect reflected in sentiment metrics based on social media posts? To find out, analysis of 13 years of daily Twitter sentiment data in 10 languages was examined two weeks prior to events assessed as significantly negative and unpredictable, including acts of terrorism, mass shootings, unexpected deaths of celebrities, etc. Results of the analysis was statistically significant (p = 0.001), suggesting the existence of a form of collective presentiment.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"103 1","pages":"525 - 535"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82245347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Movement Matured: Results of a Co-citation Analysis, and Some Reflections on the Relations Between Social Structure and Ideas in Futures Studies","authors":"Christian Dayé","doi":"10.1177/19467567231170822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19467567231170822","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars and practitioners have long criticized the inherent dominance of Western ideas in futures studies and claimed the need for a de-centering or decolonizing of the field. As a process of transforming science, de-centering occurs on at least two levels: at the level of thought and at the level of social structure. Sociologists of science, Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars, and others have conducted research for many years on the interlinkages between social structures and knowledge structures and have developed several concepts to do so. In this article, I discuss some of these concepts and combine these theoretical conceptualizations with a co-citation analysis of recent publications in the futures studies. Based on a sample of futures studies publications that have appeared in the last ten years (n = 500) retrieved from the Web of ScienceTM database, a strongly inter-related network with four clusters can be identified. The works in each these four clusters are related in terms of their subject matter. They concern (1) the politico-intellectual program of futures studies, (2) their epistemological foundations, (3) questions of methodology, and (4) scenarios as the core technique of futures thinking. Both the works and their authors come from a broad variety of cultural backgrounds; they also display a relatively high number of co-citations with works in clusters other than their own. Taken together, these findings indicate that the information space sampled in this study to represent futures studies has already become de-centered to a large degree, both at the level of social structure and at the level of thought.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88785227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global Aging and our Futures","authors":"L. Grinin, A. Grinin, Andrey Korotayev","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2023.2204791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2023.2204791","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We analyze process of global population aging, which will have a significant impact on all areas of public life in the 21st century. Global aging is likely to create an acute demand for labor-saving technologies, as well as give a powerful impulse in the field of medicine. As a result of the completion of Cybernetic Revolution and achievement by global aging of an advanced phase, a new society will be formed–cybernetic society. It is likely to be an elderly society, with the institutionalization of age differences, relying almost entirely on smart (cybernetic) technologies and AI-based self-regulating systems.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"83 1","pages":"536 - 556"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83429938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is It Possible to Create a New Indigenous Technology from an Imported Technology?","authors":"Saber Monadi Nouri, M. Taqavi","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2023.2204793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2023.2204793","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The transfer of technical artifacts from industrialized countries to other parts of the world is nowadays a common and everyday occurrence. But the differences in the cultural backgrounds of societies, and the cultural and social consequences of technological incursion on destination societies have led to conflicts and dichotomies that have sometimes destroyed the cultural infrastructure of these destination societies. Therefore, making changes to imported technologies and the possibility of developing technology based on the needs of the native culture have been indispensable necessities for destination communities. In this article, we explore the possibilities surrounding this issue and look for a solution to be implemented. To this end, we first review and critique the views of scholars of science and technology studies and also of the philosophy of technology, and in particular look at the work of Ihde and Feenberg. We found their answers to these questions to be constructive but lacking a holistic approach that is also practicable. Finally, by presenting a three-step solution of our own, we try to bridge the gap and link the ideas of thinkers and the real issues of technology and culture in non-industrial societies. We believe these three steps offer a way to indigenize various forms of imported technologies.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"9 1","pages":"647 - 668"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83652117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Breathing Hermeticism into an Ecology Beyond the Anthropocene","authors":"Robert Schimelpfenig","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2023.2199446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2023.2199446","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the viability of the Hermetic worldview against the concept of the Anthropocene. Hermeticism’s unity of being offers a responsive ontology to the disruptive legacy of the epoch. Through review of its criticisms, the article highlights imperialist, naturalist, and anthropocentric assumptions that make the Anthropocene a problematic and inadequate description for future ecology. A reawakening of Hermeticism is examined as an alternative spiritual ecology addressing nature from the inside out. Taking insight from Green Hermeticism, the unity of being is contemplated as a creative principle in spagyrical alchemy as a practice of ecological healing.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"8 1","pages":"431 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74577889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Manifesto on the spirit of planetary consciousness","authors":"E. László","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2022.2150044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2022.2150044","url":null,"abstract":"1. In the first decades of the 21st century, we have reached a crucial juncture in our history. We are on the threshold of a new stage of social, spiritual and cultural evolution, a stage that is as different from the stage of the earlier decades of this century as the grasslands were from the caves, and settled villages from life in nomadic tribes. We are evolving out of the nationally based industrial societies that were created at the dawn of the first industrial revolution, and heading toward an interconnected, information-based social, economic and cultural system that straddles the globe. The path of this evolution is not smooth: it is filled with shocks and surprises. This century has witnessed several major shock waves, and others may come our way before long. The way we shall cope with present and future shocks will decide our future, and the future of our children and grandchildren. 2. The challenge we now face is the challenge of choosing our destiny. Our generation, of all the thousands of generations before us, is called upon to decide the fate of life on this planet. The processes we have initiated within our lifetime and the lifetime of our fathers and grandfathers cannot continue in the lifetime of our children and grandchildren. Whatever we do either creates the framework for reaching a peaceful and cooperative global society and thus continuing the grand adventure of life, spirit and consciousness on Earth, or sets the stage for the termination of humanity’s tenure on this planet. 3. The patterns of action in today’s world are not encouraging. Millions of people are without work; millions are exploited by poor wages; millions are forced into helplessness and poverty. The gap between rich and poor nations, and between rich and poor people within nations, is great and still growing. Though the world community is relieved of the specter of superpower confrontation and is threatened by ecological collapse, the world’s governments still spend a thousand billion dollars a year on arms and the military and only a tiny fraction of this sum on maintaining a livable environment. 4. The militarization problem, the developmental problem, the ecological problem, the population problem, and the many problems of energy and raw materials will not be overcome merely by reducing the","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"189 4 1","pages":"348 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83543945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introductory Comments by the Members of the Board of the Club of Budapest Foundation","authors":"M. Sági, I. Vitányi, Izabella Zwack, J. Szlávik","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2021.2014747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2021.2014747","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The following studies are part of the Proceedings of the Conference of the Club of Budapest at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on the occasion of the celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the signing of the Manifesto on the Spirit of Planetary Consciousness held in the framework of the Global Impact Program of The Club of Budapest.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"18 1","pages":"353 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78017801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributions of the Members of the Club of Budapest","authors":"M. Sági, M. Csíkszentmihályi, Igor Stverka, Mitsuhiro Shibata, P. Biava, Bruce H. Lipton, Bénédicte Fumey, Fiorello Cortiana, Karan Singh, D. Woolfson","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2021.2012874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2021.2012874","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This section contains the contributions of the Members and Officials of The Club of Budapest to three panels held in the framework of the Club of Budapest’s celebration of the signing of the Manifesto on the Spirit of Planetary Consciousness.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"60 1","pages":"361 - 385"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74464058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development of a Virtual System to Analyze the Learning of 3D Shapes","authors":"Rita Barros Neves, Sofia Ferreira Leite, António Ramos Silva, José Hugo Mesquita Vasconcelos","doi":"10.1080/02604027.2022.2161087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2022.2161087","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study focuses on the development of a Virtual Environment application that interacts with a haptic device, to analyze the human process of learning 3 D shapes. The levels a person goes through in this learning process are established based on the Model of Hierarchical Complexity, translated into questions, and tested with a sample of users. The obtained results validate and demonstrate an increase in hierarchical complexity along the questions/stages and validate the Model, with most users following the concept that for a person to accomplish a higher hierarchical task, must be able to accomplish all the lower ones.","PeriodicalId":92860,"journal":{"name":"World futures review","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79797998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}