Emerging worldview
Here we discuss the idea that when the conventional worldview is augmented by the insights from contemporary physics, and when the conventional academic thinking is liberated by a dialog, then our conventional worldview, values, daily life and culture may change quite profoundly.
The need for a Renaissance--like change in our worldview and general culture has been highlighted by many contemporary thinkers. Aurelio Peccei, co-founder and first president of The Club of Rome, wrote based on a decade of this think tank's exploration of the future prospects of mankind: "The future will either be an inspired product of a great cultural revival, or there will be no future."
We have seen how by broadening our cultural foundations for truth and worldview, by including the insights reached in quantum physics, and by developing a social process for the creation of truth and worldview (a one that takes advantage of contemporary technology and available epistemological and other insights), completely new ideas about our human nature and culture may become mainstream. But creativity, as important as it may be, cannot be the only such idea. Can we find other such candidate ideas?
Can we, by thinking together, discover other similar pieces of insight that may change our understanding of ourselves and our culture? Can we begin to put them together into a mosaic, so that already a vital new worldview may begin to emerge?