<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Dear Dai,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I continue with responding to the remaining part of your letter.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 11:44 PM Dai Griffiths <<a href="mailto:dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com">dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Intuitively, most people within traditionally Christian
countries assume, with Pelagius (c. 354–418), that you get into heaven by doing
good things. But this is not compatible with an imperial church, as you no
longer need priests to achieve salvation, and hence have no authority or power
over the population. Augustine succeeded in winning the argument with Pelagius,
and establishing the doctrine of original sin, which can only be overcome
through the grace of God, which is transmitted through priests.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Hence infants
need to be baptised to avoid being condemned to purgatory until the second
coming. <span style="background-color:rgb(255,229,153)">This is the doctrinal mechanism whereby imperial authority was
maintained by the church. </span></span></p></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Correct. This kind of institutional indoctrination was coordinated in meetings similar to those we see today with G7/G20 and WEF. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Unsurprisingly, Pelagius was condemned as a heretic. It
is worth meditating on this a little: “If you live a good life you go to heaven”
is heretical to the Catholic Church. I certainly find the implications to be horrendous.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">This heresy was disrupting the business model. We have this with Rockefellerian medicine of today too. We are ill and patients by default since the first breath we tae. The impact of millions of years of evolution and natural selection are negligible. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">The two examples you provide above are patterns of ruling over masses which one can find in one or another form in every society.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I wish for us to abstract from these patterns, unless they emerge and develop in a natural way to maintain a stable equilibrium. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">As a Welsh person, I am aware of Pelagius because he was a Celt
(Wales, Ireland and Brittany compete for the honour or infamy of being his birthplace).
The Celtic church was monastic (think of the Book of Kells), and in Wales it
was a direct continuation of the Roman church in Roman occupied Britain. The
Welsh church maintained a decentralised, Pelagian tradition until the annexation of Wales by
the English in 1534. So there is nothing inevitable about the imperial nature
of the church.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">This is an interesting detail. So, a centralized and a distributed system were co-existing for a certain period in Britain.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In 1276 Ramon Llull established a monastic school in
Mallorca, five kilometres from where I am typing these words (see <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Contributions/article/download/95275/411648__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Q0Q_sSUonrpENMyx1ZxV7Z8SpySpGHhSUUeHKZ-ElQjJ_BruzkJxFyJuqlIrOetPYzS054VTEeRHay1ody4PzhdXOVcV$" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Contributions/article/download/95275/411648</a>)<span style="font-size:11pt">. There, the students (Franciscan
Minors) studied Arabic, and I believe also Greek and
Hebrew, in line with Llull’s belief that the three ‘peoples of the book’
(Christians, Muslims and Jews) could be reconciled through learning and logical
discourse. </span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Very interesting. Abstraction and logic. We have another colleague here, Bruno Marchal, who could respond to this better than me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">For his efforts Llull was excommunicated by the church, and
conversion in Christianity and Islam remained linked to imperial conquest. Current
events in Israel, Nigeria, and other countries are illustrating the consequences
of failing to attend to his vision</span><span style="font-size:11pt">.
In our time I have found Karen Armstrong’s writing valuable in underlining the
common foundations of the major religions.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">This is the bigger question of unifying branches that grew from the same roots. Unification needs to happen within the Christian Church first before further steps are taken. </div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I believe these examples help us “recognize the patterns that let us down
before and now” which you mention. They help us consider how
the Christian church in general, and monasticism in particular, could have
evolved if Christianity had not taken on the trappings and political
imperatives of the Roman Empire. </p></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I see. One remark: there were two Roman Empires. The approach of the Eastern one was to culturally infiltrate and educate the barbarians in the North through Christianity from the top which worked. At that time the Church was not really secular, and the influence came through the rulers themselves who sent their children to be educated in Constantinople, just as this happens in modern days with the ivory league schools and universities in the UK and USA. This is how the Byzantine legacy expanded to other countries in Eastern Europe, even if they were not part of it, which is the same successful model for the US and UK educational systems until now. </div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The benefits of monasticism which you describe
could still have been achieved, and perhaps we could have sidestepped some of
the most noxious manifestations of authoritarian social structures and the “clash of
civilizations”.</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Maybe. Maybe we have to look for the anomalies that carry the essential information in the series of pattern transformations when reducing data. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Topology (TDA) could help here.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Plamen</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 12:50, Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov <<a href="mailto:plamen.l.simeonov@gmail.com" target="_blank">plamen.l.simeonov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Dear Colleagues,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I wish you a HAPPY; HEALTHY AND PEACEFUL NEW YEAR 2023 !</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">It is my pleasure to announce, -- also on behalf of our generous and hard-working host Pedro C. Marijuan who has provided us with this forum of wonderful exchange for so many years (Hallelujah!), -- the opening of our New Year's discussion session under the topic THE ROOTS OF CIVILISATION. that will end on January 31st, 2023.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I am eager and curious to read your ideas. Please feel free to share whatever comes to your mind.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Here is the abstract with the focus and some idea we can extract/expect at the end:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><a class="gmail_plusreply" id="m_-979120227050870566m_-729011083341335102plusReplyChip-0">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</a><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">THE ROOTS OF MODERN (WESTERN / EUROPEAN) CIVILISATION</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">INTRO: We are living today in uncertain times with multiple overlapping human-made crises which an advanced civilization is supposed to anticipate and prevent -- ecology, epidemics, overpopulation, economy with disproportional energy and resources consume, cultural and generational polarization, even questioning science, moral values and an individual’s identity. Furthermore, ideologically led old ghost teachings of division, conflict and confrontation among social groups and utopic tech visions for remodeling and resetting the world with unpredictable consequences are contributing to the overall confusion and wrong choices, thus deepening the crises even more. Could we look back at the past for some lessons?</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">THE MAGISTERY OF HISTORY: There have been many episodes of civilization crises along human history. Each one of them has left a "recipe" in our collective memory of how to overcome it. Maybe this time things have become too complex and multi-faceted, like society itself. Or maybe an evil intention is lurking behind? There are so many different aspects at multiple levels in social life all over the world that have been increasingly challenged by our tunnel vision on technology oriented towards more production/profit and less cleaning/reuse/benevolence, away from a stable equilibrium (“homeostasis”). They need to be reorganized coherently and in a commonly agreeable way, not in one imposed by self-proclaimed authorities who got used to changing long established definitions and rules of conduct following their own agenda. This takes time, of course, as it has always been. What about looking for lessons to learn from the past, or at least to obtain some orientation in order to make the right decisions in this difficult time? This appears to be more reasonable than starting to invent novel directive-guided solutions from scratch deploying not yet proven as safe technologies in a trial-and-error fashion. We have an intriguing proposal for you. Let us focus on a fascinating period in human history and find out how the Western world was rebuilt and reintegrated from the ruins of the Roman Empire.<span> </span><span> </span></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=1708__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rg9EurD0-ICyn68-QPfWNXtUmZH8tNOYk7zRY33Dy7GGR2nVCGcIUyhiRCktmagzi0QscagoZaBpzu6YLWoXVIMjd4Ya$" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=1708</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-fall-of-the-roman-empire-paved-the-road-to-modernity__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rg9EurD0-ICyn68-QPfWNXtUmZH8tNOYk7zRY33Dy7GGR2nVCGcIUyhiRCktmagzi0QscagoZaBpzu6YLWoXVOOlOPg8$" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-fall-of-the-roman-empire-paved-the-road-to-modernity</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">THE MONASTIC SYSTEM - A GREAT IDEA. A handful of people may be credited with the design and realization of this truly civilization project. During its golden ages, Rome was defended by more than 200,000 legionaries, but after its fall in 466 AD they were replaced by other, more powerful spiritual warriors. They gradually covered the fragmented (Western) Europe and expanded Christianity through missionaries in the North by a coherent space of several thousand Catholic Benedictine monasteries that peacefully preserved and cultivated education, technology, economy, medicine, law, art and moral values that integrated the wisdom of the classical antiquity (Rom and Greece) and enlightened the local communities through the Dark Ages. Their success in ameliorating and guiding the human spirit paved the way for the urban "cloisters" of universities during the Renaissance Era (XII century ff.) where the seeds of science found their fruitful grounds to grow. Thus, several major crises, incl. alien invasions, the plague, internecine wars and famines were overcome thanks to this new resilient social scaffold.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span>In Eastern Europe, the</span><span> </span>Roman-Byzantine Empire in Constantinople, although shrunk through the waves of plague and foreign invasions, survived for almost 1000 years thanks to expanding Christianity and culture to its new neighbor and rival, but also ally at times in the North, the Bulgarian Empire. The latter developed the Cyrillic alphabet during the IX century AD, translated the holy books/prayers/songs in their language and began disseminating them to the other Slavic people in today’s territories of Serbia and Montenegro, Wallachia (Romania), Ukraine and Russia. When the Bulgarian 3 kingdoms and Constantinople surrendered in 1396 AD and 1453 AD to the Ottoman Empire, the conquered people on the Balkan peninsula continued to exist spiritually through a growing network of Christian Orthodox monasteries that kept the local communities together and finally led them to freedom through the national liberation movements in the XIX century.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Both Eastern and Western Europe<span> </span>endured those crises, calamities and invasions because they maintained firm, sound civilization roots based on the monastic system, the universities and schools as education centers, and later on industrial corporations.<span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">From today’s viewpoint the monastic system is analogous to a modern resilient, redundant, fault-tolerant and flexibly configurable computer network, particularly with respect to its data storage and processing resources, capable of self-diagnosis and self-healing, a critical infrastructure per se. If a monastery was destroyed or burned, the monks escaped with most of their valuable books and artefacts via safe routes to neighboring monasteries, where they could be preserved, replicated and distributed again.<span> </span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rg9EurD0-ICyn68-QPfWNXtUmZH8tNOYk7zRY33Dy7GGR2nVCGcIUyhiRCktmagzi0QscagoZaBpzu6YLWoXVNiPvsKe$" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script</a></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/boyana-church__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rg9EurD0-ICyn68-QPfWNXtUmZH8tNOYk7zRY33Dy7GGR2nVCGcIUyhiRCktmagzi0QscagoZaBpzu6YLWoXVNLujNTC$" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/boyana-church</a></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">THE SUCCESS OF THE WESTERN WORLD: Arguably, what we call cultural Renaissance followed by scientific and industrial revolutions were an evolutive product of medieval society and the era of great geographical discoveries in the New Worlds beyond Europe, North Africa and Asia. Quite probably, they were only possible thanks to the first missionary globalization and peaceful goods exchange along the silk trade route following the pattern of the Antique World trade across the territories surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Spain and Portugal brought to Europe not only spices and silk, but also fundamental technologies from Asia (gun powder, magnetic compass, paper, porcelain), and later on a regular maritime trade routes from China via Philippines and Mexico over the Atlantic that were active for more than 250 years before Holland, France and England became colonial powers dominating the sea trade, yet at the price of slavery and exploiting the native population. The further role of science and technology in the task of changing Western societies was awesome, perhaps with the infamous Cartesian breach between science and the humanities, which no doubt has delivered a biased conception of our rationality limits and led to awful ideological misunderstandings that are absent in oriental civilizations.<span> </span></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">BACK TO THE PROBLEMS OF OUR TIME</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">And here we are. In a world that again faces illnesses and adverse events from their anecdotic treatment to ask: “How is the state of our civilization and our roots today?<span> What do we identify with today? Do we recognize the patterns that let us down before and now? Do we know what can reconcile and heal our multi-facetted society?”</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt"></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">We modestly, as scientists recognizing the societal immune system, acknowledge the fact that we have the duty to contribute to recovering the system with coherent visions illuminating the "forking paths ahead" (as Borges put it). First of all, on our own turf -- the flagrant incoherence and misunderstandings around most fields where information and communication, meaning and knowledge, as well as collective intelligence need to be cleared up and nailed down. We need to clean up our own backyard on this planet and evolve to a new level, -- not necessarily a purely technocratic one, -- before we set off for new missions in space and meeting other civilizations out there.</span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://interestingliterature.com/2021/07/jorge-luis-borges-the-garden-of-forking-paths-summary-analysis/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rg9EurD0-ICyn68-QPfWNXtUmZH8tNOYk7zRY33Dy7GGR2nVCGcIUyhiRCktmagzi0QscagoZaBpzu6YLWoXVHm0PUvc$" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://interestingliterature.com/2021/07/jorge-luis-borges-the-garden-of-forking-paths-summary-analysis/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/william-shatner-space-boldly-go-excerpt-1235395113/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rg9EurD0-ICyn68-QPfWNXtUmZH8tNOYk7zRY33Dy7GGR2nVCGcIUyhiRCktmagzi0QscagoZaBpzu6YLWoXVFp49Ast$" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)" target="_blank">https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/william-shatner-space-boldly-go-excerpt-1235395113/</a></span></p></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><a class="gmail_plusreply" id="m_-979120227050870566m_-729011083341335102plusReplyChip-1">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</a><a class="gmail_plusreply"><br></a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">With best wishes,</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Plamen</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8.1pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font color="#073763"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:medium">___ ___ ___</font><span></span></font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#073763"><b>Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov</b><span></span></font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#073763">Director Research Integral Biomathics<span></span></font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#073763"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.simeio.org/focus/about/inbioce/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rg9EurD0-ICyn68-QPfWNXtUmZH8tNOYk7zRY33Dy7GGR2nVCGcIUyhiRCktmagzi0QscagoZaBpzu6YLWoXVEEpTrC0$" target="_blank">InBioCe</a></span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.simeio.org/focus/about/molbio2math/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rg9EurD0-ICyn68-QPfWNXtUmZH8tNOYk7zRY33Dy7GGR2nVCGcIUyhiRCktmagzi0QscagoZaBpzu6YLWoXVLAU9QzG$" target="_blank"> –<b> </b></a><i><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.simeio.org/focus/about/inbioce/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Rg9EurD0-ICyn68-QPfWNXtUmZH8tNOYk7zRY33Dy7GGR2nVCGcIUyhiRCktmagzi0QscagoZaBpzu6YLWoXVEEpTrC0$" 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