The Change to a Virtual Human Society
This essay proposes that a change; convergence; is being forced in the human system for creating and maintaining a society.
Origins
The change emanates from the contextual global issues of Global Warming, Consumerism, Population Increase, Environment, Resource and Energy Depletion.
The Agreement
The basis for the convergence was a human agreement, a ‘concensus gentium’; latin for agreement of the people, "that which is universal among men carries the weight of truth".
In 2015 after 20 years of discussions the COP 21 2015 Paris Climate Conference placed a legally binding and universal agreement on climate change, greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel use with the aim of keeping global warming below 2deg C.
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Source: (Ferm, Vergilius (1962), "Consensus Gentium", p. 64 in Runes (1962))
Source: http://www.cop21paris.org/about/cop21
Source: http://newsroom.unfccc.int/unfccc-newsroom/landmark-climate-change-agreement-to-enter-into-force/
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement
From this moment the whole planet was committed to achieving the aim of climate control to allow human society to survive.
This was a unique moment in human history.
The Time Frame
The aim of the COP 21 2015 Paris Climate Conference agreement was to be reached between 2050 and 2100.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference
The whole world was committed to the same timeline.
This was another unique moment in human history.
The Strategy
The COP 21 2015 agreement intended to reduce the effects of climate change by moving the world from the use of fossil fuels, oil, coal, gas, shale gas; the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions, to renewable energy sources, solar, photovoltaic, wind, wave, hydro and fusion.
The strategy was to be carried out in stages.
The current world fossil fuel use was to be reduced between 2020 and 2050. 34% of this reduction is intended to take place before 2020 and 80% by 2050.
Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html
The whole world was committed to the same strategy.
This was another unique moment in human history.
The Poorest Begin the Process.
This process has already begun through the world poorest countries who will find it difficult to move away from the use of fossil fuels to renewable energy.
‘Members of the Climate Vulnerable Forum issued their statement on the last day of the Marrakech climate conference. Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Haiti, among others, say they will update their national plans on cutting carbon before 2020.Delegates here welcomed the move, saying it was "inspirational".
These two weeks of negotiations have been overshadowed to an extent by reaction to the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency. But in an effort to show that even the world's poorest countries are committed to dealing with global warming, the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) members have issued a promise to fully green their economies between 2030 and 2050.Termed the Marrakech Vision, the plan promises that the 47 members will: "strive to meet 100% domestic renewable energy production as rapidly as possible, while working to end energy poverty and protect water and food security, taking into consideration national circumstances".’
Many of these countries are in vulnerable climate conditions due to maximum temperature levels in their countries. Many could be uninhabitable, above 40 deg. c; between 2020 and 2100 if global warming goes above 2 deg C.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38028130 18 November 2016 ‘World's poorest countries to aim for 100% green energy.’
Source: http://www.thecvf.org/web/climate-vulnerable-forum/cvf-participating-countries/
Source: http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en/195-countries-adopt-the-first-universal-climate-agreement/
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference
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This was another unique moment in human history.
The Problems.
The Loss of Fossil Fuels
The current dependency on fossil fuels as electricity energy generating sources is 65.3% globally.
Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html
83% of the total world population depend on electricity as an energy source.
Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html
The current renewable energy; hydro and other renewable energy sources; amount to 27.9% globally.
Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html
This means that the world will lose 65.3% of its generating capacity by 2050 in order to keep global warming below 2 deg C and that 83% of the world population will have their energy levels drop to at best half of what they are currently using.
This puts the world back to pre-industrial levels of society.
This puts the whole world into a shared dilemma at the same time in human history.
This will create another unique moment in human history.
The Manufacturing of Renewable Energy Sources.
All of the renewable energy sources require the extraction, transport and burning of fossil fuels to be manufactured, distributed, installed and maintained. The manufacture of renewable energy will therefore initially increase global warming.
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This puts the whole world into a shared dilemma at the same time in human history.
This will create another unique moment in human history.
The End of the Carbon Economy
The world economy is based on consumerism. It is totally dependent on the extraction, transport and burning of fossil fuels for its products; tools; to be manufactured, distributed, installed and maintained. Therefore the global manufacture of products; tools; sourcing, manufacture and use is directly opposed to the necessary strategy to allow human society to survive.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/06/carbon-bubble-threat-uk-economy-fossil-fuels-mps
Source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0111_040112_consumerism_2.html
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/6979611/Human-civilisation-will-collapse-unless-greed-culture-is-stopped-report-warns.html
This puts the whole world into a shared dilemma at the same time in human history.
This will create another unique moment in human history.
The Carbon Bubble.
As the amount of fossil fuel need reduces the investments already placed in the extraction, transport and burning of fossil fuels will become worthless. Given the dependency of the world economy on fossil fuels the economic effects will initially be to cause countries to go bankrupt and the world economy to collapse before it restructures to a renewable level. This will occur from 2017 onwards.
Source: Unburnable Carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/03/bank-of-england-warns-of-financial-risk-from-fossil-fuel-investments
Source: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Pages/speeches/2015/844.aspx#
This puts the whole world into a shared dilemma at the same time in human history.
This will create another unique moment in human history.
The Limits of Environment, Resources and Energy.
Even if the identification and agreements on climate are discounted the success of the consumerist society is based on an invalid argument; a paradox. Its success is measured in the amount of its increase in its current population related to the reduction in the amount of environment, resources and energy per head of population to allow more of the next, increased, generation to be created.
This invalid argument denies the physical limitations of the Earth.
The valid argument should be.
The Earth is a limited system. Humans must consume to survive. The more humans on the Earth the more things are consumed. The more things are consumed the less there will be for the next generation. The smaller the next generation must be to survive on the remaining environment, resources and energy.
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The valid argument is being forced upon humans by the lifespan of the Solar System.
The Sun is halfway through its life therefore half of the potential resources of the Earth are used up; even without human intervention.
The current projection is for the population of the world to increase up to approx.11.2 billion in 2100.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
The current projection is for the 83% of the Earth; environment; already used for human consumption to increase as the human population increases.
Source:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021025_HumanFootprint_2.html
The current projection is for the peak of material resources; based on current consumption; to be around the year 2840 and total material resource depletion to occur by 3670. 824 to 1654 years of available material resource time remaining. Allowing for a human generation of 45 years this allows for 18 to 36 generations of humans who can remain as consumerists on Earth.
Source: https://sites.google.com/site/architecturearticles/home/article-045 The Production, Resource, Depletion, Peak Year and use of the Mineral Resources of the Earth
The current projection for the peak of fossil fuel energy use is 2020 to 2050; to allow for the reduction in greenhouse gases to control climate change.
After the fossil fuels peak the extraction of any mineral will become more difficult and then by 2050; due to the removal of fossil fuel use to reduce global warming; the use of fossil fuels will cease. This indicates that many mineral resources will remain in the Earth and not be extracted. This further reduces the available material resource time remaining and the number of generations of humans who can remain as consumerists on Earth.
Source: http://www.cop21paris.org/about/cop21
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference
Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html
Therefore if humans retain a consumerist society their population will increase, their consumption of environment, resources and energy must increase and their longevity as a society; due to the limitations of the Earth; must decrease.
This puts the whole world into one valid argument at the same time in human history.
This creates another unique moment in human history.
The Current Human Society System up to 2020
All humans are formed of groups of natural elements.
All humans form social groups.
All human groups have identical needs. Those of environment, resources and energy to survive.
Human societies are formed through the provision of needs, the change of established needs into longer term values to promote incentives to work, the combining of values into qualities to incentivise the population to produce more of what they consume, the use of qualities to establish appreciations of beauty to add values beyond physical or monetary ones, the use of appreciations of beauty to create arts and so form cultures and the assembly of cultures by agreement to establish political hierarchies to control societies.
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The Future Human Society 2020 to 2050
The future human society must involve the creation of dis-order and chaos to produce a lack of unification of the environmental, resource and energy context and also their consumerist connection to human needs, values, qualities, appreciations of beauty, cultures and societies. This is needed to promote easier renewability of all environment, resource and energy, ensure human survivability and maintain a control over Anthropocene; human influenced; climate change,
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The Convergence
Between 2020 and 2050 the world will have to remove consumerism, remove the idea of work as an incentive, reduce environment use, reduce resource extraction, reduce energy use, reduce manufacturing, reduce distribution, introduce austerity and stagnate economies to maintain a stable climate and establish a basic human needs provision to allow survival.
It will also have to move its security controls over to the protection of localized environment, resource and energy against other human societies.
The Move from Physical to Virtual
The Architecture; idea; of space as humans perceive it can be stated as an algorithm as forms of one factor, Density.
It takes 7e+87 components to make the space humans perceive.
Since space is expanding the Density, Mass, Volume, Gravitational and Fundamental Interactions are all reducing.
There is an immensely high energy level for the whole of space if it was a singular source of energy; a singularity.
The energy of space at an atomic and sub-atomic level is almost zero and continuing to reduce as space expands.
Space can be described as one thing; a singularity; that is expanding, varying, interacting and evolving in relation to human time to form trillions upon trillions of other objects to try and achieve a zero energy level density and stability.
Space has evolved a part of it; Humans; to be its sensory system; an evolved density of space that; through density interaction; can assist it to try and achieve a zero energy level density and stability.
Space and so Humans, since they are an evolved part of it; can only sense and communicate those things that have occurred.
Space perceives itself; senses itself; detects itself detecting; through humans; as a hologram.
There is also a quantum correspondence to space detecting itself detecting as a hologram.
The Architecture of space is a projected illusion; a hologram; of a past event.
The Universe is Virtual.
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Removing the use of the physical; matter, mass; forces the human society towards their true nature virtual, energy.
The Pre 2020 Society Creation System can be stated to be
Needs create Values create Qualities create Appreciations of Beauty create Cultures create Societies.
The Post 2020 to 2050 Society Creation System must be
Needs require Renewability require Virtual Environments require Virtual Resources require Virtual Energy use create Cultures create Societies.
By providing for basic human needs; environment, resources and energy; at a renewable level and not allowing depletion only virtual products are available to replace the consumerist manufactured products.
The output of the individual human is already partially virtual in relation to its link to mass communications.
The renewable nature of products is becoming apparent through 3d printing methods.
The shift to virtual cultures with their own appreciations of art is already in formation through the internet.
Smart; portable; devices are the next stage of moving away from fixed products to shared virtual experiences, self improvement and virtual products in virtual reality and augmented reality.
The Renewable Society
In the renewable society the incentive system of working for profit and personal possessions is removed in favour of having sufficient renewable environment, resources and energy for the next year of existence.
Manufacturing of any product out of environment, resources and energy only takes place when it is specifically needed. Manufacturing therefore reduces.
As manufacturing reduces, employment need reduces.
As work becomes infrequent the population are directed to civil work employment.
Welfare is extended out for the whole population as a yearly credit system to maintain the transaction of virtual products and services.
The amount of leisure time increases until leisure becomes a personal improvement process rather than a group participation exercise.
This is a convergence to a new human society through the removal of physical; material, matter, mass; commercial incentives and their replacement with virtual; energy; incentives.
The shift to this new society has a parallel in the current scientific understanding of the nature of the Human and the Human Brain.
The Individual Human
The Pre 2020 individual Human and Human Brain are physical products of the singularity, expanded singularity, observable universe, chemical elements and also of their group cultures and societies sensory output.
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of-reality
The definition of the Human can be refined from that of a particular genus to allow for its evolutionary and social nature and its programming and self-programming, through society.
‘Human’
‘The complex energy-chemical-genetic-interference pattern structure belonging to the genus Homo; without thought or spontaneity, automatic, having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by sensory input using electromagnetic radiation, which is capable of receiving information (data) in a particular form and of performing a sequence of operations in accordance with a predetermined but variable set of procedural instructions (program) to produce a result in the form of information or signals by the communications output of its pre-programmed, self-engineered, society and its own heuristic master programme.’
The nature of the Human Brain can now be seen as a detector that detects itself detecting which can be defined as
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‘Human Brain’
‘The complex energy-chemical-genetic-interference pattern detector belonging to the genus Homo; without thought or spontaneity, automatic, having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by sensory input using electromagnetic radiation, which is capable of receiving information (data) in a particular form and of performing a sequence of operations in accordance with a predetermined but variable set of procedural instructions (program) to produce a result in the form of information or signals by the communications output of its pre-programmed, self-engineered, society and its own heuristic master programme.’
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The Post 2020 Human and Human Brain definitions can be extrapolated from these descriptions allowing for the Convergence constraints previously described.
‘Human’
‘The complex virtual energy-chemical-genetic-interference pattern structure belonging to the genus Homo; without thought or spontaneity, automatic, having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by virtual sensory input using electromagnetic radiation, which is capable of receiving information (data) in a particular form and of performing a sequence of operations in accordance with a predetermined but variable set of procedural instructions (program) to produce a renewable result in the form of information or signals by the communications output of its pre-programmed, self-engineered, society and its own heuristic master programme.’
The nature of the human brain can now be seen as a virtual detector detecting itself detecting which can be defined as
‘Human Brain’
‘The complex virtual energy-chemical-genetic-interference pattern detector belonging to the genus Homo; without thought or spontaneity, automatic, having several parts, each with a definite function and together performing a particular task capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by virtual sensory input using electromagnetic radiation, which is capable of receiving information (data) in a particular form and of performing a sequence of operations in accordance with a predetermined but variable set of procedural instructions (program) to produce a renewable result in the form of information or signals by the communications output of its pre-programmed, self-engineered, society and its own heuristic master programme.’
Conclusions
Between 2020 and 2050 a change; a convergence; is being forced in the human system for creating and maintaining a society.
The convergence emanates from the contextual global issues of Global Warming, Consumerism, Population Increase, Environment, Resource and Energy Depletion.
The whole planet is passing through a series of unique moments in human history.
The Universe, singularity, expanding singularity, is a single expanding virtual energy field that is perceived as a hologram by humans.
Beyond 2050 the future for humans is increasingly virtual.
The move by humans to a renewable virtual society is an acknowledgement of their actual nature as an energy component of the singularity, expanding singularity, observable universe.
They will perceive their Architecture; idea; themselves as responding automatically in a fundamental positive or negative way; as an energy density in space-time; and at a social; amygdalae; level to their local energy density, their local environment, their part of the singularity, and express this response; through ‘consensus gentium’; through their virtual objects and language.
Ian K Whittaker
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08/12/2016
14/10/2020
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