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Future as Subject

Future as Subject. Study of future as specific aspect of history. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 1962 Thomas Kuhn ‘Paradigm shift’. It is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm. ‘World view’

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Future as Subject

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  1. Future as Subject Study of future as specific aspect of history

  2. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions • 1962 • Thomas Kuhn • ‘Paradigm shift’ It is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm

  3. ‘World view’ Weltanschauung Zeitgeist Paradigms Broadest cultural perspective of beauty, truth, and reality

  4. Future Shock1970 • Alvin Toffler Treatment of the ‘acceleration of history’ as result of mass communication and globalism

  5. Theory of history • Pre-modern: God-centered • Modern: Science-centered • Postmodern: Mixed and compressed

  6. Pre-modern • Holy texts • Magical thinking • Male-dominated family and clan • Heroes, gods, kings, saints

  7. Early-Modern • Classical and Eastern texts • Romantic thinking • Exaltation of female • Tragic, national , & romantic heroes

  8. Late-Modern • Natural science texts • Scientific method • Individuality/alienation • Disillusion with science • Weltschmerz • Transition from Pre-Modern: Galileo, Newton, Darwin

  9. Nietzsche denies ‘grand narrative’ texts Freud deconstructs ‘human nature’ Late-Modern Weltschmerz becomes play Anachronism becomes typical Low/high art mixed Derrida deconstructs ‘Truth, beauty, and reality’ Post-Modern

  10. ‘Future’ becomes subject • With advent of the New World • With Humanism • With the Enlightenment Looking forward to a better time through science, or to a secular hell through the failure of science.

  11. Science of time Time is a river

  12. Patricide Paradox If you go back in time and kill your father . . .

  13. Einstein’s Space/Time • 4th dimension • Space/time curved by mass • Time is a place

  14. Einstein-Rosen Bridge • Black hole • Event horizon • Singularity 1974 Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

  15. Parallel Universes Time is not a river

  16. Flatland1884 • Edwin A. Abbot (A2)

  17. Michio Kaku • “The best explanation for light is as an interface between dimensions” --Hyperspace 1998

  18. M Theory • Based on quantum theory • Evolved from String theory • Implies multiple universes

  19. Probability of reality • Wave/particle basis of light • Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle • Normal distribution of location • Asymptotic

  20. Collapse of wave function

  21. The Multiverse

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