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‘Few will doubt that humankind has created a planet-sized problem for itself. No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth’s climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles. We are also the greatest destroyer of life […]

Global Catastrophic Risks ‘History shows that, only when the leaders of the world’s great power structures have become convinced that their power structures are in danger of being destroyed, have the gargantuanly large, adequate funds been appropriated for accomplishing the necessary epoch-opening new technologies.’ R.B. Fuller, 1981, xx. There is […]

Anthony Wilden (1935-2019) writes that ‘all communication is miscommunication’ (1972, p. 242). So-doing, he identifies the central role of miscommunication and its many sub-genres, within research for communication ethics. Without formal and methodological studies of how miscommunication operates, it is likely that human progress is deeply subverted, simply due to […]

Implied in traditional models of democracy are connected axiomatic principles [5D] of self-learning and self-governing. Simply, its better to be informed if you want to survive and learning is the human condition which allows you to inform yourself. Actually, democracy and related civic learning are the only means to assure […]

‘… there have appeared, from time to time, individuals who grew to maturity without losing the full inventory of their innate, intuitive, and spontaneously coordinate faculties. These unscathed individuals inaugurated whole new eras of physical environmental transformation so important as, in due course, to affect the lives of all ensuing […]

A serious question facing every citizen today is how to organise, regulate and govern the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI)? In a recent widely-publicised interview, Sundar Pichai, Google and Alphabet’s joint Chief Executive Officer (CEO), is quoted: “International alignment will be critical to making global standards work. To get there, […]

Communication physics is the study of the energy and matters of life. Since, even before Albert Einstein (1879-1955) famously connected energy with matter, the ruling assumptions of the Western mind have largely omitted or left unexplained, a complexity of phenomena that both relativity and quantum science identified. Today, this disconnect […]

A great change is underway in human affairs. Our opportunity is to create the world’s first global civilization, aided by our time-defining digital technologies. This same opportunity is driving a new transdisciplinary inquiry into the physics of communication. Communication is the mode of life enacted via human culture, while physics […]

‘The divergent scales of values scream in discordance, they dazzle and daze us, and in order that it might not be painful we steer clear of all other values, as though from insanity, as though from illusion, and we confidently judge the whole world according to our own home values. […]

‘Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.’ Bertrand Russell, Justice in War-Time, 1916, p. 27.   In these extraordinary times the question of religion and how faith affects human values is central. How is […]

An important distinction between the language of values and of actions is commonly ignored. Partly, because it has not been well-identified in much formal education. It’s a surprising omission considering how important these related concepts are. Values are the subjective and personal interpretations we each give every aspect of life […]

By examining the values of life embedded in action and interaction – or simply communication – people create new conditions for a better life, their own and that of others. Traditionally ethics, or examined values, are what the law is grounded in and protects. Arguably, the law as it works […]

Many people – actually citizens because they have rights – were probably put-off science at school. Students good at science, usually went-on to university and today, still tend to join business and government as well-paid specialists. Against this backdrop, citizen science brings the study of science and its general principles […]

A new age demands a new working method.In ‘The Wellspring of Reality’ (1975), R.B. Fuller describes how our ‘most polluted resource is information’ – fake news is only one manifestation of this problem. He also explains: ‘There is no environmental crisis, there is no energy crisis there is no food […]

For those ignoring the multiple global catastrophic risks now confronting the whole living Earth, this is a notice. No one is removed from threats to life, we are all vulnerable to the impact of these profound risks: there is no escape. Ask yourself, would you want to be in a […]

‘With regard to authority, it is the greatest weakness to attribute infinite credit to particular authors, and to refuse his own prerogative to time, the author of all authors, and, therefore, of all authority. For truth is rightly named the daughter of time not of authority. It is not wonderful, […]