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MCM-Presumptive Foundations

PHILOSOPHICAL GROUNDING

At the core of every cultural tradition is a Worldview which attempts to integrate ideas about ultimate existence (in MultiCoRelationism this is referred to as “ChaotiCosmology” so as to acknowledge recognition of the essentiality of both the notions of “order” and “disorder” in all experience) with ideas about which experiences ultimately matter (truth with relevance and value, e.g. morality). When these Worldviews appear intellectually implausible and/or morally irrelevant, within or between cultures, they render culture generally vulnerable to crisis. There is now a critical need on a global scale for constructing a new and unique Worldview, a global ‘chaoticosmic mythology’, of Human Culture as Whole(Ness). The central challenge of this effort in the twenty-first century will be to integrate an evolutionary ChaotiCosmogeny with an EcoGnomic (ecologically conscious) morality recognizing the universal tension between Truth with Relevance and Value by Adapting Presumed Beliefs to Experience versus Truth with Relevance and Value by Adapting Experience to Presumed Beliefs. Such a Worldview seems to be emerging from the recognition of a necessarily irreducible interrelation of the Analytical (Inquiry and Inference) and Intuitive modes of consciousness as MIND (refer also to the left/right brain synchrony).

TRUTH with RELEVANCE and VALUE (GOODNESS)

• Recognize first that each of these concepts exists only in a TriCoRelational sign form where the concept signifies an experience to a particular thinker. Hence truth to a given thinker signifies a realization of consistency between an expectation and the actual in an experience. The relevance of the experience to that thinker is a measure of the degree to which it does or can effect personal change. And finally, the value (goodness) of the experience to that thinker is a measure of the value of that change personally, but also concomitantly to the collective other.

RESEARCH EXPECTATIONS

The expected mid-range result of this open participation network is to develop the philosophical and formal foundations, theories and models, technological syntheses and applications of an evolving Synthetic Mind (SynMind) needed to move from the current (2011) State of Consciousness of Humanity to the Singularity; that is, to the point of realization of the technological creation of an on-the-average smarter-than-human Synthetic Intelligence (SynIntell). The methodology invoked envisions an Open Participation Virtual Institute/University/Campus (from Latin, campus means “field”) for Fundamental SynMind Research and Development with periodic User Rollouts of Limited SynIntell Applications as they appear either responsive to an applied need or offer an advance in the extant technology.