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CanWeBe(erUnderstandComplexi4esofHumanDevelopment
InTermsofWorldWideSpaceandTimeReali4es?
CCSS2017SummerDiscussionSession#1.2
BernardZ.Friedlander,Ph.D.ResearchProfessorofHumanDevelopment,Emeritus
DepartmentofPsychologyUniversityofHar:ord,WestHar:ord,CT
&NoahM.FriedlanderBaccalaureateStudent
InternaConalHighSchoolofSanFrancisco
ChaosandComplexSystemsSeminarDepartmentofPhysics
UniversityofWisconsin-Madison
Summer2017PreviewDiscussionSummerSession:Noon-UnionTerrace,July18,2017
(Ifrain,LoungeOverlookingHooferSailingDock)
Part!:GrowingUpandGrowingOldOctober10,2017
ChamberlinHall,Room42741150UniversityAvenue,Madison
Noon-1PM
Part2:Space,Timeand“Consciousness”SpringSemester,2018
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Modern Life: Two Studies
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Can We Better Understand Complexities of Human Development In Terms of World Wide Space and Time Realities?
BernardZ.Friedlander,Ph.D.ResearchProfessorofHumanDevelopmentRegularlyContribuCngMemberEmeritus,DepartmentofPsychologyChaos&ComplexSystemSeminarUniversityofHar:ord,WestHar:ord,CTDepartmentofPhysics,UW-Madison
&NoahM.FriedlanderBaccalaureateStudent
InternaConalHighSchoolofSanFrancisco
Part 1 October 10, 2017 Growing Up and Growing Old Chamberlin Hall, Room 4274, 1150 University Avenue, Madison
[Part 2 Spring Semester, 2018 Space, Time, and “Consciousness”]
Scholars and lay people, in all academic disciplines and in all walks of life, acknowledge the extreme complexities of human behavior.
Yet there have been few attempts, if any, to encourage deeply systematic appraisals of these complexities across societies, cultures and the times spans of human development. There are no standard systems of criteria that allow for orderly understanding of how complex human behavior unfolds in widely different settings.
Yet that unfolding shapes adult behavior, and adult behavior shapes social decisions everywhere. These two mated presentations borrow and adapt a standard framework of understanding from physical science to try to repair this
deficiency: the concept, and representations, of the electromagnetic energy spectrum. This is the energy spectrum that powers our modern age and our current Information Revolution. Perhaps the analogy can help us reach better decisions in our challenged societies.
Can careful thought and diligent study of multiple spectra of human development enable us to gain new insights into forces that shape how peoples’ lives actually unfold in the vast variety of human ways of life?
Maybe. Stay tuned. Make up your own mind.
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APROVOCATIVEPERSPECTIVE…
AnthropologistHughBrodyremindsusofastartlingfact
inhisthoughXulaccountofhisventuresamongthefar-flungCanadianInuit,andothers,
wherehelivedandstudiedformanyyears,
abovetheArc\cCircle:“…fo r s ome t h i n g l i ke 9 0 p e r c e n t
o f o u r [ h uman ] an ce s t r y we h a v e l i v e d a s h un t e r - g a t h e r e r s ,
n o t a s f a rme r s .” *
Compare that human exper ience w i th…
*Brody,Hugh,THEOTHERSIDEOFEDEN:Hunter-gatherers,farmers,andtheshapingoftheworld.Faber&Faber,London,2001-P116
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…ThomasFriedman’snewbook
Ontheextraordinaryimpacts
ofourcurrentInformaConRevoluCon:
THANKYOUFORBEINGLATE:AnOp\mist’sGuidetoThrivingintheAgeofAccelera\ons.
(It’sapersonal,“private”\tleforabookwithverypowerfulfact-ladenmessagesaboutthedangersandchallengesfor
allAmericans–andpeopleeverywhereinourexplosiveandexplodingworld.)
ThisishowFriedmanintroducesthetwochartsnearthecenterofhisbook:
“Wearenowinano-analogueworld.Thatmeanswe’resomewherethatwe’veneverbeenbeforeasahumanspecies.We’vepushedallofEarth’skeysystemsuptoandmaybebeyond
,,,safeoperaCngboundaries….[Itis}“anon-analogueworld”Thisiswhatthegraphslooklike.>>>>
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*Steffen,W.etal.,ThetrajectoryoftheAnthropocene:TheGreatAcceleraCon.TheAnthropoceneReview,vol.2,no.1,pp81-98
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*Steffen,W.etal.,ThetrajectoryoftheAnthropocene:TheGreatAcceleraCon.TheAnthropoceneReview,vol.2,no.1,pp81-98
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ThetrajectoryoftheAnthropocene:TheGreatAcceleraConWillSteffen,WendyBroadgate,LisaDeutsch,OwenGaffney,CorneliaLudwigFirstPublishedJanuary16,2015PDFdownloadforThetrajectoryoftheAnthropocene:TheGreatAcceleraCon ArCcleInformaConArCclehasanaltmetricscoreof325FreeAccess
Abstract
The‘GreatAcceleraCon’graphs,originallypublishedin2004toshowsocio-economicandEarthSystemtrendsfrom1750to2000,havenowbeenupdatedto2010.Inthegraphsofsocio-economictrends,wherethedatapermit,theacCvityofthewealthy(OECD)countries,thosecountrieswithemergingeconomies,andtherestoftheworldhavenowbeendifferenCated.Thedominantfeatureofthesocio-economictrendsisthattheeconomicacCvityofthehumanenterpriseconCnuestogrowatarapidrate.However,thedifferenCatedgraphsclearlyshowthatstrongequityissuesaremaskedbyconsideringglobalaggregatesonly.MostofthepopulaCongrowthsince1950hasbeeninthenon-OECDworldbuttheworld’seconomy(GDP),andhenceconsumpCon,issCllstronglydominatedbytheOECDworld.TheEarthSystemindicators,ingeneral,conCnuedtheirlong-term,post-industrialrise,althoughafew,suchasatmosphericmethaneconcentraConandstratosphericozoneloss,showedaslowingorapparentstabiliZaConoverthepastdecade.Thepost-1950acceleraConintheEarthSystemindicatorsremainsclear.Onlybeyondthemid-20thcenturyisthereclearevidenceforfundamentalshinsinthestateandfuncConingoftheEarthSystemthatarebeyondtherangeofvariabilityoftheHoloceneanddrivenbyhumanacCviCes.Thus,ofallthecandidatesforastartdatefortheAnthropocene,thebeginningoftheGreatAcceleraConisbyfarthemostconvincingfromanEarthSystemscienceperspecCve.
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