Our Focus

Today the humanity has the ideas, resources, and technologies to address the problems of the World. However, the history has taught us that technologies can have unintended and negative consequences. Nevertheless, the world is in a race between implementing ever-increasing ways to improve the human condition and the seemingly ever-increasing complexity and scale of global problems.

For the long-term survival as a species, humanity needs to reconstruct human values in the Light of Scientific Knowledge and the Knowledge of Interconnectedness of Everything for social harmony, progress, and spiritual growth in the Age of Information with Artificial Intelligence (Ai), growing at a rapid pace, with the ever-debated question: how far should we let Ai take over humanity?

This is where Consciousness plays an important role. Consciousness is everything. It is our perception of the outside world, the flavours we experience when we eat; the colours we see when we watch a sunset; it is the touch of a loved one, the smell of a spring day and the tones of a piano. All of this happens within us, inside our brain, and we experience all this. Our experience of the outside world, our Consciousness, is then perceived within us.

Therefore, discussion about morality, ethics and values is important. Humility. Understanding. Empathy. Curiosity. Awareness. Responsibility. Being present. Technical development and Consciousness are closely linked and determine the future fate of humanity. We need to focus more on our inner world in an outer world that is currently developing faster than ourselves.

We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding and deepening interdependencies, it has become impossible fully to control—or foretell—the effects of our actions. The world is rife with unintended consequences. The first law of human ecology—which declares that we can never do merely one thing—is a truth we ignore at our peril.

Unfortunately, good intentions provide no antidote to the law of unintended consequences, and proffered cures often prove worse than the disease. Biofuels developed for the purpose of reducing carbon emissions, for example, have had the unintended effect of cutting off food supplies to the needy and destroying rain forests. We must fundamentally transform our patterns of thinking and behaviour.

We need to build the intellectual and moral foundations for this transformation, drawing from ecology, ethics, technology, economics, politics, psychology, physics, and metaphysics. Awareness of our interconnectedness stimulates creativity and community; it is a profound responsibility and a blessing beyond measure.