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The Physics of Modern Crisis
Animesh Mukherjee
[Roll: 05CS9405]
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Statutory Warning…
The speaker is neither a Physicist nor a Philosopher!
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Crisis Crisis Everywhere…• History makes it evident that
- The last two/three decades have witnessed a state of profound worldwide crisis
- The crisis is multidimensional, encompassing
Health,
Environment,
Social relationships,
Economy and Politics, and even
Moral and Spiritual values
• For the first time the most intelligent beings on this earth are threatened of extinction
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Reasons: The Nuclear Madness• Nuclear Weapons – Oh, we have enough to destroy the world several times
• 3rd world countries do business of military equipments more than their national income
-A bit of statistics
15 million people (mostly children) die of starvation
500 million are undernourished
40% of the world population hardly know the term “Health Service”
• Surprisingly, 50% of the world engineers and scientists spend their life in making “more deadly weapons”
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Give it a Thought!
• PENTAGON (US military industry)
- Constantly persuades all other countries to buy more and more nuclear weapons
A really funny ideology
“THE MORE WEAPONED YOU ARE THE MORE SAFER YOU WILL BE”
• Hence the age old idea of
“ATOMS FOR PEACE” – is now a painful
reality
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What Experts Say??
• NOTHING
- A striking sign of our times
Experts fail to deal with urgent problems even in their own fields
• In 1979 the Washington Post ran a story under
the heading “The Cupboard of Ideas is Bare”
In this the prominent thinkers round the world admitted that they are unable to solve nation’s most policy problems
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Why is this failure??
• Probably because
- Solutions were local and lacked a narrow perception of reality
-No holistic view, even though the problems were systematic and closely interconnected
• Its high time to get rid of the concept of static societal structure and believe in the dynamic patterns of change
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The Way to Analysis
• Crisis and change share a historical relationship
• Chinese philosophers use the term ‘wei-ji’ for crisis which means “danger followed by opportunity”
• Crisis leads to cultural transformation necessary for the development of a civilization
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The Challenge and Response
• The genesis of civilization is a pattern of interaction – probably like the game of cards
• Toynbee identified this fact and called it the “Challenge-and-Response” in “A Study of History”
Challenge
Response
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Rise and Fall
• Challenge from the social and natural
environment provokes a creative response
- Induces the society to enter into a process of new civilization
• This response generates cultural momentum and
takes the society beyond an equilibrium – a new
challenge
• The initial pattern is again repeated
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For Whom the Bell Tolls…
Growth of civilization as a result of a creative response
Decline of civilization as a result of a new challenge
• Growing civilization – Versatility & Variety
• Disintegrating Civilization – Rigid & lacks inventiveness
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Yin and Yang• Numerous philosophers observed this
recurrent rhythm of cultural growth
Ancient Chinese – Yin and Yang (two opposite polar forces)
Ancient Indians – Prakriti & Purusha
Saint Simon – Organic and Critical
Herbert Spencer – Integrations and Differentiations
• Henceforth we will use the terms Yin and
Yang
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Transitions of Our Times
• Reluctant but inevitable decline of Patriarchy
• End of fossil fuel age and the beginning of
renewable energy age
• Change in value system (Sorokin)
Sensate – Matter alone is ultimate reality
Ideational – Absolute Spiritualism (beyond the realm of the material world)
Ideal – Intermediate between Ideational and Sensate
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Do’s and Don'ts
• Since such a cultural transformation cannot be prevented so,
They should not be opposed but welcomed – mainly to escape agony
During the change reject the conceptual models that are obsolete in current scenario
Recognize new values that were once discarded
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Can Physics Help Us ??
• Newtonian Physics
- Perhaps not
- Mainly due to the reductionist viewpoint which believes Any complex phenomenon can be reduced to
some basic building blocks and then analyzed independently
- Most of the other sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, economics) are biased towards Newtonian concepts
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The Systems View
• Modern Physics
- Yes
- Mainly by introduction of a holistic framework
- This branch of modern Physics is well known as the “Systems Theory”
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The Cultural Dynamics: What Systems Theory has to say??
YIN YANG
Contractive
Responsive
Cooperative
Intuitive
Synthesizing
Demanding
Aggressive
Rational
Analytic
Competitive
• YIN & YANG – Properties of living organisms, society, ecosystem ……
• More specifically – Two parts of the same human nature
One asserting the self – ego-system
The other integrating with the society – eco-system
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The Forces of Dynamics AltogetherF1
F2 F3
F4 F5
• Any guess about the forces!!
F1, F2, F3 - Ideal, Sensate, Ideational respectively
F4, F5 – Yin, Yang respectively
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To Conclude …
• Other sciences should,
- Accept the new concepts of Physics
- Believe in the holistic framework
- Base their analysis on this framework
• In short : it should mark “THE TURNING POINT” of science
- Thanks