1. Evolution biology
makes me a Pastist
to be a good Futurist
Seeing the past can
show possible futures

2. Science tells us our universe decays
and life is fierce struggle in scarcity
We have been taught a secular
Creation Story

3. –Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
“It is the doctrine of Malthus applied
with manifold force to the whole animal
and vegetable kingdoms”
Fierce competition as human nature

4. What if there is
more to the
story? What if
evolution is an
intelligent
improvisational
dance?

5. its (intelligent) process is
creating living systems
If we assume the Universe is alive,
as Islamic science holds,

7. In eastern sciences
(Vedanta,Tao, Kotodama)
Consciousness is the
source of all reality

8. MATTER
ELECTROMAGNETIC
ENERGY
MIND/SPIRIT
(consciousness)
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
ZPE
I have put duality away
and see the two worlds
as one
−Rumi
WEST SCIENCE EAST

9. might Biology be the leading science
rather than Physics, giving us a cosmology
of intelligent self-creating living systems?
If we assume the Universe is alive,

11. Life is too intelligent to proceed
one accident at a time

12. After each great global extinction
Crisis
is always
Opportunity
many new
species
appeared
together

13. is conservative with what
works well and is radically
creative when crises strike!
Nature:

14. Darwin:
Competition
Kropotkin:
Cooperation

15. UNITY (NEW LEVEL)
UNITY
INDIVIDUATION
TENSION/CONFLICT
NEGOTIATION
RESOLUTION
COOPERATION

16. Chris Venhaus
www.venhaus1.com
Type I Ecosystem (Pioneer)
Darwinian
•scarf resources
•hog territory
•multiply wildly
•highly competitive
Type III Ecosystem (Climax)
Kropotkinian
•share territory
•share resources
•feed other species
• highly cooperative
ECOSYSTEMSMATURATION?

17. Bacteria Я Us
Here is my happier story of Evolution

18. Early Earth
only archebacteria (archaea)

19. Archaea caused worldwide crises
of hunger &pollution, solving them
by…
•Harnessing solar energy
•Creating the first World Wide Web
•Inventing breathing & electric motors
•Evolving a huge cooperative cell
YES, Bacteria!

20. Bacterium
Nucleated Cell
(Protist, Eukaryote)
Only cell
evolving after
bacteria:
a cooperative!

21. Photo by Rich Dutton
www.richweb.net
Creative cooperation is mature
cheaper to feed enemies than to kill them

22. After a feisty, competitive youth,
multi-celled creatures evolved as
cooperatives
in the last quarter of evolution

23. Biologically,
We are a big-brain experiment

24. Humans traded inner knowing/rules
for big-brained freedom of choice
Can we choose to live sustainably?

25. A real science of economics must be
based on Nature’s mature systems

26. Every human body
has 50 -100 trillion cooperating cells!
For
example

27. Small systems may
not be simpler
than large ones
One cell is complex
as a large city

28. 30,000 Recycling Centers in Every Cell!
Scientific American, Jan 2001
old and obsolete proteins
remade into new protein
50-100trillion cells in your body

29. 1,000/cell banker
mitochondria
stored-value
debit cards;
never repaid
Energy currency
is called ATP
(adenosine triphosphate)

31. Self interest (not selfishness)
leads to negotiation,
compromises
and cooperation
to dynamic harmony
in a win/win system
at every level of
your body

32. Even after all this time
the Sun never once says to Earth
Earth, You owe me!
Look what happens
with a love like that –
It lights up the whole sky - Hafiz

33. No science is possible
without assumptions
To theorize about a universe
one needs some conception of that universe
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/HistSciTech

34. Science rests on Cosmologies
(Worldviews)
Non-living
universe
Objective
universe
Emergent
Consciousness
Life from
Non-life

35. www.theage.com.au
www.buzzle.com
Whether Consciousness creates matter
or matter creates
consciousness
is a a matter of belief
as scientific axiom

36. Some of us initiated a paradigm shift with
cosmic life replacing non-life;
consciousness primary instead of

37. In 2008 I convened a
First International Symposium
on Foundations of Science
In Hokkaido, Japan
We listed many assumptions

38. During the symposium, I had an epiphany:
replacing assumptions is a conquest model
My evolution theory is about maturation
from conquest to consortium, so why not
a global consortium of sciences?

39. Life arises from non-life by a series
of fortuitous accidents
Life arises by
self-organization in a living universe
Two different cosmologies give us
two different sciences:

40. In a 2nd Symposium in Kuala Lumpur, 2009,
we explored assumptions of Islamic Science
and possibilities for its unique contributions

41. Imagine a consortium
of East/West
sciences, with equal
validity and mutual
respect, built on
culturally diverse
assumptions

42. This solution, rather than
the conquest of one
paradigm by another,
represents mature
collaboration and a fruitful
division of labor in solving
global problems

43. Looking back into our beginnings:
we have survived a dozen Ice Ages!
99% of human history:
hunter gatherers among
other large mammals …

44. Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams

45. What does 32,000 yr old art tell us?

46. 100,000 yrs of
cooperative
communities
6,000 yrs of
competitive
empires

47. The sun is setting on the Age of Empire
Yang
Youthful Competition
Control/Order
Mine/Yours
Monoculture
Fear in Scarcity
Yin
Mature Cooperation
Messiness/Mystery
We/Ours
Diversity/Creativity
Love in Abundance
and rising on the Age of Global Family

48. Chris Venhaus
www.venhaus1.com
I believe it is our evolutionary mandate
to create sustainable global economics
and truly become a Global Family

49. Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
—Rumi
Photo: Bruce Bigenho
Santa Barbara
Let the beauty of what you love be
what you do. There are a thousand
ways to kneel and kiss Earth − Rumi

50. Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
—Rumi
Photo: Bruce Bigenho
Santa Barbara
−So, do what makes your heart sing
to make a better world for all!