LIVING BEINGS MANIFESTO
Let's invent an organization perennial for the living beings !
Last update : 28/11/2023 => NEW : Short "printable book format" Manifesto Synthesis available
SEPTEMBER 2023 - CALL TO ACTION to support the search for solutions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) launched by the UN (IPCC, COP) : in an open participative continuous improvement way, this Manifesto invites everyone to digest it, to share it, and to start workshops everywhere, in particular in all the universities and scientific labs of the world, in order to invent new modes of organization, "new rules of the game”, which ensure that the planet boundaries are not overshot each year… thus preserving the living perenniality on our planet on the long term!
There will be no magic: without collective work that extends on a global scale to invent a new organization and make it our own, there will be no major change of direction, the rules of the game of Monopoly which we inherited, structurally forcing us to produce more and more to guarantee, if possible, a strictly increasing salary at the end of the month.
The paradox is there and it is structural. Is the human species living to print tokens (money), exchange them, accumulate them on accounts ?
We are no longer like dinosaurs that would only go extinct with the next meteorite to strike Earth or with the sun inflation... let's go !
Do not hesitate to contact us through the Contact page if you want a presentation of the Manifesto to start off the research!
The Living Beings Manifesto (www.peacenlive.com) is being written since 2020 by scientists who note two major ruptures for the human species:
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the planetary boundaries overshoot due to human activities,
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the profusion of disruptive technologies opening up to global automation capacities (marketing term "Artificial Intelligence") : computers/robots that can perform almost everything in an automated way, for instance from a cashier job up to Mars exploration, through the production of works of Art (?).
Following this observation, the Living Beings Manifesto would like to bring together the common living beings assumptions to carry on the improvement of our human organization, so that it guarantees the perenniality of living beings, from local to global, over the very long term, even after the end of life on Earth and in the solar system (cf. chronology at the page bottom); while giving:
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a relevant, rich and diversified full-life job to everyone,
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a place of meaning to our technological capacity: technology makes it possible to envisage that life will no longer disappear with the next meteor which would strike the Earth, nor with the Earth and the sun inflation...
To achieve this transformation, the Living Beings Manifesto sets out a fundamental organizational principle: the separation of ACTION (TO ACT) and DISTRIBUTION (TO HAVE) powers; and is based on three central values that should describe our place in the world: LIVING, EQUALITY, PERENNIALITY.
Here below is an extra short "printable book version" of this Manifesto (of this website), making a synthesis in few pages of the main ideas proposed here, to be printed for those who do not have access to internet or for those who like to have available a book format to read and manipulate ideas (for the moment in French only):
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2020 - 2040 : Let's transform !
The key principle already proven in history (theory of the separation of powers developed by Locke (1632-1704) and Montesquieu (1689-1755)) proposed by this Manifesto to structurally respect the planetary boundaries is a new separation of powers, the separation of ACTION and DISTRIBUTION powers, two independent powers concentrated in our single exchange tool (money):
If it remains majorly to invent, the resulting organization from this powers separation is already named on the website The Universal Participation. The following example of Universal Participation Notice, that could replace our current Tax Income Notice within the next decades, makes a good conclusion of this website giving a synthesis of all the identified principles, information and key indicators, that could be the basis of our organization, updated and made available to all every year, to ensure the stability and perenniality of the living on Earth and beyond in space :
Beyond this site, which can take a little time to digest and manipulate, this last Universal Participation Notice can serve as a reference starting material to support and animate your invention workshops of a new organization perennial for the whole living, wherever you are on the planet.
Very concretely, and ultimately quite simply, the exercise consists in inventing new rules of the game where the single money counter, disconnected from the reality of our biosphere, would be separated into several counters effectively describing the reality of the world, and for which we would constantly know their limits.
These issues being global to the human species, concerning the whole living perenniality, "solving" them necessarily require awareness and collective work to transform our ways of living. As Henri Bergson (1859-1941) said:
"The future is not what will happen to us but what we will do..."
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LIVING BEINGS MANIFESTO
Like the famous Myth of the Cave of Plato (-400 BC) which situates us in the world as "prisoners chained in a cave who only see the real world in the shadows projected by the light from outside on the cave back wall", this Manifesto proposes to try to bring together as many of these "shadows", this knowledge accumulated by the human species, to glimpse meanings, modes of organization and orientations which would be relevant for the majority of living beings.
It therefore proposes, without going into the detail of each of the concepts addressed (their detailed presentations are available in the books of the concerned disciplines), to order them in a global perspective, like a puzzle with several levels going from the most macroscopic picture to an increasingly detailed description. In other words, this reflection proposes to try to do the exercise of "putting ideas in order", the important thing being not to master each concept, skill, knowledge of the human species from start to finish, but to know what its place of meaning would be in the overall vision of the Universe that we are all discovering a little more every day.
The first level of this perspective proposes the description of the place of the human species inside the world in three steps:
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A phenomenon, the Living : Stable phenomenon over billions of years on a planet, which constructs and animates interdependent living beings in matter, with capacities to survive and extend in their contexts, to which the human species belongs and within which it exists.
The living seems to have built with intelligence the capacity not to disappear with its planet and sun... (keep on reading)
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An organizational issue : living beings have to cooperate to build an equilibrium, an equality, to be able to survive inside their contexts.
The fact to participate to the living community stakes is therefore central for all the living beings; the participation of all shall be permanent and continuous over life... (keep on reading)
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Finite viable contexts : The living evolves today on a finite planet, viable for a finite time around a star in the Universe. The living needs therefore to cross its frontieres to be perennial.
Homo sapiens occupies now its whole planet and is reaching its maximum capacity. He is becoming at the same time technically ready not to die anymore with any space event on earth and ready to consider making life perennial through space... (keep on reading)
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If we assume that intelligent living beings* will never accept life to disappear, here is an assessment of what could be the life path in its imposed context evolution in the Universe :
We are no longer like dinosaurs that could only go extinct
with the next meteorite to strike Earth or with the sun inflation...
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