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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 addressed concepts (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 to "put ideas in order", the important thing being not to master entirely each concept, skill, knowledge of the human species, but to know what would be its place of meaning in the overall vision of the Universe that we are discovering a little more every day, known physical world around 2020 which could be summarized by the following picture:

Infinitely small to infinitely large known universe

The first level of the perspective proposes the description of the place of the human species inside the world in three steps:

  • 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 ... (keep on reading) :

A living being inside a finite biosphere
  • 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, including homogeneous rights to ACT and to HAVE, shall be permanent and continuous over life... (keep on reading)

TO ACT/TO HAVE separation
  • Finite viable contexts : The living evolves today on a finite planet, viable for a finite time around a star in the Universe. On one hand for life on Earth, the human species must therefore integrate into its terrestrial organization the LIMITS OF THE FINITE BIOSPHERE in which it exists; and on the other hand on the very long term, the living would therefore have to cross space emptiness to be perennial in the Universe:

Human activities impact on a finite biosphere

"Lucky we are", the living seems to have built with "intelligence" the mean not to disappear with its planet and sun, and we still have many viable years on Earth ahead of us... (keep on reading)

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If we assume that intelligent living beings* will not accept life to disappear,

here is an assessment of what could be the life path in its imposed context evolution in the Universe :

Life long term projection in the Universe

(*) Choice to define the word “intelligence” in this Manifesto as the set of CAPACITIES enabling a species to construct in MATTER the tools (technology) empowering it to extend the perenniality of the LIVING through SPACE emptiness.

TECHNOLOGY

would empower life to be perennial in the Universe

beyond meteorites and the sun inflation...

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The human species would not be living to print tokens,

to exchange them and accumulate them on accounts,

we would not be living to generate salaries, "to make money".

We are no longer like the dinosaurs which could only go extinct

with the next meteorite to strike Earth, or with the Earth and Sun inflation...

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