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Welcome to Omega Research Wiki

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About this Omega Research Wiki

• Goal of this site
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  • To finally put an end to war, destruction, genocide and wholesale rape
• Definitions of Point Omega
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  • The end of the second intermediary phase before any evolving intelligence reaches maturity and full deployment
• What this site is about and what it is not

Reading scheme / Overview / Contents

Featured articles

• Point Omega (4 pages summary of this site)
  • 20-line summary
  • Self Blindness and Social-role Blindness
  • Reversal Theory of Emotions and Motivations
  • Impersonal power structures ruling our world
  • Point Omega / Mass enlightenment
• The evolutionary stability of a bi-stable system of emotions and motivations in species with an open-ended capacity for learning
  • Introduction
  • Reversal Theory
  • Requirements of open-ended learning
  • Function of the motivational states in the process of learning
  • Learning-drive mechanisms
  • Positive and negative learning spirals
  • Positive and negative clusters of COndensed EXperience
  • An illustration: the Neurotic Paradox explained
  • One-sidedness of psychological theories
  • Behavioural idiosyncrasies and the dimension of "self-actualization"
• Towards a Cognition-Energy-Learning model (under translation)
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Lazarus' coping theory
  • Chapter 2: Apter's Reversal Theory
  • Chapter 3: Van der Molen's Energy-Learning Model
  • Chapter 4: Lewicka's model of Antagonist Cognitive Modes
  • Chapter 5: An integration of Lazarus', Apter's, Van der Molen's and Lewicka's theories
  • Chapter 6: An illustration of the Cognition-Energy-Learning Model from a practical problem area
• Energy and Strokes: how the quality of relationships influences the process of learning and individual development (under translation)
  • Chapter 1. The Cognition-Energy-Learning Model
  • Chapter 2. An Extension of the Cognition-Energy-Learning Model
• Self-blindness in humans as prerequisite for the evolution of advanced intelligence (to be added)
• Impersonal Power Structures ruling our world (under construction)
  • The evolution of Gene-structures and of Meme-structures (to be added)
  • Consequences of the difference in speed of the gene- and the meme-evolution (to be added)
  • Existential friction: Homo sapiens at the interface between the gene- and the meme evolution (to be added)
  • The evolutionary stability of mass-neuroticism (to be added)
  • Mechanisms that safeguard mass-neuroticism (to be added)
    • Selection for Sociability and Population Cycles; the cause for periodic conflict and disaster (to be added; refer to separate article below)
    • Genetic pollution precluding social stability (under construction)
    • Overcrowding (to be added)
  • Religions as power structures (to be added)
  • Contemporary weakening of the foundations of Power Structures (under construction)
• Social-Role Blindness and the periodic emergence of conflict and disaster; on Population Cycles precluding the establishment of lasting social equilibria
  • Outline
  • Some consequences of living socially
  • Hypothesis: Life cycles of social groups and structures
  • Evolutionary advantages
  • Data: Experiments with behavioural differences in house mice
  • Experiments with beta- and omega-roles
  • Other ethological research data
  • Human behaviour
  • Genetics
  • Selection within human social structures
  • Ossification
  • Social-role blindness
  • Discussion: Nature and nurture
  • Perspective
• The power of Good and Evil: eating from the Forbidden Fruit
  • "Amathology", an introduction
  • No-go areas for our intelligence
  • The confusing role of established religions
  • The primordial niche of Homo sapiens and the feelings and emotions "fitting" that environment
  • New demands and requirements since the agricultural revolution
  • Friction between P-feelings and N-demands; "Primordial" versus "New"
  • Some basic requirements for successful power structures
  • Where evolution is leading us
  • The evolutionary importance of blindness for self and the illusion of Good and Bad
  • Quantity of physical energy, invested in maintaining blindness and illusion
  • The illusory aspects of the Positive/negative or Good/Bad dimension
  • Cultural power structures using Good and Evil as an effective blinding tool
  • Power structures utilizing "jet-lag" effects in human evolution
  • Good and Evil, how great religions consolidate their power
  • Summary: "amathology", the science of ignorance, as a crucial tool for our survival
• Good and Bad, an illusory dimension as the cornerstone of human personality (to be added)
• Personality of Mice and Men; re-arranging personality dimensions in a six-dimensional adjective space (to be added)
• Personality Traits in terms of Social-Role Probabilities; an innovative theoretical essay on the possibility of overcoming the chaotic diversity in personality theories (to be added)
• Why never peace (to be added; + SISWO-scheme)
• The significance of the Point Omega transition
• Directives for after Point Omega (under construction)
  • Conclusions from Point Omega Research (under construction)
  • Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself (under construction)
  • Procreate consciously (under construction)
• Enlightenment
  • What is enlightenment?
  • The relationship between organized religion and enlightenment (under construction)
  • Shortcuts to enlightenment (under construction)
  • Further reading (under construction)

Omega Research Foundation

• Goals (to be added)
• How to contribute (to be added)
  • Donations, tax free (to be added)
  • Legacies (to be added)
  • Volunteers (to be added)

Suggested further reading

• List of literature and references
• Comments on Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth; Awakening to your life's purpose"
• Comments on Kris Verburgh's "Fantastisch, over het universum in ons hoofd"