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  • [[0.2.2To finally put an end to war, destruction, genocide and wholesale rape]]
• [[Omega Research:About#Definitions of "Point Omega"|[[0.3]]Definitions of Point Omega]]
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  • 0.3.1The end of the second intermediary phase before any evolving intelligence, whenever and wherever in the universe, reaches maturity and full deployment.
• [[Omega Research:About#0.5What this site is about and what it is not|
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  • 0.5.2Curiosity replacing fear, rather than science replacing belief systems

Reading scheme / Overview / Contents

Featured articles

• [[[1]]]A guided tour through the Omega Research Wiki
  • Introduction
    • For your efficiency and comfort
    • Your personal taste
    • About human survival
  • New data
    • Novel concepts (#1 to #4)
    • More issues (#5 to #8) to take into account
    • Another novel concept (#9)
  • Putting bits and pieces together
    • More bits and pieces, needed to complete the puzzle and create effective understanding
    • How to put all bits and pieces together; three bits still missing
  • The C.E.L. (Cognition Energy Learning model), missing piece #2
    • Explanatory power of the C.E.L.
  • Social Selection forces and Population Cycles, missing piece #9
  • Human Blindness to the Self, missing piece #1
    • The major Blindness Block, probably stemming from some 0,5 million to 2 million years ago
    • Three more recent Blindness Blocks, stemming from 5,000 to 10,000 years ago
  • What we can do
    • What we can do to un-block awareness
    • Approaching the problems with a better tool box
    • Two technical reasons that prevent long lasting social equilibria
  • Times are changing; what we may expect
    • What will human society look like after Point Omega ?
  • In summary .....
  • Your support
• Point Omega (definitions)
• 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
  • "Trying very hard" and the process of learning
  • One-sidedness of psychological theories
  • Behavioural idiosyncrasies and the dimension of "self-actualization"
• Striving, Playing and Learning
  • 1. Critical recovery periods, an Experiment
    
    • 1.1 Hormonal Feedback
      
    • 1.2 Recovery Intervals and Learning
      
  • 2. Some models of agonistic behaviour
    
    • 2.1 The Conflict- or Ambivalence Hypothesis
      
    • 2.2 The Psychohydraulic Model: the Catharsis Hypothesis
      
    • 2.3 Aggression and Emergency Behavior
      
    • 2.4 Aggression,and Behavioral Reduction versus Behavioral Expansion
      
  • 3. The Reversal Hypothesis
    
  • 4. An Additional Hypothesis: Integration of Theories on Aggression and on Learning
    
  • 5. Positive and Negative Learning Spirals
    
  • 6. The Use of the 'Aggression'-Label as an Element of the Agonistic Repertoire
    
  • 7. By way of Conclusion
    
• Towards a Cognition-Energy-Learning Model (C.E.L.) (1)
  • 1. Homeostasis versus Bi-Stability
  • 2. The Bi-stable Organization of Motivation
  • 3. Two Metamotivational States and Reversals
  • 4. The Energy Dependent Basis of Motivation: Different Consequences on the Proximal and on the Ultimal Level
  • 5. Motivational Sequences, Learning Spirals and Cognitive Areas of Experience
  • 6. Cognitive Development
  • 7. Summary and Conclusions
  • References
  • Research Reports and Prepublications on this subject
• Towards a Cognition-Energy-Learning model (C.E.L.) (2)
  • 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 social relationships influences the process of learning and individual development
  • 1. Transactional Emotions and Reversals in Social Interactions from an Evolutionary Point of View
  • 2. Pro-social Behaviour and Conditions for its Occurrence
  • 3. Two Postulates on the way in which Social Behaviour is Regulated
  • 4. Two Metamotivational States ruling Social Behaviour
  • 5. Social Means or "Strokes" as the Currency in Social Transactions
  • 6. Combinations of Telic and Paratelic States with Allocentric and Autocentric States
  • 7. Synergetic Outcomes in Somatic and in Transactional Emotions
  • 8. Conditions for Synergetic Effects
  • 9. Social Contacts and Positive or Negative Learning Spirals
  • 10. "Contagiousness" of Interpersonal Psychological Skills and Adaptation
  • 11. Social Support: Data from Effectivity Research and what has been missing up till now
  • 12. Summary and Conclusions
  • References
  • Research Reports and Prepublications on this subject
• Self-blindness in humans as prerequisite for the evolution of advanced intelligence
  • Evolution of Intelligence
  • Proximate and ultimate causes of behaviour
  • Breaking out of the customary intelligence ceiling
  • Self Blindness and Social Role Blindness
  • Cultural props for Self-Blindness
  • Point Omega
  • Where do we stand ?
  • Point Omega and Self-Blindness
  • Before Point Omega:
  • After Point Omega:
  • Towards "Amathology" or the science of ignorance
• Eating from the Forbidden Fruit: on the power of Good and Evil since the agricultural revolution; a consequence of "jet-lag" in recent human evolution
  • "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 (under construction; ook nog paragrafen opnemen)
• 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)
      • Civilization as a conspiracy against evolution
      • To finally put an end to war, destruction and wholesale rape
      • Corruption as the default social structure
      • Genetic pollution and corruption as one of its automatic effects
      • Advantages and disadvantages of corruption
      • Two reasons for the need of continuous selection pressure and the impossibility of stability
    • 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
  • Abstract
  • 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
• K.A.I. and Changes in Social Structures: on the Anatomy of Catastrophy
• The effects of genetic pollution on political structures and human history
  • The importance of ignorance and superstition
  • What is genetic pollution ?
  • Examples of genetic pollution
  • The F1 trick in cattle breeding
  • Effects in human society
  • The end of a civilization
  • Population genetic waves and war
  • Awareness versus taboos
  • Time to wake up
• 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 (under construction)
• Characteristics of human behaviour before and after Point Omega
• 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 on enlightenment (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 Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion"
• Comments on John Gray's "Straw Dogs, Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals"
• Comments on John Gray's "Black Mass, Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia"
• Comments on Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth, Awakening to your life's purpose"
• Comments on Daniel Quinn's "Beyond Civilization, humanity's next great adventure"
• Comments on Ruiz (To be added)
• Comments on Kris Verburgh's "Fantastisch, over het universum in ons hoofd"
• Comments on Amy Wallace's "Sorcerer's Apprentice, my life with Carlos Castaneda"
• Movie pictures and websites on related subjects