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About this Omega Research Wiki

• Definitions of Point Omega
• What this site is about and what it is not

Reading scheme / Overview / Contents

Featured articles

• Point Omega (5 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"
• The Cognition-Energy-Learning model (to be added)
• Energy and Strokes: how the quality of relationships influences the process of learning and individual development (to be added)
• Self-blindness in humans as prerequisite for the evolution of advanced intelligence (to be added)
• Impersonal Power Structures ruling our world (to be added)
  • 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 (to be added)
    • Overcrowding (to be added)
• Social-Role Blindness and the periodic emergence of conflict and disaster; on Population Cycles precluding the establishment of lasting social equilibria (under construction)
• 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
  • 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
  • Shortcuts to enlightenment
  • Further reading

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"