Why a Point Omega transition ?

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Why we shortly can expect a sudden Point Omega transition:
the implication of antagonist mechanisms of positive reinforcement


This article explains how the conclusion was reached that it is very likely that shortly humanity will go through a transition that will change the life of us humans more than anything before in human history, yes even more than anything in human evolution. If our deductions are correct, the coming transition will even be a novelty from the perspective of evolution itself. It will in fact be the emergence of "conscious evolution" which we can safely consider as the culmination of life on earth. What is more, if our deductions are right it should be considered as a basic law of nature that on any planet where life is possible, sooner or later "conscious evolution" will emerge. For our planet that moment in time is now, or rather, very soon. And we are the carriers of it.

The conclusion that we can expect a sudden rise in human potentials and in the quality of human functioning is based on the following findings.

- Self-actualization in humans is the exception, rather than the rule. That is very different than how it works in other species. How is that possible and how could that be an ESS ?

- Maslow, the author who launched that concept, could not be discarded as being mistaken. He appeared to have done his homework quite thoroughly, starting with his research on monkeys. Although going quite strongly against anything that an evolutionary biologist would expect, Homo sapiens emerged from his research as an anomaly, a evolutionary contradiction, in the sense that we apparently are a species in which the majority of the members are functioning way below their inborn potentials and not the other way around, as is customary in any other species. So, not being able to discard Maslow's work as mistaken, I was left with contradictory and seemingly impossible information about ourselves, about Homo sapiens.

- The development of the CEL model, the novel theory of learning, based on Apter and Smith's Reversal Theory, showed that the system of emotional and motivational reversals can be regarded as the behavioural engine that is needed to enable individuals to make optimum use of an open-ended capacity of learning. That implies that any species with the capacity to acquire a behavioural repertoire that is specifically geared to deal with different personal coincidental circumstances of living, does have such a reversal system in its behavioural organisation. Without such a reversal system, such a capacity for situational adaptation is not possible.

What is of importance here, is that this CEL model describes that learning and behavioural growth is highly contagious. In other words, badly processed experiences lead to emergency, rough and ready, behavioural avoidance responses, fear complexes and neuroticism, and such fear complexes diminish the likelihood of a proper processing of further experiences in the future. Reversely, well-processed experiences ....................