SECOND
PHASE – From Cosmic
Space to the New Reality
The immensity of the cosmos, whose dimensions are expressed by colossal numbers, scares
people into generalizing the notion that the universe is too vast to be appreciated by the
human being's limited perception. That is false. One of the most surprising
characteristics of Astronomy is its capacity to evaluate with reasonable precision the
distances and sizes of the cosmic features. And anything measurable is also conceivable.
In this journey across the universe, will be shown that it is possible to create quite
approximate mental images of the objects that populate our Solar System, our galaxy, and
even of the most distant cosmic objects. By using the imagination of visual models in
scale, it becomes possible to build a fully satisfactory idea, not only of the size and
distances of planets and stars as well as the most remote galaxies, quasars and other
contents of the universe.
At the end of the trip, the impression that will remain won't be one of our insignificant
minuteness in face of the cosmic vastness. On the contrary, what will be evidenced, and in
a certain way demonstrated, is the wonderful feeling of the immeasurable greatness of the
human spirit.
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The Western Greco-Roman Jewish-Christian civilization, today dominant in nearly the
whole planet Earth, is based on scientific-philosophical underlying assumptions originated
in Ancient Greece. Although there is a consensus that this is true, these Greek-rooted
metaphysical postulations are not always explicitly disclosed, mainly because another
admitted perception is that objective reality corresponds to them and "everything is
really like that". That view prevailed till the end of the 20th century, when the
scientific-materialist model exhausted itself.
However, the epistemological crisis that appeared in science starting from the quantum
perplexities, besides to growing evidence that psychological phenomena don't adjust to
that model, led to question those metaphysical bases and to the proposition of an
alternative model, outside the original philosophical assumptions of Greek origin.
In this beginning of a millennium, the revolution brought by the new paradigm subverts the
notion of what is knowledge and the own idea of objective reality we have been living
together, along the many centuries civilization became used to the Greek inheritance.
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It hovers in the air of this Symposium a climate of casualness and affectivity that
approximates the participants in an atmosphere of sincerity and harmony. Every day that
passes, the tenor of the conferences becomes more daring. Themes not usually discussed
come to the surface with widening freedom, showing that the lecturers seem to be
abandoning their academic masks, their hierarchies and their formalities.
Competition gives place to collaboration, emerging from that new attitude a critical
vision on the usual way of doing science in universities and private laboratories. A new
ethics is prefigured, where the detachment of the self-centeredness appears as a
characteristic of the new sage: one that doesn't fear to study and research anything he or
she appreciates, without being restricted to the impositions of the paradigm.
The theory of the relational consistence is presented here in a clear way, as an
interpretation of the quantum paradoxes that incorporates the imaginary face of the
wholeness, recognizing scientifically the subjective world of the human psyche as a
valuable face of the cosmic totality. This way, the old objective reality is transmuted
into a complex inter-subjective reality.
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Last revision: fev-08.
