Journal of Environmental Treatment Techniques

2019, Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages: 647-653

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World Conscience. Model of a Social Crystal

Mikhail B. Strigin

Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia

Received: 20/05/2019

Accepted: 1/08/2019

Published: 03/09/2019

Abstract

In this paper we will try to verify the hypothesis about the synergy of the systems of man and humanity. This makes it possible to

put forward the following hypothesis: about the possibility of the appearance of the World Conscience - the next level of human

rationality. One indication of this is, we believe, the structuring of humanity in the form of an “aperiodic social crystal”, the concept of

which was introduced by Erwin Schrödinger. This model defines the essence of the social element, while its being is determined by

another model - the model of a nonlinear oscillator (nonlinear pendulum). The model of human development is a system with feedback

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the individual builds more and more complex social systems - actors which, in turn, build up an increasingly complex topology of

consciousness, influencing the anthropology of man. The higher the number of social systems and the more complicated they are, the

greater changes occur to the individual and the more intelligent the behavior of the actor becomes, which determines the importance of

multiple social rebuildings, reformatting the “social crystal”, which Bruno Latour focuses on in his work “Rebuilding the Social” (5).

But only through just increasing the number of rebuildings it is impossible to accelerate the evolution, since in the model of a nonlinear

oscillator there are several parameters defining it. This model contains both the principle of the appearance of the actor, and the time

of its necessary existence - the time of its adaptation by the universe.

Keywords: humanity, actor, nonlinear oscillator, system, aperiodic crystal, correlation, synergetics.

groups has also been observed throughout history, but such

groups, unlike hymenoptera, most often have a one-

The World Conscience as the Quintessence of

the World Soul

dimensional structure and only with the advent of rational man

does society gradually acquire a complex multi-dimensional

fractal type hierarchy. Fractal is easy to imagine, remembering

a snowflake, the coastal zone of the sea or a tree (6). Its main

qualities are the repeatability of the picture when changing the

scale, the singularity of the transition between the levels and,

most importantly, the actual dimension of the structure under

consideration is higher than the topological one (that is, such a

structure actually contains much more than it could have

visually). Without going deep into the morphology of a human,

one can say that his fractality is its most important component.

Virtually all systems - the blood-vascular, the nervous system,

as well as organs (lungs, liver, etc.) - have a fractal structure,

which was acquired in the process of evolution. The brain in

its early stages had a smooth structure, and only later acquired

folds and fractality. “The reasons for the positive relationship

between the size of the group and the brain volume in primates

are quite obvious” (7).

The crisis of spirit, the loss by Christianity of its positions,

the interweaving of world religions and the active mixing of

races - all this speaks of the urgency of the emergence of a new

idea that could unite all humanity to solve not only earthly but

also cosmic tasks. It took four billion years to create a unique

object – a human who does not only contemplate evolution

from the outside, but can also accelerate it: “man, thanks to his

imaginative, recursive thinking, can accelerate natural

evolution” (12). And each time over this period, nature first

creates the largest possible number of species of some of its

creation, in order to unite this diversity into a new society

“

when, at the end of each shoot of the tree of life, phylum

elements take their final form, they are just as certain in their

movement towards approaching and socialization, as atoms of

a solid body tend to crystallize” (15). Thus, nature needed to

create a multitude of complex molecules, which united in cells,

as a result of which eukaryotes and prokaryotes appeared.

Then eukaryotes united in organisms, creating all the diversity

of life on the planet. Organisms, in turn, began to unite in

social groups. One of the brightest explications of the social

can be observed in the life of hymenoptera, when a complex

society is much more than the sum of its individual members.

The behavior of a society of insects is determined not by the

psyche of the individual, but by the cognitive ability of the

whole group at once. The association of higher animals into

A very important concept for evolution is the boundary

associated with the concept of sustainability. The formation of

a boundary in a society determines the end of a quantitative

evolutionary process just like the appearance of a membrane

in a cell limited its growth in size and further evolution took

the path of combining cells into different groups. But, at the

same time, the internal evolution of the cell occurs, its

Corresponding author: Mikhail B. Strigin, Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia.

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complexity increases with time. Similarly, a society that has

ceased to grow quantitatively complicates its internal

organization. Similarly, a cell society called the brain,

bounded by the skull, increased its internal complexity by

acquiring a fractal structure. At this stage, it is not the number

of members in a society that becomes important, but the

number of connections between them. Each extra connection

is a significant contribution to the development of cognition.

This led to the emergence of human intelligence.

induce and assume that human society is the next step in the

mental development of

a complex molecule and its

socialization (molecule - cell - organism - man - society). "The

cage has become an ‘important person.’ After a grain of

matter, after a grain of life, finally, a grain of thought was

formed” (15). And as we saw earlier, for the emergence of the

world mind it is necessary to draw a line between social

thinking and society.

The idea of Plato’s world soul, lost in the medieval

scholasticism, reappears in the Renaissance in Schelling’s

works and transforms into the world spirit of Hegel, which, in

turn, is explicated by national spirits, which leads to social

contradictions. And finally, Hegel believed that when the

world spirit abandons doubts, contradictions would be

resolved and the “Kingdom of Freedom” would come. In the

twentieth century, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin grasped the idea

of John Haldane's integrated intelligence, the disclosure of

which resulted in the work entitled "The Phenomenon of

Man", where Chardin revealed his idea of the intention of

humanity to achieve a certain point of Omega. “A thought can

be extrapolated only in the direction of super-thinking, that is,

super-personalization” (15). In parallel with him, Vernadsky

in his work “Noosphere” created the concept of the thinking

shell of the earth.

In the present work, the author will stick only to the

transitional stage in the formation of the noosphere, taking

only humanity and its external quality - sociality as the subject

of research. The author will turn to Bruno Latour and his work

“Rebuilding the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network

Theory” (5), where all social groups are designated as active

actors linked together in a social network. It seems that in order

to study global society, it is more convenient to use the

metaphor of an aperiodic crystal, rather than the metaphor of a

network, and to understand how society is condensing, how

various actors evolve, increasing the complexity of such an

actor as humanity. In the first part, the author will consider the

evolution of a separate actor based on the model of a nonlinear

oscillator, and in the second part it will be shown how the

aperiodic crystal of humanity was formed. In the summary

section, a conclusion will be made about the verification of the

hypothesis of the emergence of the world mind as a holistic

thinking structure of a new type.

In animals, high mental activity can also be observed, but

it has a linear and occasional form, and only in humans does

the mind acquire a hierarchical structure. “In animals in one

form or another, many (almost all) aspects of thinking and

behavior that were traditionally considered ‘purely human’

have been found (7). The human mind acquires the ability to

combine these “cases of high mental activity” into a single

duration and the ability to rise above by categorizing them.

One of the most important cognitive manifestations of the

mind, which allowed the human mind to perform this work, is

the metaphoric nature of consciousness. Due to metaphoric

nature, man discovered the consistency observed in nature, the

similarity between different “cases of high mental activity”

and different gestalts. The man seemed to draw a line between

himself and his activity, which allowed him to make transfers

of meaning by connecting the current moment and the nearby

ones. Then Kant’s metaphor that a person’s mind is able to

detect structures that are already a priori contained in him

acquires a physiological sense. One can speak about a certain

system with feedback: the brain in the process of evolution

acquires an increasingly complex (fractal) structure, which

makes it possible to increase the cognitive ability and to

explicate more and more complex correlations through

language. And vice versa, man, through language, inductively

creates more and more complex social (fractal) systems, the

explication of which changes the topology of consciousness.

And then the structure of the brain evolves with the language

and with society. Noam Chomsky wrote about the similar

structure of the proto-language in his work “On Nature and

Language” (14). He saw the presence of a protolanguage in the

mind of the infant and the activation of the connections of the

language in the form in which it is inherent to the parents.

Roughly speaking, the “switches” (connections that form

rationality) are set in the same form as they are in the case of

the parents. But of course, rationality is primarily determined

by the level of activation, and therefore, no matter how

topologically complex a structure is, a human who grew up in

an animal family will remain an animal. In a normal situation,

rationality follows the topology of the brain, which undergoes

biological complications as social systems become more

complex. This is how the emergence of consciousness is

manifested.

The two metaphors

Historical processes combine both periods of genesis,

periods of growth, and periods of disintegration of social

structures. Bruno Latour in his actor-network model insists on

not considering stable periods in history, believing that only

rebuilding actions produced by society are important for

history, since they are as informative as possible. Likewise,

one can think, leaving one thought and giving birth to the next.

But, just like in the life of an individual, not only the moment

of perception is important, but also the period of apperception,

in the life of society, it is incorrect to ignore the period of

understanding new experience. All history is the absorption of

natural or social acts into the personal and social context. This

law is explicated in the dictum of Ecclesiastes: “there is time

to scatter stones, and there is time to collect them”. An

individual and a large social group can become actors, but the

actor’s moment of explication is always the manifestation of

his ideas in a particular person. And, if the initial impetus to

the development of the actor is given by a specific person, then

But the reverse should also be true: if the complication of

actors has led to such a complexity of the brain topology that

a rational man has appeared, then an actor (humanity) with

more complexity than a man (man being one of its elements)

should obtain a new kind of mentality. Indeed, the human

society from the linear organization of a prehistoric tribe has

become a complex structure. And here we see the limited

nature of the human society in the size of the earth, just as the

size of the brain is limited by the cranium, which implicitly

leads to the end of quantitative evolution and the transition

only to qualitative changes. And it is absolutely logical to

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the apperception of the social act occurs through the collective

actor, the social group that was formed as a result of the social

act integrated into the network that Latour calls the sociology

of associations. As a result, the actions of society acquire a

coordinated, rational form. But for today, the “mind of

society” remains at the level of individual explications,

individual uncoordinated social “flashes” of intellectual

activity, just as animals sometimes show signs of rationality.

The actor, as a social structure, is described by a number

of parameters, has its own characteristics and therefore has

systemic properties. In the work “Analytical and synthetic

stages of evolution of arbitrary systems: ontological features

and characteristics” (11), the author of the present article

showed that the model of a nonlinear oscillator (pendulum) is

as general as possible to describe any arbitrarily chosen

system, and which, in addition to the synthesis stage (Latour’s

an "aperiodic crystal" was introduced by Erwin Schrödinger to

determine the DNA of a living organism. And, as it turns out,

there is an ontological connection between the formation of

humanity as an aperiodic crystal and the development of man.

Having introduced such a concept, Schrödinger did not give an

idea of how such a crystal is formed. The author of the present

paper sees its essence in the following: if an atom of a

homogeneous crystal is an element of only one cell, then an

atom of an aperiodic crystal participates in many different

structures and, accordingly, the imposition of these structures

on each other gives it an aperiodicity, just like if we combine

several pictures of different artists with each other, then,

without preliminary preparation, we will hardly sort out what

is depicted there. Similarly, social aperiodicity is organized.

Any actor starts with its idea. The idea that formed the core

of the actor, in the next moment, begins to multiply, creating

smaller-scale subactors that are like the central actor. (All

modern trade networks operate according to this principle,

colonial relations in previous centuries were built in a similar

way, empires had a hierarchy, repeated on different scales).

Each subactor has individual differences, determined by the

locality where it is formed. But the general form remains the

same. In addition, each person participates in a multitude of

actors, ensuring their interweaving, increasing the complexity

exponentially. Structures having a similar appearance at

different levels are called fractals. The fractal form of society

is created by the singularity of historical transitions during

synthesis. Further, it will be shown that the social crystal

acquired a fractal structure much later than the crystal itself

began to form, and here a similarity to the human brain can be

seen. The growth of social crystals can be viewed from a

different angle. An arbitrary crystal, depending on its growth

rate, can have a homogeneous structure in the case of slow

growth, and fractal structure when it grows rapidly like an ice

crystal. Most often, the empires of the last millennium grew

with great speed and therefore turned into fractals (Tatar-

Mongolian, Tamerlane's Empire, Ottoman).

“

rebuilding”), has a harmonic stage, consisting, in its turn, of

the adaptation period, the harmonic period proper, and the

stage of chaos. In the same work, it is shown that all periods

of the evolution of the system are important: the adaptation

stage - the apperception stage is necessary so that the entire

culture of society absorbs the actor's derivative, the chaotic

stage - the final stage of decay - is necessary as an unstable

period, a period leading to the bifurcation point and the

subsequent possibility of synthesis. It is the instability of the

system that makes it possible to form a new actor and leave the

stage of chaos. To produce a new actor during the harmonic

stage is extremely energy-intensive.

Thus, in the present article the evolution of the actor will

be considered using the model of a nonlinear oscillator. In a

similar way, evolution was described by Chardin, representing

two types of energy - tangential and radial. If the tangential

energy carries the system into a tautological movement, then

the radial movement leads to an increase in complexity. “In

each element-particle, the fundamental energy is divided into

two components: tangential energy, which connects this

element with all other elements of the same order, and radial

energy, which attracts it in the direction of an increasingly

complex and internally concentrated state” (15). Obviously,

tangential motion is a circular motion which means the

harmonic stage, while radial motion is a change in radius and,

accordingly, synthesis. In Chardin’s description, the classic

idea of the spiral nature of evolution takes the form of a step-

spinning pendulum. Accordingly, our model has a more

illustrative appearance.

To describe a complex multiparameter system, a metaphor

is usually used due to its cognitive power (1). A metaphor is

able to convey the structural and dynamic behavior of the

system at a certain stage of its evolution. It is an explication of

the space-time isomorphism of the behavior of systems from

different areas of being, as Ludwig von Bertalanffy (3) pointed

out in his work (it is more correct to use the term

homomorphism, but Bertalanffy used the term isomorphism).

A purely systematic, mathematical approach is able to reflect

only dynamic characteristics; unlike it, the metaphorical one

can also convey many other parameters, such as rationality.

To describe society, the metaphor of an aperiodic crystal

is most appropriate. Unlike Latour’s network, the crystal

model allows us to explicate significantly more ontological

moments related to the density of society, due to the fact that

the crystal has more degrees of freedom or, in other words, it

is described by a larger number of parameters. The concept of

There are many similarities between society and a crystal,

and one of them is indisputable: external homogeneity speaks

about integrity and some density, but if we scale down, we will

inevitably come to an image where homogeneity decays, and

we observe emptiness in the crystal with singular points of

atoms, and in society - emptiness with singular units of people.

In addition, a social crystal is more like a liquid crystal, since

it is continuously transforming or, as Latour puts it,

“reassembles”.

Personality and the society

Society and personality change each other in the process

of mutual influence. The personality evolves by interacting

with society through the tools of various actors that the person

currently represents. “The results obtained represent a serious

evidence in favor of the hypothesis of cultural intelligence”

(

7). These groups, actors, systematized in one way or another,

at different levels of the hierarchy, subsequently fractal, are

created through the willful efforts of certain individuals.

Actors can be described using a number of parameters

(

general geography, internal rules, laws). But, in addition to

this, an arbitrarily taken system of a natural or artificial

character has co-phase character. This is the seemingly

insignificant element, which organizes chaos in order, which

distinguishes one from the other. The personality that has

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formed the group determines the co-phase character of the

actor, its idea. In the co-phase character, the principle is laid

down, which unites the elements into the system and

determines its evolution (for example, "who was nothing, will

become everything").

called the “Darwinian” stage, since the changes that are not

selected are cut off at this stage due to the “immunity” of

tradition. It is these periods that Latour proposes to define

through the "sociology of the social" and suggests that it is the

social sciences that study them, when the society is

homogeneous and most rational. But at a certain moment,

some hidden, uncontrollable factors, or forces that lead the

actor to the stage of Chaos begin to show up. The stage of

Chaos has an ontological meaning: in the absence of this stage,

the rebuilding of the social would be difficult, just like it is

difficult for a moving vehicle to be moved from its trajectory.

A. Toynbee gives many examples of different stages: “All

primitive societies that have come down to us in a static state

were once in motion; and all societies that have become

civilizations, sooner or later, will come to a static state in one

way or another ”(13). The main metaphor used by Toynbee is

“Challenge and Response”. It is the force that brings the

system out of the Harmonic stage and moves it into a state of

chaos, it is the challenge to the existing social group. As shown

by Toynbee, it can be of a different nature and different with

respect to the system, i.e. both external and internal. In a social

system, an internal factor may be, for example, fatigue from

the monotony of life within the framework of established laws,

which provokes discontent. Such a situation is described in

Dostoevsky’s novel “Demons”, where society is “tired” of the

monarchy, as a form of state organization, and forces in the

form of the movement of "Narodnaya volya" de-phase the

state. Climate change or resource depletion can be an external

factor. Similarly, under the influence of external and internal

forces, the nonlinear oscillator evolves. If we imagine an

oscillating load on a spring, then the reason for its transition

from the Harmonic to Chaotic may be both the fatigue of the

metal of the spring, and the draft in the room where the load is

suspended, leading the pendulum out of the coordinated mode

and further to the parametric resonance. But before that, the

system enters a chaotic, disharmonic period.

At this stage, the role of the individual is also irrelevant.

During this period, each individual from the social group exists

separately, until the next synthesis, when the group acquires a

new phase structure. During this period of instability, the

system appears at the bifurcation point. There are many

directions for further development, and all of them are

associated with any individual who is able to take a social

group out of this state. Within society, there is a multi-vector,

active search for a new personality, on which all further

evolution will depend for some time. The system of a nonlinear

oscillator, being in a chaotic motion, also comes to a new

stable position over time, in which the unbalanced forces self-

organize. Entering a new level goes on singularly, non-

analytically, which, in addition to repeatability, is one of the

signs of fractal.

Below, the stages of the evolution of the actor are

considered. In the article "Analytical and synthetic stages of

evolution of arbitrary systems: ontological features and

characteristics" (11) it was shown that an arbitrary quasi-

closed system behaves like a nonlinear oscillator (a pendulum,

an electron rotating around a nucleus, a planet, etc.). An

ordinary linear oscillator is similar to a pendulum; it defines

the harmonic stage of the evolution of a system when it can

oscillate forever. The nonlinear pendulum, in contrast to the

ordinary one, behaves in a harmonious way only for a certain

period, and then at some point the forces of external or internal

nature, which are not significant at first glance, begin to have

an effect. In general, systems behave similarly to a nonlinear

pendulum, differing from each other only in scale and

characteristic time of a harmonic period (decay time). At some

point, the pendulum system loses its co-phase character and

begins to move chaotically, and after some time "leaps" into

the new stable trajectory. The functional “jump” has a singular

form. “The evolutionary process is implemented in a sequence

of creative acts (timeless leaps)” (10).

In general, the evolution of an actor can be divided into

four stages. The first stage is the stage of Synthesis of the

system, the stage of formation of the actor. Any of the actors

is formatted by someone - the family, the society of book

lovers, the party, and the state have their leader and their

fundamental metaphor or, to put it differently, their main

slogan. At the stage of the formation of the system, the role of

the personality prevails over the society, when the will and

charisma of the individual are able to lead. On the basis of the

proclaimed slogan (for example, the elitism of a nation), the

basic parameters of the system are formed - social laws

determining its existence. After this stage, the actor enters the

second one, the Transitional stage, when the system internally

adapts the newly created structure. At this time, the system

parameters may undergo significant changes; the laws

governing the actor are changing. This is the period when the

individual elements of the system are “attuned” to each other,

and, borrowing the term from radioactivity, this period can be

called the “half-life”, because by the end of this period the

system informatively no longer makes sense. During this

stage, the stability of the system is at its maximum as it has not

yet lost the impulse formed by the synthesis of the actor. And

it is for this reason, as we believe, that the genesis of the next

actor should occur no earlier than the end of the Transitional

phase. During this time, the universe absorbs the newly formed

actor into the general context, by “memorizing” it. As part of

the metaphor of the “world mind”, this is a period of

memorization, with the memory of an actor having a key role

in its rationality.

The next stage is the stage of synthesis, when a new leader

creates a new metaphor - a new slogan forming new laws. At

this stage, the role of the individual becomes prevalent again.

In one way or another, society is involved in the formation of

laws. And further the system evolves according to the order

described above. The described order makes it possible to

critically look on a long-standing dispute between supporters

of voluntarism and fatalism (8) and show its groundlessness

because each doctrine has its own meaning at a certain stage.

At the point of bifurcation, before the beginning of the

synthesis of a new actor, voluntarism prevails; on the contrary,

The next (informationally poor) stage is the Harmonic

stage, when the system oscillates between two points

determined by the inertia of society and its activity. At this

stage, the role of the individual is irrelevant, the society is

governed by laws, traditions are formed, which are

harmoniously corrected by criticism. All changes that could

lead to significant differences are foreseen by the system and

are prevented. This period of the actor’s existence can be

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fatalism dominates the Harmonic stage. Of course, one can

always expand the discourse and consider these doctrines

globally, throughout history, and then it is necessary to

recognize a certain fatal sense of the increasing complexity in

the process of the evolution of society and the corresponding

emergence of new actors. This shows a certain equifinality of

evolution and an isomorphism of systems described by one

number of parameters and one level of complexity (no matter

how the story goes, an actor with a certain complexity should

appear in it).

The metaphor of a non-linear oscillator explicates the

dialectics of a person and society: the society carries out a

search for a person who can lead it out of chaos, but the chosen

way determines the person. Personality is the phasing

component that transforms a non-linear oscillator into a new

trajectory (attractor), the personality determines the type of co-

phasing.

began, the civil strife started, and then a synthesis took place,

and systems with a higher level of complexity appeared - tribes

were the first actors, with a low level of complexity

(ontologically, symbiosis means the emergence of a structure

with more favorable energy condition - for example, it is easier

to hunt together in a tribe). And for several hundred thousand

years, the tribes interacted weakly with each other, since the

populations were still small, and any interaction ended in war.

But the beginning of sociality was laid, the movement of

primitive people from the forest to the savannahs and the

increase in their number led to the division of labor and the

need for the emergence of language. “The more hominids

advanced in savannahs, the greater the demand for the

development of a communication system was” (4). This

period, returning to the crystal metaphor, has the form of a

“rarefied, weakly interacting social gas,” and therefore the

formation of a crystal is not yet possible. Humankind was in

such a potential state for a very long time, until pressure, due

to an increase in population, caused it to start “condensing”

and led to the emergence of “social crystals” – actors of a

different level of complexity – the cities.

The total duration of the cycles is determined by the level

of co-phasing and the Transitional stage (how well the separate

parts of the actor will “attune” to each other): for a state it can

be centuries, for a city - a decade, for a political party - years.

“

The social is not a special area of reality, but the principle of

connection” (5). In our opinion, the principle of connection

determines the reality that has different scales. These time

spans, of course, are conditional. Toynbee tried to find a

structure that could exist forever. But, as the author of the

present paper substantiates in “Wondering, Creativity, and

Order” (12), this contradicts the revised anthropic principle -

the task of the evolution of nature was not just to produce man,

but man capable of accelerating evolution. “Speaking in

everyday language, no morality can overcome boredom,

which leads to an active search for events” (9)

The fractal nature of humanity

With the advent of society, culture began to actively

evolve. Through culture, man protected himself from the fear

of the incomprehensibility of the surrounding nature, while

influencing it, forming a biocenosis. However, a reverse

reaction took place: while changing, the biocenosis changed

the anthropology of man. ‘Man – society’ is a system with

feedback. “Being a cumulative anti-entropic mechanism,

culture should change in accordance with the needs of a non-

equilibrium system” (9). For this reason, serious

anthropological changes took place at the nodal moments of

the “rebuilding” of social crystals, and since man is the “atom”

of such a crystal, the growth of a social crystal and human

ontogenesis inevitably correlated with each other. And this

correlation is connected with the complication of the topology

of consciousness. “The catastrophic collapses were followed

not by the restoration of the system, but by qualitative leaps in

complexity, intellectuality and the level of disequilibrium of

the biosphere with the physical environment” (9).

By increasing the population, mankind slowly but steadily

transforms from a state of “gas” into a “liquid” state (density

and pressure increase), and due to trade and military contacts,

its co-phase character is formed, the “social fluid” acquires a

structure, “despite the increasing power of tools, first of all,

combat weapons, and periodically exacerbated anthropogenic

crises, in the long term, the population of the earth multiplied”

(9). As the population of the earth grows, its “condensation”

begins and the growth of the first social crystals - the ancient

empires - occurs. At the time of the fourth - third millennium

BC the land is still sparsely populated by people, the tribes

exist separately, and therefore the formation of social crystals

occurs locally, just as when the temperature in the salt solution

decreases, crystals begin to form in several places. At the same

time, the first signs of fractality began to appear - very often

empires grew, cloning their central structure in the occupied

territories. They are scattered and still weakly interact with

each other. One can retrospectively observe the birth,

existence and decay of each of them, which is isomorphic to

the synthesis, the harmonic and chaotic period of the evolution

of a nonlinear oscillator. The subsequent synthesis was more

The beginning of the social. The first actors

In the work “Analytical and synthetic stages of evolution

of arbitrary systems: ontological features and characteristics”

11), the definition of the “eigenvalue” of a system was

(

proposed meaning a stable, harmonious, and most economical

state, with given parameters describing the system (evolution

in physics is determined by the principle of least action).

Sparta is one of the clearest examples of a steady stage.

Although it was the most militarized state, but at the same time

it was the most peaceful one. At its Harmonic stage, the system

oscillates trying to find the most “comfortable” position (from

the point of view of population, aggressiveness, militarization,

etc.), but, due to the presence of inertia, it misses this state. For

clarity, you can imagine an atom and the eigenvalues of the

system "electron - nucleus." The electron oscillates around the

nucleus, trying to "fall" on it. In the process of evolution, a

system may become more complex. In a similar way, a

molecule is formed: for some time an atom exists as a stable

system, but under the influence of a neighboring atom its own

value becomes unstable, resulting in the synthesis of a

molecule with a socialized electron and a new eigenvalue of

the system. Simple molecules can connect to more complex

ones - the newly formed system, like symbiosis, has a more

favorable socialized state, and, finally, the next level of such

growth is the formation of a crystal.

In a certain period, the primitive family as a system

occupied a relatively stable state, determined by external and

internal parameters (habitat, level of culture). At some point,

when interacting with neighboring families, a stage of chaos

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often caused not so much by internal and natural causes, as by

interaction with other actors. If in the first case, a series of

transformations still led to extinction (Egyptian civilization),

in the second case, many civilizations were reborn at a higher

level. Increased complexity is often associated with the

interaction of the system with other systems. The emergence

of a more complex system (a larger civilization) is associated

with lower energy costs (symbiosis). There are many such

cases in history: the Sumerian civilization, the Franco-Roman

Empire, the Ottoman Empire, etc. The rapid formation of a

larger empire resulted in fractality.

It is necessary to pay attention to the fact that

anthropological changes concern only the co-phased part of

humanity, only there the formation of new actors and larger

social crystals takes place. It is well-known that a crystal grows

along a certain axis; this axis is determined by external

conditions, the readiness of the medium for crystallization.

Such an axis was the time axis of K. Jaspers, described in the

work “The Meaning and Purpose of History” (16). This period

is characterized by the formation of a crystal with the first level

of anthropological symmetry. During this period, a large

number of philosophers and prophets were born, which, on the

one hand, is surprising, and quite natural, on the other hand.

account that the period that takes time from the moment of

synthesis to the moment of entering the stage of chaos is

determined by the level of co-phasing and the “half-life”. For

example, Confucius brought the idea of a family to the state

level, giving rise to a fractal (the state at all levels of the

hierarchy was like an ordinary family) with such harmonious

principles of existence that they could keep the Chinese

civilization intact for two and a half thousand years. But the

same factor restrained its evolution. For example, in Europe,

where active interactions of various social systems took place,

leading to disintegration and the formation of new actors,

many metamorphoses took place during the same two and a

half thousand years, which brought Europe forward.

At the same time, there is a significant change - the scale

is growing. Now, starting with the great navigators, the co-

phased system geographically grows to the scale of the entire

globe. The complexity of individual actors and systems of

humanity is growing. Crystallization occurs everywhere, at the

same time increasing density, pressure and changes in

anthropological symmetry, which is associated with such a

concept as wisdom. And, first of all, this change concerns the

understanding of the possibility that the next war will be the

last. Wisdom, as an idea of the consequences of the application

of knowledge, began to take shape a long time ago: “forms of

intertribal symbiosis and collective exploitation supplanted

Paleolithic genocide and cannibalism” (9). But the truly

humanistic ideas have appeared only recently. And,

apparently, this is connected with the unification of humanity

into a single system, and, accordingly, the principle: “to unite,

one must separate” no longer works. There is no one to

separate from: “The Nazis, the most odious of the monsters of

the century, even under the threat of unconditional defeat and

personal death, still did not dare to massively use military

chemical shells” (9). If previous actors, interacting through

military force, tried to forcibly create new actors with a more

favorable energy state (the phenomenon which is called

symbiosis in nature), now this idea has almost exhausted itself.

If earlier actors were social systems of open type, and

according to the laws of synergy it allowed them to evolve,

then, after the unification of all mankind, the global system

was closed, and now a new strategy is needed, perhaps a

transformed religion. “As a result of simple multiplication of

population, we came to the current situation in order to

collectively form an almost solid mass of hominized

substance” (15). As mentioned above, for the last two thousand

years, religion has been one of the most significant phasing

forces forming global actors. Attitude towards religion along

with the unification of all mankind has changed, religion has

fulfilled the mission of unification. New theologians (Johann

Baptist Metz, Jacques Luc Morion) call for the destruction of

the church as a global religious actor and for the individual

imitation of Christ.

“

Confucius and Lao Tzu then lived in China, all areas of

Chinese philosophy arose, Mo Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Le Tzu, and

countless other philosophers worked at that time. In India, the

Upanishads arose, the Buddha lived; in philosophy, both in

India and in China, all the possibilities of philosophical

comprehension of reality were considered, even skepticism,

materialism, sophistry and nihilism; in Iran, Zarathustra taught

about a world where good and evil are fighting; in Palestine,

the prophets spoke — Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and the Second

Isaiah; in Greece it was the time of Homer and such

philosophers as Parmenides, Heraclitus, Plato, the tragedians,

Thucydides and Archimedes” (16).

After a series of metamorphoses, when the Indo-European

crystal was reassembled several times (as already mentioned,

the social crystal has a rather liquid structure, but the term

“

reassembly” is, in our opinion, the most successful), the next

characteristic crystal axis has appeared, which has changed its

direction ninety degrees. It was formed from south to north,

and, like the first one, it started from the Mediterranean, but

now through France and Germany, to Russia and Sweden. It is

necessary to clarify that only the co-phased part of humanity

participates in the axial transformation, and, accordingly, the

countries participating in the previous time axis; the

civilizations of India and China remained unaffected at this

stage. The actors of these civilizations did not stop to exist but

they existed autonomously, and should be considered

separately. This is a very important moment that verifies our

assumption - only co-phased parts exist as a whole and evolve.

The phasing force in this case was Catholicism and Orthodoxy,

spreading from south to north parallel to each other.

And this is the main reason why countries in different parts

of the Earth found themselves at different hierarchical levels

in the process of evolution. The speed of evolution is

determined by the number of syntheses of new actors, which,

in turn, are determined by the number and quality of

interactions of actors, i.e. by population density and the idea

of co-phasing. And in this regard, Latour is absolutely right,

calling for an interest only in the sociology of associations, i.e.

to the number of reassemblies. But it is necessary to take into

A man’s desire to reach God is reminiscent of an attempt

to build a tower on earth to get closer to the sun. On the one

hand, being on the tower, one intuitively feels being closer to

the sun, on the other hand, the mind prompts the thought of the

futility of the plan. But this construction was not meaningless,

because with the construction of each new storey, humanity

can look further and further into space and in time, and

discover many correlative processes. For example, the

complexity of a social crystal, consisting of a multitude of

actors, is proportional to the size of the population and the

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number of connections between the people; according to “the

findings of American anthropologists who studied the

information complexity of cultures, the culture strongly

correlates with the logarithm of the number of inhabitants of

the largest of the settlements and, therefore, grows in

proportion to the number of society members” (9). And,

accordingly, this thought automatically leads to the idea of

humanism: every life is valuable, it is one of the elements of

the overall evolutionary process, and the loss of any life can

lead to a significant slowdown.

One of the most important parameters of complexity,

manifested in the unification of humanity into a single system,

was its multiple fractality. It has already been mentioned that

the fractal structure appears when the crystal growth rate is

high. Now there is a fast global reassembly leading to global

centralization. An essential quality of fractality is the

possession of a dimension exceeding the topological one. (If a

couple of centuries ago the factory worker was a linear

representative of the social structure - the factory, now he has

many connections). An extremely complex hierarchy has

appeared only in recent decades, when each person participates

simultaneously in a large number of actors: the state, a political

party, an enterprise, an insurance company, a sports club, a

family, etc. This multiplicity of fractal layers indicates the

aperiodicity of the social crystal - the locally observed

structure decays with increasing scale, when the possibility of

explication of all connections emerges. And each social

system leaves its mark in the development of the elementary

actor - the man. Just as ontogenesis repeats phylogenesis on a

smaller scale, so the topology of consciousness preserves the

social structures that occurred in history.

spectator, transitioning into the state of being “presented”

before nature. Thus, humanity has separated from matter,

being presented before it. Perhaps, Heidegger was right, but,

in our opinion, there is nothing bad in it, this is a natural way

of evolution - man fulfilled his function as seen previously, in

the view of disunity, just as the cell once did. At the next stage,

the creative impulse should become a social act, which is the

development of the ideas of Henri Bergson and his work

“Creative Evolution” (2) in order to free humanity from

materiality and temporality. Then the “Brownian movement”

of individual people’s thinking will unite into one common

thought of the world mind: “putting it roughly, the thinking

Singularity is formed, the psyche is freed from the matter, and

a big blissout takes place - the very state that God would

create” (9). And this thought of Nazaretyan is no longer

groundless; the issue that modern physicists study (the bound

quantum states) suggests a speedy instantaneous transmission

of information and a possible collaboration of all mankind.

And then materiality will really fade into the background.

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The future

Martin Heidegger, defining the current state of affairs,

wrote about the decline of European philosophy. He believed

that the decline began with Plato and his “ideas”, when a man

became opposed to nature, separated from her and became a