Significance of Domain Name (URL)
of the Cognitive Fusion Reactor (ITER-8)
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The web address of this site (the URL) is designed to challenge easy assumptions
about this initiative. Use of the prefix "un-" (www.un-iter8.org)
may therefore be variously understood as:
- stressing the value of a contrarian approach by also implying the merit
of a "negative
capability",
in contrast to uncritical contemporary emphasis on "positive" approaches
-- thereby raising the question of the insights to be gained
from a project that is in every sense the contrary of the efforts of ITER to
frame the challenge of "energy" in terms of nuclear fusion to the exclusion
of other forms of energy, especially those of a psycho-social variety
- highlighting the widespread challenge of dysfunctional forms
of "cognitive fusion" -- in a period when premature judgement and
groupthink has had disastrous consequences in curtailing the emergence of
subtler insight
- introducing a healthy degree of self-mockery as a corrective to unfruitful
presumption
- emphasizing the possibility of moving beyond the "iteration" characteristic
of repeating behavioural patterns without learning from them
- provocatively implying that the initiative is in some way related to those
of the United Nations -- whether or not a United Nations of the future should
indeed be specifically associated with some such approach to psycho-social
energy
- implying a conventional static form of "union" --
when the intention is rather to favour understandings of union as characterized
by continuing emergence from a dynamic process of "flow", a fundamental
characteristic in deriving energy from "fusion"
An alternative URL (www.u-iter8.org),
associated with this site, makes the point that in a very important sense it
is within, or through, the individual that sustainable forms of psycho-social
energy must ultimately be derived
-- rather than through the collective achievements of technology as currently
understood.
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