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I would like to focus your attention to the knowledge
base we all use nowadays and to philosophy.
The most important thing is to understand it.
When we say Cosmos, when I decided to perform according to this topic
I mentioned how different our conceptions of space are.
My colleague spoke about near and far outer space.
But nowadays there is a great variety of space's conception
and people and scientists are able to give a general idea of what the outer space is.
It's a tiny part of the visible Universe.
Up to now we keep the difference
between Cosmos and Universe.
If we just had the outer space
we could never have the Universe.
There are Space and Universe. Why?
There was a record of the outer space in the ancient Greek philosophy
that space is a part of the world which is able to be seen,
which we've understood and described using common ideas.
And that is the exactly part of the world we live in.
There was a time when the pristine tribes used to carry a pole with
(nowadays it is called maypole). They were just rambling around and at one moment
they just put it into the ground and believed that point was the centre of the world.
So we can say that the've always had the centre of the world with them.
It doesn't matter where they come they've always been in the centre.
For how long have people been thinking that the humanity is the centre of the universe?
Only in middle ages more or less someone has started thinking different
and later in Renaissance people have totally changed our thoughts about the place we live in.
Some of them have even suffered their lives and careers to prove that we all live on a little planet that travels around the sun
and to prove the heliocentric structure of the Earth. What did it cost?
We should have turned down some of the myths because it has become clear that time that the human being is a tiny part of something really big
what is still incomprehensible and unknown. So, we've started space programs today and it
has been already said that people will explore the space searching new worlds and increasing our territories.
Why do we need this new worlds? Is it because we've harmed the Earth that bad that we are not able to live here? Why do we explore the Cosmos?
We have to understand(and that's what should philosophers talk about)
the reason for going forward and the reason for leaving our planet.
People who have learnt the doctrines of Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky know the word “Noosphere”(The sphere of the mind).
Not “neo” like a lot of students say but “noo”. I always give D grades for that.
Neosphere is a totally different thing. Noosphere - νόος – mind.
Vernadsky was dreamind that the Noosphere will appear on the Earth
and only than we will be able to leave the Earth's borders(the Earth's orbit).
But first we have to develop the Noosphere on Earth and understand at least the place we live in.
And what are we going to do? Are we going to leave this polluted planet and fly further doing the same thing?
Look! What is going to expect us? Is it going to be the same situation?
People are talking about conquering the Mars… Conquering… That's why I use the term “conquista”.
Conquista has already been happening. Europe has conquered Latin and North America.
and now what? Now these countries are having the same situation as Europe.
Now it is the whole planet and now we all have common problems.
And years later we will have common problems with the conquered Moon, conquered Mars
and Pluto, etc., etc.
Out of the planet's borders and out of our solar system. That is the conquista we are facing today.
Why the other planets are being explored nowadays? Mars is being explored because it is believed to be the the cradle of our civilization.
Of course, it could be a myth. But still, myths are really important for development of science.
What if Schliemann did not believe Homer, he could not discover Troy
because the scientists who believe only specialists would possibly say that Troy has never existed.
And Schliemann who was a real dabbler, but still he was an outstanding dabbler
he is the one who found the Hissarlik hill and unearthed Troy.
Today we really have to think about exploring the Space, but why?
Because we have to look further to develop our Noosphere.
Vernadsky was talking about biosphere with relation to the future Noosphere
which doesn't exist yet, which has just started it's development
and I really hope it will be developed by your work. This Noospere will be built
only when we more or less bring out the relationship between what we call Noosphere and wgat I suggest to call cosmosphere.
I focus your attention on the outstanding men of science, of course you've recognized Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky,
who wrote about Noosphere or about the unity of peoples' culture.
Of course including Vladimir sergejevich Solovjev.
Absolutely these people are the leaders of future Cosmosphere I am talking about today.
What we need today is a cosmoc thinking which is not under animals' control
but it is under humanity's control. I mean the thinking of a real ruler of Noosphere.
This type of thinking is only being conceived and we are already able to see the results.
And thank God it keeps developing.
The main thing we've noticed is that the cosmic thinking should be supplemented with new ethics.
Not with a pragmatical science, not with pragmatical aims but with new ethics itself
which requires not only normal relationships between people but also with the environment too.
Today we are considering a new science which requires the actualization of everything we know and can
and combining of the rational and irrational, fundamentiall and applied(etc., etc.) areas of science.
And exactly the cosmic science which is rushed in future
and which will be able to identify the true aims of the future humanity will be linked with geniuses.
That is why we are saying that the future cosmic science should be the management of geniuses and talents.
Only at that time humanity will have a chance of crossing the Noosphere's border which is going to appear someday.
My main question is “Will any government structure or unite be able
to become a founder or a leader of the development of the future cosmic thinking and science”?
That is a question I ask as a philosopher because as you know philosophy is not just love of wisdom,
Because there is no such a word as “love” in philosophy, it is an aspiration for wisdom.
Pythagorean understood that there are people who obtain wisdom and that they need nothing more when he introduced this term, because they were just like demigods.
But there are also ordinary people who aspirate for wisdom but never get it all.
They will aspirate for wisdom for their whole lives. And it doesn't matter which path will they choose – if it is science or humanitarian knowledge.
These are the paths the humanity will choose.
I really hope that the future explorers of space are agree with that point of view.
It was a wonderful performance about garbage. I make my student write the esseys according to this topic.
It's a huge topic. I'm talking about not only the space garbage but about garbage we all have in our minds.
And we should throw exactly this garbage away from our heads
to be ready for real flights into the real outer space and to be able to see something new out there.
There was a TV program recently about Mars and about the possibility of creating a vegetable garden on Mars.
It's wonderful and of course we all have to eat. But wasting tons of energy
for growing apples on Mars is just wrong.
What do you think? I think that the answer will lie in you future works. Thank you very much.