Learning To Live Together: Promoting Social Harmony

✍ Scribed by J. A. Scott Kelso

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 234
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is devoted to the issue of how we can learn to live together in the face of division and conflict. It is dedicated to the life and work of a remarkable human being, Dr Epimenidis Haidemenakis, scientist, statesman, visionary leader, President Emeritus of the International S.T.E.P.S. Foundation and founding father of The Olympiads of the Mind (OM). The monograph consists of a collection of papers presented at the 8^th and 9^th Olympiads of the Mind held in Washington, DC and Chania, Crete respectively. Distinguished international scholars, government and corporate representatives, leading researchers and academics from multiple disciplines and Nobel Laureates Leon Lederman (Physics, 1988), Martin Perl (Physics, 1995) and Yuan T. Lee (Chemistry, 1986) address a broad range of issues all with the aim of improving the human condition and achieving cooperation among the people of the world. The topics include the environment, sustainability and security; diversity and how to achieve integration and peace among people in a fractured world; the important role of brain research; how to overcome poverty and inequality; how to enhance creativity and improve education at all levels; and how new technologies and tools can be used for common benefit. The culmination of the book is a call to action, to join what one might call the “OM Movement”—bringing the best minds in the world together to create solutions to world issues so that we can all live together in harmony.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Global Response to Global Problem (Yuan T. Lee)....Pages 3-6
Some Security Issues of Living on Planet Earth (Yannis A. Phillis)....Pages 7-16
Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (Jonathan D. Moreno)....Pages 17-21
Learning to Live Together: Linking European and Local Initiatives (Leonidas Makris)....Pages 23-28
Front Matter ....Pages 29-29
The Human Group Instinct as Basis of Culture and Atrocities (Christoph von der Malsburg)....Pages 31-38
To Be Different: How Medicine Contributes to Social Integration of the Disabled in the Era of Globalization (H. Binder)....Pages 39-50
Systems of the Brain Responsible for the Herd Mentality and the Acceptability of Diversity May Determine If We Can All Live Together (H. Weinberg)....Pages 51-63
Variability in Life Can Facilitate Learning to Live Together (Nick Stergiou)....Pages 65-69
Bridging the Gap (Jane L. Buck)....Pages 71-75
Walls and Borders and Strangers on the Shore: On Learning to Live Together from the Perspective of the Science of Coordination and the Complementary Nature (J. A. Scott Kelso)....Pages 77-93
Front Matter ....Pages 95-95
The Neurobiology of Reward: Understanding Circuitry in the Brain that Shapes Our Behavior (Chris Evans)....Pages 97-105
Brain Research: Improving Social Harmony on Reward, Trust, and Impulse Control (Theodor Landis)....Pages 107-114
Making Sense of Neurodegeneration: A Unifying Hypothesis (Barry Halliwell)....Pages 115-120
The Brain as a Learner/Inquirer/Creator: Some Implications of Its Organization for Individual and Social Well Being (Paul Grobstein)....Pages 121-128
Front Matter ....Pages 129-129
A Contrarian View of How to Develop Creativity in Science and Engineering (Martin L. Perl)....Pages 131-137
The Ever More Pressing Problem of Science Literacy (Leon Lederman)....Pages 139-147
Brain Science: A Meta-Discipline for Education (Ron Hoy)....Pages 149-156
A Task in Education: Towards a Community of Difference for Learning to Live Together (Chae-chun Gim)....Pages 157-165
Healing: An Imagination Beyond Violent History with Focus on Korean Historical Context (Byong-Sun Kwak)....Pages 167-176
Ahimsa, the Way of Living in Peace and Harmony: Indian Perspective (SM Paul Khurana)....Pages 177-186
Front Matter ....Pages 187-187
Nanoethics—A Way of Humanization of Technology for the Common Benefit (Štefan Luby, Martina Lubyová)....Pages 189-203
Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in the Age of Globalization (Aderemi Kuku)....Pages 205-212
Cryptocurrencies: Can They Live Together with National Currencies and What Impact Do They Have on National and Global Economies? (Konny Light)....Pages 213-223
Front Matter ....Pages 225-225
Message from Ms. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the Occasion of the 9th Olympiad of the Mind Chania, Greece, 14–17 September 2017 (Epimenidis Haidemenakis)....Pages 227-228
The Relevance of the Ancient Greek Texts (Alexandros P. Mallias)....Pages 229-232
Recommendations from the Ninth Olympiad of the Mind: Learning to Live Together ( The International S.T.E.P.S. Foundation)....Pages 233-234

✦ Subjects

Social Sciences; Quality of Life Research; International Relations; Complexity; Environmental Economics; Environmental Politics; Neurosciences