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Possible Future of Humanity: a Race Between Flourishing and Depletion (Karazin University Weekend School)
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Course Annotation “The Future of Humanity and the Biosphere: Depletion or Flourishing?”
The course “The Future of Humanity and the Biosphere: Depletion or Flourishing?” is offered for the second consecutive year in 2022. This page provides a brief description of the course and the planned lecture topics.
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — 08. Materials Useful for Understanding the Prospects of Humanity
To understand what awaits us, we must determine where we are and what influences our future. Here are materials prepared for other purposes that may be useful for this course.
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — 07 Review “by dotted line”: The history of the biosphere from the emergence of life to human civilization
Some of the topics that deserve discussion in the course we will not be able to work through in detail. Here are gathered the theses that we need to consider, and some references that will help understand these theses.
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — Discussion Page for Source Reviews and Other Questions
This page was created to discuss questions that arise during the course “The Past, Present and Possible Future of Humanity and the Biosphere: Exhaustion or Prosperity?”. A link to the Google document is posted in the Telegram group. Anyone who …
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — Source Review Example: Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow, "The Grand Design"
This page will collect source reviews that students will prepare for the course "The Past, Present and Possible Future of Humanity and the Biosphere: Exhaustion or Prosperity?". Here you will find a review prepared by one of the course authors …
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — Reviews of Information Sources
Part of student work in the course “The past, present, and possible future of humanity and the biosphere: exhaustion or prosperity?” is creating reviews introducing key sources relevant to the course topic.
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — 06. Lecture #5. Earth Functioning
It may seem to us that our planet is merely a stage on which events of our life unfold. In fact, our life is part of the functioning of our planet.
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — 05 Lecture#4 Prerequisites for the Existence of Complex Life on Earth
Our existence is a consequence of the existence of stars. It is stars that make the Universe complex. They are «devices» for the creation of elements; they fill space with streams of energy. Sometimes during star formation, planets form alongside …
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — Library
A small library of e-books that may be useful when following the course «The Past, Present and Possible Future of Humanity and the Biosphere: Exhaustion or Prosperity?». Rights to these books belong to their authors and publishers. They are used …
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — 04. Lecture #3 (double). The Universe, Its Time, and Our Place in Them
We exist in space and time. The nearby world can be described with classical Newtonian concepts, but describing the Universe requires much more complex models.
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — 03. Lecture #2 (double). Architect of the Universe: Natural Selection
Selection. Probability. Stability. Information. Dissipative systems. How are these concepts connected? How does new information arise? What role do chance and selection play in this?
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — 02 Lecture#1 How to Determine What Fate Awaits Humanity?
The first lecture of the inter-faculty elective course «The Past, Present, and Possible Future of Humanity and the Biosphere: Exhaustion or Prosperity?»
Exhaustion? Prosperity? — 01. The past, present and possible future of humanity and the biosphere: depletion or flourishing?
We are starting a new interdisciplinary elective course: “The Past, Present, and Possible Future of Humanity and the Biosphere: Depletion or Flourishing?”
Video Annotation for the Course "The Future of Humanity and the Biosphere: Exhaustion or Prosperity?"
For second- and third-year students across the entire university, a course that was already taught in 2021 is being offered for the spring semester of 2022. Here is its brief description.