In Search of a New Socrates – Re-Searching for a Fourth (Hyper-Spatial) Dimension

Authors

  • Nicolae Bulz CSCBAS “Acad.David Davidescu”/NERI/Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania | ‘Interdisciplinary Entities Laboratory', 2000, Sibiu-Gandia, Romania-Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5340-2167

Keywords:

“CIRCULARITY” - “RHYTM” and “LABYRINTH” - Next-Steps Human, “Generosity-Creativity-Solidarity” - “Natural-Artificial Dualism”, New Socrates - “Peace Entrepreneurship” and “Progress Entrepreneurship” - COMPUTING–Bio-COMPUTING–Quantum-COMPUTING, COMPUTER SCIENCE–Bioinformatics–Artificial {Intelligence-and-Life}, from “Knowledge Society” towards “Consciousness Society”.

Abstract

This interdisciplinary study proposes a framework for the human development. Drawing on 15 years of collaborative work, the study examines five key domains inward a critical relation toward peace and progress; and the possibility of moving from a Knowledge Society to a still possible Consciousness Society. The goal is to identify a coherent set of ideas that can guide humanity’s future development.

Let us propose a broad conceptual framework for what the next stage of humanity should be – let call this the Next-Steps Human. The aim is to gather the minimum essential knowledge needed to build a coherent set of definitions, principles, and propositions about a systematic and systemic human development into the today’s world.

This framework is based on about 15 years of prior work, done by the author (as coordinator) with colleagues in an International Consortium called “Generosity-Creativity-Solidarity”. The members-participants, within our set of projects (16 major scale works, approx. 45 participants from 10 countries - 2007-2026) were elicited an interdisciplinary and/or transdisciplinary type of representation-frames of the problems – and respectively the corpus of ‘solving complex-problems’, meaning it tries to combine insights from many fields rather than stay within one classical-scientific-discipline.

More specifically, we, the International Consortium members-participants were/are acting and still want to (re-)examine –in continuity– five major related-areas (A -:- E):

A. The relationship or tension between the Natural and the Artificial in today’s Knowledge Society.
B. The connection between Biodiversity and Spirituality into the context of our global crises.
C. Whether Extended Realities can improve Societal Education, Administration, (re-)Construction of our Liberties, (re-)Construction of the Prosecution, revising the Communication ó Connectedness, Explanation ó Understanding, and respectively eliciting a new construct “Subtleness” beyond Probabilities and Fuzziness.

D. Whether new professions such as “Peace Entrepreneurship” and “Progress Entrepreneurship” are possible-necessary-sufficient.
E. Whether humanity can-will-must move from a “Knowledge Society” to a “Consciousness Society” – which is the price/benefit?

Author Biography

Nicolae Bulz, CSCBAS “Acad.David Davidescu”/NERI/Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania | ‘Interdisciplinary Entities Laboratory', 2000, Sibiu-Gandia, Romania-Spain

Nicolae Bulz - brief CV   http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BO0ZPqEAAAAJ&hl=en https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5340-2167 You can access my recent papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: Nicolae Bulz  http://ssrn.com/author=832079.  Also, some of my papers are on: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicolae_Bulz2 and http://ssrn.academia.edu/NicolaeBulz   * Associate Researcher – Center for Studies and Research on Agrosilvical Biodiversity „Acad. David  DAVIDESCU”                                             (CSCBAS) / National Economic Research Institute /Romanian Academy * Founder and coordinator – ‘Interdisciplinary Laboratory, 2000’   * Associate Professor – National Defence College - 2007- self-retired/2020 * Honorary Researcher – World Economy Institute / NERI/ Romanian Academy - 2009- self-retired/2020 * Professional Member 'The New York Academy of Sciences' - 2016- self-retired/2020  * Research Associate External: University Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia – 2005-2015 * Professor (self-retired/2009 – addressing research tasks only) - Ecological University Bucharest (Managerial Engineering Faculty, chief for the courses / near past: Systems Modeling and Simulation; Operational Research; Computer Aided Design; European Technological Civilization; past: Modeling and Decision inside Industrial Systems; Strategic Management; Systems' Simulation inside Science – Religion interface; Interdisciplinary Entities Laboratory – founder, 2000)    * Ph.D. engineer (specialization: Automatic Systems / human-machine interface domain / knowledge engineering    // “Analysis and Synthesis of Decisional Operative Sub_systems” –   models # neural networks)   * Affiliate member of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) (Technical Committees: TC9.5/     Technology, Culture, International Stability / SWIIS, TC4.5/Human-Machine Systems, TC9.3/Developing Countries),     from 2005; * Member of International Sociological Association / from 1998 and member of the Research Committees RC55 (Social       Indicators), RC35 (Conceptual and Terminological Analysis), TG04 (Sociology of Risk and Uncertainty), RC45 (Rational Choice), RC22 (Sociology of Religion), RC 36 (Alienation Theory and Research), RC42 (Social Psychology), RC48 (Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change); * Member of International Society for Human Ethology (ISHE) from 2017;    * Member of The Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems (CHAOS) / 2001; 2003; * Scientific member of International Association for Cybernetics (IAC) / 1996-2001; * Member of International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA) / 1993, 1996; * Member of United Kingdom Systems Society (UKSS) member 2012-2013;   * Member of the Romanian Committee for History and Philosophy of Science and Techniques - from Romanian     Academy, and, into an autonomous unit: Recent_Past_President of the Interdisciplinary Research Group; * Vice-president of Social and Economic Cybernetics Commission / Sibiu Sub_ Commission - from Romanian  Academy   Publications and research projects:    * books: 10; university manuals: 2; course notes: 4;    * number of papers in international publications: 128;    * number of papers in Romanian edited publications: > 100;    * number of communications: international context:  > 70; national context: > 120;    * one patent on an invention on microelectronics, two innovations on informational signal processing;    * director and co-director of 19 research projects (16 being international, three being national)  &         participant in other 20 research projects, proponent of three FP7 projects / three expert invited activities.   University invited activities abroad:   * Chairperson of the Workshop 3: Politics, Social Progress, Conflict / within the XIII Congress of Spanish Sociology / University of Valencia, 3-6 July 2019 (within International Sociological Association ISA-RC55 - Research Committee for Śocial Indicators specialism). * University Presentation within the University of Aberdeen, School of Language & Literature, Centre for Modern Thought / Thursday, October 10, 2013, at 4 p.m.; King’s College, MacRobert 252 / <<Creative Partnership’ as  a type of reflection and prospect on our Humankind: Qvo Vadis Homine_2050?>>  http://ssrn.com/abstract=2339321 * University Lecturship: Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Analisi Economiche e Sociale / "Incontro  con Nicolae Bulz" <<Qvo Vadis Homine_2050_? CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP_? / Does Humankind matter beyond  limitations and paradoxes? Generosity versus Creativity and Solidarity within the Contemporary World  Changes>> // Aula Biblioteca, Pal. Tumminelli Città Universitaria, Roma, Italy, June 6, 2011, 16:00 * University Debate [Incontro - Debattito]  into the Sapienza Università di Roma, Aula Biblioteca, V.le dell Universita, 36, Roma: La qualita dell'apprendimento degli adulti, June 9, 2011, 12:30          * University Debate: <<The (Non)Systemicity of the Social Mind(s); toward Individual Mind(s) Approaches>>,  June 3-5, 2011, University of Siena, Department from Arezzo * Research seminar: <<Information / Knowledge Dynamics>>, Nottingham Trent University / School of Arts and Humanity Sciences, International Relations Department, 26 September 2007, 10:30 * Invited seminar: <<Creative (e-)Partnership>>, 17 January 2007 / inward the 20th Winter Course "Terrorism,   Counterterrorism, and Human Rights", Andalo (Trento) – Italy, University of Rome "Tor Vergata”, Italian Pugwash Group, International School “Isodarco”, founded in 1966, 19 January 2007, 16:00 * Invited Professor: Italy, Universita degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento di Studi Storico Sociali e Filosofici / Arezzo, July 9, 2005, 11:00 * Visiting Professor: Australia, Melbourne, Victoria University of Technology, Center for Strategic Economic Studies, September 15-29, 2005

Published

2026-08-13

Issue

Vol. 70 No. 1 (2026): Proceedings of the 70th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences

Section

2026 Full Paper