DARWIN AND THE HUMAN FUTURE

WORD COUNT = 5279DARWIN AND THE HUMAN FUTURE[Draft for invited chapter for Oxford University Press publication of Nonlinear Psychology: Why Chaos Is Good For You. Editors will likely require changes. This is my 3.27.16 unedited draft for this chapter based on my previous books Darwin’s Lost Theory, Darwin’s Second Revolution, Darwin in Love, and still around, dogged by all that hits and drains one at 91, now nearing completion is The Integral Darwin , likely my last book. For tremendous Pre- Publication Reviews of this work and earlier books see www.davidloye.com/darwin]by David Loye davidoye@gmail.comThis is the science and the story of a nonlinear experiment in seeing if it’s still possible to rev up the revolution needed to speed up the evolution of our species before it’s too late.It began back in the Cold War years, in 1984. It began during the race between the U.S. and Russia to see who could pile up the largest stack of Atom and H bombs on hair trigger alert, with our world quivering under the threat of nuclear annihilation.Out of a secret meeting of concerned scientists from both sides systems scientist Ervin Laszlo got the funding and called together, behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest, the handful of us, including1