By the end of the 2030s, each individual on Earth will read the phrase 'Love Note in Currency: Humanity Dividend' displayed weekly in their banking application as a transfer reference. This recurrent love letter incorporates a monetary sum, deposited in a bank and currency of the person's choosing. This dividend originates from a universally collected, immutable transaction fee, processed in an autonomous, distributed manner. This 2% fee is taken from every financial transaction worldwide during the previous week, irrespective of currency or transaction type...
This CLEA seminar serves as the opening episode in a series of conversations aimed at actualising the vision outlined here: / love .
The postulate of unconditional, universal basic income has been advanced by so many prominent thinkers and rejected on so many different grounds-arguably, mostly psychological and metaphysical-that it may make little sense to simply debate the proposed scenario with every conceivable argument for and against. Instead, our conversation will adopt the vantage point of the year 2034, assuming that each statement in the above description is already a fact. Participants will be invited to contribute their elaborations and insights, focusing on how the implementation occurred and why it was possible.
SPEAKER:
Marta Lenartowicz holds a PhD in humanistic management with backgrounds in cognitive science, social epistemology, theory of language, and educational leadership. In addition to serving as the director of education she is currently involved in multiple CLEA's projects: the Education for Complexity research group (chair), the Human Energy Project (senior researcher), and the School of Thinking (instructor). She is interested in philosophy of cognitive science and in theoretical approaches to the evolution of intelligence, cognitive development, and distributed cognition. In her work she is seeking to advance the conceptual underpinnings that govern the evolution of intelligence in human cognitive systems at multiple scales.
SEMINAR SERIES:
CLEA seminars are taking place simultaneously at the VUB campus in Etterbeek, Brussels, and online (via Zoom) and are open to everyone interested. Read more at clea.research.vub.be/en
1 окт 2024
