Environmental problems have contributed to numerous collapses of civilizations in the past. Now, for the first time, a global collapse appears likely. Overpopulation, overconsumption by the rich and poor choices of technologies are major drivers; dramatic cultural change provides the main hope of averting calamity.

The Fermi paradox highlights the dichotomy between the lack of physical contact with other civilizations and the expectation that technological civilizations are assumed likely to evolve in many locations in the Milky Way galaxy, given the large number of planetary systems within this galaxy. Work by Landis and others has modeled this question in terms of percolation theory and cellular automat...

The research paper deals with the subject of psychological aspect in dialogue civilizations terms types personalities and their effects a preface that regulates search to define clarify what is meant by both linguistically terminologically. Then, researcher tackles two topics, first about analysis patterns interlocutors rules for dealing them which subsume requirements, second these civilized d...

Abstract The principle of monocentrism in building a picture the social world is opposed to polycentrism. Certain trends substantiating monocentrism, on one hand, and polycentrism, other, are considered. justification universalism—of man, human consciousness, history. In anthropology, polycentrism based idea sociocultural conditioning while philosophy history, it concept history as development ...

In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington argued that the primary axis of global conflict was no longer ideological or economic but cultural and religious, and that this division would characterize the “battle lines of the future.” In contrast to the "top down" approach in previous research focused on the relations among nation states, we focused on the flows of interpersonal communicati...