Conservation of the Homo sapiens

The survival of the Wise

On the Cybernetics of education


An evolutionary third-order Cybernetic perspective of the education for
sustainable development


On the survival of species by means of Cybernetic selection
Gihan S. Soliman, PGCE









International-Curricula Educators Association
gihansami@yahoo.com

Registration number 2846788111/3/2014 UK Copyright Registration Service
First edition: Black & White: ISBN 9781497592254
Second edition: Colour: ISBN 9781499129243






Abstract:

Cybernetics is a human phenomenon! It is about the unique ability of human beings to ob-
serve, conceptualise and/or simulate self-regulatory systems. This is a theoretical propae-
deutic framework exploring the Cybernetics of education in an evolutionary perspective;
that is an examination of education as a closed system in relation to Cornings Holistic
Darwinism and the call for synergism, in addition to a recent scientific finding related to
the structure of the human brain. The paper goes briefly through the theories and pri nci-
ples dominant in the field of education and their praxis, in a cybernetic perspective, corre-
spondent to the cyclic nature of life equilibrium on earth to show how education has
shaped our human identity. The book provides evidence that the human needs go in a cy-
cle rather than the traditional hierarchy, and proposes a solution for the identity crisis in the
third order cybernetics, in addition to drafting some Cybernetic sketches of information is-
sues that might be of a significant impact on the viability of our life system(s).

The Conservation of Homo sapiens is a call for self-awareness and the communication of
a duality of values underlying the Kin discrimination and influencing the inclusive fitness of
our species. It is on the survival of our species by means of Cybernetic selection.

This perspective visits three domains of knowledge: Education, behavioural biology and
Cybernetics - although Cybernetics is not exactly an academia aiming at facilitating rec-
onciliation over the human identity torn between biological and social sciences.
In this book, I take my position from the Natural Selection paradigm with a focus on infor-
mation and communication.

The book includes an appeal to the IUCN conservation specialists to either set Homo sa-
piens on the top of their list of endangered species as a social group with insufficient so-
cial instincts or otherwise to set our kind apart as a unique socio-physio-biological king-
dom based on our cybernetic phylogeny and a new scientific finding related to the struc-
ture of the human brain and evident in the gap of civilisation between human beings and
everybody else on the planet.

A list of preliminary definitions has been provided to facilitate understanding for non-
specialists readers and cross-speciality reading.