Volume 5 Issue 6

This issue of CADMUS explores the profound transformations reshaping the world at a time of mounting global turbulence. The articles examine the interconnected challenges of geopolitical conflict, technological disruption, ecological degradation, economic inequality, and declining trust in institutions, while advancing integrated, human-centered approaches to building a more peaceful, sustainable... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract This article examines Dunhuang as an outstanding example of the protection and global significance of UNESCO World Heritage sites, emphasizing its historical role as a crossroads of civilizations along the Silk Road. Through the artistic, cultural, and documentary treasures of the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang illustrates centuries of exchange among China, Central Asia,... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The global polycrisis resists remedy because it is misdiagnosed. This paper argues it is not a collection of concurrent problems but the symptomatic expression of a single root condition: the Metacrisis, defined as the structural misalignment of modern Western civilization’s metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology with what is. Neo-Khaldunian Philosophy (NK) is a... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract This paper argues that any artificially intelligent system created by humans will be functionally a replica of the ideas, beliefs and values of the human beings who create it. It also argues that AI systems lack reflexive consciousness (qualia) and do not represent the full range of human intelligences—particularly missing direct emotional perception and knowing. 1... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Technology has always been a significant driver for human development. Development is a creative process stimulated by interactions between people with one another and with their environment. Instances in history have depicted that society progresses rapidly in circumstances where there is high interaction between people who live in close proximity. Social evolution... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract What distinguishes individuals and institutions that generate enduring human significance from others with comparable resources and opportunity? This article argues that the decisive factor is conscious integration: the alignment of values, awareness, organizational capability, and environmental responsibility across four inseparable dimensions of human life.... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Human development is governed by identifiable principles that recur across domains as diverse as agriculture, industry, politics, science, and culture. This article, the third in a series on the basic laws of development, examines five such principles. It begins with the evolution of individuality through physical, vital, mental, and spiritual stages; explores why... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Arthur C. Clarke’s legacy extends well beyond science fiction. As a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), Clarke embodied the transdisciplinary thinking that lies at the heart of the Academy’s founding vision: that humanity’s survival depends on aligning scientific power with ethical imagination. This article traces the intellectual convergence... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract This article explores the distinctive quality of human creativity by examining what machines cannot replicate: the fluid, embodied movement of ideas. Drawing on Douglas Hofstadter’s concept of “slippability”—the way human thoughts subtly shift and transform across conceptual dimensions—it argues that creativity is not a fixed mechanism but a living process shaped by... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The issue of global governance in the service of peace is extremely important in today’s uncertain, complex and unstable times. It requires thorough changes starting from the reform of global governance structures, further to establishing ministries of peace, introducing peace education in all schools and fostering peace rhetoric. Also, the balance between men and... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF “I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace.” – Albert Einstein1 Foreword Since its inception in the midst of the Cold War in 1960, the World Academy of Art and Science has been deeply concerned with controlling the rapid escalation of all forms of conflict and violence among communities, nations, and those... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The Human Exposome Project is an international, cross-disciplinary coalition of researchers, organizations and policymakers working to map the combined impact of environmental exposures on human health from conception to death. It builds on the insight that genetic information alone explains only a modest share of chronic disease risk, and that the greater burden is... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Phoebe Koundouri * Nikos Stasinopoulos†Maria Chourdaki‡Ioulia Kontopoulou§ Abstract This paper advances a framework for interpreting climate denial coining climate disavowal as an integrating approach for climate foresight anticipation. It argues that, particularly under conditions of data scarcity and the uncertainty of undefinable probabilities, the... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Earth-system degradation has pushed seven of nine planetary boundaries into overshoot, raising the question whether civilization can restore safe operating conditions in time. This paper offers a constructive answer turning on three converging forces: (a) capital willing to act with urgency; (b) the intelligence explosion visible in Large Language Models (LLMs),... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract The narrative offers an original conceptual framework and observations to help make sense of the current predicament in which the world finds itself. A once-in-a-lifetime change of eras is unfolding amid a return of war as a tool of choice, or of Belligerent Uncertainty—a concept introduced in the narrative—with existential challenges at the world’s doorstep,... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Edgar Morin is one of the most influential contemporary thinkers in the fields of complexity, interdisciplinarity, education, and sustainability. Throughout a career spanning more than eight decades, he has challenged reductionist paradigms and advocated a new way of understanding reality based on interdependence, uncertainty, and the integration of knowledge. This... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Paul Shrivastava*Cristina Elena Popa Tache* Abstract To address challenges of our polycrisis and resulting increase in conflicts, the article proposes a collaboration between law, society and transdisciplinarity, for the benefit of solving major problems of the planet. It offers a promising direction for normative evolution, and outlines four gaps that contribute to... Read more

Get Full Text in PDF Abstract* Cognitive empires represent a new form of imperial power: influence exercised not through territory or coercion but through the structuring of cognition itself. AI-enabled systems increasingly shape emotion and judgment from within, producing influence that scales rapidly, appears voluntary, and hardens into mass cognitive dependence. As the U.S.-China rivalry... Read more