Social Ontology and the Principle of Relevance. Nayden Nikolov, PH.D.

Social Ontology and the
Principle of Relevance
NAYDEN NIKOLOV, PH.D.
SU “SV. KLIMENT OHRIDSKI”
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
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The Arctic
This presentation is dedicated to Arctica. The slides will help
you ‘dive into’ the breathtaking nature and wildlife of this
mesmerizing place. Alongside these views you will also be
presented with the key points of the dissertation in hand.
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Key Scientific Discoveries and
Achievements
Devised in 2 categories:
► 1st category - status of scientific discoveries, which have
revolutionary “nonlinear” nature and are unique and
authentic within the history of science.
► 2nd category - scientific achievements of “evolutionary”
nature, which upgrade scientific models, that are
present in the history of science.
► We can summarize all the findings in six major points –
the first four with the status of scientific discoveries, and
the latter two with the status of achievements.
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1st “Uncovering the mystery of the origin
of Homo sapiens sapiens.
The answer to some of the most important questions in the
history of humanity:
► “What are the practical and the historical mechanisms of
the transition to a new human species – the Homo
sapiens sapiens?”,
► “What is the difference between Homo sapiens sapiens
and the other human species which did not complete
this transition?”.
► In other words, “Revelation of the mystery of the origin of
Homo sapiens sapiens”.
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 The answer, postulated in my research, is concise and
simple: the introduction of strict control over sexuality,
along with the rigidness of a universal main codex, from the
adherence to which, depends the existence of the people
in the community.
 This is a system of rules for the things that are forbidden and
for those that are favored in the sexual and family relations
in the primitive community.
 The prohibition forbids sexual relations with individuals of the
same kin and totem, and favors bonding with
representatives of an outside kin and totem – this leads to
the first unique human community, quantitatively and
qualitatively different from the biological pack – kin
association.
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► The biological evolution is interrupted and under social
and human control. The mechanism of natural
selection is transformed into a social and communal
process.
► Significant biological, genetic and mental adaptive
strategies, which reflect the birth of a new biological
species in the Hominidae family – Homo sapiens
sapiens, has taken place.
► This process developed between 240 and 50 thousand
years, back in time, alongside with the transitional
stage in the development and affirmation of Homo
sapiens sapiens as a new human species.
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2nd The formulation of 6 main
characteristics, which serve as criterion
for the establishment of a new quality of the
current human society and its representatives:
 These characteristics are principles for the successful
realization of the transition towards Homo sapiens
sapiens and its new form of society:
1) The unique and yet universal for all human kind
presence of a latent period in the development of
sexuality;
2) The universal prohibition of incest, both for ones’ own
kin and totem, and for ones’ closest relatives;
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2nd Six main characteristics:
3) Universal form of targeted support and care for the
values, language, and social development of the
new representatives of a certain human culture,
through which their consciousness acquires social
nature and they are integrated and develop in the
community;
4) Universal presence of rites of passage ( a form of
“second birth”) from puberty to legitimate sexual and
social maturity;
5) Universal presence of Codex and a system of norms
and limits for socially favored behaviors, as well as one
for behaviours that are oppressed and socially
unacceptable;
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6) Universal presence of specific social, psychic and
genetic pathologies, distinctive only for Homo sapiens
sapiens. As well as biological and genetic changes,
that “scarred” the adaptation of the human
individuals to the “pressure” of the social ontology.
2nd Six main characteristics:
► These six key criteria are also useful for evaluation of
the tendencies for progress and regress in the
framework of the basic and secondary value-driven
anthropological model of the specific communal
forms.
► They can serve as a “prototype form” of research of
the tendencies and laws of the social ontology.
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3rd The discovery explaining the origins
of the latency phase in sexual
development during adolescence.
 The latency phase does not have biological origins, but
it is rather a product of introduced practices of social
control, which directly regulates youths’ sexuality in the
kin associations and tribal communities, and make their
social and biological reproduction less conflictive.
 This social control of sexuality decreases the energy
used in the conflict with the “alpha” in the tribe and
with the kin elite.
 The necessity to kill or banish sexually active young
members of the community decreases. Their active
sexual role may have destructive impact for the
accepted totem rules and lead to biological crisis in the
communal reproduction.
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 It is likely that a positive norm of balance, between the
two factors, has formed and historically affirmed itself.
 If such control over sex and the latent phase was
absent, the pubescence will be ending around six or
seven years of age.
 The current research has defined these practices, as
well as the action of the Codex, which regulated the
rules for sexual communication and marriage, as “The
principle of putting the individual biological existence
under social control”.
3rd The latent phase in adolescence:
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 The present analysis explains rituals of male and female
castration, of male or female circumcision and other
ritual activities, linked with the genitalia of the young
human individuals and the whole attitude towards their
sexuality that previously has been “pushed away” from
the rational human thinking and realization.
 Circumcision and castration are both real and
symbolic “social symbols” of the notion that an
individuals’ sex and sexual organs are under social
control – the control of the kin community. They are
sacrificed so that the community can continue its
existence and so that the rules of Codex are
reaffirmed.
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 In a similar way, but on a higher symbolic level, we can
perceive the “vow of celibacy”, and how it serves a set
of greater social purposes such as “symbolic” individual
“castration”, deprivation of personal, sexual motivation,
biological fulfillment, and realization, in the name of the
communal values.
 Sacrificing what is personally valuable for a persons’
biological being in the name of a higher purpose, in the
social ontology, social meaning.
 The phenomenon of human sacrifices is of similar nature
since it incorporates affirmed and universal practices
that can be found in culturally unrelated communal
identities.
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 They are executed until the “Abrahamic complex” –
representing an act of mercy towards the sacrifice of
human life, which is symbolically replaced by the
sacrifice of an animal.
 The scientific and the social meaning of these two
components should be distinguished. On a biological
and psychic level we are talking about a necrophilic
tendency and trauma, but on a social ontology level – it
is a biophilic tendency for affirmation of the community.
 This is the main problem with the psychic development of
Homo sapiens sapiens – it is at the expense of necrophilic
behavior and psychic tendency; controlled aggression
towards the members of the same kin; heavy psychic
traumatology, which as we will find out later, is inherited.
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4th The “socially –encephalic
– genetic spiral” of development.
 Changes are inherited not only in the form of
achievements of the development through training,
learning and long-term memory, but also on a
biological and genetic level - improvement of
structures and processes in the brain with parallel
changes in the overall human biology that are
genetically inherited.
 Changes of the social matter are highly important.
 This is the main point behind “social ontology” as a
priority in the human development, unlike the
biological evolution which is linked to the mechanism,
“biological adaptation – natural selection – genetic
changes”.
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4th The “socially –encephalic – genetic
spiral” of development.
 The major biological and genetic changes which take
place, because of the dominance of the social
ontology’s factors, are of two kinds:
 the first – improvement to a new level of encephalic,
biological, and adaptive processes, which were part of
the development of the hominids and the genus Homo,
for several million years of evolution and
 the second - unique changes, specific only to Homo
sapiens
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The first category includes:
 Lowering of the larynx and development of the brain
centers for speech.
 Increase in the brain’s volume, the plasticity of the neural
and synaptic network, and complication of the brain
structures and genesis of new ones.
 Hemispheric differentiation and differentiation of a
dominant hand, for which genetic changes take place.
The second category includes:
► Existence of speech disturbances and their genetic
foundation. Development of language, social and
emotional memory.
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 Development of the frontal lobe and the prefrontal cortex
– ability for social behavior complied with social rules and
values, development of the person’s individuality and
autonomous decision making.
 Existence of specific, only for Homo sapiens sapiens,
genetic, neurologic and psychic pathologies.
 Sex differentiation of the traumatology and psychic
pathology following the sex division in the execution of the
adaptive strategies in the era of “hunting and gathering”
and “warfare” and the eras after that.
 Genesis of the latency period in the sexual development
of the young individuals and its inheritance.
4th The “socially –encephalic –
genetic spiral” of development.
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The genetically inherited traumatology of males:
 The primary source of these traumatic tendencies, especially in
males, can be found in the phenomena of the primal social
origins and their role in the development of adaptive strategies of
“Hunters and gatherers” and of “Warfare” in the ages after that.
 This realization will provide new scientific approach for the
adequate upbringing of children and for relevant social and
therapeutic approach, which targets these pathologic
tendencies.
 The research of Corpus Collosum has established problems in its
development in males who have a tendency to experience
anxiety, low empathy, low control of impulsivity and higher rates
of experience of fear and aggressive readiness.
 Thus, in the language of psychology, boys need more love and
care while they are growing up.
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5th The innovative scientific methodology
which involves two elements: social
ontology and the principle of relevance.
 The ideas of social ontology (as a concept) and the
principle of relevance (as a method) were created, in the
hope that they would be able to utilise the integration of
previously conflicting views and concepts of different
social, humanities and natural sciences.
 The personal scientific motive and main thesis of the current
dissertation is to illustrate that social and cognitive
psychology, along with anthropology, sociology, political
and cultural studies are indeed no less objective and
positive than disciplines such as mathematics, statistics,
physics, astronomy, medicine, genetics and biology.
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Tendencies towards committing a fundamental error:
► The main problem, discovered and analysed in social and
humanitarian sciences, was the significantly greater chance
for socio-mental "distortions" and a tendency towards
unconscious anthropocentric attitude of researchers and
scientific elites who may fall victim of the trend towards
"fundamental error" and reach a kind of fundamentalism or
ideology.
 In this dissertation research, this largely unconscious attitude
was formulated the strive to implement and logically
extrapolate the value-principles that constitute the social
order of a community identity onto the representatives of
other communities outside its borders and natural cultural
horizon.
5th Social ontology and
the principle of relevance.
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► In Social Ontology the principle that “the scale creates the
phenomenon” (Eliade, 1945,1995) has to be followed. Hence, it
should be mentioned that when analyzing different psycho-social
and hierarchical directions one has to take into consideration the
different levels social ontology. These levels being the following:
1) personal and interpersonal
2) of social groups and social categories
3) of social nations
4) of mega national formations
 It is expected that each of these levels would have a different main
criteria for grouping or in the case of more complex social groupings – a
different system of interrelated criteria.
 If we look back in history, it can be claimed that an example of such
criteria are the historical forms of societal identity in social ontology.
Examples of these can be community- family associations, tribal
associations, ethnic and inter-ethnic associations, national and
supranational associations and civilizational association.
5th Social ontology and the principle
of relevance.
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This is the point where one should consider the principle of relevance in
research.
► It will help the researcher reconstruct and emphatically
understand social identity, whilst being relevant to the
boarders of the cultural horizon of events.
► The principle of relevance will be an aid to the research in
order to objectively overcome the natural tendency to lean
towards one’s own anthropocentricity and commit a
fundamental error.
 Еthe evolutionary ethics and regulations demand a
imperative of the scientist: “I understand and I empathise, but
I do not approve or react.” –during the cultural interaction an
evolutionary regression and necrophilia are present.
5th Social ontology and the
principle of relevance.
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6th The formulation of the main
principles of social ontology.
On the bases of the shared data in the dissertation which
outlined the main historical types of community identity, it is
possible to pinpoint a number of principles of social
ontology. These are the following:
► It is not possible to turn back in time in history.
► Each dynamic process of social progress or regression maintains
a “critical point” and historical boundaries as phenomena of
social ontology.
► Social evolution and social ontology have inner dynamic and
authentic mechanism for progression. There is no “miracle”,
higher power or external "engine" for their improvement and
development are witnessed.
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The most important historical processes that occur in social
evolution are integration and globalization.
► Integration, on a higher evolutionary level on social
ontology and community identity, globalizes community to
the point where it becomes the foreground for cultural and
civilizational horizon of events.
► Through innovation in social communication the increased
inner integration opens up the horizon for an increase in
outer integration, which includes recent “enemies” and
“opponents”.
► The "history" of their relations, the dynamics of inclusion and
exclusion of integration and isolation, showed a positive
trend.
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Another mechanism is repeatedly noted in studying these critical
transformative periods of transition to evolution and innovation, namely
- “alternative evolution".
► If, for any reason, some of the historic community forms can not
realize these trends of integration and globalization, this happens in
parallel with another historical moment or, rather, by other forms.
► When we observe regression and dominance of the necrophilia
trend, we can witness a lack of development internally or externally,
and in parallel to this, another isolated and unrelated cultural
civilizational area proceeds its constructive social processes of
dominant character that implement quality and innovative change.
Hence, in a broader social context evolution continues. A change of
domination and leadership occurs until the next cycle of historical
challenges happens.
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As Al Gore has said: “What we do now can have an impact in the
next 1000 years.”
► The tendency towards necrophilia, observed among the human
civilization and currently threatening the outcomes of a 4,1 million
old evolutionary process, demands that the scientist not only
analyse the roots of this tendency, but also offer alternative ways
for development that overcome the archaic psychological and
genetic fixations and traumatology that is propose.
► This is the focal point of today's conflict on a civilization level -
trends of biophillic nature or tendencies of necrophilic character,
mechanical continuation in time of the trend of the "victim" or
biophillic transformation and validation of the value
anthropological model of civilization of "The development and
responsibility ".
The solution: biophillic
transformation of civilization in
’Development and Responsibility’.
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It’s up to us whether or not the
Arctic is left with no ice and no
wildlife.
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Copyright: Nayden Nikolov, PhD, 30.09.2016
All Right Reserve.
Credits for images: https://photodune.net
Large Arctic iceberg with a cavity inside
goinyk
A break in the clouds derating a rainbow over the grassy tundra of Northern Iceland
Corepics
Sea ice on Arctica
raldi
blue iceberg floating in Alaska
porbital
Arctic Tern standing near her nest protecting her egg from predators
Curioso Travel Photography
Pure snow formation cold arctic winter weather conditions
Anterovium
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Walruses lying on the shore in Svalbard, Norway
muhaa
Reindeer in arctic summer
muhaa
Arctic Region Map
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Arctic white wolf
Curioso Travel Photography
Large Arctic iceberg
goinyk
Arctic tundra from air
georgeburba
Polar bear, King of the Arctic
buchachon
Arctic cloudscape
Harvepino
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Arctic landscape
Rumoso
Arctic Iceberg
tukuchina
Arctic
Rumoso
Glacial block of ice close up
j-wildman
Ice hanging from an edge of an iceberg
raldi
Winter ice landscape
destillat
Iceberg
raldi
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Ice hanging from an edge of an iceberg
raldi
A mountain landscape filled with snow, Svalbard, Norway
SimpleFoto
Sea ice on Arctica
raldi
Arctic desert
Kamenetskiy
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