Russia Recognizes Darío Salas Sommer
 
The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN) and the Federal Duma (Congress) of Russia yesterday conferred an important honor on the Chilean writer and researcher Darío Salas Sommer for the creation of a new scientific discipline:  Moral PhysicsÔ, or Internal Ecology.
 
At the ceremony, which took place at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Santiago on the 9th of November Dr. Salas Sommer was inducted into the RAEN Academy as an international member.  At the same event, he also received the Ecomundo Prize, in the degree “Order of World Salvation.”
 
RAEN, Russia’s principal scientific organization and one of the most important such bodies in the world, is made up of prestigious researchers, including 22 Nobel Prize winners.

 
All the knowledge that the human being can access is fragmentary; our minds are fragmentary; our “I” is composed of infinite fragments, and our vision of reality is limited to one square inch of awareness.  We manage our little space well, but everything beyond it escapes us.  People do not understand each other because each person is defending his/her own little territory which remains disconnected from that total reality that we cannot access.  Could this “total reality” really only be reserved for the gods or for exceptionally evolved extraterrestrial beings?  The truth is that “totality” is always within our reach because we are part of it, but the imperfection of our instrument for understanding prevents us from seeing it.
Our cognitive capacity is overcome by functional disruptions that could become deadly, and so we consider only a miniscule space within reality. (continues…)

We live in a world in which the importance of human intelligence is exaggerated, believing that the more intelligent people are the better the world will be.  The current state of humanity does not seem to confirm this theory since hunger, war, poverty, depression, economic anxiety, stress, corruption, and catastrophic illnesses, are on the increase despite the rise in people’s intellectual level.
We have turned into “thinking machines,” but with conspicuous disadvantages when compared to computers, since computers are without emotions and are capable of objective analysis within the limits of their programs.  It is an undeniable fact that intelligence is at the service of our passions and as long this is so we have little hope of building a better world. (continues…)