Club of Rome Carnuntum: What is Man – and what does he actually imagine himself to be?

“What is Man – and what does he actually imagine himself to be?“
A flight of thought through the universe and our civilisation
Mag. Gerhard Falschlehner

The author of the book “Does the World Fit into a Grain of Sand?”, who lives in Wildungsmauer, takes us on a flight of thought through the universe: He guides us through the microcosm of quantum physics, the macrocosm of space and along the history of evolution from Homo sapiens to modern man with all his qualities and abysses.
Behind this lies a central idea:

We humans are part of a complex system – and not its centre.

This almost inevitably leads to a certain humility towards the world: Man is, on the one hand, a tiny, very late-emerging part of a complex event – on the other hand, the being that can recognise this event, reflect on it and possibly even influence its own future. From this, Gerhard Falschlehner formulates his questions:

• What is man?
• Where does the universe come from – and where is it going?
• What is life?
• Does the world fit into a grain of sand?

If we have understood where we come from and how complex and vulnerable our world is: How does that influence the way we want to live and do business?

About the book (it is available in bookstores and also at Kaufhaus Lindner in Wildungsmauer):
https://www.buchschmiede.at/app/book/308626-Gerhard-Falschlehner-Passt-die-Welt-in-ein-Sandkorn;bookType=PB

About the author: Gerhard Falschlehner is a science publicist and expert in reading, literature and media didactics. He was a visiting professor at the PH Niederösterreich, a lecturer at universities throughout Austria and in the EU, managing director of the Austrian Youth Book Club and “Bücherbühne Wien”. He is a laureate of “AusLese”, an award for international reading promotion.

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