The concept of ‘serendipity’ is traditonally associated with ‘luck’, ‘chance’ or ‘good fortune’, but the reality paints a very different picture and facts suggest otherwise: serendipity is not ‘luck’—our ‘unused braincapacity’ turns out to be our greatest cognitive power. The idea that the unconscious is the internal ‘AI supercomputer’ of the human mind, offers a fascinating perspective. Our unconsciousness operates beneath the surface, outside of our conscious a...

This book is published in the context of the 25th anniversary of PLATO Business School in The Netherlands (PLATO NL). Reading this book you will find out that leadership is based on transactionality. In fact leadership, as a historical phenomenon, can only be methodologically interpreted by behavioral scientific explanations, and that is by taking into account sociogenetic and psychogenetic variables. This book is a historical-scientific treatise, primarily a reference work, but also very us...

In contemporary society there is a sense of control. Control by the existence of the digital society, whereby the outside world is controlled by digits. From behind a desk, at least always from behind a screen, man thinks he understands and guides the world. And indeed, major steps have been taken in many areas of research and people know a lot, can do a lot. But there is something strange going on. The control that one thinks to have is quasi-control.

This book is about the core of the socio...

The twenty-first century is unfolding as an era of remarkable acceleration and creativity. Humanity, once bound to the slow rhythms of nature and tradition, now moves in tune with the dynamic flow of algorithms and electric circuits.

These twelve essays explore the many dimensions of this transformation—the digital redefinition of identity, the psychological adaptation to technological progress, the evolution of labor and the ethical questions emerging from artificial intelligence and biote...

The debate on innate sources for morality continues – some argue for innate moral instincts, while others believe that morality is primarily shaped by social and cultural influence. The most powerful innate instinct is the individual survival instinct, which encapsulates the innate drive within living organisms to ensure their own survival. This belongs to man’s primal instincts and manifests itself in various ways, encompassing both physical and psychological responses to potential threa...