The Center for Complexity Studies (CCS) will participate between August 1-8, 2025 at the 36th edition of Atlantykron, the youth educational summer academy held annually on a wild island in the Danube near Capidava, Romania. Since its inception in 1990, Atlantykron has offered a unique blend of science, art, sport, and culture, transforming a remote island into a vibrant hub of learning and creativity for ten days each summer. Hundreds of young people and educators from around the world gather here to interact with leading scientists, artists, writers, and professionals, making it a truly magical and transformative experience.

This Year’s Theme: The Universe Beyond Tomorrow

The 2025 edition of Atlantykron is themed “The Universe Beyond Tomorrow,” inviting participants to imagine and shape the future through interdisciplinary exploration. The CCS team will contribute to this vision by focusing on the concept of singularity, presenting a series of conferences, workshops, and open-air philosophy sessions designed to inspire reflection and dialogue.

Delving into Singularity

Conference: The World Beyond Singularity. From Homo Sapiens to Homo Universalis

Speaker: Dr. Florin Munteanu, Honorary President of CCS, member of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, and the Academy of Scientists of Romania.

Introduction: Anca Berlo, philosophy practitioner with CCS, will introduce the singularity from an ontological and historical perspective, exploring how individual consciousness can become an ontological micro-singularity.

Format: The session will blend philosophical reflection with insights from complexity science, inviting participants to envision a world where humans are not just observers but active creators of reality.

Insight: How would a world look where Information is the very fabric of Reality? Where Matter becomes reversible, Identity a fluid network, and Meaning—a living, generative principle? A world in which humans learn to be not just witnesses and users, but living creators of Reality?

After years of exploring complexity science, reflexive consciousness, and the challenges of technological Singularity at Atlantykron, we propose to open a new window together: The World Beyond Singularity.

This is not a distant future from a science fiction novel, but a metamorphosis of being that is taking shape right now, on the threshold of an era where Homo Sapiens is “called” to become Homo Universalis.

We will explore: consciousness as an integrated ontological environment; information as the creative flow of Reality; matter as a meta-form of Consciousness; identity as a network, not a center; meaning as an act of ontological creation. This is an invitation to dialogue and reflection—for all those who dream, think, and build the world of tomorrow.

Conference: Complexity and Spirituality

Speaker: Emil Zaharia-Kézdi, Development Director at Millennium Institute and Executive Director of CCS.

Focus: This conference addresses the accelerating pace of change in both society and the individual, the exponential growth of information, and the fragmentation of knowledge. It explores the crisis at the intersection of meaning, spiritual experience, and the limits of human understanding, while highlighting the role of complexity science in integrating rational and sensitive aspects of the human mind.

Insight: Changes around us, as well as those within us, have accelerated to an unbearable level without a constant attitude of adaptability. Humans can no longer keep up with the exponential growth of information and the continuous proliferation of disciplines and specialized vocabularies. As a result, we no longer find ourselves in our vocation as microcosmos—beings called to unify and transfigure all of creation through our contemplation. We are facing a profound crisis at the intersection of the search for meaning, spiritual experience, and the limits of human knowledge. Some spiritual leaders describe this crisis as a “theological exhaustion.”

However, these are not the only trends in society. Alongside these discouraging tendencies, there are also encouraging efforts aimed at defragmenting the mind of society and integrating the rational and sensitive sides of the human being. We invite you to explore the contribution of complexity science in these efforts to defragment the mind and recover from our theological exhaustion.

Open-Air Philosophy Cafés

For three days, CCS will host a series of Philosophy Cafés in the open air, facilitated by Anca Berlo. Inspired by the Socratic tradition, these gatherings will encourage participants to reflect on essential questions such as “What does it mean to be good?”, “What is time?”, “How do we know what we know?” and other topics of interest to the participants. Through group dialogue and critical thinking exercises, our aim will be to cultivate the joy of thinking together as part of a vibrant, attentive community of inquiry.

Workshop: Navigating the Unknown with Artificial Intelligence

CCS will also organize a hands-on workshop titled “Navigating the Unknown Using Artificial Intelligence.” Over three days, participants will:

• Day 1: Learn to interrogate texts using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques.

• Day 2: Practice effective dialogue with AI for educational purposes.

• Day 3: Synthesize and build coherent knowledge maps from fragmented information.

The workshop is designed to equip participants with the skills to navigate uncertainty and foster personal evolution in an ever-changing world.

Join Us at Atlantykron

We invite all interested youth and educators to join us for this extraordinary journey of discovery and transformation. To sign up and learn more about Atlantykron, please visit: https://atlantykron.org/2015/inscrieri/

We look forward to meeting you on the island and exploring the universe beyond tomorrow together!