The main fundamentalism is the return to image models, and thus, the refusal
of symbolic models. Symbolic models are based on extremely complex functions,
which are not easily maintained operational. For a 'regular' brain, the energy
consumption is higher for symbolic models than for image models. However,
there is a fraction of the population of developed countries working more
easily with symbolic models than with image models.
Example: There was a time in the evolution of the brain, when extremely
complex image models were built and translated to a symbolic form. It was the
time of the great novels (Balzac, Dostoievski etc.). Reading such works was a
sign of cultural superiority. These books are not read nowadays. The main
reason is the evolution towards symbolic models. The effort of the brain to
understand and integrate the use of remote controls, cellphones or text
editors is perfectly comparable as intellectual effort with the understanding
of the great works of universal literature.
There are too many who have difficulties to operate symbolic models. There is
a fraction of the population who refuses symbolic models; this fraction seems
to be increasing.
Example: Microprocessors (the central part of a computer) have been invented
in USA. At that time there was a tendency all over the world to produce or
reproduce such microprocessors. The first microprocessor was called 8080. It
was upgraded to 80286. These microprocessors were reproduced in Europe, former
USSR and Japan. 80386 followed, which was reproduced with great difficulties,
but starting with 80486 the tendency to reproduce such devices was extremely
low. Presently there are two families of microprocessors, both designed and
produced in USA. This is interpreted by MDT as a danger of a break between the
most advanced in the domain of symbolic models, and the slighly less advanced
ones (make your own comparison with the automobile industry). Even the
advanced cultural zones (Europe, Russia, Japan) make big efforts to keep the
contact with the most advanced (USA), but the danger of a break exists here as
well.
The fundamentalist reactions of the individuals, nations or even cultural
zones are a great danger for human civilisation. If the fraction of
fundamentalists will increase too much, then, at the limit, two things might
happen:
1. The world will fragment into nations/ cultural regions which can maintain
the rhythm of assimilation and development of symbolic models, and
nations/cultural regions which will return to image models (fundamentalist
reaction)