tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11488943658320517452024-03-13T15:09:29.574+00:00SHAPE BlogA blog by Jim Schofield on Science, Holism, Abstraction, Physics and EmergenceE Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.comBlogger732125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-6946580880791215872023-07-12T13:43:00.005+01:002023-07-12T13:43:50.047+01:00Audio Issue 3 - Understanding Change<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/a03home.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="762" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggZ3MyaX0JeX72xcN-hMzGZJ79_8sZAj7JAoB_dnqhXl3aBxxOpykJAkOwJUlSAVTBYv-y4q98p2ea68n-9PJopkYVTtiewmGd1K266NMbpc0-nCYxWmVjZVYcjOte2wfnrett2cjcCRwMumNglpEW3uOnDszoyIIQexduxrPz5T57Vjt_oQf3fnSaVAA/w453-h640/aissue03.jpg" width="453" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/a03home.html" target="_blank">Audio Issue 3 of the SHAPE Journal</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>This selection of tapes looks at how we try and understand the dynamics of change. Science fails to understand change in any meaningful way. It can analyse quantitative change well enough, but how things emerge and evolve is much less well understood. Jim Schofield’s latest philosophical research attempts to address qualitative change, and begins to devise new experimental approaches and methods for capturing and understanding these crucial changes as they happen.<br /><br />Start by watching the video below, in which I interview Jim about his new research, and the change in direction and focus that it represents. Below that you will find three raw recordings of Jim's recent tapes, in which the new theory is being currently developed. <div><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="438" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pSW1RdvtOuE" width="527" youtube-src-id="pSW1RdvtOuE"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-64422584299301680622023-03-21T12:54:00.007+00:002023-03-21T12:54:51.195+00:00Audio Issue 2 - Impossibility Space<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/images/aissue02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="565" height="640" src="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/images/aissue02.jpg" width="453" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/a02home.html" target="_blank">Audio Issue 2 of SHAPE Journal </a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>This edition collects together several recent recordings by Jim Schofield on the philosophy of science, continuing his recent questioning of the nature of reality and how we study it. <div><br />The main hypothesis presented here is that reality is somehow organised into emergent levels. We cannot predict when a new level will emerge, and we can't understand what it is and how it works, merely by studying the levels below it (reductionism). This is because a new level actually changes the levels below, creating new subordinate levels that make up its key components and contentions. <br /><br />In this new work Jim Schofield moves away from looking at levels in terms of scale and physical spaces (the vast difference between sub-atomic physics and human biology, for example) and instead reimagines levels as possibility spaces.<br /><br />The discussion draws on Buddhist philosophy, Dialectical Materialism, Mathematics and Evolution. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="407" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9uTOBLQbWT0" width="489" youtube-src-id="9uTOBLQbWT0"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-71075051444362201702023-02-09T10:47:00.002+00:002023-02-09T10:47:17.650+00:00The first Audio Issue of the SHAPE Journal - The Nature of Reality<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/a01home.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="762" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU5CG341Hc_7FMospjnVxAdGCePJXrUOaOfPT1Nj_ukd-7JT0lzILazOEqgc80_lHHnMgBelX3incZGZOM0_-zTD72RnM3u313gcEjUDiIuUsSBtrVtiUSzgXIv1rkH0AmZUmsbGOPV_ONygd0YHb2gbKl1m99SIbEZIAMH7_zJdKSOT7X07resPIw/w453-h640/aissue01.jpg" width="453" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/a01home.html" target="_blank">Audio Issue 1 - The Nature of Reality</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This is the first Audio Issue of the SHAPE Journal. This new form of publishing will feature podcast-like content alongside lectures, videos and some written-word content, transcribed from audio recordings.<em></em><br /><br />Philosopher Jim Schofield's eyesight has deteriorated rapidly in the last year, making traditional writing and editing impossible for him. This new format for the journal should allow him to continue working and communicating his ideas via this website. <br /><br />It is also an opportunity to investigate new ways of disseminating content and finding new audiences for the work. Some of our most successful outputs have been YouTube videos in the past, and this shift will place focus on that kind of content over traditional academic papers. <br /><br />In the first of these new editions Jim Schofield goes back to basics, looking at how previous work on the Substrate Theory of Subatomic Physics and the recent series on Systems Theory might affect how we see the nature of reality...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Use the link above to access the full issue. You can also listen to the main discussion on YouTube:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PqTKapvojLw" width="560" youtube-src-id="PqTKapvojLw"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-48116833209792075682022-11-18T14:45:00.000+00:002022-11-18T14:45:02.658+00:00A Revolutionary Understanding<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioDCG7Koskt59uh9LtWjwS7BiipuUAErPr7w_ifV_RJnf20uDvv0iioarJ--MgEDM5cSmFu5FZpmXqovaodzi2_A7PkbZUlYU9MlarbAfDn7fEIBUMAL6n5g-jYG4QyMfP6uycXcrGrSZTTuqLu6uwKR7iQzDLGlsIu4RvnmOwgDucs4LRcO3c9U-2/s3000/c8dd108c0dda02e18f76e373039555c6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="3000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioDCG7Koskt59uh9LtWjwS7BiipuUAErPr7w_ifV_RJnf20uDvv0iioarJ--MgEDM5cSmFu5FZpmXqovaodzi2_A7PkbZUlYU9MlarbAfDn7fEIBUMAL6n5g-jYG4QyMfP6uycXcrGrSZTTuqLu6uwKR7iQzDLGlsIu4RvnmOwgDucs4LRcO3c9U-2/w640-h360/c8dd108c0dda02e18f76e373039555c6.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br />Lenin was very critical of Positivism</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The major Wrong Turning at the beginning of the 20th Century within Physics (and then the other Sciences), was undoubtedly that taken by the Positivists, who were troubled by the increasing number of solely Empirical Laws arising within Modern Physics, which seemingly had no evident Physical Causes naturally available - as had always been the case with the usually historically-sought Causal laws. The advantage with those Prior Laws, was that they could be related to the involved componentsí Natural Properties, that also clearly held sway all the way from the Atomic & Molecular Level, to their performances in Bulk at a higher Level of Reality. So, in addition to any purely Quantitative Relations extracted, there was also always this Qualitative Information: so, together, they married Quantity & Quality into two-sided, Meaningful Laws! </div><br />But, those New sort of relations, also emerging, though they involved similar numerical relations between certain evident variables, clearly DID NOT & COULD NOT ever relate these to any Qualitative relations, to, together, deliver meaningful Explanations of Real phenomena. <br /><br />Now, before we go any further, we simply must make absolutely clear that the now usually achieved Totally Separate Quantitative & Qualitative Equations as such delivered NO PERFECT standard to mutually relate to! And, this inadequacy became a far more general attitude to behaviours well outside The Sciences too! <br /><br />Once accepted as legitimate, ALL LAWS covering much wider areas of Reality also were acceptable as mere Quantative Relations having NO Qualitative Explanations! <br /><br />And this was highly dangerous, for what effects they produced were seemingly Unknowable! <br /><br />And they were only finally possible as Mankind developed the means to largely Control Limited Areas of Reality, extremely effectively, and, thereafter maintain that situation throughout subsequent variations within the Main Components, that would have to be clearly associated with certain actually consequent changes: and if these were then extracted as Laws they could effectively be used - BUT ONLY in Artificial Tightly-Controlled Production Methods. <br /><br />That became their primary motivation! <br /><br />For more genereally evident Quantitative & Qualitatative Relations were NOT there simultaneously available! And so NO Explanations were possible <br /><br />You would imagine that the growth of The Sciences would simultaneously greatly enable Mankind in Explaining their World: BUT the Pluralist limitations caused by those tightly restricted conditions made it so the relations that they were limited to DID NOT reflect Reality-as-is, and was linked to Numeric Values rather than Explanations! And, it, inexhorably, began to move Human Society from merely taking Reality, exactly AS IT IS, to instead having to be able to direct, small parts of it into very useful chosen (and more-and-more-often), Entirely New Directions. <div><br /></div><div>The age of advanced technology effectively killed Science. <br /><br />It wasnít so much a Revelation of Reality-as-is, as it was a ìNew Extracted and Totally-Controllable More-Limited Versionî, capable of empowering the Manufacture (but NOT the Understanding) of useful, artificially extracted & Transformed Additions - both as clean & unadulterated, as were most of the wholly Natural & Different Productions, independent of Man, within Reality-as-is! <br /><br />Indeed, the New approach embodied a Veritable Revolution in the Capabilities and the assumptions of Mankind in order to achieve ONLY that & no other. But, it also originally explained Absolutely Nothing! For, it was situated only within a Parallel Artificial Domain, which was initially, at best, much more useful than it was informative. <br /><br />But, Mankind saw, at least, the possibility of it delivering a great deal more, if, and only if, it could be married to its evident Properties with roughly-appreciated from already-known (for many Natural Phenomena) and their inter-relationships. But the two were only separately known. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjES2bBJPBTLrpolacd-6zoyLY-soBGrzHYSJHVd7MwDSJWnNJB5r6lsg1RR0RmnC53DnZYrh4CO9Hyu8Lwu3ADOX2yd_GFVO4nUKZzFAoI6C64cIloccRlT3EAQn5srm82AQow2S95PPI-qVbCbFCThWdxcBef7WtiXhI6LvCzEJKM4aWF6D7qOGY2/s2000/header_essay-sputnik_00107217_hr_en.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1252" data-original-width="2000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjES2bBJPBTLrpolacd-6zoyLY-soBGrzHYSJHVd7MwDSJWnNJB5r6lsg1RR0RmnC53DnZYrh4CO9Hyu8Lwu3ADOX2yd_GFVO4nUKZzFAoI6C64cIloccRlT3EAQn5srm82AQow2S95PPI-qVbCbFCThWdxcBef7WtiXhI6LvCzEJKM4aWF6D7qOGY2/w640-h400/header_essay-sputnik_00107217_hr_en.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Of course, these ideas emerged as such, ONLY within the Working People of Society: for NO progress could possibly be made by those who didnít actually DO any such work! So, the initial gains were always made by the Artisans and their descendent Engineers and Experimentalists - the most skilled pragmatic workers in Society - whose knowledge of making things was Wholly Pragmatic, rather than Explanatory. <br /><br />Now, simultaneously with these crucial developments, a very different Social Class had politically taken control of their individual Localities, (often by Force), and, thereafter, convinced the Populations which they now controlled, that they alone were ALSO both Capable Defenders of their now-subsevient charges, and were also absolutely necessary to stop even-worse-others (from elsewhere) taking away all that was now being achieved, and doing it by viscious-looting Force, and even killing any who got in their way, when they thought it necessary. <br /><br />Now, such consequent internal social divisions, were never conducive to the increasing requirement for a real Understanding of what was currently actually being both pursued & achieved, and, by which the overall Level of Understanding AND Achievement could be extended. <br /><br />Somehow, the false paths, and even the consequent wrong conclusions imposed by all the participators within so far experienced History, just had to be somehow transcended, if the many usual prematurely-terminated outcomes were to be avoided. <br /><br />But, it, unavoidably, had to eliminate the usual consequences of a very poorly understood, and consequently always deteriorating situation, especially as the Ruling Classes (and their many privileged hangers-on), constantly used their limited Control to actually prevent the Real-if-hidden Truth being both considered and then developed effectively! <br /><br />How are we to convince ordinary people of the Real Truth of the situation, when as individuals it will always be impossible, within such a situation, where every usual means of informing them, of what is possible, has been well-and-truly tightly controlled for centuries, if not actually millennia, by the Ruling Classís generally agreed self-centered means of dealing with all such features, while ALWAYS maintaining their CONTROL! <br /><br /><div>The consequently-developed route unavoidably-achieved, came to be via Wholly New Political Parties, along with Jointly-agreed actions, based solely upon their Own Class! But, those benefitting mostly from the current situations, would, in any Generally-Precipitated Crisis Situation, always turn to the much wilder, more direct Forms of Repression, such as Fascism & even naked Military Control of Society. <br /><br />So, the best hope surely now, has to be to equip the Real Class Forces of Change to take maximum advantage of the Coming Inevitable Terminal Crises, by knowlegibly revealing the predictable Result, if the Forces of Reaction within the battle for The Minds AND The Forces necessary to impose their preferred outcome. As always, a union of The Working class Youth and the latest Marxist Theory - as spelled out, for exanple, in this Major Series of Essays, can be the only salvation. <br /><br />But beware of false Prophets! <br /><br />It is also very clear that the Stance fought for in these papers is neither complete, nor does it have sufficient Forces to achieve the Necessary Objective of providing what will be needed, to direct that Assault! Alliances with currently existing and tolerated organisations clearly presently, does the Very Opposite, and ALWAYS also undermines the only valid means of understanding the current Headlong Deterioration! <br /><br />It IS NEVER mere Organisation that will equip the Necessary Forces of Social Revolution, BUT ONLY a genuine UNDERSTANDING of what drives such situations. <br /><br />Not Alliances, but Understanding! </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX36cGQYa2nF8qNfr8TTbxMXYHGhS883TIIgvD2dHy0Jcnm2hmSEXJODt9PR2OfBORG-NnXDa8YouOnOleUdfWIA56EJ78sV3Mes2VBosqvBzqwP-cuRKYycraTPJmMs1OrlG_hf1M4QELa29UMYdykfdW4WNJ7478q5OJPnsruLwaZlcJP3HmnIfl/s1200/alliance-of-left.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX36cGQYa2nF8qNfr8TTbxMXYHGhS883TIIgvD2dHy0Jcnm2hmSEXJODt9PR2OfBORG-NnXDa8YouOnOleUdfWIA56EJ78sV3Mes2VBosqvBzqwP-cuRKYycraTPJmMs1OrlG_hf1M4QELa29UMYdykfdW4WNJ7478q5OJPnsruLwaZlcJP3HmnIfl/w640-h426/alliance-of-left.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And, currently, absolutely NONE of the current Claimed-to-be Left Parties have added significantly to the contributions of Karl Marx - the unavoidable limitations of a philosophic stance initially derived almost 200 years ago, will NEVER be sufficient to address TODAY! <br /><br />That is why this research was begun, some 16 years ago, following an active participation in literally ALL the Parties of the LEFT, but also an increasingly a commitment to the essential Development of Marxism via the Sole attempt at a Dialectical Critique of both Social Development, and its inevitable Turning Points within Social Revolution. <br /><br />BUT, and it turns out to be a very big <i>BUT</i>: the necessity of Theory involved which can NEVER EVER be developed by a single individual! It is far too big a risk to be the work of only a single contribution, as was clearly proved by the example of Marx himself! <br /><br />Though the gains I have been able to contribute, have at least been significant, they have been so in spite of over 60 years commitment, which has NEVER been sufficient! And, in spite of my most productive contributions being in the last 16 years, amounting to over 1,600 papers, it has only been in the last couple of years that the most significant contributions have been produced. <br /><br />It isnít the job for a single individual (no matter how committed), for it is without doubt, an approach which not only transcends any single discipline: but, indeed, needs to be adequately developed, it requires them all - and not just produced by real interest, but also, necessarily, by the required methods to breakthrough all the many constraints, implemented to simplify analyses! <br /><br />For example, it has been the inclusion of the major discoveries in Systems Theory, by Biologist Denis Noble and others, that has for the first time also addressed several limitations in the ways Marxism has regularly pursued ever since - and including, Marx himself! <br /><br />Now, this project, along with a series of others, has put into serious question, NOT just these type of problems, though also upon a much wider scale, in which the Whole set of ways that problems can occur - both in Reality-at-large, AND in the whole range involving both natural and consequent engineered problems, concerned with Explaining all that we now also see, as well as the full range of situations both now possible and also as newly evident, achievable Objectives in delivering what they all can do. For, in the past, a set of assumptions about what makes things the way that they are, have MOST CERTAINLY greatly over-simplified our Understanding. <br /><br />The perceived basic (and invariably inadequately described) situations, have, almost always been believed to be those possible States - that some Natural, or even Man-Made Action or Event can actually exist within! <br /><br />Indeed, on-going-investigations are always revealing New Forms, which could-and-often-did actually persuade Artisans that their objectives were impossible: especially as ìprecisely-knowingî the current state turns out to be never a simple task, as so many interactions frequently produce results that ìlook unchangedî and are in fact actually significantly-different, in a way which is not immediately evident. <br /><br />Remember that Artisans have long established required conditions for certain processes WITHOUT a full theoretical basis for them, & their Laws reflect curtailed & severely limited Equations only! <br /><br />The usual solution was always to so-greatly-restrict both the Context and Controllable Content, as to always produce a single, easily reproducible State, that could validly be considered One of the Many Basic States possible, which would always be taken as a legitimate extraction from all of the others known to be possible in that Context! For such always was the Primary Objective, as a starting point, in all Manufacturing - as the dependable Basis for all Subsequent Productions. <br /><br />But that doesnít help us Understand complex, dynamic, Natural Systems - including those of Society itself. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHLuOnc-MhTsx6WsG7Xn8zGfn1sCiYb0WMF6zT2B0x2FRZd_0Xt9VUjJTfWFwKMrjec973R9yR7LcqqIJQoKzlQuuaCEBR7shmXTNivqx4R8JPezCvlOcDH6WUjiFfy-seeR83OwDFYvW3jXv84G377bwB2Z7E9J151w5u5P1I8e5NWia0UorLx1L2/s480/giphy-17.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="480" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHLuOnc-MhTsx6WsG7Xn8zGfn1sCiYb0WMF6zT2B0x2FRZd_0Xt9VUjJTfWFwKMrjec973R9yR7LcqqIJQoKzlQuuaCEBR7shmXTNivqx4R8JPezCvlOcDH6WUjiFfy-seeR83OwDFYvW3jXv84G377bwB2Z7E9J151w5u5P1I8e5NWia0UorLx1L2/s320/giphy-17.gif" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Odessa Steps</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>The separately arrived at properties in Reality-as-is DO NOT just ADD UP - they DO NOT deliver the Full Set of possibilities. They are a Strictly Limited Set, selected for by the particularly severe constraints that had been imposed in order to extract them in the first place. <br /><br />For the objective was NOT, and, indeed, was never intended to enable an Explanation of the subsequent performance, BUT, instead, only those required for Future Production of a Chosen Result. <br /><br />And these two sets of conditions produce Very Different Possibilities! <br /><br />The ones always chosen are just those with ONLY a Future Production in mind! Indeed, that objective is the ONLY One usually fulfilled: the whole Approach is solely directed towards Production, and NEVER Explanation! <br /><br />And the Conclusions from this are that our assumptions are certainly NOT sufficient! Reality-as-is contains many other cases we are unaware of, and, they also affect one another, which would greatly complicate the then required processes yet to be implemented. <br /><br />So, they donít even try! <br /><br />So-called Physics is NOT what it is claimed to be: it is a SYSTEM for controlling Reality, solely designed to aid Production. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTUXiCyxhLhMIHYpYnVkqzeuwvINlNtk6zWFHrpC8IiBus50GKqyVWS8tQZw44s5fcg8mUg0wPZ6os3eD8hjG_fdhlyy0r6AGWCkiLdLl_EsHbBEhVr34DFwa9FXXiHYJIEeEkii6_LwR1HNZkE9eWW4g6C0236t4iP6g5Gbzr1r6yfLdpWsQuBVdN/s561/6fd5fd_0859531218cd48c48b7669bda9121f15~mv2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="561" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTUXiCyxhLhMIHYpYnVkqzeuwvINlNtk6zWFHrpC8IiBus50GKqyVWS8tQZw44s5fcg8mUg0wPZ6os3eD8hjG_fdhlyy0r6AGWCkiLdLl_EsHbBEhVr34DFwa9FXXiHYJIEeEkii6_LwR1HNZkE9eWW4g6C0236t4iP6g5Gbzr1r6yfLdpWsQuBVdN/s320/6fd5fd_0859531218cd48c48b7669bda9121f15~mv2.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b>The Required Revolutionary New Stance </b><br /><br />Clearly, we have been well-schooled, in this Wrong Turning, for a very long historical period, and for what always were Very Good Reasons indeed! <br /><br />You would not criticise a child for not dancing before it could even walk - NOR understand what you were saying before they could even talk! <br /><br /></div><div>There have been profound and unavoidable Purely Natural Reasons for the necessary route we have taken, which, if we are Now (and Subsequently) to avoid at least some of the consequent pitfalls, in our future updates upon our methods. <br /><br />For, the problem emerges entirely from our distorted - yet completely understandable, Early Misconceptions of the True Nature-of-Things! <br /><br />For, we, ourselves, actually also developed from a Whole Series of Lesser Forms, and many earlier solutions, within our then Primitive Thinking, only had to be close enough to Reality-as-is, to deliver an improved, and hence worthwhile, benefit! This, anyway, has always been the situation for Mankind: for settling upon the ìSupposed Truthî, long before anybody even had the required means to do so absolutely, or even partially! So, it NEVER delivers the required complete-and-wholly-correct Truth as its evidently, arrived-at conclusions. <br /><br /></div><div>Let us attempt to address this problem better NOW! <br /><br />We will still NOT yet arrive at the Complete Truth (for it doesnít yet even ìexistî), BUT, we can eliminate just a few obvious very long-standing ìsupposed truthsî as now completely evident as errors. <br /><br />The daddy of them all is the belief that The Truth is FIXED! <br /><br />It isnít. <br /><br />Indeed, Absolutely Nothing is! <br /><br />But, it can certainly appear so in stable Systems, for some considerable periods of time, because even with apparently constant random variation, Really Significant Changes will only emerge when that ìseemingly undirected variationî, somehow, finally arrives, surprisingly, and at a Much Better State - and, thereafter, vigorously proliferates the New Form fast! <br /><br />BUT NO External Judgement of Quality was necessary in this crucial transformation: its own increasing relative success, alone confers that by itself. <br /><br />This is something like Darwinís notion of Natural Selection, but extending that to all Levels of Reality - all Natural Systems. <br /><br />So to us, at our Level, , most things either continue to appear Fixed, or in ìGetting-Nowhere Randomnessî seemingly permanently! But, that isnít actually The Full Truth. <br /><br />Yet, appreciating this, still doesnít indicate, in advance, exactly what Laws are going to emerge. On the contrary, to ensure Current Success, you simply always have to be maximally aware of what Laws seem, ìfor nowî, to be Fixed! But, the scientists who do ONLY that, will unavoidably be caught into getting nowhere, when suddenly a New Law finally does emerge! <br /><br /></div><div>So, instead of ONLY Subject-Based-Research: there, surely, has to be also Constant Background Research probing-deeply into the very important Dynamic Development of Laws. <br /><br />A Final Aspect of this whole Approach, when generally-applied, concerns how the various well-established Laws, being unavoidably radically challenged by this Current Stance, occupied by almost Everybody Else with the argument that it most closely reflects what has been continuing to significantly Change. Laws that were usually considered as Forever Fixed now are more correctly seen as involving Whole Mixtures of Laws, most usually swamped by one that had previously emerged as totally naturally dominant. <br /><br />This is a rarely appreciated feature of Reality-as-is, which is usually simplified into that which is currently dominant, so when circumstances begin to greatly amplify another element, it seems to have come in from outside of the System, whereas it was always a built-in, though currently suppressed, aspect of Reality-as-is that was therefore always totally hidden and ineffective previously, but in non-conducive condutions. It is clearly an important philosophic feature that was naturally, if mistakenly, assumed as such in the past. <br /><br />For with the Long Established view determined by both tailored and rigidly maintained Fixed Sets of Contents, along with unchanging Contexts - they are all separately dealt with - each in its own required Context and Content, the resulting Laws, are then coupled with sets of another, Absolutely NEVER arrived-at in a Commonly occurring Situation - and in a Production always applied as part of a sequential Series, with each step in its own ideally necessary and maintained different Context. <br /><br />So, clearly, that will constitute a wholly Artificial Union, and will never suffice if they were all applied in a singular Common Context - which is, of course, certainly mainly the case in Reality-as-is! <br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4juUX_4rw6XX5kIvZZS4MSqFGMFupgw0h8GVaHjfoJXkPgABA88v0giIe9IjPuQ8E7HUgOhaMVoOdlAcWbMNMEt5dhVaAPs9UYaSBCky6_Zyxq7dD67FvKNqbI5_44q-O7qOH3RBaMi8Sxkwj9aLJcGQSHliG3IjMZRyLBh6ovxP7DAbav5zlHrA/s500/tumblr_mulkesTbpC1qbpwkro1_500.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB4juUX_4rw6XX5kIvZZS4MSqFGMFupgw0h8GVaHjfoJXkPgABA88v0giIe9IjPuQ8E7HUgOhaMVoOdlAcWbMNMEt5dhVaAPs9UYaSBCky6_Zyxq7dD67FvKNqbI5_44q-O7qOH3RBaMi8Sxkwj9aLJcGQSHliG3IjMZRyLBh6ovxP7DAbav5zlHrA/s320/tumblr_mulkesTbpC1qbpwkro1_500.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <br /><b>In Conclusion </b><br /><br />So, in finnaly assessing what has ultimately been achieved, we must draw some general conclusions, primarily about the most important areas tackled in these essays. <br /><br />The key objectives were always to deliberately target the absolutely necessary Philosophical Developments, which are particularly difficult when no longer addressing Restricted Contents & Contexts, as we always do in Mathematics: but, instead, approach the Real World-as-is - much of which still remains not only yet to be revealed, but also Explained in any way! <br /><br />And, that, Iím afraid, is much easier said than done: for an Extremely Important Ser of Reasons: <br /><br />Reality-as-is is NOT already fixed! <br /><br /></div><div>Neither does it change within limits! <br /><br />It is an Evolutionary System - forever developing to the Wholly New! <br /><br />So, they were here addressed hopefully to transform the underlying assumptions unavoidably-associated with the usually involved important Ideas and Methods, upon which our current Theories are always based. <br /><br />But, unlike most Explanations that only ever deliver within Constrained Rationalities (like Mathematics), what we have to deal with is absolutely NEVER finished: for it creates the Wholly New regularly (if infrequently) and requires, instead, an Open-Ended System, integrating the Totally New, BUT also never as an Anything Taken-up Collection. It also has to fit! <br /><br />But, in doing so, it adds more to have to relate predictably with every new addition! So, it involves a Rationality, which grows, amd though preserving the old, it also adds-in, an affecting, yet mostly conforming, NEW! <br /><br />How about that for a truly demanding Discipline!? </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i79home.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="375" height="531" src="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/images/issue79a.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>This article is taken from <a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i79home.html" target="_blank">Issue 79 of the SHAPE Journal</a>, and is the last in the series of papers called <i>The Systems Theory of Everything</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-48121381456901197272022-11-18T13:45:00.007+00:002022-11-18T13:45:45.839+00:00Issue 79 - The Systems Theory of Everything VI<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i79home.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3508" data-original-width="2480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCyLA_8WJPSmm0c67dmpPnQWQ7q2r6y4YAg_Pz9ohYsnau4_IIyIfu88uhKYzAuvoKs8DoNfnLLZDjyvZkGIwjeTSP9_tr1Y_BZp-iEiyjTyg82uf1giznPNhbdX_ZKQcZYJobXdA31jnDq2itSTvarrDcgjM_WHtPirZiLtnqnQV5RDxd3v3PW1Zg/w452-h640/Issue%2079%20Cover.jpg" width="452" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i79home.html" target="_blank">Read Issue 79 of SHAPE Journal</a></p><div><br /></div>The last in this series of papers on Jim Schofield's Systems Theory deals with how science needs to move on from a mechanistic understanding of systems and evolution, and finally embrace dialectics.<div><br /></div><div>Contents:</div><div><br /></div><div>Introducing Schofield’s Systems Theory <br /><br />Natural Multi-Factor Interactions <br /><br />Dialectical Materialist Evolution <br /><br />Addendum: Emergence and Randomness; Order out of Chaos? <br /><br />Systems Structures & Top-Down Causalities <br /><br />A Revolutionary Understanding <br /><br />The Need for a New Approach to Theory in General<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /> </p></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-58883068905588987882022-10-12T17:37:00.002+01:002022-10-12T17:37:52.481+01:00Special Issue 78: The Systems Theory of Everything V<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s78home.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="762" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQwywQxEBYD8oV9ZfjMYlOJODds1fVPtVq4kgkTWzctcpjXzF8qEB7B3t_6_5V8gfvyAYW8Si3gcXVZ5jtEicBKtu1Pe89qT947im5sSGegew9cINxYrTn6OV-qJiq0ZvDpkuUkAQaYal0-VWt0IphTIgV3uhCVAo-S189RHQ8a67WPUr91SJwFdcb/w452-h640/sissue78.jpg" width="452" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s78home.html" target="_blank">Special Issue 78 of SHAPE Journal</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">...</div><br /><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;">Special </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;">Issue 78 contains the fifth instalment of </span><i>The Systems Theory of Everything.</i></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"></span></p><div style="text-align: left;">This series of issues attempts to set out the first definitive account of Jim Schofield’s new Systems Approach to Science. The various papers collected here, and over the next few editions of this journal, explore the proposed theory and explain why it is such a radical departure from the current universally applied scientific method. </div><br />The series of papers in this edition examine the history of Pluralist Science and how we might begin reversing its many mistakes.<div><br /></div><div>Contents:</div><div><br /></div>Introducing Schofield’s Systems Theory <br /><br />The Bases of the Sciences<br /><br />Nature’s Context<br /><br />The Misleading Failure of Bottom-up Causality<br /><br />The Problem of Laws and Levels<br /><br />Science for Understanding, not merely Production<br /><br />Qualitative Causes and their Investigation<br />via Systems Means<div><br /></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-22859443032113984312022-09-20T12:36:00.001+01:002022-09-20T12:37:23.703+01:00Mechanisms of Development <p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNn3nS-AjHn-Rv2PVjrn03Wsn6Py5K5L4qo_aMVzNY1_1s6QJAbbUICMl5U5lHGQyLS6ZOqMfpEXqozo7pGYY6FMPMYqP20HOWXf9BIifukXo3T87nBaSwOQFF0CN4FVy0jYW2cIeqPlGWoDtlAD1QlrkFEmsDQiYFmpzTVRb0LrYpVDm0YdX5CBBT/s400/tumblr_94d8c90fe20dd9aefbcf1305b63e49c1_a5f5048f_400.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="400" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNn3nS-AjHn-Rv2PVjrn03Wsn6Py5K5L4qo_aMVzNY1_1s6QJAbbUICMl5U5lHGQyLS6ZOqMfpEXqozo7pGYY6FMPMYqP20HOWXf9BIifukXo3T87nBaSwOQFF0CN4FVy0jYW2cIeqPlGWoDtlAD1QlrkFEmsDQiYFmpzTVRb0LrYpVDm0YdX5CBBT/s320/tumblr_94d8c90fe20dd9aefbcf1305b63e49c1_a5f5048f_400.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="page" title="Page 16"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 13pt; font-weight: 700;">Mechanisms of Development</span></p><p><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 13pt;">& The Consequent New Structures of the Nature of Reality</span></p><p><br /></p><p>There are many, long-held assumptions about the Nature of Reality - and these are understandably distorted by the often extremely slow tempo of the Qualitative Changes that occur. And this gives an initial impression of some essential Eternal Stability. on which everything else is built, with only inessential variations actually occurring.</p>However, such an environment, if it were to exist, would basically remain the same forever - maintained as such by a Fixed Set of Natural Laws. With this primary assumption, attempts to understand those Laws were well worth pursuing, if only to make sense of the full set of possibilities, so that the most conducive could be arranged for, and always kept that way, forever.<br /><br />This was a relatively Static Conception of Reality, and what investigations were pursued, were NOT considered to be an infinite set: but, at least, a fairly large-yet- unchanging group of natural possibilities. All discovered Laws were assumed to then be available then, in exactly the same ways hence forward!<br /><br />But after many millennia of study, there always seemed to be others - as yet unknown! The set was apparently getting ever-bigger, and a full definition of them all always appeared to be a long way off!<br /><br />It never occurred to Mankind that Wholly New Laws were constantly developing, because NO possible mechanism for Production of The New seemed at all possible - beyond the divine.<br /><br />And indeed, all discoveries were naturally-assumed to be merely different combinations of those already- known Laws: and there was an assumed Logic of such combinations. But all of this isn’t True! Indeed, there are situations, in which the Wholly New can be created for the very first time: and NOT merely from new combinations of previously existing Laws - and, hence, when such does happen, there is absolutely NO Way of ever predicting what they will be! They will most certainly NOT be mere combinations of past known Laws - for then they could easily be explained and always be completely predictable!<br /><br />So, what occurs, are termed Emergences. They are NEVER predictable, and hence ALWAYS add Wholly New Possibilities to the Overall situation.<br /><br />Reality-as-it actually-develops: we have the constant Evolution of Nature to attempt to understand!</div><div class="column"><br /></div><div class="column"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWw9pd3s92Di6Hk3jb6D9FJRVOP2WBo5LOPAMEZr76GfjrRy4CTUP23tfmTjm67wv95aFmy_Aur-hfR5SgFUFcx2jHhlSggHvHDOZoDe8xDlbCn1wEgUgEBlNqEquf0P5zTYOuaBIZxUfPSs08mPC9dGplN9CBo7qfxJ8uNGztEdX7y2-mqTls1JyW/s404/zEw3s91.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="404" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWw9pd3s92Di6Hk3jb6D9FJRVOP2WBo5LOPAMEZr76GfjrRy4CTUP23tfmTjm67wv95aFmy_Aur-hfR5SgFUFcx2jHhlSggHvHDOZoDe8xDlbCn1wEgUgEBlNqEquf0P5zTYOuaBIZxUfPSs08mPC9dGplN9CBo7qfxJ8uNGztEdX7y2-mqTls1JyW/s320/zEw3s91.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="column" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="column">All we can more generally say, about these Wholly New Emergences, is that they will, indeed, have “something” comparable in common with other prior Emergences - for example, how they may interact with other prior existing Laws, of all kinds! BUT, exactly what they themselves will contribute, will never be predictable, in advance of their first appearence, though more general roles to other prior Emergences will be obvious after the Event.<br /><br />Now, all of this is clearly profoundly important - the great omission in modern Science is the paramount role of Emergences within Evolution. For, following their appearences, new directions will be possible, that were not available prior to such Events: and the most important of these will, most commonly, be when old- established features begin to be directly-contended, and, maybe, even actually eliminated.</div><div class="column"><br /></div><div class="layoutArea">Well established features can simply just vanish!</div><br />So, it would be totally mistaken, to assume that they would only Add to the possible range of outcomes: for, sometimes, they could most certainly Substract from prior possibilities too.<br /><br />Now, as I have been at pains to fully appreciate the Important Role of Contention in complex situations, it becomes ever-clearer just how many surprising outcomes can result in well established, seemingly “stable” circumstances. And the Active Stabilities within the long periods between Revolutionary Events, are perhaps both the most important, AND by far the most difficult to explain! What actually delivers these Active Stabilitues, which are maintained for such exceptionally long periods?<br /><br />It certainly isn’t a single overall condition that has to be precipitated into a General Collapse! It can, surely, only be a whole series of Separate Active Stabilities, which deliver the Obvious Overall Stability, due to the simultaneous stabilities of all the present sets. So, they have to be, at least close to individual collapses but surviving! The Revolution will be precipitated by first one individual Active Stability failing, and in doing so, trigger other Collapses, until the whole System is dissociated.<br /><br />Now, there are still many more only half-answered features about the Nature of Reality, particularly concerning Electromagnetic Currents and Fields in Space, and relatedly also involved within the Sub Atomic regions within, and even without, Atoms. For things like Birkeland Currents cry out for further Explanation: as do many other related phenomena!</div><div class="layoutArea"><br /></div><div class="layoutArea"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjckMqBQyVeqkH3EncAFy668dcBsuLsDomMyGmXlMRFv9sDJCZZ9m8m3QdOgruf1Fo4oAxch7WZA_S3xH_1VfZfvgNvRj-vmb_KxEe0Oif4oOOQUE4mN0IuGfh5GV5LELdNjDMfptGpE0MRIPfOIumfGgbGF6qDDkLkqW2o37WIOuVvlVIneYjTmtx1/s1200/90.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjckMqBQyVeqkH3EncAFy668dcBsuLsDomMyGmXlMRFv9sDJCZZ9m8m3QdOgruf1Fo4oAxch7WZA_S3xH_1VfZfvgNvRj-vmb_KxEe0Oif4oOOQUE4mN0IuGfh5GV5LELdNjDMfptGpE0MRIPfOIumfGgbGF6qDDkLkqW2o37WIOuVvlVIneYjTmtx1/w400-h266/90.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="layoutArea" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="layoutArea">The classic “Chicken-and-the-Egg” Problems - relating Current and Fields, especially out in the vast expanses of seemingly Empty Space - originally conceived-of as a vaccuum devoid of matter - are still far from any satisfactory explanation, and are never considered as important when it comes to actual research of Space itself: while the Sub Atomic Spaces within Atoms are also ignored experimentally.<br /><br />It could be that the usually available controls considered essential for ALL Earthbound Experiments, are clearly impossible in such areas, so literally Nothing is done there! In particular, the unexplained Nature and Description of the creation of the Birkeland Currents, coursing between<br /><br />The Sun and The Earth: not to mention the now widely- suggested Hierarchies of several of these Currents, claimed to be actually Directing the arrangements of Stars, across Truly Vast Volumes of “Empty Space”!<br /><br />How did these huge Systems Emerge, and what initially directed their creation and optimum positioning?<br /><br />Clearly, the usual descriptions (as in the “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu9UCrn5171lksANzqvXthA" target="_blank">See the Pattern</a>”) make absolutely no attempts to address these questions, as has become the norm in most Electric Universe published ideas, as well as elsewhere in Physics.<br /><br />But, all such assumptions-without-Explanation, simply must be investigated: yet all access to Experiments-in- Space seem to be totally non existent within this extensive Group, and wider too, it appears!<br /><br />Indeed, there seems to be a surprising attitude to Theory - NOT, as the essential explanations of WHY things behave as they do, within carefully designed Investigative Experiments, but, alternatively, as self-consistent “Descriptions”, with absolutely NO naturally critical stance - as they surely should always be to finally arrive at The Truth!<br /><br />Clearly, any still-remaining “Big Bang” ideas, give a Single Initial Source, for all Energy Requirements, but Reality is NOT a Running-Down Clock: it is a powerful- and-Continuing Creative Process, regularly producing The Wholly New - the evidence is all around us!<br /><br />Along with the now universally-employed lop-sided account of the Ukrainian Conflict, the same kind of lop- sided accounts of Reality are similarly rampant too!<br /><br />ASIDE: The above conclusion, which is certainly true about Modern Science, needs, I feel a concrete example of the increasingly employed alternative to experimentally-justfied Theory, to the now regularly- resorted-to alternative of more-detailed, and indeed useful, Descriptions, often employed in Science - as an alternative to Real Theory.<br /><br />The example, that I am most familiar with, is the See the Pattern “Explanation” of the various forms of Atomic Nuclei - composed (for simplicity) by identical Spheres - representing Protons and Neutrons, and attempting to “explain” various features in terms of “Closest Packing” Forms!</div><div class="layoutArea"><br /></div><div class="layoutArea"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gMRMgiQXfCY" width="320" youtube-src-id="gMRMgiQXfCY"></iframe></div><br /><div class="layoutArea" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="layoutArea">It certainly isn’t a Scientific Explanation: it is a somewhat idealised Description ONLY, and explains almost Nothing of these crucial bits of Reality! It says absolutely Nothing about the Vital Properties of those different Atoms! The Science is omitted and “replaced?” by some Purely Descriptive Geometry.</div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="page" title="Page 18"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>The obvious and clearly very important Properties, known to be associated with these substances, all the way to their constituent Atoms, are NOT explained by this Closest-Packing Approach: so by far the most important and Causal features are simply NOT delivered.<br /><br />The Persisting Myths involving the accumulation of only simple Quantitative Changes, within their Key Parameters, which being much too deficient to also include any Qualitative Evolutionary Changes, is therefore demolished! And Real Evolutionary Changes then actually construct a New-and-Necessary Totally Integrated System, in which the many contributions help to both support and mutually maintain one another.<br /><br />But, by the very same relationships, many contributory elements are also eliminated, so, the overall prior System cannot recover, and step-by-step it dissociates into a complete Collapse: Stage One of a Revolution has occurred!<br /><br />The Total Chaos that thereby results, however, is certainly NOT the end of the Process! For, wholly-automatically, a Whole New System then proceeds to construct a very different, and more appropriate sort of Active Stability. Stage Two of the Revolution is also complete!<br /><br />Now, these Two Processes are always very Different: the Collapse is both swift-and-automatic: but the Re-Build, thereafter, has to find its optimum components, largely by trial-and-error, and that takes time!<br /><br />Now, though Karl Marx recognised that these Revolutions regularly happened in Human History, AND hence were probably the usual Mechanism involved-in Real Qualitative Changes in Absolutely All Kinds of Developing Systems, his Primary Discipline was the study of Human Societies within History. And, that alone would require a truly massive amount of work to identify, describe, and crucially Explain all its vastly varying tempos, and the particular factors affected therewith.<br /><br />Marx, though, intimated that such processes were almost certainly more general than being limited only to Human History: but he, personally, NEVER took his conceptions directly into the vast Range of Disciplines, where they would also be validly applicable!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxq9lF0tVesECib1TGAVut_H7j-sOsT5e2ZALTVQdIcqMenbbNH5YQ5CNK5yO5KSCj4RnE_12ey25gllnw7CnuCk-ecE2Okv9jPa18-15gt6ARHsyQkEK-10zh0FbfEnmeLFpJJZfKMd0ZTRPSw49_f2YyzWQqN7YoaMpZJJGSAp_u295znwgw_i91/s850/quote-we-know-only-a-single-science-the-science-of-history-history-can-be-contemplated-from-karl-marx-57-32-59.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="850" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxq9lF0tVesECib1TGAVut_H7j-sOsT5e2ZALTVQdIcqMenbbNH5YQ5CNK5yO5KSCj4RnE_12ey25gllnw7CnuCk-ecE2Okv9jPa18-15gt6ARHsyQkEK-10zh0FbfEnmeLFpJJZfKMd0ZTRPSw49_f2YyzWQqN7YoaMpZJJGSAp_u295znwgw_i91/w400-h189/quote-we-know-only-a-single-science-the-science-of-history-history-can-be-contemplated-from-karl-marx-57-32-59.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p>Now, this was unavoidable, at that time, for both the tempos and the Qualities involved in Natural Systems, would be very different indeed, and, any wholesale- and-unmodified transfers, from say, History to Physics, would certainly be calamatous!<br /><br />The Nature of what Marx called Dialectical Development, would, initially, at least, be limited to History and Economics - but the Philosophical reasoning behind his approach was much more general.<br /><br />Now, the extension of this approach to all the other Disciplines is much Easier Said Than Done! For, starting with basic materials within Physics, will, in spite of the same general appoach, be necessarily profoundly different: if only because the ingredients in Physics are totally non-living objects, without any Conscious Reactions to what is going on!<br /><br />The involved processes in such Systems, though still taking a related development path, will still be vastly more limited than the Processes in a History of Conscious Human Beings! It will be possible for such Human Physics Practitioners, to naturally attempt to build a Dialectically Developing version of Physics - BUT, it will look nothing like the Forms and Developments dominating Marx’s vision of History!<br /><br />And, if it is to become THE general Way in all investigative Disciplines: they will ALL differ significantly - each with their own unique characteristics, even with a consistently Dialectical character assisting in our understanding of Change.<br /><br />Indeed, this researcher as a qualified Physicist, and long-time critic of the usual ways that this important Subject has been developed. I disagreed with my Lecturers, from my very first term at University, and interestingly, on searching for an alternative approach in the exellent Library there, I found only one lone book presenting, what I believed, was a viable alternative. The book I found was in the Philosophy Section, and was called Materialism and Empirio Criticism - a work by the Russian Ulianov, who was the only one at all close to my own strongly held criticisms. I only, later, found out that Ulianov was better known as Lenin - the later leader of the successful Russian Revolution, and an avid follower of Karl Marx!<br /><br />But, by the publication of this book Lenin amply demonstrated that Marx’s Dialectical Materialism could be applied powerfully and consistently to a very different Discipline to that of Marx, which in many clearly evident ways was considerably more Basic than History! Lenin knew that he personally could not take these ideas further: but he certainly proved it was possible, while at the same time very different to its application in the social world. And, he also proved his profound Marxist credentials, at many crucial junctures and Crisis Points within the Progress of the Revolution.<br /><br />Many years ago I attempted to do the same job as Lenin (in Physics, not global Revolution!), but I couldn’t make any real progress, until I came across The Systems Approach, which alone significantly extended the range of Causal influences beyond the usual Properties of Atoms and Molecules to include Top-Down Systems Causes too! And, as mentioned elsewhere in these papers, Oxford Don Denis Noble has effectively included Systems Theory into his again very different Discipline of Biology!</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIvCDWA2R3xQa2HBAtZe5W7TyejBYQve-9ZF86DS3Mpq1B83B8VB5G3meSVMDMjXOa2Y2humiJBG-cr8iCMzSBsHD8X_TO3Yd-n6Wl1-KtcG3bmlvpGra-BgeZYjKyzuDdnwkZ0peYdLW6VZB2kvF3XyfCxHWUvCKs-r52GXqlfcJrqdC_LH9wbxHp/s800/h4140086-800px-wm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="610" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIvCDWA2R3xQa2HBAtZe5W7TyejBYQve-9ZF86DS3Mpq1B83B8VB5G3meSVMDMjXOa2Y2humiJBG-cr8iCMzSBsHD8X_TO3Yd-n6Wl1-KtcG3bmlvpGra-BgeZYjKyzuDdnwkZ0peYdLW6VZB2kvF3XyfCxHWUvCKs-r52GXqlfcJrqdC_LH9wbxHp/w305-h400/h4140086-800px-wm.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><p><br />Now, that there are three very different areas finally receiving necessarily extended approaches, we have produced, thereby, three different possibilities for new developments. For - in terms of Levels of Reality - below History we now have Biology, lacking the Conscious interventions of Mankind, but including Life and its basic development trajectories - and finally we have Physics, which now delivers the most basic Level of Reality that we can access.<br /><br />And, these, together, have recently ushered-in various previously not-included factors, the Most Important being a general Systems Theory - and, for the first time, the acknowledgment of Top-Down Causalities, to add to the prior sole reliance upon reductionist Bottom-up influences.<br /><br />And, what could, indeed, be added ON TOP of all of these, and influenced by them, as well assigning a wholly New Major Level of both Actions & Effects, consisting of Artistic Interpretation & Futher Explanation, across the whole set of the Arts, and a most profound disemination via the powerful revealing Media possible!<br /><br />Now, in addition to what has been suggested above, yet another highly important aspect of the Key Processes involved, has-to-be the mechanisms that must be used to implement what is necessary! For these greatly influence just how these processes inflict the absolutely maximum effects! These unavoidably greatly concentrate these Effects in subtle Systems-Processing ways, ONLY evident when we correctly consider them acting upon various sets of Reactions, as finite CHAINS of separate processes.<br /><br />For, though crucial, these are never regimented by waiting-in-line for their turn. For, the output from one process has to “find” the place to initiate the next process, and any movent involved, could also dissipate these comings together, and, in so doing, reduce the possibility of a completed CHAIN. So, perhaps surprisingly, the coming together always also elicits a reflected opposite action, from the recipient, and this dissipates the energy, in the form of an oscillation in-place! The complete CHAIN therefore happens, and so possibly dissociating energy happens in-place: and the overall result is the achievement of a kind of Active Stability, which allows all the required reactions to happen without dissociation! There are Two basic cases that must occur in the above described way:<br /><br />1: THE LINE SHUNT Where whole chains of different processes, when disturbed in a single direction, nevertheless deliver a maintained two-way Oscillation, at the End of all the processes acting in a CHAIN<br /><br />or<br />2: THE TWIN SHUFFLE When many such processes are acting simultaneously, a disturbance will cause multiple similar oscillations throughout the whole lot!<br /><br />For, both of these intensify those Effects, which though seemingly one-way “shunts”, in fact actually cause movements both forwards-and-back, to deliver the possibility of maintaing an overall Stability, via a both ways maintained oscillations!<br /><br />The reason for mentioning two different examples, is that while they deliver different situations, they still end up with a similar Active Stability, substituting Oscillations in place for translational movements.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i78home.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="375" height="531" src="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/images/issue78a.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p>This paper is taken from the ongoing series <a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s76home.html" target="_blank">The Systems Theory of Everything</a>, currently being published in SHAPE Journal. </p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-64998051008401975162022-09-05T13:18:00.002+01:002022-09-05T13:18:17.202+01:00Issue 78 - The Systems Theory of Everything IV<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i78home.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="762" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0xeGKFTLLU9Bi8qQDn-3nCVRLS5XkT7upL73KOot8rUZntNbg1gezITs_4XtSm8aCdQauTy6AUBse7IC9r9PyyF-TXjowZGjzUNL6tJ6OLQI3IWlTX90c-CfiInjZbWisMUF_O9ZOkRwNhZlWae5Hl4AvXEQKobqJSOf2YLz4-k94qk7bNnArQx-/w452-h640/issue78.jpg" width="452" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i78home.html" target="_blank">Issue 78 of SHAPE Journal now available </a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p>Issue 78 contains the fourth instalment of Jim Schofield's Systems Theory of Everything.<br /><br />This series of issues attempts to set out the first definitive account of Jim Schofield’s new Systems Approach to Science. The various papers collected here, and over the next few editions of this journal, explore the proposed theory and explain why it is such a radical departure from the current universally applied scientific method. </p><p>The series of papers continues to investigate how Systems and their Laws Emerge and Evolve, and why a Marxist approach is necessary to untangle it all.<br /><br /><br />Contents:<br /><br />Introducing Schofield’s Systems Theory <br /><br />Empirical Laws within Science <br /><br />New Emergences and Imposed Calamities <br /><br />Multi-Level Law and its Evolution <br /><br />Emergences and Evolution <br /><br />Mechanisms of Development <br /><br />Where are the Marxists? <br /><br />Cause and Law</p>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-40045444499041044482022-09-05T13:08:00.008+01:002022-09-05T13:08:54.602+01:00There is no royal road to science...<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="409" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TuGp9lRY7iQ" width="492" youtube-src-id="TuGp9lRY7iQ"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; caret-color: rgb(3, 3, 3); color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the words of Marx:
"There is no royal road to science, and only these who do not dread the fatiguing climbs of its steep paths, have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
"Believe me, dear reader, your Karl Marx."</span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Dr Ranjeet Brar delivers this lecture at a party school on the question of Marxist Philosophy - there is some interesting stuff to unpack here. Looking forward to going into Dr. Brar's ideas in more depth, but certainly some correlation here!<div><br /></div><div><br /></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-68670124083624701372022-08-31T15:31:00.001+01:002022-08-31T15:32:55.678+01:00The Charles Bonnet Syndrome<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s70home.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="375" height="531" src="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/images/sissue70a.jpg" width="375" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This paper is taken from Special Issue 70 of SHAPE Journal: <a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s70home.html" target="_blank">Truth and Illusion</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="page" title="Page 4"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;">The Charles Bonnet Syndrome</span></p><p><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 14pt;">Discoveries of the Vision/Brain System caused by significant Loss of Vision</span></p><br /><br />I am a scientist and an octogenarian. I currently suffer from an affliction known as Charles Bonnet Syndrome, caused by macular degeneration.<br /><br /><blockquote>“Charles Bonnet syndrome (CBS) is a disease in which visual hallucinations occur as a result of vision loss. CBS is not thought to be related to psychosis or dementia and people with CBS are aware that their hallucinations are not real.” Rarediseases.info</blockquote><br />As an extensively-experienced researcher in both science and philosophy (and their inter-relationships, and cross- causalities) - as well as being a prolific investigative writer of serious academic papers in both of these areas - I felt I was in a unique position to shed some light on this disease, and the insights it offers into how we understand the world visually.<br /><br />I have a particularly well-endowed background to both accurately describe the changing symptoms involved, and (it seems to me), I possess a unique and necessary ability to draw conclusions, wholly absent from either the usual sufferers or medical practitioners - to play a role in extracting more informatively, exactly what is going on in this less than perfect, and undoubtedly failing system of diagnosis and treatment.<br /><br />Indeed, it reminds me of the conclusions drawn, many years ago, by V. S. Ramachandran - whose work I have followed closely - from the clinical evidence of both Blind Seeing and Visual Neglect, concerning the Brain Functions involved, and dependable conclusions on how hallucination is actually a fundamental part of vision.</div><div class="column"><br /></div><div class="column"><br /></div><div class="column"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwB67KLjj04PK7QdNhTNMyC4HSKF775u3Y6CJJMZtS9uBqgys0uafoiFZ9d0U01VHKPhNNloaKg-cqfUxgWg66x9GG5nThd9IFDyh40dfUVnh5_HMQGPJvjlxCPOfx6RW6EhIW-mL_jEq9_ZafBitT8ZlmvgEhVdpCkuio10LHxjd3_BcBLfAd_Hs/s2880/ca8d90c65e9e596127b720b648a07dfd2ea45e7d_2880x1620.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="2880" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitwB67KLjj04PK7QdNhTNMyC4HSKF775u3Y6CJJMZtS9uBqgys0uafoiFZ9d0U01VHKPhNNloaKg-cqfUxgWg66x9GG5nThd9IFDyh40dfUVnh5_HMQGPJvjlxCPOfx6RW6EhIW-mL_jEq9_ZafBitT8ZlmvgEhVdpCkuio10LHxjd3_BcBLfAd_Hs/w400-h225/ca8d90c65e9e596127b720b648a07dfd2ea45e7d_2880x1620.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">V S <span style="text-align: left;">Ramachandran</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="column" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="column"><br /></div><div class="column">My credentials are actually somewhat understated in the above brief description of my professional career. The last 20 years of my life have been dedicated to understanding the philosophical limitations of all Pluralist Science - a pervasive logic which sees laws as separable, but is blind to the dynamics of Qualitative Change, due to its primary methods of analysis - holding things still and making extractions. Plurality regularly generates untranscendable contraditions and impasses in our understanding, but science is fundamentally pragmatic and finds workarounds, but without ever resolving the underlying problem of its failure to deal with real-world change.<br /><br />This is certainly relevant to understanding my condition, as the Charles Bonnet Syndrome is about the dynamic interface between signals from cells in the retina of the Eye, to regions of the Brain with the capabilities to construct adaptable, and developable visual models (“as cerebrally-viewable images”), which is what we actually “see” and consider, and which is both constantly-updateable and stable as a kind of “movie” in our minds, and could be called upon when required in both the immediate present, and the distant future as visual memory.<br /><br />And this is well beyond what any Pluralist Science can possibly cope with! But, what could be the requirements of an alternative Holist Science, one that could comprehend this mental movie? For, it certainly WILL NOT BE as a sequence of stills (as in Film) OR even as a sequence of mini-movies (as in Analogue Video)! NOTE: I studied the dynamic qualities of both of these electronic media as part of my extensive research into Dance Education and Motion Studies, with Bedford Interactive in the 1990s.<br /><br />What will it have to be then, to be useable, as we know it is in the brain, and specifically, how will it perform as evidenced by the actions of The Charles Bonnet Syndrome?<br /><br />And the more incidents I experience due to the condition, the more complicated and various are the functions that are demonstrated. So, rather than using the selected examples from a clearly diverse range of accounts, some of them are either remembered or can be somewhat embroidered - to avoid the misleading consequences of such misleading evidence - I will instead commence my own contributions with a range of my own experiences, as a professional scientist and multi-discipline researcher, only recounting what I have personally experienced, and also judging what I consider valid enough to be included, if and only if, an explanation is forthcoming!<br /><br />Let me start by describing the various types of hallucination I have experienced myself.</div><div class="column"><br /><br />1, The Mini Movie<br /><br />This invariably occurred upon waking and opening my eyes. But, it wasn’t a misinterpretation of “things- seen”, for it was there wherever I looked, and was always containing the very same subject matter. But, uniquely, it was always in full-detailed colour and excellent resolution - a perfect illusion, always of the same restricted scene, but with minor differences. It was always of a Victorian slate roof, containing one or two brick-built chimney stacks, surmounted by ceramic tops, all with the same kind of zig-zag heads. And, invariably, there would be a branch of a tree, with large glossy leaves being blown about in the wind. But that was it! In a way it was beautiful, but like a repeating movie scrap! Surprisingly it was always framed, as if seen through a window. and wherever Iooked it was there! But it always soon faded and was gone.<br /><br />2, The Misinterpreted Tile<br /><br />This, latterly as my sight has become very poor, is clearly a rather poor version of something actually seen, but in these cases it fills-in where my macular is detecting nothing. Very recent versions occur when a glance to a new place immediately sees a hole (that is - nothing there at all), and then rather quickly fills it with the circumstances close to the tile from actually seen views near to that hole! But my looking elsewhere and using the part of my right eye macular, still partially working, you can confirm that the patch is wrong.<br /><br />With further deterioration, it has now become a major problem, as it can deliver buildings or trees to the view, when it should be the sky!<br /><br />3. The False General Tiling<br /><br />In relatively poor lighting conditions, a misinterpreted patch from an extended same view, will then fill-in-and-maintain, wherever I look in that extended view with a regular tiling of the same “tile”, this giving it a pattern which isn’t actually there.<br /><br />4, The Simplified Tiling<br /><br />If I look intently at a patterned surface or curtain, it simplifies successively (if I continue to stare) into a series of different, but repeated sets, wherever I look. And, surprisingly, the images, then consist mostly of black lines upon a white background, but they are so beautiful. It’s a real shame I can’t “capture them”!</div><div class="column"><br /><br />Now, as with Ramachandran’s conclusions upon brain-activity areas, with normal seeing, the revelations of the Charles Bonnet Syndrome sufferers, as seeing functions were damaged, also throws light upon how the brain plays various creative roles in normal sight too.<br /><br />To consider these phenomena upon sound bases, though, we have to be clear upon the differing functions of both the relatively tiny macular areas of the Retina within the eye, and the much larger non-macular area, which occupies the whole of the rest of the Retina. It has become clear that we actually see literally ALL detail via the Macular part of the Retina - these are the only areas naturally delivering everything we see in any detail: whereas the rest of the retina is only well equipped for detecting the movements seen by our eyes.</div><div class="column"><br /></div><div class="column"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgppwkpSZvIXDrEeRA2NIyxWakRLH0wxy-7J2OpGbNubOQqxEf9s7C5E2hjs0cvx8obZJ-m3JCWqAzmYxtyp9m1ryNxKMKAgMt5UFlc1qO2KXoqkhl7FX0nOUlgEO1YC0fQhmwSTsYvGMHFrWBfOMYUedoKz6LJLrd1aR5Ibax1ZAv9CcAltCjmkLcO/s926/image-20150312-13502-1pwa8bm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="926" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgppwkpSZvIXDrEeRA2NIyxWakRLH0wxy-7J2OpGbNubOQqxEf9s7C5E2hjs0cvx8obZJ-m3JCWqAzmYxtyp9m1ryNxKMKAgMt5UFlc1qO2KXoqkhl7FX0nOUlgEO1YC0fQhmwSTsYvGMHFrWBfOMYUedoKz6LJLrd1aR5Ibax1ZAv9CcAltCjmkLcO/w400-h266/image-20150312-13502-1pwa8bm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="column" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="column"><br /></div>Indeed, detail updates for any achieved brain-image of something seen, can only take place via the macular! The macular must be moved about to build up the picture of a scene in the brain.<br /><br />[Whereas, as the focus of seeing is moved elsewhere, a simplified-and-unchanging version is always left behind in all past positions, in the now non-macular areas of the Brain-image. Clearly that part of the brain-image must all be derived from prior macular attention to such areas. The non-macular brain-image is therefore initially composed of “macular-sized patches” delivering the whole of the non-macular brain-image]<br /><br />So, immediately, anything no longer being picked up by the macular will NOT now show moment-by-moment changes there. Indeed, it will show what was there the last time we looked at that area, via the macular, BUT, as the non-macular does deliver movement, it will have, in some way, to update that non-macular view!<br /><br />But in addition, evidence from Charles Bonnet sufferers, reveals an extra fill-in function, by copying in a now- absent-view from immediately adjacent areas.<br /><br />While the rest of the non-macular view is always rotated according to a previously-learned “algorithm”, while still updating movements anywhere upon that area, as our view is moved on.<br /><br />Now, some of the built-in mechanisms for updating the brain-image of a looked-at-view, have only been revealed by sufferers of the this Syndrome, particularly when the incoming image delivered by the eye is deemed inadequate, for the initial solution is to fill-each-gap with the same content, indeed as that of a close nearby spot (either a reliable one, or a compromise inaccurate one).<br /><br />In the latter case, it is revealed to be from the immediately priorly-vistited “patch” - so that in an erroneous viewed area, the moving glance of the viewer will merely leave a trail of identical patches determined by the eye’s line of scanning. So, if I as a sufferer, are not sufficiently careful, the brain can fill whole areas of sky with a fiction of recently observed trees!<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Zp2VFvAdB11szpHyzA4Xz-29HSM9PR_n0_vIU4TDyZo7wuQhM27sz9rW6e3jYi33cLSohX31RB6mAITYdW_fUdz7XYBp92W976uD0_1JcMuevzQXekoGLus91ZURHv8rTKsI20ev-nxMhbkAxC8St0n8SuKTy4caq0errGVAS6xyasHGjntIMbOG/s3508/3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="3508" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Zp2VFvAdB11szpHyzA4Xz-29HSM9PR_n0_vIU4TDyZo7wuQhM27sz9rW6e3jYi33cLSohX31RB6mAITYdW_fUdz7XYBp92W976uD0_1JcMuevzQXekoGLus91ZURHv8rTKsI20ev-nxMhbkAxC8St0n8SuKTy4caq0errGVAS6xyasHGjntIMbOG/w400-h283/3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>EDITOR’S NOTE:<br /><br />Charles Bonnet Syndrome is a very specific form of pareidolia - or visual apophenia. This means that it is evidence of a general tendancy of the brain to invent things in order to make sense of random or meaningless information. For Charles Bonnet sufferers, this is experienced as profound hallucination. In people without sight loss these mechanims are still present, but largely hidden, as the stream of visual information given to us by our eyes is complete enough to correct any mistakes or strange inventions made by the brain. Seeing faces in the dark is an example of pareidolia working under normal sensory conditions. People undergoing prolonged sensory deprivation can also experience hallucinations, similar to Charles Bonnet sufferers, as we see with a phenomenon called Prisoner’s Cinema, in which inmates kept in solitary confinement begin to see strange light shows on the walls of their cell.</div></div></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-87596887841964345072022-08-12T17:48:00.005+01:002022-08-12T17:48:57.537+01:00Qualitative Causes and their Investigation via Systems Means<p>Now, the sort of Investigation mentioned in the title of this paper, cannot but take us into a Wholly New Realm! Though, it must also be clearly emphasized that it involves an absolutely imperative change in the way all of The Sciences MUST, henceforth, be conducted.</p>For, the Greek Intellectual Revolution of 500 BC, though undoubtedly an absolutely essential Step Forward in Mankind's Thinking, also achieved - what all such innovations of that kind invariably also install - the usual Inevitable Diversion into misleadingly inadequate Over-Simplification!<br /><br />Many Inevitable & Damaging Detours are always totally unavoidable as a necessary Unifying Product of the very same Commonly related Developments - for Mankind - is embodied in attempting to understand the processes, which ultimately will totally leave unaddressed the very processes that have produced the investigators too! Think where that omission positions the Investigators, and their employed means...<br /><br />But, the increasingly evident superiority of the Investigators, unavoidably would be distorted by their clear differences to absolutely Everything else: and, the most obvious conclusion would always be that THEY were specifically included, as some sort of Reflection of an all-powerful Creator! <br /><br />So, they certainly never saw themselves as a mere part of the remarkable Vista (which they were increasingly converting to Their Own Uses), but outside of it somehow (Idealism): and by their Analyses and Explanations they revealed ever-more about The Supposed Supreme Creator of it all - and especially as they, in their own way, were revealing The Creator's Intentions!<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHP3UzC6eq64zyxFjoRaR_mCxcU6NoQP9lm9ou5NKB0UCiIr4O72-C7uDE3rKy39bBaR_B7NzJ6uIRTRZy19ZjQr4ZMx180oPKnJQwBf53koDhkClaueuT3RBq_o88Evm_HuAitwF8yO7rnqTWF5laaji72-x2QAp00NJ8x85F9vLM1p1a2BAQ_Jc4/s1000/moses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="1000" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHP3UzC6eq64zyxFjoRaR_mCxcU6NoQP9lm9ou5NKB0UCiIr4O72-C7uDE3rKy39bBaR_B7NzJ6uIRTRZy19ZjQr4ZMx180oPKnJQwBf53koDhkClaueuT3RBq_o88Evm_HuAitwF8yO7rnqTWF5laaji72-x2QAp00NJ8x85F9vLM1p1a2BAQ_Jc4/w640-h514/moses.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #606a73; font-family: basier, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: -0.27px; text-align: start;"><br />Frida Kahlo, </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #4d5761; font-family: basier, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.27px; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;">Moses</em><span style="color: #606a73; font-family: basier, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: -0.27px; text-align: start;">, 1945,</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br />The separation of Theory & Practice was physically embodied, for centuries, with Many Different (currently dominant) Social Classes, wherein all the Practical Work (and even New Inventions), were unavoidably-situated with the Skilled Workers, which I term "Artisans", while whole "Explanations" of the World were reserved for the Educated Class of Owners. <br /><br />So, the many mismatches between these two Class Worldviews (and Approaches), were to some extent softened, by the somewhat privileged positions bestowed upon the Very Best Artisans. Indeed, perhaps surprisingly, easier ways of advancement were afforded to the best Soldiers (for example), and on which side they used their skills against their own Class! <br /><br />But apart from the "Privileges" that certain highly skilled soldiers could achieve, real Class Mobility was not possible then - prestigious Positions, could happen, as long as they didn't have to Read & Write! But, even that was too much of an economic disadvantage in the end, so the tendency became increasingly to Educate the Working Classes, but to still maintain Class Differentials, as far as possible.<br /><br />I can speak with some authority on this subject, as I came from an unskilled Working Class background, and after getting Eye Glasses, following General Tests within All Schools in the 1940s, I soared across most of the Qualifying Hurdles, including to everyone's surprise, Passing the 11-Plus Examination to win a place at a prestigious Manchester Grammer School! Where, over the next 7 years, I had an illustrious Career, finally winning a place at University in Leeds! And following an extra year in Leicester University to Qualify as a Teacher, I started out upon a Teaching Career first in a Middle School, then a Grammar School, and finally in a Further Education College.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtceKXXWfysM8884NnDwcB6A9CLKiJX9OWs3SOlEoPcFsqu4XezSSLifzVtukb0Dmw-eQRdIZVICkyC99EjBNSfeg9EZd5XexYSvFidY6VcnjwY1o60pp3SwA2Ir9BwNl12G2q_d94TRkdjhrkNlHZQJExKnyg0KTwzJ1vVYuD5EhBfowtVuGtske4/s2048/gettyimages-159384706-2048x2048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1518" data-original-width="2048" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtceKXXWfysM8884NnDwcB6A9CLKiJX9OWs3SOlEoPcFsqu4XezSSLifzVtukb0Dmw-eQRdIZVICkyC99EjBNSfeg9EZd5XexYSvFidY6VcnjwY1o60pp3SwA2Ir9BwNl12G2q_d94TRkdjhrkNlHZQJExKnyg0KTwzJ1vVYuD5EhBfowtVuGtske4/w400-h296/gettyimages-159384706-2048x2048.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Schoolboys at Manchester Grammar</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>But as soon as my steadfastly alternative view of things became evident - certainly different to the accepted Norm - it was then that my Career quite definitely had a restraining lid placed on it! I could not be allowed to in any way "Join the Club", with all its advantages! It soon became very clear that my abilities were there to be <i>Used </i>by their Class, rather than applauded! <br /><br />It is easy to explain, by the subsequent perpetrators, by adding that I just wasn't up to the task: but a continuing extension of successes elsewhere certainly didn't confirm their prejudiced conclusions. For, having learned to Read & Write long ago, before I was 5 years old, I was, always, an avid regular visitor to any Local Public Library, and the always assumed usual Lack of Knowledge, that was usual in my Class, was certainly NOT the case with me! <br /><br />I had realized their purposes, and then by-passed them, by thereafter following any success I had achieved, by an immediate move to another institution. And it worked very well until a post in a University, when a few days off with an old illness gave them the chance to try to terminate the job by asking me to resign! But this, I refused to do - and after confirmation of the non-terminal and easily coped-with nature of my illness by a Harley Street Surgeon, I obtained a Full Early Retirement, and, instead, returned to continue my prior Researches into Motion Study, for the next 10 years, with my Dance colleague, and all that despite an Aneurysm, which did lose me a couple of years! <br /><br />I finally realized that I had to take a termination of those Researches, when I was presenting a Paper upon my work on the Laban Pure Form, at a Conference in Athens (Greece), when it was finally clear that my eyesight was critically impaired, so that all my usual activities depending critically upon that Sense, would have to cease forthwith!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_QX7UQZlrpw7yypkZmterCvlxVQe6A_A15HtH1DiJskC2qzjmND2QpjkP7lUMeg5xX1PLIxtFN4ZDkkvwtq0DVCYVFF6RQo7662R-zP74XTuIudQauVnxigOS8EcFcqRPMEoVgJVYCPjvOfylzYfPcMtOaaO2J8DxhTtXReUXfEMM4cc5QGArHKf9/s382/Screenshot%202022-08-12%20163351.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="357" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_QX7UQZlrpw7yypkZmterCvlxVQe6A_A15HtH1DiJskC2qzjmND2QpjkP7lUMeg5xX1PLIxtFN4ZDkkvwtq0DVCYVFF6RQo7662R-zP74XTuIudQauVnxigOS8EcFcqRPMEoVgJVYCPjvOfylzYfPcMtOaaO2J8DxhTtXReUXfEMM4cc5QGArHKf9/s320/Screenshot%202022-08-12%20163351.png" width="299" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Jim Schofield presenting his research into the Laban Pure Form</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Needless to say, this didn't lead to a restful retirement, but instead to my Final Career as a Full Time Philosopher and Writer, which extended for the next 16 years. For, with the help of my son (who has a PhD, and is a Course Leader at Leeds University) I was equipped with a four-and-a-half-foot-wide Screen for my Computer, plus a helpfully Coloured Keyboard, and radically re-coloured Screen, with much larger and easily variable Font Sizes. <br /><br />Indeed, for the first time in my career, I was able to pursue, Full Time, the many differences that have emerged in my Academic Interests, that had become evident in my very first Term at University, when I had begun to attend to study Physics, at the very beginning of my career. And, it was clear to me, from the very outset of that Physics Course, their whole approach was damagingly mistaken! <br /><br />For, in the early 20th century two different kinds of Physical Law had been reliably begun to be revealed: the first was the traditional Causal Laws, which concentrated upon being able to Explain Why things behaved as they did. But, increasingly, there had begun also to also be revealed Solely Empirical Laws, which related measured quantities, BUT <i>explained </i>absolutely Nothing! <br /><br />Now, these were clearly true! No matter how many times they were repeated, the exact same results would always be delivered. But the Results from the solely Empirical Laws could never be associated with any single Property - so they explained Nothing! <br /><br />Much later, it was decided that the numeric results DID NOT refer to any Single Known Property: BUT, instead, to a whole set of very different and, as yet, currently Entirely Unknown Properties COMBINED via their numeric Effects alone. And, as we didn't know exactly what they did, OR how much of each were involved, Absolutely NO Crucial Individual Contributions were available! <br /><br />Indeed, only a combined purely Qualitative overall Effect, in a single associated overall quantity would be available. But, without a breakdown into Individual Qualitative Effects, and the proportions delivered to each, it could still explain Nothing! <br /><br />Indeed, for these to be combined purely Quantitatively, it also indicated that these combined numeric contributions were of THE VERY SAME THING! It wasn't of <i>different </i>effects, but something common to them all: like Temperature, or some similar accompanying and definitely additive quantity. <br /><br />Clearly, the 2,500 year old method of carrying out Experiments, supposedly to deliver what happens in Reality-as-is, has been a catastrophic Failure for our Understanding, even though it was completely adequate for accurately guiding <i>Production</i>. Indeed this Wholly Pluralist Mistake has been profoundly misleading in Absolutely All Attempts to Explain Anything!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9tdLLUDGkKG3B2sE3HFhIlfxqvUt4kGJimIpgmQrGbZkJaSswhFcR9zlQjWi39LmhZRxOZm0bc-UUeXW78vXfkMih0OxRkLjvagCENCQVoUFHFERpvcAodEOn7lMyuEwsD8D2_HC9E1EDcn4v6LJM8J9JZYV7on7kIzbg3b_x5BwotSAzIp1eUdV/s1024/Self-Portrait-on-the-Borderline-between-Mexico-and-the-United-States.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="1024" height="558" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA9tdLLUDGkKG3B2sE3HFhIlfxqvUt4kGJimIpgmQrGbZkJaSswhFcR9zlQjWi39LmhZRxOZm0bc-UUeXW78vXfkMih0OxRkLjvagCENCQVoUFHFERpvcAodEOn7lMyuEwsD8D2_HC9E1EDcn4v6LJM8J9JZYV7on7kIzbg3b_x5BwotSAzIp1eUdV/w640-h558/Self-Portrait-on-the-Borderline-between-Mexico-and-the-United-States.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Instead, a tidy and achievable alternative was established solely with Production in mind, and the Science of Physics was actually-replaced by its many uses in Engineering and Technology.<br /><br />However, the Theories of Physics DID NOT soundly inform the Processes of Engineering: indeed, it was the Practices of Engineering which ultimately determined the Theories of Physics! <br /><br />The Full Physical Theories of Reality-as-is are still Unknown! Neither Physics nor Engineering currently deal with any Reality beyond our Technological Control - which instead creates a new Reality that we routinely mistake for Reality-as-is. <br /><br />To maintain this effective illusion they must be always strictly limited-to Methods & Materials that can be relied upon to perform as our scientific Disciplines require, and hence always demand Absolutely NO self-modifying Techniques have ever been built into our constructions! When they fail, they <i>Fail! </i><br /><br />And, without extensive reflections of True Reality-as-is in our constructions and methods, many limitations within these edifices will NEVER be allowed-for, and the necessary, indeed, the whole constructional (and even medical) built-in changes instituted - due to appropriate continual monitoring, and consequent triggered remedial corrections, will NEVER have even been considered. <br /><br />Take the obvious medical requirements of at-risk-patients: instead of nurses carrying out somewhat irregular testing: these could be permanently in place, with even immediate automatic changes in treatment coupled with detailed results sent direct to those responsible & capable of checking and in instituting the necessary modifying treatments. But, clearly, Research and Development teams would have to be radically expanded in the range of Disciplines, and Particular Skills present in the team, or available very close at hand. <br /><br />For 7 years, in two British Universities, I made myself available to all active Researchers, across the institution, as a ready-and-waiting Highly Skilled & Experienced Programmer, to assist them where I could. And these were absolutely NEVER mere technological interventions. <br /><br />Perhaps the most surprising was in Dance Performance and Choreography, which actually won a British Interactive Video Award in 1989. While another transformed the attempts of a Biologist to Classify (and easily identify) the World's Tardigrades, which was highly successful. With another Intervention I helped a Mathematician, who was attempting to model The Actions of The Human Heart, wherein my help revealed both the equivalents of both Fibrillation and even Heart Attacks in his suggested model. <br /><br />Many other valuable contributions proved possible, and these were only available from an able Computer Programmer: yet I can think of many other Disciplines even more appropriate in many such Researches. And having specialized in both suggesting and joining such teams, the gains made have been so remarkable, but generally were still very rare at that time, and that where such have been attempted successfully, there has still been a dominating reluctance to recognize where the credit should be both admitted and celebrated! <br /><br />Interestingly, in one post, I had a visit from the Local Examinations Organisation, because they couldn't understand why my students were so much better than literally all the rest in our Region, and certainly absolutely no credit was allocated within the Institution where I worked! Indeed, the Examination Board also asked me to become their Chief Examiner in my Subject, as part of a concerted effort to increase standards generally: but, at an Assessment Meeting the Teachers involved thought the the Level achieved by my classes were due to favoritism! But, the scores in question, commenced long before I was Chief Examiner, when I could do Nothing about the marks awarded... Meanwhile nobody elsewhere within my own institution were at all aware of the success either! <br /><br />So, the question arises - "How can such successes be used to encourage successful means across involved instutions generally?" It surely has to be regular Informative & Celebratory Events, and maybe even consequent courses, along with sample materials, exhibitions, and even awards for success, by the Board, for informing & helping interested Teachers. <br /><br />Now, these things are never as straight-forward, as they should be, Research can never be entirely limited to a Single Discipline, and even when it does involve a measure of co-operation with experts from other Departments, it is NEVER usually officially organised and involving a truly Joint Team! For, the inter-Department-rivalries for difficult-to-obtain Research Funding always puts paid to such official forms of collaboration. Funding is always allocated-to individual Departments, and cross-department co-operations are always strictly ad hoc, and residing in a Single Department officially. Projects involving people from several different Departments are invariably Unofficial, AND always fraught with difficulties! <br /><br /></div><div>I managed to make it work, in only two Institutions, fully successfully, and in only one other where I managed it only once! The first was in a Further Education College, where such Research was almost totally unknown. But, in the two Universities, it was only possible by the inter-departmental involvement being coordinated by The Computer Services Department! And that worked because Computer Services was NOT a potential competitor for Research Funding: it had to be a Servant-to-All! And several good projects were unofficially undertaken, but not without some unavoidable calamities. <br /><br />Indeed, even this solution ran into difficulties, as Computer Centres in Educational Institutions were invariably islands of Electrical Engineers in an Institution of Academics: and they didn't like what was happening to <i>Their </i>Ground! There was undoubtedly a Class dimension to this too<br /><br />Indeed, in retrospect, it surprises me that Computer Centres were ever willing workers in Projects dominated by Organisers and Academics! They were only really happy looking after machines and keeping them working...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />...</div><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />This paper is taken from the ongoing publication <a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s77home.html" style="color: #e50000; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Systems Theory of Everything.</a></div><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fefdfa; clear: both; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s77home.html" style="color: #e50000; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="762" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOU5V4u4eAfUPy33iElSglrd72btEXr7LXe60NMvuzkCpG7HaOujwKV4EX4oAgslc5RZUlFSOTQjwA0kvnfUyP-HyDFjgtrveSMaUBI-C5rGaF8HPXrxaAFTwF9hjT9Of30L1rYA6oJ241QLvN-elkiDquGYEB2gnW2Jz6HA-4_O--yxABtbiFbYVb/w283-h400/sissue77.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(197, 197, 197); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="283" /></a></div></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-11300917418472465992022-07-29T16:56:00.002+01:002022-07-29T16:56:38.944+01:00Science for Understanding, not Production<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK6R-IsZT-Vnx3WDtMnb_Iz3rCDESZQoXFxHE54HUr0qUiuwdsx0fkWPR43cmzSx0-GTTb7z682OPZnbZmGMxpsCaBBCChZS-TPHX2ht7UHxIWo-qoLUt0f3vXxu-Xc6soouelwzHiqB1I-K0sinBs8I36Oj6W7Dzq5_6j2YzAYrRmJlae9GBbHjt_/s500/giphy-15.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK6R-IsZT-Vnx3WDtMnb_Iz3rCDESZQoXFxHE54HUr0qUiuwdsx0fkWPR43cmzSx0-GTTb7z682OPZnbZmGMxpsCaBBCChZS-TPHX2ht7UHxIWo-qoLUt0f3vXxu-Xc6soouelwzHiqB1I-K0sinBs8I36Oj6W7Dzq5_6j2YzAYrRmJlae9GBbHjt_/w400-h400/giphy-15.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;">Science for <i>Understanding</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and not merely</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Science for <i>Production</i></div></h3><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>Pluralist Science - which I have extensively revealed to be greatly misleading, in the absolutely necessary Development of an absolutely full and necessary Real Explanatory Understanding of Reality-as-is - has proved to be severely-limited and entirely-restricted, in both its true effectivity. It is really useful only when used within Purely Effective <i>Production</i> Methods: and, even there, significantly-limiting in what could ever even be achieved, in that extremely valuable area!<br /><br />It has, also, unavoidably, and very badly distorted any attempts, both at a fully-subsequently-developable Understanding of all the on-going further possibilities, achievable even within those now drastically-restricted-and-maintained components, still always seen to be absolutely all that is involved, AND certainly-thereby, also due to its consequently-misleading Methods - which actually forcibly always omit the possibility of many other useful extra Productions, mainly because their possible subsequent Manufacture - isn't even realised, as ever being achievable via related methods! Only the more obvious "Paths-through-Reality" were ever considered in Production.<br /><br />Surely, a thorough-going Revolution-within-our-Approaches, is long overdue! For that will be absolutely imperative, not only for a True & Wide-Ranging Understanding, but, in addition, for a truly mammoth, and important, extension of what a Real Science could deliver.<br /><br />And, as those already familiar with my writings over the last period will already be expecting: these absolutely necessary transformations will be impossible unless also accompanied by a Dialectical Materialist Approach, which has already made a whole series of Essential Developments in Politics, established via a major & revealing re-interpretation of History, not only in terms of warring Social Classes, but most profoundly, also, in the necessity of taking-the-side of the Working Class, and steadfastly working against the increasingly established, and now ruling, Capitalist Class.<br /><br />But unless this is seen as an example of "The Tail Wagging The Dog", we must also emphasise the damaging inadequacies of current Capitalist Rule, in Mankind's Understanding of Reality! <br /><br />For millennia, Theory has solely been the exclusive Domain of a series of Ruling Classes, which because it has never been in the hands of The Doers, absolutely always reflected and supported the position of the Classes that had developed it.<br /><br />The position from which these Developments CAN ONLY be achieved, most certainly, being that of an entirely Socialist one - and entirely committed directly against the Capitalists, and their self-centered priorities! And, such a Stance is absolutely imperative, as for literally millennia such Ruling Classes have had the power and made their Decisions, entirely without the wherewithal, within their Class, to actually DO any of the clearly necessary Work, or even, to ever get a real understanding of it!<br /><br />Theory and Practice have largely become based upon Different Social Classes, and this exclusively determined their priorities for millennia.<br /><br /> <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlMhDvFV2UWMSIbwKTLBozVM-IgY2r1f7_M5grVV7AUUk-CMFJYAePyuzuruXJMCx5zcV9Bj2K9_ObslhM8zq2rAXdZBj67cwiVg4x6jdcb_-yvqINPsJMolfAH6-HKJMkqSiZnqVR66Y_x6JwLr5-M0TCe_BXcEtTBLOGG1W7zJo8uf4X7Af9FZBc/s480/FluffyQuaintBonobo-size_restricted.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="480" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlMhDvFV2UWMSIbwKTLBozVM-IgY2r1f7_M5grVV7AUUk-CMFJYAePyuzuruXJMCx5zcV9Bj2K9_ObslhM8zq2rAXdZBj67cwiVg4x6jdcb_-yvqINPsJMolfAH6-HKJMkqSiZnqVR66Y_x6JwLr5-M0TCe_BXcEtTBLOGG1W7zJo8uf4X7Af9FZBc/s320/FluffyQuaintBonobo-size_restricted.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br />For though, I am originally the son of an unskilled labourer, after a surprising success within an extended Education, I have worked for many, many years in Schools, Colleges and Universities, and across a very wide range of Scientific Disciplines, with significant success, so these social conclusions can never be attributed solely to Sour Grapes!<br /><br />But, it was also never a Smooth, Sweet & Fruitful Ascent to Glory!<br /><br />It was a constant fight, with many battles, that just had to be won, and also necessarily immediately-followed by the successful acquiring of a new job, often even with a switch in country required, in order to ensure that subsequent necessary judgements there, would be based solely upon my clearly-demonstrated achievements, rather than Class background. <br /><br />And, as long as these were regularly being achieved, they predominated in how I was assessed for new posts within new places! Indeed, I had an extremely wide range of appointments and contributions in many different cities, with Professional Demonstrations, Lectures and even Posts in eight different countries - including throughout the UK and Ireland, then Hong Kong, along with significant work in Spain, Portugal & Greece, and others in Holland & Belgium. And, surprisingly, any local victories NEVER meant that you could stay in that Institution, for no matter how good was a current position, success also invariably makes you a rival for the ambitions of similarly involved others, so a gain is ONLY guaranteed by an immediate move!<br /><br />But, clearly, returning to more General Developments, well beyond the strictly personal, with such a remarkable Political Stance as mine, there could be no chance of building a soundly understood General Position, without an increasingly soundly-realised Real History of Development (as it really should be), AND absolutely crucially based upon a Sound & Profoundly-Grasped Philosophical Theory, fully able to explain all Historical events, as well as be ready to further explain them again once they have produced all possible following Developments too.<br /><br />No such Informing Theory was even intimated until the arrival of the truly Revolutionary Philosopher Karl Marx, in the early 19th century, whose principle area of study, initially, was Ancient History, some of which was available within the still available Writings of Civilisations like those of the Greeks & Romans. But, Marx could not believe that they accurately described the earliest Developments, and he, among a wide range of other investigators, with varied agendas, began to go much further, and consider the very much earlier Origins and Developments of Mankind.<br /><br />And, it was unavoidable that the transitions between, say, Hunter/Gathering and Farming, would surely have to be established within a subsequently greatly-accelerated Form, within a further set of Developments, which were characterised by him as constituting actual Social Revolutions!<br /><br />And, very clearly, such Emergences had to have happened also only in the Innovative Developments of the entirely Wholly New, and, of course, within the very First Appearance of all Living Things too! <br /><br />And, Marx's Major Conclusion was that these dramatic-and necessarily Swift-Tempo-Transformations (not evident within the usual Slow Tempos of Everyday Trivial Changes) were undoubtedly the Key Interludes of All Major Transformations, which would have to be understood, to ever really meaningfully--explain all such significant Revolutionary Changes!<br /><br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0EZYy0aoiF01nu-z4c2y6HdEhPaSqvvMaUB2sWDZgH8xKSj3qLaLlOiH7mSzq4uZc3FLESiai1YvViTQQxdqimFJuqkvZ1rsrcr0pBVyw18SRHctIQx7lzN0ATklycQd3EuI8owkxTgsCTILpTFSUHNn8F46gUMLFfl1JcqKUT_0qaQpECPI9wzFD/s399/WateryDefenselessChital-size_restricted.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="399" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0EZYy0aoiF01nu-z4c2y6HdEhPaSqvvMaUB2sWDZgH8xKSj3qLaLlOiH7mSzq4uZc3FLESiai1YvViTQQxdqimFJuqkvZ1rsrcr0pBVyw18SRHctIQx7lzN0ATklycQd3EuI8owkxTgsCTILpTFSUHNn8F46gUMLFfl1JcqKUT_0qaQpECPI9wzFD/w400-h266/WateryDefenselessChital-size_restricted.gif" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Now, Marx was initially a committed follower of the Idealist Philosopher Hegel, especially in his remarkable tackling of the most outstanding problem, left totally unsolved by the Greek Developments (way-back in History), which certainly did NOT fit in with their Generally Universally Celebrated Approach: the appearances of wholly unexplained, yet certainly consequent Qualitative Changes, and the only reasons Hegel could consider for them, was because, as an Idealist, he never ever addressed Reality-as-is. Instead, Absolutely Everything, Hegel believed, developed entirely within Human Thinking - where absolutely Everything was possible - so solely within that Powerful Context, he could deal with Qualitative Changes as necessary changes in Thought, and NOT changes in material Reality!<br /><br />But, it was, at this precise point that Marx parted company with Hegel, for he insisted that these significant Changes took place entirely within concretely-existing Reality-as-is! Hegel's effective Sleight-of-Hand, in locating all such cerebral ideas as only existing within the only-and-unavoidable way we related such things, was Wrong. Hegel was clearly relegating such things entirely to Things of the Imagination: and Marx knew that this merely avoided the Real Problem, which would be irrelevant when addressing Really Existing Situations.<br /><br />And, of course, this revealed that "Hegel's Solution" actually achieved Absolutely Nothing: and would legitimately be immediately rejected by those who daily dealt with Reality-as-is, AND actually regularly physically-made a whole host of Real Things.<br /><br />So, naturally, the Makers-and-Doers within Society had to base things upon something incomparably more solid than those based upon the idealist Belief of Thought alone!<br /><br />Indeed, the whole of Manufacturing and Production, just had to base its methods entirely upon Real World Properties and Laws relating Real Things.<br /><br />BUT NOTE: <br /><br />In order to cut Reality down to a handleable size, it still had to be severely-restricted to forcibly limit it to One Single Law at-a-time, to enable the situation to be so-simply-directed. But, Complete Manufactures would, therefore, have to be composed ONLY of a full & separate set of individually artificially-restricted situations, each thereby obeying ONLY a Single arranged-for Law at a time.<br /><br />But, let us be crystal-clear, though avoiding the lies associated with the usual assumptions about the Nature of Reality, even with the truth-filled view, it still had to be severely maintained so, in order to be at all useable in Full Productions: AND that approach was majorly misleading too, when it came to correctly Explaining Why things happened exactly the way that they did!<br /><br />The Devil had merely been replaced by The Deep Blue Sea, when it came to both Theory & Real Understanding!<br /><br />And, the full set of problems involved, were not easily simultaneously solved, for the Real World as such is absolutely NEVER a mere Summation of Fixed Laws: indeed, they most definitely affect one another, and not just by individual modifications, but, instead, also widely by interrupting-one-another, and even, wrongly, linking parts of different Laws into concatenated mixed sequences - to give inexplicable & useless results!<br /><br />Indeed, the only solution to this seemingly unsolvable mess, would have to involve the Finding of the actual Causal Laws, that certainly deliver the only available Empirical Versions, currently the only ones easily ones accessible.<br /><br />And, until recently, these were nowhere to be found: and that was because Mankind was permanently wedded to the Myth that all such Laws were exclusively Bottom-Up! Yet, the Causal versions of these Laws turn out to be exclusively Top-Down, and will only be both found and revealed at a Higher Level.<br /><br />The Causes were only made available by all the extensions, found to be also involved solely within Systems Theory! And, these wil; turn out to be Nothing Like the usual "Within-Level" explanations available for the usual Atom-Level Laws, extracted from the Properties & their Processes available at the Atomic & Molecular Level, (and because they are solely numeric) also to be able to be simply multiplied-up, totally unchanged in Quality and varying only in Quantity, when acting at the usually-required Bulk Level!<br /><br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg46KR1HgynOaJmy9x6Dxx86Di47qqb6C75Z7PUtdIqVWSRuBdKa4I9qzUl78m9L4ODeRIOT0kTZ0C5SMNRe8Pe6SKjR0142ryTiRqgcN-MEQiqqIhr98yMjNYDVLL1tm8qCClz7HnFXD5AAgtvFgVVXcVvqCTfSegLTjQKAB2Ti52Ec3XIGIPBFxds/s499/giphy%20(1).gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="499" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg46KR1HgynOaJmy9x6Dxx86Di47qqb6C75Z7PUtdIqVWSRuBdKa4I9qzUl78m9L4ODeRIOT0kTZ0C5SMNRe8Pe6SKjR0142ryTiRqgcN-MEQiqqIhr98yMjNYDVLL1tm8qCClz7HnFXD5AAgtvFgVVXcVvqCTfSegLTjQKAB2Ti52Ec3XIGIPBFxds/s320/giphy%20(1).gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>But, the New Systems Level Laws, on the contrary, are very different indeed: for they are effectively-and-always combined with each other there, to give overall very complex qualitative results: though in the usual normal "within-Level" Way, though with absolutely NO Qualitative Causes being evident there - can still give only Quantitative Results, so the New NON-Quantitative Laws can never be further analysed into individual seperate Causes at all, without a very different Qualitative investigation of the Causal Laws that also delivered them!<br /><br />Now, historically, for many generations, Physicists ONLY sought Quantitative Causal Laws, as these, knowing the Properties of the Atoms & Molecules involved, could also presumably Fully Explain-why things acted as they did! But, by the 20th century, and its vigorous extensions of Physics down into the Sub Atomic Realm, there began to Emerge ONLY Purely <i>Empirical</i> Laws, relating only the combined Quantities, and with absolutely NO Evident Qualitative Causes at all evident! And this was because these Laws were Causally Qualitative, and hence though associated Quantities could indeed be merged correctly - by so doing the individual Qualitative Causes were not-retrieveable, but totally LOST by such operations!<br /><br />The combined Quantitative results were entirely CORRECT, but the reasons for them were LOST!<br /><br /><div>And, try as they might, no Physicists were unable to find a single Cause!<br /><br />Henri Poincare & Ernst Mach reacted by defining a Wholly New Stance, that they called Empirio Criticism, in which they insisted that Empirical Laws should be given the same weight as was the case for Causal Laws. But this stance was initially (and correctly) rejected by the majority of their colleagues, worldwide! But, as there then followed a Positive Avalanche of these Purely Empirical Laws, the general mood flipped-over to begin to agree with the position of the previously-rejected Positivists, and there were even those who placed such solely Quantitative Laws as by far the more Basic!<br /><br />They were wrong, yet until such Causes were found and, ALL the Laws that underpinned that "wrong-turning" would no longer be seen as correct! And, that discovery still turned out to be a very long-time-in-coming, because traditional Methods had all efforts to find those Causes totally unsuccessful - for they were always inevitably looking in the Wrong Places, and for the Wrong Things!<br /><br />The tradition had been that all Causality is always Bottom-Up!<br /><br />But, that meant that all searches for Causes would be in situations BELOW what we were seeking explanations-for: but, they weren't there, and it wasn't until Researchers happened upon the wholly new Systems Effects, that the possibility of Top-Down Systems-Generated Causes began to be considered.<br /><br />Yet, it still wasn't obvious, exactly what these New Causes were!<br /><br />They were, of course, nothing like the usual Properties of Substances - traceable all the way down to individual Atoms and Molecules, which had simply been multiplied-up unchanged to describe the usual Bulk Effects! They were, instead, many and varied Causes - always involving interactions between different Situations, or even different Processes: so the simplistic Causal Laws, involving ONLY the Effects of Properties, were most certainly NOT what were happening at the New Systems Level.<br /><br />In fact, the only reason that the usual type of Atomic Level Laws worked-in-the-usual-way, was because the arranged-for Experimental Situation was always very massively restricted to only the very minimum of Key Purely Numeric Variables, so that the Atom Level Properties that still worked in exactly the same way, as the numeric Effects could be added together correctly: BUT all other possibilities had been forcibly excluded, as they were clearly NOT numeric.<br /><br />Now, the initial users always believed that their extensive editing of actual situations, did Absolutely Nothing to the various contributing Laws - merely revealing each focussed-upon-one, by removing the complicating and confusing others that were normally also present: and because of their non-numeric nature greatly hindered any attempt to understand what was happening due to these type of cases!<br /><br />They believed that their methods were revealing the components that simply delivered Reality, via only a Direct Sum of all the numeric values of those delivered by their component Laws!<br /><br />But, it just wasn't true!<br /><br />They didn't all simply ADD, for some actually also causally affected & changed each other: and these original contributions had by then been totally lost by the mistaken consequent Methods used.<br /><br />Now, the ones actual causing transforming interactions, at this Level, are many-and-varied, and hence, considerably more complex than the usually wrongly-supposed, merely numeric consequent interactions. And, therefore, the actually Transformed Overall Results would always differ considerably, from what those mistaken assumptions naturally misleadingly delivered.<br /><br />It is also quite impossible to guess exactly what has actually been implemented, solely from the only available related source - the Overall Purely Empirical Results that are always easily achievable: by combining just the final solely numeric results alone. There will, most certainly, be more-than-one contributing Purely Causal Law: and to overtly do what is required, will be possible only if we certainly involve the finding and revealing, of all the many different necessary efforts to deliver them all.<br /><br />But, where can we find, all that diverse evidence, to carry out these revelations?<br /><br />It will certainly have to be at a Higher Level, as they must be Top-Down!<br /><br />But, as they will be several, and of different Natures, due to being caused by very different processes: SO, the initial essential researches will be to consider the various ways these may be caused!<br /><br />And they clearly wont be Solely Numeric!<br /><br />Chains & Loops</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnuili_rXndUugmoAly_S3LM_er8tw_djcMtrneJ1jxyMMmUxHp3o98npMo7RFuogkMGU7kJoApV0K8EN7XHLw2dchRkc_7XcHxhCZSggBIUE8yYMM3CJtsgjCJSeEO8W9iNWAdrFJhNRUAVRg-sorBGdYkmiJ76VKSRcdU7Or0xCbe9Ezy7HPxv_/s500/9d2bbea92a532f9cf90fd27ebae8c60c.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="500" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQnuili_rXndUugmoAly_S3LM_er8tw_djcMtrneJ1jxyMMmUxHp3o98npMo7RFuogkMGU7kJoApV0K8EN7XHLw2dchRkc_7XcHxhCZSggBIUE8yYMM3CJtsgjCJSeEO8W9iNWAdrFJhNRUAVRg-sorBGdYkmiJ76VKSRcdU7Or0xCbe9Ezy7HPxv_/s320/9d2bbea92a532f9cf90fd27ebae8c60c.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div><div>By far the most important change, involved in these wholly New & Necessarily Also Qualitative Effects, are those generated by the fact that they are The Results Of Multiple Combined Causes residing within quite separate simultaneous Processes involved.<br /><br />The crucial differences compared with ALL of the prior Single Process Causes, which always predominated in Properties occurring at the Atom Level, and were selected-for, by very strict and very artificial imposed restraints upon the Contents allowed in ALL arranged-for Experiments.<br /><br />Now, this investigation will undoubtedly be substantial, so it will be tackled in the next paper in this series!<br /><br /><br />...<br />This paper is taken from the ongoing publication <a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s77home.html" target="_blank">The Systems Theory of Everything.</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s77home.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="762" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOU5V4u4eAfUPy33iElSglrd72btEXr7LXe60NMvuzkCpG7HaOujwKV4EX4oAgslc5RZUlFSOTQjwA0kvnfUyP-HyDFjgtrveSMaUBI-C5rGaF8HPXrxaAFTwF9hjT9Of30L1rYA6oJ241QLvN-elkiDquGYEB2gnW2Jz6HA-4_O--yxABtbiFbYVb/w283-h400/sissue77.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-78364676053356140022022-07-26T17:28:00.002+01:002022-07-26T17:28:16.588+01:00Special Issue 77: The Systems Theory of Everything Part III<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s77home.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="762" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_4eoy3xUVnCDBwxrqKFdzAhBcqpORKmMu8WtSjZViQ9VK-ykLkCMBuptTPrvMSDwq6IEO5BolRGOt6PjyUb_ZkhBAalMDtKaoGb4Gtv10tU2SPfq0Vit9prdYaP4A4bPs5dZS_PbQK00Zygm4IP5FQA_-LPXgMGTHeWcFWnsYCDP642rOKGx9rLk/w452-h640/sissue77.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s77home.html" target="_blank">Special Issue 77 of the SHAPE Journal</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fefdfa;">Special </span><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;">Issue 77 contains the third instalment of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;">The Systems Theory of Everything.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: #fefdfa; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">This series of issues attempts to set out the first definitive account of Jim Schofield’s new Systems Approach to Science. The various papers collected here, and over the next few editions of this journal, explore the proposed theory and explain why it is such a radical departure from the current universally applied scientific method. </div></span><br />The series continues by examining how Systems evolve over multiple Levels, and how this fact effects the reductionist discipline of Physics.<p></p><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;">Contents:</div><div style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></div>Introducing Schofield’s Systems Theory <br /><br />Top-down and Bottom-up Development within Evolution and Physics <br /><br />Natural Active Stabilities <br /><br />Assumed Restricted Scenarios and their consequent Man-Made Laws <br /><br />Levels and Tempos <br /><br />Mankind’s Greatest Mistake <br /><br />How the Mistake Affected TheoryE Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-28270022370876415222022-07-25T13:18:00.003+01:002022-07-25T13:19:25.775+01:00Revolution and Evolution<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4pus4KKo7fsQdFmj2YHj9zv9Mn0GAOM0ECzku6qAa2SaKtIG3BDLrDK-mugQtlSMQHZ6hmOLS6taJeiTJjQMWIXwiKSsj7Uf6vJanu2Y9SG5TYxnb8XHb9eABhTTNHEiDffMAUjyK0EJCUqpCYLr4FMsyVZivRb7WP37Eu9xq3rLPQ-RYjoKRz-xw/s1664/Empress-2_Crop-1-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="1656" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4pus4KKo7fsQdFmj2YHj9zv9Mn0GAOM0ECzku6qAa2SaKtIG3BDLrDK-mugQtlSMQHZ6hmOLS6taJeiTJjQMWIXwiKSsj7Uf6vJanu2Y9SG5TYxnb8XHb9eABhTTNHEiDffMAUjyK0EJCUqpCYLr4FMsyVZivRb7WP37Eu9xq3rLPQ-RYjoKRz-xw/w636-h640/Empress-2_Crop-1-1.jpg" width="636" /></a></div><br /><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Real Evolution: The Dialectical Materialist Version</h4><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>This is the latest in the long series of papers on The Systems Theory of Everything, currently being published in instalments on the SHAPE Journal. The most recent unpublished papers in this series have been, without any doubt, Revolutionary!<br /><br />And it has taken some two thousand five hundred years of mistaken & Wholly Pluralist Misguidance, to finally announce the Ultimate Demise, and the Impossibility (at least at present), of both a Sound and Developable Truth-Revealing Approach, that will radically transform Human Understanding of all Development.<br /><br />And, let us be clear, it is not a moment too soon! We need a new Dialectical Materialist Science to understand and deal with rapid changes happening today - both socially and in the natural environment.<br /><br />The War in Ukraine, similar to many that, for example, the USA regularly indulges-in - without the Whole World System having to be purposely-and-consciously put in Existential Jeopardy - now threatens to be a repeat of the Second World War, when both sides were also Capitalist, and the Capitalist Dominance of the World turned out to be at stake then too.<br /><br />Now, this will NOT be a primarily Political Paper, but these points are much too important to be ignored, and they will always be regularly addressed when appropriate. But, at this point, the Full and Crucial Replacement of the Millennia-long errors made by Mankind, were clearly, and will be, by far, the most important initial task: so, the arguments arising from abolishing the currently Universal-and-Incorrect Stance, have not yet been by any means sufficiently elaborated - so, let us, at this time, continue with that First & Foremost undertaking, and get what we will more generally require, initially, from the clearly emerging ideas in this set of papers.<br /><br />For, upon a re-assessment of the currently major mistakes in Science, I am sure that we will reveal, in addition, answers to the more general questions too! And, the Key Area, is surely in correcting our conceptions of the Required Context for <i>any</i> Sound Analysis of Systems undergoing transformation.<br /><br />Absolutely Nothing will take place, anywhere, unless the required features are available-and-beginning to come across what they will quite naturally combine-with! Indeed, what we now know are vital are the CHAINS of Processes - linked by the Output of one being the necessary Input of the next in the series! And, of course these will never all be happening at the very same time: they simply couldn't do so, as initially they would totally all be entirely separate - distributed singly throughout a relatively unstructured melee.<br /><br />The trajectory of the subsequent-build, could only be a One-at-a-Time situation! And for the whole CHAIN to be successfully sequentially-acting, would not only take an inordinate length of time to complete the CHAIN, but would be regularly-interrupted and even sometimes prematurely terminated, by adding other links from different potential-partial-CHAINS that were available with the same link, but inappropriate.<br /><br />Any Outside Observer would confidently only predict just a different kind of Random Chaos resulting for the whole population of Partial Chain potentially available by the same link. And such a conclusion would be correct, and remain so, until by chance after maybe Eons of Time, a favourably functioning Complete Chain was finally executed. But still entirely alone, what could it DO?<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkhoMxOl4k8gT-O-udSAC1YNTP8khcdkKo_I42w3P_hrTaVhNKaCEOlbnCtEto9vH8XwKn7ogQEtMGz6Fsjsz80Ikbachzfs46e7Hu3B3tVvL-QEzFD4tX1m_S5bDgnZdM5LTRMtLeXes4nQIgJ3jKPt9gF_qaSzHALP8u4xLK7uaDC8Ocyue1QaXK/s1300/d0bb6745-5cbe-4f5a-993d-4c9b25ab86b8-2060x1479.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="1300" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkhoMxOl4k8gT-O-udSAC1YNTP8khcdkKo_I42w3P_hrTaVhNKaCEOlbnCtEto9vH8XwKn7ogQEtMGz6Fsjsz80Ikbachzfs46e7Hu3B3tVvL-QEzFD4tX1m_S5bDgnZdM5LTRMtLeXes4nQIgJ3jKPt9gF_qaSzHALP8u4xLK7uaDC8Ocyue1QaXK/w640-h460/d0bb6745-5cbe-4f5a-993d-4c9b25ab86b8-2060x1479.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Indeed, the answer would surely be Absolutely Nothing, and would remain so, until a different and somehow Complementary Chain also arose, that could connect with the other one, and thereby produce something Absolutely New, with always reproducibly favourable functions!<br /><br />Now, such seeming miracles have been, and still are, considered Totally Impossible to occur - within the established Thinking of Mankind! For, within their known World, such situations would just have to be the result of a Supernatural and All-powerful, yet Man-like Director of Absolutely Everything - indeed A GOD!<br /><br />Order could never actually Emerge out of Total Chaos! All the consonances of Everyday Reality simply must have been arranged-for: how else? Clearly, these remarkable and complex situations, just with Reality alone as the Sole organising Source, and if just left to itself, would perhaps Complicate, but surely never mutually Co-operate! Order couldn't happen purely by Chance!? Surely, the everywhere evident, Direct Contentions would always predominate?<br /><br />Indeed, the trajectory of Human Development has long been attributed to particularly powerful Men! You have never been able to just sit back and observe Reality, bringing up all things everywhere exactly as is - & carrying you with it, has it? On the contrary, Early Mankind was always lucky-to-survive at all, in a mostly hostile World! And, it appeared to be the actions of particular individuals that changed the odds to every single greater extent that enabled the subsequent rise of Mankind to dominate their environment.<br /><br />Nature was only very rarely conducive, perhaps initially only in the Eden-like tropical jungles, with their plentiful fruits and shelter from the elements. But the following Open Plains habitat was almost totally devoid of any natural succour for humans, who had to transform into fierce hunters of the Plains Animals, simply in order to survive.<br /><br />Indeed, conceptions of natural mechanisms of Development, through all the Stages that must have been involved: and particularly the earliest ones - those entirely without Life - have never been really understood!<br /><br />Yet, it is certainly those, existing at the Base of all subsequent processes, which have always been the Real Productive Drivers of Absolutely All Development!<br /><br />Let's make it Crystal Clear.<br /><br />We have to explain the earliest Pre Life Developments, that enabled everything that happened subsequently - including the Origin of Life itself!</div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-45838723504789474552022-07-18T14:46:00.004+01:002022-07-18T14:46:58.009+01:00Where are the Marxists??<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBLBNJNsp1Kv5WrzpA4aGgFqxl-3YCff_Svckrt_rKs5L-fMCW8Fke5AIlJhrnlMLnIKW4RZeV3b6P-klYMbBLOdD50ZoBqFvhQFTOXuOY0yDd6aaH0PApghz9MSkVDH5rC_MMPmEO5wVt1KruKtEw1kcxu-fvI3YFtgSBrIER957Oiucq5q0tCDP/s1200/2585.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1200" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBLBNJNsp1Kv5WrzpA4aGgFqxl-3YCff_Svckrt_rKs5L-fMCW8Fke5AIlJhrnlMLnIKW4RZeV3b6P-klYMbBLOdD50ZoBqFvhQFTOXuOY0yDd6aaH0PApghz9MSkVDH5rC_MMPmEO5wVt1KruKtEw1kcxu-fvI3YFtgSBrIER957Oiucq5q0tCDP/w640-h384/2585.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>And why we need interdisciplinary Marxist Theory NOW</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>In this profound period of mounting crises, the self-professed Pro-Working-Class" Marxists, can, it appears, no longer see the woods for the trees!<br /><br />The very long trajectory of Working Class Politics - from the remarkable Revelations of Karl Marx - to the disappointing political situation we find ourselves in today - has apparently arrived at what seems to be a General Terminal Denouement, with the Climate Crisis and the Ever-Mounting War in Ukraine!<br /><br />The Soviet Union has long since fallen and China, while purportedly still a Communist State, quietly and undemonstratively chases trade with a still Capitalist Rest-of-the-World, as the Sole Policy for its People. The Socialist Perspective seems to have no place to go!<br /><br />The World has changed radically to become more like the situation in 1939, when a Nazi-ruled Germany invaded Poland. A new World War is increasingly highly possible now, just as occurred then, but though at that time Britain still had a powerful World Empire, and the Prior Economic Crisis Worldwide was finally fading in a seemingly general recovery.<br /><br />But NOW there is a Gigantic World Economic Crisis brewing, while both the West, as well as the Hawks in Russia, are itching for a New World War, to supposedly solve the Economic and Political Problems facing the Capitalist Class, along with "The Fruits of Victory", BUT WITHOUT the necessary wherewithal to sustain it, especially as such a Conflict will inevitably vastly speed-up a truly enormous Multi-Sided Cataclysm - not only Economically, but unavoidably also coupled with the mounting Climate Catastrophe too.<br /><br />And the powers-that-be are already well aware of that eventuality, but because of it, they undoubtedly need to vastly consolidate their Positions and Strength, and to do it while the Working Class still have absolutely NO effective Trades Unions, and NO Revolutionary Parties to lead them in precipitating the necessary Revolution!<br /><br />For the inevitably coming Crises will certainly change the state of play dramatically! And the Automation that has seemingly replaced the Work Force in much Production, will not mend itself when their minders and fixers are flocking into the Newly Growing Unions, and the rejuvenation of True Marxist Revolutionary Parties of the Working Class begin to grow like Topsy!<br /><br />The current "seemingly insane" drives of the Ruling Classes demonstrate their obvious realisation of what is increasingly inevitable, and if unprepared-for, could result in their Demise! A Victorious and well-equipped professional Army would be necessary to defeat a rampant Working Class - as the Nazis proved in Germany, after World War One.<br /><br />The Restricted War, which Putin is waging, doesn't suit the opposing Countries, and today there is evidence that powerful interests in Russia itself feel the same: Remember their Working Class lived in a Socialist country for 74 years before the Victory of the Capitalist Oligarchs. They too will flood-into Working Class Parties when they are necessarily strongly repressed from above!<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfcKmBLJwdwssgwExMtxrGSeiaxLIaSvvKC0K3gPo3iNwxyHOHWoEvrs8ofPjg2pp9wKVLuz2PgY6AEq0iMBoyBNhjy5PUMpQsN5ZnHQt4pVq2APCyRVyo63nkBcfSMkKyTO_MBOshTNbs6an6ivpqg24aDJUWUiUOxPsY3JEX6uCoNLA68s2O2PS/s2500/SEI_89818908.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1667" data-original-width="2500" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfcKmBLJwdwssgwExMtxrGSeiaxLIaSvvKC0K3gPo3iNwxyHOHWoEvrs8ofPjg2pp9wKVLuz2PgY6AEq0iMBoyBNhjy5PUMpQsN5ZnHQt4pVq2APCyRVyo63nkBcfSMkKyTO_MBOshTNbs6an6ivpqg24aDJUWUiUOxPsY3JEX6uCoNLA68s2O2PS/w640-h426/SEI_89818908.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Russia's army in Ukraine</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And who might then be waiting in the wings - China!<br /><br />(and why is China currently having to deal with a new virulent form of COVID after they dealt so effectively with it when it first emerged? Can you guess how it arrived?)<br /><br />Now, you would think that there are enough regular commentators around, who call themseves "Marxists" to work on some sort of strategy - but there are in fact literally none who explain things the way I have done here, and what is more, they hardly mention the increasingly important and rapidly changing <i>Contexts</i>, for what is clearly developing totally unhindered!<br /><br />Yet it had always been the strength of Real Committed Marxists that they also always situate developments in the Delivering Contexts, as they in the end, often, deliver the more unusual consequences! And, the reason for this, is that in them, and even their evident absences within most others: they have a particular set of preferred outcomes which they strongly signal, while ignoring those that they would rather didn't happen!<br /><br />Now Richard Wolff is a celebrated "Marxist", but I could find No Trace of a pro Working Class Stance in his comments upon the War in The Ukraine. And a Prior analysis of the way things were developing in the Context involved, should have been what he established FIRST!<br /><br />As has become increasingly clear, Thinkers upon these matters are always too Single-Discipline based to arrive at a Real Marxist Analysis. They find the same things Marx discovered in History, BUT only within their own Specialist Areas!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyL9-irMqNztk1H3oZIoMOQnterRvHs0FXg0_ybrXTsOcQErLJ_HGIr8F1Z2IjSrOT6rDobNUjVVnji_xFfxFuMTIwa9cE6WTzQtURMQLRrn4DqCcuJsLseVKb-bCi485xRjYBRaMFA0YeWo0nkrth11nsC6DF4hlbWmdtxfgF6_3frwz9sfTVJt5/s1280/maxresdefault-14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyL9-irMqNztk1H3oZIoMOQnterRvHs0FXg0_ybrXTsOcQErLJ_HGIr8F1Z2IjSrOT6rDobNUjVVnji_xFfxFuMTIwa9cE6WTzQtURMQLRrn4DqCcuJsLseVKb-bCi485xRjYBRaMFA0YeWo0nkrth11nsC6DF4hlbWmdtxfgF6_3frwz9sfTVJt5/w640-h360/maxresdefault-14.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And that is never enough!<br /><br />To cope with the problems of today, both the actual pertetrators AND those seeking Objective Solutions, DID it with their Subject-Blinkers on! And, because of the unavoidable biases involved in both approaches, the problems were NEVER solved, either by the Capitalists in charge, or adequately addressed by the Discipline-limited "professed Marxists"!<br /><br />For, the cricial limitations of ALL Restricted Approaches, is that by so doing, only a cut-down version of the presently-existing-situation, which occupies ONLY a Single Level within Reality-as-is, will actually deliver a finite solution, BUT always limited to that Precise Context alone.<br /><br />This relation within a Limited Context and its associated useable Rationalities, is, of course, the root if the Problem - and gives the illusion of" Absolute Truth!" But it certainly isn't so! And we must say Why!<br /><br />The reason is that these Restricted Situations were in the earlier Evolution of Reality-as-is Absolutely Correct: BUT then ceased to be so as New and Different Levels emerged that changed things fundamentally. Yet these were add-ons at Different New Levels, so the old version could even then be taken as an Approximation to the Modified Current Truth.<br /><br />Needless to say, this always confused early Thinkers, when it was finally updated, and they didn't for a long time realise the Division of Absolute Truth over Several Levels! They didn't even see the Levels, but instead interpreted them as Different Disciplines!<br /><br />Clearly, the whole range of commentators of the current increasingly critical situation, are, whether supporters of the Status quo, OR perhaps surprisingly, even any avowed "Marxist" Critics - they are all, nevertheless still very far from capable of fulfilling their various, intended, and supposedly-opposite objectives - as both of these opposing groups never really address the problems caused in any way that could lead to a sound resolution.<br /><br />The once reliable trust that could be put in the Marxian Socialists, is, I'm afraid, more or less dissipated by their current inability to both explain and then direct arrived-at solutions, to what will undoubtedly be inflicted upon us, in the coming period!<br /><br />And, the reasons for the failures of both intensions of the perpetrators, and the inflicted-upon recipients of what has been delivered, wrongly characterise what was actually involved, and where it would lead! The Perpetrators know only what they can do, and that isn't enough to accurately know what effects it will have! While the recipients using extracted Laws taken from wrongly conceptually considered remedial actions, which, therefore, don't get the expected effects right either!<br /><br />Both sides use <i>Laws</i> extracted in only partly defined ways, for the recipients, and based upon a very different prior experience, by the perpetrators. For in both sets if actions, Wholly New Emergences, when they will happen for the very first time, are absolutely NEVER predictable: so, what will happen is unknowable!<br /><br />And, because of a multiplicity of these events, there will be NOT a single outcome, but a range of possible outcomes with different probabilities of each happening!<br /><br />Now, where have we seen this before? Is it not in Quantum Theory?<br /><br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnMXhRHqruzw7At627OVzuKGm1jb_gmdz2sH6Mgy3cWJiK7xZ5ShkuyGZDrK-azhqDNdYPUYpQHy0P9Ic7MtmiJ8WTmxh1BdL9bPetBq0ik9yBKMESc_CBKNYB8aOPShP-ELk8Qh_UK-cfDWIUhbuIYjHZuPLE2GoJr1pc_3wg_N45hMTorLAtyhCN/s960/leinie.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnMXhRHqruzw7At627OVzuKGm1jb_gmdz2sH6Mgy3cWJiK7xZ5ShkuyGZDrK-azhqDNdYPUYpQHy0P9Ic7MtmiJ8WTmxh1BdL9bPetBq0ik9yBKMESc_CBKNYB8aOPShP-ELk8Qh_UK-cfDWIUhbuIYjHZuPLE2GoJr1pc_3wg_N45hMTorLAtyhCN/s320/leinie.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>And, at this stage of the Mess wrought by a rampant, blinkered Capitalism, the Significant Damages to the Environment, and its resiliance-to-recover from such things, has, by now, gone TOO FAR, and Significant Climate Change is already knocking at the door, simultaneously with such a destruction of its means to recover, that a Major Calamity appears unavoidable.<br /><br />For the Working Class to re-arm with the very latest Developments in Understanding such Situations AND, of course, <i>intervene</i> in them, there is still much to be done!!<br /><br />Indeed, without the Significant Extention of what Marx brilliantly initiated, and Lenin further developed, of the profound theoretical basis - we have no way of Understanding the complex dynamic Systems and multiple levels involved. Yet this vital theory could not be both further, adequately and necessarily developed, without the current conscious extensions of these ideas into All The Sciences that Marx and Lenin had never addressed - and are NOW being so-extended by this theorist!<br /><br />The lack that these omissions inflicted upon this Important Body of Theory, is clearly indicated by the oft applied appellation of the term "Scientific Socialism" to Marxism, which is most certainly Untrue, as neither Marx or Lenin, nor anyone else, ever criticised the means and methods of Science from the correct Dialectical Materialist base to, for the very first time, establish such Laws from a philosophical standpoint - as a Socialist Science!<br /><br />For Science - as was, could never be competent as a basis for that Fundamental Philosophical Stance. And even before this New Turn, the old Causal Laws, so achieved, were regularly added to, by supposedly New Purely Empirical Laws - with Absolutely NO Causal Explanations evidently possible for them.<br /><br />All attempts to discover such interpretations met with Total Failure, and this caused most physicists great difficulties - for they profoundly believed that all such Laws MUST have Causal Explanations. But, the Positivists Henri Poincare and Ernst Mach insisted that these Empirical Laws should be given equal status with the preferred Causal Laws, within their Empirio Criticism Approach. And though this, at the time, was rejected, the following vast increase in these Empirical Laws, in the Sub Atomic Realm, persuaded the majority of physicists to agree: it rapidly became the norm for all Science!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://theelectronicjournal.blogspot.com/2022/06/issue-77-systems-theory-of-everything.html" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="452" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKNgcBXNXs4hybck5aRsvsS0-P_NiR9SchQ2brkePtT93l1DKm9mMLpUE_hzwwZ6qrboZD0MNaYLVHqpLEWUXAzxkT1kPwQ3P0FTaLQgkGeWUfkCdutpWgtTSgrlHowOFJZ0URlbLcLOzPOZ6DAzyPOlGWABwT1c660NXgk-l03xsP0-L_TDqo6mC1/w283-h400/issue77.jpg" width="283" /></a><br /><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jim Schofield's work on Marxist Systems Theory<br /><br /><i><a href="https://theelectronicjournal.blogspot.com/2022/06/issue-77-systems-theory-of-everything.html" target="_blank">The Systems Theory of Everything</a></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And, it was only recently, that the Emergence of what is termed Systems Theory proved that Causal Explanations were indeed possible, but NOT residing at the very same Level: for as they were associated ONLY with Systems-of-these-Processes, they were situated at the higher Level of Systems modifications!<br /><br />Indeed, all of the Sciences were shot through with these systems modifications: reductionist Science was NOT the reliable basis that it used to be assumed to be!<br /><br />Indeed, the Systems modifications turned out to be many and various and torpedoed the long resorted-to assumption that the tiniest causal relations just were the same but multiplied-up in all bulk situations.<br /><br />It just isn't true!<br /><br />AND, most important of all: without the full addressing of ALL the interactions in all bulk situations, the very Natural Stabilities that occur and their Tumultuous Collapses - particularly in Revolutions - will Absolutely Never be understood.<br /><br />Indeed, even more generally an Important Turn has finally actually been initiated, that had been a very long time in getting to the stage, when Explanatory Theories, across-the-board, could finally deal with their long disabling restrictions, and become more generally applicable!<br /><br />Marxists must now embrace a holistic Systems approach if they are to deal with any of the problems facing us as a species today. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCqHQ-gGFCz16KswOn8hXXbt4MrRIO6ewHzWgF3zU3pcXORWHvXd2uL1gGNuc40uXv9Yatj4vRFj7HQPm1zp0T8eqv5LMjg__vweGOGquNssD5WJmqkef6SXOJVGm1jyZv9QQefoyCVnLB_gSB9F-feiA-vzmUQHNyRTPr4Xa9mGJNc5EnI1S-aPgO/s1080/287630434_326361203018833_6225014896151379839_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCqHQ-gGFCz16KswOn8hXXbt4MrRIO6ewHzWgF3zU3pcXORWHvXd2uL1gGNuc40uXv9Yatj4vRFj7HQPm1zp0T8eqv5LMjg__vweGOGquNssD5WJmqkef6SXOJVGm1jyZv9QQefoyCVnLB_gSB9F-feiA-vzmUQHNyRTPr4Xa9mGJNc5EnI1S-aPgO/w640-h640/287630434_326361203018833_6225014896151379839_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Leeds Marxist Society on the Parkinson steps, University of Leeds</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-80614648277390409712022-06-29T12:19:00.000+01:002022-06-29T12:19:00.117+01:00Systems-based Marxism<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3HmER0VgiCKdh7CAa1h8bLq7DY759V3_dEG6SQb1EMK3s5k8dD9mxq9Vy4kNI3P2k_pf6ATqmkje4FDlheqGTzCUdB04e4jO1WWI5odwDvpwcfA1PJ-vQpkho7EDe_GrWmDbf0njahh4a1qISbbFxSZInLeyKP6yA7it6gVGxyxMg2Q5yW4tdnahG/s1676/Screenshot%202022-06-29%20at%2011.57.46.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1676" data-original-width="1182" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3HmER0VgiCKdh7CAa1h8bLq7DY759V3_dEG6SQb1EMK3s5k8dD9mxq9Vy4kNI3P2k_pf6ATqmkje4FDlheqGTzCUdB04e4jO1WWI5odwDvpwcfA1PJ-vQpkho7EDe_GrWmDbf0njahh4a1qISbbFxSZInLeyKP6yA7it6gVGxyxMg2Q5yW4tdnahG/w453-h640/Screenshot%202022-06-29%20at%2011.57.46.png" width="453" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="page" title="Page 21"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 13pt;">Hinting at a New Philosophy for both Science and Politics</span></h4></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />There will be many who vigorously reject how the last essay in this important series ended, with Lenin standing on the rostrum of the All Russia Congress of Soviets, declaring “We shall now construct The Socialist Order!” I’m sure this radical and polemical tone will put many off what I have to say about Science.<br /><br />Lenin has always been a divisive figure, but he had long understood the real universal significance of Dialectical Materialism - the most remarkable and indeed revolutionary contribution of Karl Marx. For, though Marx had never taken the crucial step of congenitally extending his profound philosophcial contributions into The Sciences, Lenin, did indeed know better!<br /><br />For, very much earlier in the 20th century than the Russian Revolution, Lenin had himself, via his own brilliant book Materialism and Empirio Criticism, taken on the crucial task of debunking the contributions of Henri Poincare and Ernst Mach, the physicists who had insisted in their own version of Positivism, in which all the aspects of Physics which relied solely upon empirical evidence alone, with NO associated attempts at Explanation, should be given the Exact Same Weight and Status as the very different Causally Explained Laws, which always included full associated Explanations!<br /><br />And, it was this undoubted major retreat, that finally “opened the door” to both Relativity and Quantum Theory, which were clearly “legitimised” if the claims of the positivists, were right!<br /><br />When I arrived at University as a first year Physics student in 1958, I was immediately totally aghast, at literally everything my Physics Lecturers “taught”, who never made any attempt to Explain Anything: they merely gave empirical evidence and coupled it with the New clearly Positivist Stance, along with sophisticated Mathematics, which to them was wholly sufficient. But it wasn’t enough for me!<br /><br />At school I had always been branded “the gifted mathematician”, who could “do it all” in that discipline. I had obtained 4 different “A” Levels in Mathematics, along with 3 others at the same Level. I had always found Mathematics very easy, and I was similarly successful in all of my subsequent three years of Mathematics at University! BUT, I had chosen Physics as my main subject there - because, it alone had always attempted to Explain Reality! I had eagerly looked forward to the much higher standard of Explanation that I thought I would get at University: but it turned out to be abysmal.<br /><br />I endeavoured to get explanations, but the lecturers were never available - there were, after all, almost 100 students in my year, so such individual attention was NEVER available. We did, however, have access to post graduate Demonstrators, but they just dismissed my questions with “Is the Mathematics too difficult for you?”. And, at my insistence that it wasn’t that I couldn’d “do the math”, so, could they show me the required Explanations for why the Mathematics worked: they soon got angry, and, of course, always had the support of the other students present!<br /><br />So, I took to long periods in the excellent University Library, but there was nothing available in the Physics Section that could give me answers. So I switched to Philosophy instead, and there I very quickly found Lenin’s aforementioned book on Physics.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLYaIM1QtBeWLbvAnrO57dMM6g7TQ1UiFu0RNYZOeXvoDot7pLfUFjec7XFyM7EX76QBBDt-6rRSpETGfdHgYh6xzJXup99kqZsKTWp-outnaBbnd_Sfn4OO0nsruqbLsGHAGB4_HeC7nQzPYLp4wdGMKVPMT3rVs2_cLMOB4C2JhbmBhB4JmY_8vX/s1676/Screenshot%202022-06-29%20at%2011.57.59.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1676" data-original-width="1182" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLYaIM1QtBeWLbvAnrO57dMM6g7TQ1UiFu0RNYZOeXvoDot7pLfUFjec7XFyM7EX76QBBDt-6rRSpETGfdHgYh6xzJXup99kqZsKTWp-outnaBbnd_Sfn4OO0nsruqbLsGHAGB4_HeC7nQzPYLp4wdGMKVPMT3rVs2_cLMOB4C2JhbmBhB4JmY_8vX/w452-h640/Screenshot%202022-06-29%20at%2011.57.59.png" width="452" /></a></div><br /><br />I thought I had found the answer, but nobody on my Physics course wanted to know! So, I joined the Communist Party to try and find out more about Lenin’s work. But even there, I never found a single person who would even discuss it with me. So, I continued to seek more answers in Marxist literature, but Lenin’s Book was all I found there!<br /><br />And all the other self-proclained Marxist tendencies were no better. Politics and Science, it seemed, were mutually incompatible (or taken together, appeared to be beyond any single consistent understanding).<br /><br />But clearly, in the way that such Marxists seemed to argue, they always insisted that they were being “very scientific!” Clearly, what was being called “scientific” in their “Reasoning” was definitely something else! It appeared to involve only the Mathematical Rationality of the Greeks, along with most modern scientists, that is, of course, not-at-all Holistic, but definitely merely Pluralistic, involving exclusively Fixed Laws, due to the artificially imposed restrictions upon ALL of their studied Situations.<br /><br />Literally all such “reasoning” was erroneous, as Marx’s criticisms of most reasoning tried hard to dispel - but, with Marx himself being an Historian and Philosopher, he did not comprehensively identify and codemn the still-remaining Plurality, as such, so he too was unaware of the still involved and numerous False Bases still used almost universally in most Consequent Reasoning.<br /><br />Lenin’s crucial lesson, in his valuable book, was NOT yet integrated, as it should have been by then, into an appropriately revised Modern Dialectical Materialism.<br /><br />He had been on his own in genuinely developing Marx’s work. It was, therefore, no surprise, on many subsequent key occasions, that Lenin, wholly alone, managed to correctly interpret dynamic situations, as were regularly proved correct by subsequent actual developments! Just telling everyone Newly Discerned Truths is never enough: they have, also, to realise why they usually got things wrong! Lenin, himself, always had his finger upon the true pulse of the Developing Revolution, and within the White Heat of constant, incipient Change, he was effectively forced to insist upon his arrived at analyses - there was no time for Education Classes!<br /><br />But Lenin was no dictator: his credentials were always being confirmed by Events. While, far inferior leaders, like Stalin, also insisted upon their required conclusions! They seemed on the face of it to be like Lenin’s style of conclusions, but, in fact, they never ever were! And, with Lenin’s tragic and premature death, the most valuable link to the most developed Marxism was lost!<br /><br />In a long career in Revolutionary Poltics, I rapidly achieved leadership positions, but was never, at that time, really educated into appreciating Lenin’s Developments in Marxism: so, I too suffered from the usual inadequacies. Indeed, only in retirement did I have the time to study Lenin’s methods properly. And, without the vital revelations of Modern Systems Theory I would not have cracked it yet!<br /><br />For, so-called Science still was wholly restricted to the Bottom-Up Approach, which was supposed to reductively explain All Causality - but instead it was only by what happened at the Atomic and Molecular Level (initially only dealt with in Chemistry, but, thereafter, presumed to determine everything in all other Higher Levels too), and nothing created above that Level was considered to be Causally important, at all. But, that was obviously wholly incorrect, and many Levels both above and below the one in question are always causally-active - though involving Bottom-Up Causalities, actually only occurring within the Levels, BUT then delivering consequent Top-Down Causalities which were active Between the Levels!<br /><br />And, such an Approach necessarily omitted all the significant Changes occurring in transforming Development, which are, therefore, NEVER predictable in advance of them actually happening (a vital aspect of all Bottom-Up Causality): for they alone deliver the Wholly New - such as Life, Man, Thinking and even Social Revolutions.<br /><br />As they didn’t even exist before: they are clearly created for the very first time, along with and within the Wholly New Development!<br /><br />You can see the difficulty here for Holistic Politicians - for they can never promise beforehand, all the anticipated and fought-for Revolutionary Gains! What they actually deliver, are always solely the consequences of the effective creative actions, which more than anything else equips Mankind to make the future, even though all they can <span style="font-family: AGaramondLT; font-size: 10pt;">say</span> is that it will be better than the the System before.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgniPpimoJ6CZvaJS1yHrBz2s4MCs08fKExXezPZHGC8MgMFx9EDG0Cld96Zf_L79pNQhw5HOgsoznML-GTeo39keaAls3rrMEM92XovJJsGMk_PNQM0oyycBfATevxoYzj31N7XpdWOe_2jymeVe2lYtVjdfnqpJLHem5S9U9Vt2aLG_QdShfukBlV/s1676/Screenshot%202022-06-29%20at%2011.58.16.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1676" data-original-width="1182" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgniPpimoJ6CZvaJS1yHrBz2s4MCs08fKExXezPZHGC8MgMFx9EDG0Cld96Zf_L79pNQhw5HOgsoznML-GTeo39keaAls3rrMEM92XovJJsGMk_PNQM0oyycBfATevxoYzj31N7XpdWOe_2jymeVe2lYtVjdfnqpJLHem5S9U9Vt2aLG_QdShfukBlV/w452-h640/Screenshot%202022-06-29%20at%2011.58.16.png" width="452" /></a></div><br /><br />Now, all the teaching I encountered in all of my own Education, as well as in every single post I obtained, as an educator myself, whether in Schools, Colleges or Universities, had everything generally still clinging to the established Pluralist Stance, in all the scientific subjects I had to teach.<br /><br />And, of course, no developmental conceptions were even possible: for that stance could never actually explain any Real Qualitative Change! So, there was no such thing as the Emergence of the Wholly New; all Laws were necessarily Fixed, and, to ensure this, all experiments had to be severely restricted and rigidly controlled, so that the Laws - thereby revealed - would conform to the unavoidably involved agenda!<br /><br />The Real Laws of Reality-as-is were never addressed, during six decades spent in Science Education!<br /><br />Now, let us be crystal clear in this assessment, Plurality works very well for many things, which is why it is rarely if ever questioned - it works perfectly for Technology and seemlessly for Production, because we can rigidly control all of the Systems involved.<br /><br />BUT, surely the crucial purpose of Science is not to merely make things but to Understand the Natural World, Understand the many Systems we don’t or can’t control, and to Understand Real World Causality. With Plurality that was impossible to ever achieve!<br /><br />So, a Theoretical Explanation of exactly WHY things happened as they did could never be revealed by the usual scientific methods! And, of course, there were consequences for this dominant Philosophical Stance throughout the other major areas of Study too, such as History, Philosophy and, of course, Politics.<br /><br />For, everything undoubtedy evolves, and the dynamics of all their changes are unobtainable with the usual Pluralist prejudices severely distorting All Real Qualitative Development!<br /><br />And we need to Understand how Natural Systems evolve now, more than ever. We need to Understand how and why they fail... by far and away the most devastating avalanches of so-called Natural Crises, are now, all over the place, due increasingly to the many decisions that are attempts to solve other problems we don’t really understand, but actually only accelerate the speed of Natural Threats that, instead of being under our control, are now swooping headlong towards unstoppable disaster.<br /><br />The most obvious of these problems is Climate Change - which is already very close to terminally undermining many of the Actively Balanced Systems of importantly maintained and life-preserving Stabilities, on which the Level of Human Civilization relies.<br /><br />While, elsewhere the urgent push for ever higher profits, in order to allay possible economic collapse, is also simultaneously undermining the need for the better safety measures needed to deal with Climate Changes’s many damaging affects - such as flooding and pollution.<br /><br />Attempts to balance the economic system without a working Systems Theory causes unforeseen problems at all different Social Levels. For example, over-zealous cuts in safety-measures within Maternity Hospitals in Shropshire, led to delays in essential Ceasarian Sections in problem Births, and the avoidable deaths of several babies.<br /><br />And, of course, let us not forget the Covid Pandemic - which was very badly handled by pro Capitalist Governments the world over, and which inevitably led to thousands of deaths of old and infirm people! But you see, doing what was right for the majority of People was no good for Profits and an Economic System reliant on perpetual growth - so that largely determined Government policies including a rush to return to maximal profit making - much too soon. And the effect upon the Care Systems for the old, infirm and disabled not only made it widely inadequate, but also drove many of the very best carers to despair, and an increasing number of exits from that profession, into less upsetting and exploitative alternatives.<br /><br />This is just one example of the many labour shortages caused by criminal mismanagement of the economic system during this period.<br /><br />Sadly modern Marxists have no answers to any of these problems either. It is vital that we now take a Holistic and Materialist Systems Approach to both Science and Politics, before it is too late, and these life support systems collapse for good.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRmkTeodSzD5R42kbvxwUMlt2a1AImgJ4iOFVuxRLqUlik0BolVaX8W-7hGGuMcoTLLOCXE8t9ABqMuSEGIQgpU8i4OcELwVFb6ZKXaGZbLmfUWIZq-YcLrzZyTnWtEefLbnFvtq6Ld0bEgXC1UO1_vO0D5AwRcLOvnrdZWP4zkRgQy8sVg6q9szsq/s531/issue77a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="375" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRmkTeodSzD5R42kbvxwUMlt2a1AImgJ4iOFVuxRLqUlik0BolVaX8W-7hGGuMcoTLLOCXE8t9ABqMuSEGIQgpU8i4OcELwVFb6ZKXaGZbLmfUWIZq-YcLrzZyTnWtEefLbnFvtq6Ld0bEgXC1UO1_vO0D5AwRcLOvnrdZWP4zkRgQy8sVg6q9szsq/w226-h320/issue77a.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This short essay is taken from Issue 77 of SHAPE Journal - <a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i77home.html" target="_blank">The Systems Theory of Everything II</a> - It is also available on <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361608630_Systems-based_Marxism_Hinting_at_a_New_Philosophy_for_both_Science_and_Politics" target="_blank">ResearchGate. </a></div><br /><p></p>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-65087839623733079202022-06-28T17:48:00.008+01:002022-06-28T17:52:23.336+01:00Issue 77: The Systems Theory of Everything Part II<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i77home.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="762" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho9eiRKCECAFBhQGNf8tfZInJ6hGJlBUwW5MnqN9vXijiEZGbXcDUQXqDYoB6iXq8fECDxz0AbQshbEc-Ao8vVYXdkDuQoiLbrntzJDDrWfSiVSQg09bJ0PTp1FBPPWxNY9IKoVLZiDIKRMIlFiGMjclaXzvsbVQhRTqiOSmM8i6FCWnAUP1Ij5Yyd/w452-h640/issue77.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i77home.html" target="_blank">Issue 77 of SHAPE Journal</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Issue 77 contains the second instalment of <i>The Systems Theory of Everything.</i><br /><br />This series of issues attempts to set out the first definitive account of Jim Schofield’s new Systems Approach to Science. The various papers collected here, and over the next few editions of this journal, explore the proposed theory and explain why it is such a radical departure from the current universally applied scientific method. <br /><br />The series continues with a closer look at Buddha, Marx, Hegel and Zeno for clues on how to develop Systems Theory.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Contents:</div><div><br /></div><i>Introducing Schofield’s Systems Theory <br /><br />Real Messy Development <br />Top-Down or Bottom-Up? <br /><br />Reality-as-becoming: <br />The Two-Way Street of Real Full Causality <br /><br />Beyond Zeno and Hegel: <br />The Profound Significance of Contention <br /><br />The Buddha and Quantum Theory <br /><br />A Comprehensive Holist Approach: <br />How can we effectively deal with Levels? <br /><br />Systems Contentions <br /><br />Systems-based Marxism <br /><br />Equations: Why they lead us to nothing... <br /><br />Entering the Multi-Level Cosmos</i><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-29624029431042702622022-06-22T10:38:00.002+01:002022-06-22T10:38:48.802+01:00Follow us on ResearchGate<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Schofield" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="1356" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinttCXskQAM9WphRInVsR-z5OEChc2yhKudYTKnXC_Ytc6iPCxCWpKQaRLNRE95t5tGKjrIspBRM34jrPHlSALZyKyXPTpqFbZ25_cglNbNC2wDjAWISdoVvBpfUzxYXFo0dLBbOwES9zo6rAqE23EIDp-PbXQm_hsLA2jFqCSqjfP8TflSj4_66wu/w640-h186/Screenshot%202022-06-22%20at%2010.35.26.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Schofield" target="_blank">ResearchGate profile</a></p>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-53184851073547609732022-06-20T15:16:00.003+01:002022-06-20T15:16:32.555+01:00The Bases of the Sciences<div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiab5a4tFt6EX16El2amVMCr0X6R5qIY9UaP0n6IzOOm2utlQVobRs453sbXVnJAmuGuKlq4uJ_EpqSnjEtK5xc3n_lm5r3BdZbC44VRYDSNfDZxgnllXM77IZxygBiCInGbNj4TUCADLyMDs2cIg6BJhUjBQgQTi37SHgNExl3zbQibHfBtUD_bxyC/s1350/Craftsmen_Tomb_of_Nebamun_and_Ipuky_MET_eg30.4.103a.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1350" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiab5a4tFt6EX16El2amVMCr0X6R5qIY9UaP0n6IzOOm2utlQVobRs453sbXVnJAmuGuKlq4uJ_EpqSnjEtK5xc3n_lm5r3BdZbC44VRYDSNfDZxgnllXM77IZxygBiCInGbNj4TUCADLyMDs2cIg6BJhUjBQgQTi37SHgNExl3zbQibHfBtUD_bxyC/w640-h478/Craftsmen_Tomb_of_Nebamun_and_Ipuky_MET_eg30.4.103a.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />The Working Class Artisans - A (very) brief history of science</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> The very beginnings of what were later called The Sciences kicked off in ancient times, in the hands of able Artisans, who, initially as Farmers, attempted to make their daily tasks easier, by starting to devise simpler ways to undertake the many onerous processes involved, by the careful and intelligent design and making of helpful Tools. They were never initially trained in such tasks: they just had to "Suck-it-and-See" in attempting to alleviate some of the more time consuming jobs, that were absolutely essential to successful growing, animal husbandry, cooking and crafting. In time, these increasingly effective innovators became independent of individual farmers, and formed a valuable aid to the whole community. For doing their specialist tasks and nothing else quickly speeded up their Development AND the Efficacy of the aids they made, used or trained people for use. In the more developed Feudal Communities, they might be employed directly by the Lord of the Manor, and even equipped with their own small staff: and this greatly extended what they could usefully do...<br /><br />But, these Artisans were essentially Pragmatists - finding the best and most effective means of achieving their aims through experiment. They rapidly became indispensable, and were joined, in the employ of the Lord, by professional soldiers, with the efficient tools of their defensive and coercive trades, to maintain and even increase the extent of that Lord's Territory! And, in such circumstances had to extend the skills of the local Tool producer to making and improving the weapons of the soldiers too. Indeed, in Sea-side or River-side locations these increasingly able Artisans began to be called upon to provide boats and minor bridges too.<br /><br />Now in the so-called Classical World, dominated by Greece and then Rome, the soldiers became more associated with the Ruling Class, as feudal Domains became only parts of Militarily acquired Empires of great size, topped by a growing Ruling Elite, who were able to follow differently occupying lifestyles, and pursue concerns like Philosophy and the Arts! They got their riches from vast estates, particularly in conquered Lands. So, developments in attempts at Understanding began to take two very different routes: though in the case of the Ruling Class, their bases DID NOT originate as did the older Artisanal route within Pragmatism, and the solution of everyday Work Problems, but instead in their purely conceptual experiences in their cerebral preoccupations.<div><br />These two alternative routes in Thinking diverged markedly. For while the Pragmatist still solved the Everyday Problems, the Conceptions of what pure Reasoning could achieve, were considered to reside only in the Classical Ideas, and NEVER in the simple Pragmatism of the Artisans!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzroFrEkMpPB9Hchg6wGPWpCZ9uOXr0A_wHS6c_avqHZy_fViRxDk8u5M_N_Wu8XAvBS3JNOvBrPaSDqd0At0DOC84fNUNu5nsaE9j0gIzuOMxDROQgIucOiq9J8YJAXsUQJ_RTP2iNYQOZoxkpxjmLGAizqW77pYEmK5yEpAogRcQ0T7CE71cgOEt/s1024/Raphael_School_of_Athens-1024x1024.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzroFrEkMpPB9Hchg6wGPWpCZ9uOXr0A_wHS6c_avqHZy_fViRxDk8u5M_N_Wu8XAvBS3JNOvBrPaSDqd0At0DOC84fNUNu5nsaE9j0gIzuOMxDROQgIucOiq9J8YJAXsUQJ_RTP2iNYQOZoxkpxjmLGAizqW77pYEmK5yEpAogRcQ0T7CE71cgOEt/w640-h640/Raphael_School_of_Athens-1024x1024.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />The Ruling Thinkers - A (very) brief history of science</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>So, when the Ancient Greeks came up with the very first Consistent, Concise and Comprehensive Rationality for Mathematics, it was Wholly Wrongly assumed to be about ALL Kinds of Thinking! But those privileged Thinkers, largely a part of the Ruling Class, knew Nothing about the Applied Knowledge of the Artisans! Indeed, their devised Logic was only legitimate within the tightly maintained and Restricted Areas of Disciplines like Mathematics: wholly Pluralist sets of circumstances and Processes.<br /><br />Yet in the alternative approach of Pragmatism, they were also stymied by a very different and undermining mistake: for their approach involved NOT a purely cerebral Discipline, as was the Classical Stance, but changing Real World situations that frequently undermined their conclusions.<br /><br />Interestingly, BOTH sides considered that they solved their inadequacies by Combining the Two! But this didn't fully solve the problem. The only approach for both of these just had to be <i>Holistic</i>: because, to some extent - Everything affects Everything Else!<br /><br />Nevertheless, the Pragmatists embraced the classically developed Mathematics of their Rulers, because of its seemingly-reliable-consistencies (and in spite of its blatant Plurality): while the Classicists, in turn, embraced the Real World Causality of the Pragmatists (in spite of its evident inconsistencies and physical limitations - always limited to known, local and highly constrained situations). <br /><br />And the closer we study our consequent Laws within both of these alternatives, the more Significant Inadequacies are revealed: and, the more failures we notice, whichever Stance we choose to make!<br /><br />Let us, therefore, re-address what was historically-considered necessary, in order to make sense of what was being revealed within the first general Approach of Chemistry!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVjH2TsVxYSNpcU-JTZqcqQNw24PMQcpy6re6vdN8WQ3ov-T6Tjyg02czNdFCVcFWQoS8H4ezkgujvRgr5jG8q331Ot6uSFtT8LDvV0L1TfinUA0lOqKEp9Vn2nleQNC0nNUCtWOMTFSNmUGV14V9LsGd6xEfzxtORMqPA2N37W-yEHciPl8ApbK4/s1600/100243c792e38ef977fcaf0f389f2b74.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1600" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWVjH2TsVxYSNpcU-JTZqcqQNw24PMQcpy6re6vdN8WQ3ov-T6Tjyg02czNdFCVcFWQoS8H4ezkgujvRgr5jG8q331Ot6uSFtT8LDvV0L1TfinUA0lOqKEp9Vn2nleQNC0nNUCtWOMTFSNmUGV14V9LsGd6xEfzxtORMqPA2N37W-yEHciPl8ApbK4/w640-h501/100243c792e38ef977fcaf0f389f2b74.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />The Petit Bourgeois Alchemists - A (very) brief history of science</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>For as this discipline developed, it certainly seemed able to deal with particular features, such as the various different Elements, which clearly combined-together, as units of the substances involved, and always as Single Atoms or Molecules, even if the Context was a great multiplicity of these units: the overall Bulk Effects being merely seen as multiplied-up versions of the Exact Same Products! - in spite of the individual single-unit-reactions by NO means happening simultaneously...<br /><br />Of course, these methods work pragmatically within artificially-constructed Experiments, with absolutely nothing else in the mix - all variables must be controlled! But such circumstances would NEVER occur in unfettered Reality-as-is!<br /><br />Indeed, absolutely all Experiments are limited-to these kinds of restricted cases. And, it is obvious that in less "clean-and-ordered" conditions, things would certainly not only be very different, but also would occur at different tempos, and include other usually NOT considered components too. And also, given time, and a Real World Complex Mix, all sorts of reactions including those that, by diverse routs, also end up adding to the expected result's total by other means.<br /><br />And, of course, standing behind all of these assumptions is the Major Error, that separately derived cases simply <i>Add</i> - when happening together and simultaneously - but THEY DON'T! As The Systems Approach regularly proves.<br /><br />And, of course, Chemistry played no part in the Artisan precidence in many other nascent Sciences! For, it was primarily developed by specialists within Education, and a limited band within Production, where in both of these, its study was given the usual greatly restricted Context, with the usual severely biassed results! Indeed, most supposedly relevant studies were treated to similar restrictions both in Education and Production. And, always seemingly with just Causes - as the more Natural occurrences would always involve a multiplicity of simultaneous, mutually-affecting Processes, thereby making any meaningful understanding of what was going on, impossible! And, particularly as, with little or no revealed Causal Laws, separating out the various contributions to any overall results, was effectively impossible too.<br /><br />Indeed, the establishment of Causal Laws, AND their separation from the overall effects, was imperative - BUT also impossible as more and more such relations were initially totally Quantitative, and hence indistinguishable from all other Quantitative contributions. And as these Causal Relations didn't appear at the same <i>Level,</i> as the exclusively Empirical Results, this became increasingly difficult to both correctly match up and apply.<br /><br />And, to make matters even worse, the multiplicity of confusing Systems Effects - which, remember, were NOT even acknowledged until recently - the disentangling of these differently caused contributions was never fully achieved!<br /><br />The solution, though obvious, is nowhere generally admitted and hence NOT undertaken! It has to be an all-out assault upon Systems Theory, involving the detailed definition of Causal Elements, in order to Fully Explain their contributions, as well as including their purely Quantitative aspects. </div><div><br /></div><div>Now, with a well-entrenched and dominant Mathematical Rationality, the current scientific methods simply cannot easily do this.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s76home.html" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3508" data-original-width="2480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizpRqsBVUOVrHckXJhNT5xP3LodfKlmXbUlU0kffjMxNYiG2ihpLLm5JbdJ_vB2LlcfoE45FFozYuir8rYf1jAqHYygIdhXtUliLl7Wb2LNTT1oyBqSbi3dMv0ZNh1Riwde5uOlzgajtAxcWMuh4KXPGzJlNQWhVv3qflatPrBzyKnMUGUFbFifPv8/w452-h640/Special%2076%20Cover.jpg" width="452" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />The new series on <a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s76home.html" target="_blank">SHAPE Journal</a> attempts to outline an alternative approach</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Let us look briefly at a single Systems Approach revelation by this researcher, in order to effectively reveal the involved difficulties!<br /><br />It is the unavoidable preponderance of CHAINS and even CYCLES of Processes, that are necessary to analyse the Effects of particularly important faults that regularly disturb these Sequences!<br /><br />Now clearly the Processes involved in these sequences are NEVER lined up in a queue, ready-and-waiting for their turn! They will merely be available within a pre-existing "random mix" - - perhaps more numerous than others not regularly required in this way: BUT, because of their randomised positions AND the possibility of their being pre-emptied by others with the same linking variable, could have a mistaken join up and hence a confusion which could show up in the final Quantitative results, with NO indication of WHY?<br /><br />Now, an important aspect of Systems Theory, is when a particular Natural System, involving a whole consequent series of Separate Processes, gets established, and is multiply repeated simultaneously, and also over time: for the constant repetition ensures not only the resulting final products, but also the continuing presence of all the required components in the mix - especially if they are involved one way or another in other Processes too! For they came to have assured presences in the containing population, where others not so integrated, would tend to die out!<br /><br />So the finding of the next required Process in a sequence would always be easier (though not always guaranteed). So fairly "ordered" populations could gradually be achieved!<br /><br />Large-scale successful process successes, tended to restructure their environments, sometimes dramatically, at least to some extent removing the prior "randomness", and making the sequences ever more likely to succeed!<br /><br />But such kinds of vital population massaging, would never be straight-forward to interpret Quantitatively. </div><div><br /></div><div>It is when we start to think this way about dynamic Natural Systems, that the age-old pact between experimental pragmatism and mathematical logic, begins to break down irrevocably...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-88056626448698364972022-05-26T11:14:00.005+01:002022-05-26T11:14:39.509+01:00Special Issue 76: The Systems Theory of Everything<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s76home.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="762" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggMSsSAxWmIimwMRlIt3p-0BT8wHzGFXhoAe9aAv7_ruW-dhiTdgaoYvFciJqXbgD8pz1VSt5UCIVa8nBObZztEwddPRfWxc_U_OD5iZn_biNb0i1zSycN2PpQgMGwWoU8SEgT72g0sphQgcQw2yDr9VeYxwq-LLQqBYu2Ug3VW2IhnWRtQXtnOBYW/w452-h640/sissue76.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/s76home.html" target="_blank">The Systems Theory of Everything I</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>This series of issues attempts to set out the first definitive account of Jim Schofield’s new Systems Approach to Science. The various papers collected here, and over the next few editions of this journal, explore the proposed theory and explain why it is such a radical departure from the current universally applied scientific method. <br /><br />While working on the recent YouTube video “Taking Shape: Denis Noble and the Systems Level Approach” (2022), it arose in discussion between myself and Jim, whether or not “system” was even the right word to use for these ideas. Schofield’s revised view of natural systems is certainly not the usual one. They are not “systematic”, mechanistic or carefully structured in any way. They don’t follow universal laws and rules. They are dynamic, contingent and emergent, containing contention and contradiction. They can be hidden, vastly complex, and sometimes seemingly chaotic from our human vantage point. Many are stable and extremely long-lasting, and are routinely misinterpreted by scientists as eternal and fundamental laws of nature. Schofield’s view of systems is Holist and Materialist, arguing that the holistic understanding of how natural systems evolve and maintain themselves, is vital if we are to really appreciate how things come to be, and why they are the way they are.<br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-39924416423952072222022-05-23T15:20:00.005+01:002022-05-23T15:29:47.518+01:00Revolution and Multi-Level Law<p> The following paper is part of a forthcoming special series of the SHAPE Journal outlining my new Systems Approach to Science - the issues are to be titled <i>The Systems Theory of Everything</i>...</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE5DqsqHEMzG5rzRNizpoJpy0Wk0np83_-gd8JlnZmCtLxlQIREyk_a4TZGzcFdL5eqGSQPpW9dTJ4x130N8AZNMWwk7LhnI0arjaVYut2bDL1XDhib5kDhzXqqEck3Qwlay9dVjvPs73hUWMIaUISDeQBEuZXWRSW70gprhTCQ_dsp1H1tXZtk2M9/s3508/Issue%2077%20preview.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Jim Schofield Marxist Systems Theory of Science" border="0" data-original-height="3508" data-original-width="2480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE5DqsqHEMzG5rzRNizpoJpy0Wk0np83_-gd8JlnZmCtLxlQIREyk_a4TZGzcFdL5eqGSQPpW9dTJ4x130N8AZNMWwk7LhnI0arjaVYut2bDL1XDhib5kDhzXqqEck3Qwlay9dVjvPs73hUWMIaUISDeQBEuZXWRSW70gprhTCQ_dsp1H1tXZtk2M9/w283-h400/Issue%2077%20preview.jpg" title="Coming soon...The Systems Theory of Everything" width="283" /></a></div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div>The key revelation, via my recent work on Systems Theory, is that absolutely all Laws exist in very long-lasting, initial & partial modes - actually defining, what appears to be, their naturally Sole and Permanently Existing Level. This Level certainly continues to exist-as-such for often considerable periods of time. Yet, that seeming-permanence is totally illusory: for, though it has in actuality established a Primary Level-of-such-Laws, the consequent process of the Law's Inevitable Evolutionary Development was, as yet, still incomplete. It actually can-and-does establish further transforming developments, into extra Causalities, situated at a Wholly New Level, while adding a Purely Empirical Rider STILL at the prior Level.<br /><br />Now, understandably, this was always missed in our scientific investigations (and still is, by all those intimately-wedded to the two and a half millennia-old Principle of Wholly Pluralist Laws)! A stance naturally arising, entirely Pragmatically, from the absolutely necessary, and greatly restricting, experiences of the only Form of Successful Productions, entirely Without Theory then known. For it simply could not be otherwise!<br /><br />Only via great restrictions upon both Context and Content could Productions be consistently successful. And, this is because, of course, such limitations successfully totally suppress any natural further Causal Developments - indeed of any Evolution of the Laws involved.<br /><br />Remember, therefore, such Levels were solely imposed by Mankind! Left to itself, Reality-as-is naturally evolves, though often extremely slowly from our perspective. And it was Successful Production that set the first-percieved-boundary, though the natural difference in tempo actually drove the Man-sized conceptions involved.<br /><br />Now, the problem of discarding that initially necessary straight-jacket in Thinking, has taken a very long time, in breaking-into Man's Consciousness, because Production has become the Motive Force for our Success in this World! And, has also been the Prime Driver of the whole Human Population into Opposing Economic Classes, which also perpetuate this actually accelerating aberration.<br /><br />The Essence of the entrenched Pluralist perspective, underpins the current Class Dominances, and has continued to dominate Mankind's Consciousness for Millennia!<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJTtQ6CGiPuy2lr3NXNXSOWAHTefcH1DAdyXgFMMxO8LuT64sNQdOsKsKwiy3H42vHun73u69UUR7O2wyrcxYPdhz6yzWrh_aiipTpeDofXGqDinkUe7zwiTOe5of768Rb-X-TR_-xBMX6XRJk_e0C-akNOB0BPZlfZuyYtxb6b1XZsryqWy2gs9mZ/s808/base-superstructure.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="808" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJTtQ6CGiPuy2lr3NXNXSOWAHTefcH1DAdyXgFMMxO8LuT64sNQdOsKsKwiy3H42vHun73u69UUR7O2wyrcxYPdhz6yzWrh_aiipTpeDofXGqDinkUe7zwiTOe5of768Rb-X-TR_-xBMX6XRJk_e0C-akNOB0BPZlfZuyYtxb6b1XZsryqWy2gs9mZ/w400-h269/base-superstructure.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><i>Science is also a social process, and part of a superstructural system that "maintains the base" </i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> But, such a damaged-view of the World has undermined any Real Understanding of Reality-as-is, to such an extent, that the dominant Economic Drives were, and are, pushing Nature itself to the brink of collapse, and without a veritable Revolution, the Human Situation upon Earth is surely in question. <br /><br />For, the Natural Revolutions of the Ancient World, that historian and philosopher Karl Marx had studied, and thereafter so brilliantly-and-remarkably analysed, in his wholly New Dialectical Way, sadly had, since then, been increasingly diverted away from that wholly natural, self-correcting-and-developing Path, by the concerted efforts of Mankind (particularly its Ruling Classes) - greatly distorting and also forcing such situations into clearly non-natural directions, without the releases and rejuvenations that those Revolutions had always allowed!<br /><br />Initially, those man-devised objectives and consequent directions didn't seem to be forcing situations badly wrong! But, that increasingly and acceleratingly changed, as Mankind's choices ever more speedingly precipitated more-and-more Crises, though also, contradictingly, alongside clearly evident Gains. <br /><br />So, the real causes of a general deterioration were never realised! And, the mounting damage to the Natural Environmental Processes of Development, along with the suppression of literally all natural-and-beneficial Revolutionary Upheavals, were imposing a significant and increasing bias, and ever more deterioration, upon the underlying conditions of all wholly Natural Levels.<br /><br />The previously wholly Natural Processes of Both Correction and Improvement were increasingly suppressed by Human Activity, and concern for the many natural self-correcting Systems of Planet Earth, along with its diverse and contending Contents, were NO LONGER allowed to function as was necessary for such a complex System to be able to <i>develop naturally!</i><br /><br />Of course, Marx's historical analyses had been wholly correct, but he had never went beyond his own finite Social and Economic Disciplines, in any of his analyses, so the wider Sciences were all totally omitted! And, subsequent Marxists, ever since, (with the possible exception of Lenin) all kept well within the confines and boundaries of their own particular disciplines - so many of these contributions, though certainly of some value, were also severely damaged by these major limitations.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPm7Q4C0FWgs9oj8Om_MtNhlN-bukH7BHcuJejDCO7TVOqSHYJjD_G6Zf6Dk2N-51zn2ZzIw13mIWNUNKwL6ilfCWePTHh6J3UjYN3exxJrggf1mdAh1EFDjM09DR0DNW62PKQjBeQe4DY8KDQRRcgzPx0nGXpq3Q2bzT000InDxKCfz0DfSgO1-0S/s480/giphy-14.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="469" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPm7Q4C0FWgs9oj8Om_MtNhlN-bukH7BHcuJejDCO7TVOqSHYJjD_G6Zf6Dk2N-51zn2ZzIw13mIWNUNKwL6ilfCWePTHh6J3UjYN3exxJrggf1mdAh1EFDjM09DR0DNW62PKQjBeQe4DY8KDQRRcgzPx0nGXpq3Q2bzT000InDxKCfz0DfSgO1-0S/s320/giphy-14.gif" width="313" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Coupled with the always-assumed extrapolations-upwards from single Atoms and Molecules, all the way to considerably larger natural associations, could not but severely-distort what was considered to be Causality, regarding real and much larger Systems. </div><div><br />Clearly, these assumptions would be wholly misleading, in Real World situations, so, experimenters continually restricted the circumstances of their Experiments, until the results finally matched the assumptions! Not very scientific was it?<br /><br />But, remarkably, by mere chance, those results did indeed match with another remarkably truncated Discipline - and, for totally unrealised reasons! For, IF the restrictions were tightly implemented-and-maintained - as such, the situation would indeed be made to conform to the originally tightly restricted-and-controlled condition - which limited Laws to their initially First-discovered-Level alone.<br /><br />You can see why they clung to their Plurality so steadfastly: but it was for the Wrong Reasons, and led them increasingly astray over time!<br /><br />Only Modern Systems Theory (for example, the work of Denis Noble) could possibly reveal the Truth - for Causality actually<i> changes with Scale!</i> And, without which, the intricacies of Real Dialectical Causal Evolution would NEVER be understood.<br /><br />Now, the very development (occurring originally in Ancient Greece circa 500 BC) that laid a basis for a certain kind of Consistent Thinking, associated with Number, and thereby establishing the very first Consistent, Concise and Comprehensive Rationality, upon which, the First-Ever <i>Usable</i> Rationality was constructed - gave power to the elbows of those who extolled-the-virtues of Rationality in establishing Truth Absolutely Everywhere, and ALSO, thereby, instituted the Wholly Wrong Idea, that the same would be possible across All Areas of Study, upon an identical basis: which was most certainly UNTRUE!<br /><br />For, though this did also reflect the First Discernible Level in Natural Laws, it was NOT all-embracing, and would, everywhere, be extended, given time, because in its early association with the First Ever Rationality of Mathematics, had subsequently damagingly manacled literally all Logical Thinking, only to that necessarily limited Rationality, probably very similar to that devised for Mathematics: which was, most certainly, Totally Incorrect.<br /><br />And, this clearly also-damaged the very idea of Rationality, as applied across most areas of Study, and was, thereby, limiting the range of possibilities only to those that conformed to a single artificially limited Logic.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ZPB7YHXybdv8gMpSwWabjevmg8VM7YfqpwMAL53FEp3w-TqDoH6LcC3rGRepnZgbMI8aS5TACcGF_bRnZTgNqb7rg60o0MqgvzDndSjc7L0DQVx6rKXPPceIPDuZbR17FHQfC8hfzYdcfc9Q9fSmV3NGgjEgQZvJWDB2l2ZyKM18EKGG5gXgRGm5/s4096/the_thinker_%2528le_penseur%2529_1942.5.12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3252" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-ZPB7YHXybdv8gMpSwWabjevmg8VM7YfqpwMAL53FEp3w-TqDoH6LcC3rGRepnZgbMI8aS5TACcGF_bRnZTgNqb7rg60o0MqgvzDndSjc7L0DQVx6rKXPPceIPDuZbR17FHQfC8hfzYdcfc9Q9fSmV3NGgjEgQZvJWDB2l2ZyKM18EKGG5gXgRGm5/w318-h400/the_thinker_%2528le_penseur%2529_1942.5.12.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br />The true, natural variability of most real relations was ignored, for a simpler System that always also implemented the necessary limitations!<br /><br />These damaging assumptions were established for literally all Ways of Thinking - as it was to match the Limited Rationalities across the whole range of real possibilities, which had, thereby, falsely restricted situations to only all severely and wrongly-limited-sets. The whole range of Rationalities were similarly straight-jacketed into restricted sets, that could never fully reflect the full set of Real Possibilities that were actually occurring.<br /><br />Clearly, such wrongly-imposed limitations would necessarily omit some of the true full set of legitimate contributions, and, thereby, also fail to fully consider all of the actual effects of those omitted possibilities completely, and hence, at least some of the consequent extended sequences of later, as yet, totally unaddressed possibilities.<br /><br />What would unavoidably have been delivered, but would also necessarily have always been incomplete: and these, nevertheless, would have their effects, which because of the imposed, yet incorrect limitations upon everything, would later still appear, but "without causes", and consequently be frequently wrongly explained!<br /><br />Now, a single case, as described above, would, of course, be added to by all other applications of that falsely imposed restriction: not to mention all the many possible "cross-effects" between the various different omitted cases. So, in this complex world, we are now revealing the overall effects of these limitations, which would, very quickly, expand to significant unaccounted-for consequences. And, the question that arises must be, "What would experimenters DO to bring things back into predictable territory?" Would it be another dose of those usually-applied simplifying Physical Restrictions, that were the problem in the first place?<br /><br />The points made in this essay are by no means trivial: but taken as a whole, with other seemingly confirming processes of various other kinds, can-and-have produced an apparently consistent approach, which is, nevertheless, totally false! And, therefore, one which initially must have seemed wholly sufficient, has, as more and often contradictory additions were included, demanded ever more also-incorrect additions, merely to counter the ever-increasing contradictions, caused by those restrictions. <br /><br />The only effective approach, has to be a disposing of all these past mistakes (and any correcting props we routinely rely on), and the complete replacement by the indicated extension of Dialectical Materialism, to a Holistic Systems Approach to absolutely Everything!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIvUStuLnXiMRnluzKtLdu3kUfeONLClQNJ9D4tCUKPZ-baUpYgEeJ_EYKlAPr3Hab6iHEdkT6dbS9ERjyFzSTQhZmUgJzg3IzOPdaDnX8z_xaHOJqv3im9IzuyckTYOEpwg0_pl9dr6EUObkR391xZkmBtOdUcrj1MifoOZDVhFFUhi9XXBVwCu8V/s255/images-4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="198" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIvUStuLnXiMRnluzKtLdu3kUfeONLClQNJ9D4tCUKPZ-baUpYgEeJ_EYKlAPr3Hab6iHEdkT6dbS9ERjyFzSTQhZmUgJzg3IzOPdaDnX8z_xaHOJqv3im9IzuyckTYOEpwg0_pl9dr6EUObkR391xZkmBtOdUcrj1MifoOZDVhFFUhi9XXBVwCu8V/w311-h400/images-4.jpeg" width="311" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br />The previously truncated, and hence initially greatly simplfied, straight-through approach, and its replacement by a sequentially emerging System of Levels - to actually reflect the real constantly (if slowly) Emerging Evolution of Reality into Ever New Levels, with majorly qualifying Effects. The Appearance and consequent Evolution of Life did exactly this, and thereby has proved its necessary inclusion within absolutely all areas of Change!<br /><br />Now, the consequences of this are NOT just in explaining the Emergence of wholly new features, BUT primarily in how the increasing numbers of often contending Laws and Properties - all available together - actually manage to co-exist!<br /><br />We must remember that all these many Laws, not only all exist in the same spaces, but both depend upon each other for required resources - and also, in turn, deliver their products in the same way! And, though some will compliment one another, others will most certainly contend. And, in a multi-factor environment, contentions will tend to balance out - effectively negating each other's opposite effects.<br /><br />Overall, the most likely outcome will be what might be called an <i>Active Balance </i>- producing a kind if Stability, which is actively maintained as such, by cyclical processes, all of the time!<br /><br />Now, as I have established elsewhere in several other papers in this series, the gulf between these, and the way of finding, and using Natural Laws, particularly in my specialist area of Physics: and the Real World I have described here, is undoubtedly enormous! For, the relations due to the properties of the various Elements and their compounds are always limited to just the relations between those properties occurring at the most basic Aomic and Molecular Level, which are considered to then be merely multiplied-up somehow, purely quantitatively, when used in the actual bulk occurrences: with no consideration whatsoever of any Interacting Systems Effects, between the many clearly also-present, other simultaneously-happening processes. And, the relations between all these many different processes is totally disregarded!<br /><br />So, all the Effects that I have been considering in this series of papers are, thereafter, never considered at all by Scientists, or anyone else that I can see. Yet, they not only happen, but by various Systems Means, including the cancelling of Contentions, the overall total finally arrives at an Active Stability, which temporarily maintains them all, but now hidden within what we see as "Stability"!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="342" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oFtorDLpOfU" width="411" youtube-src-id="oFtorDLpOfU"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>And what a Natural Revolution turns out to be, is originated initially by a general drift towards - first one of the many Active Stabilities dissociated, followed immediately by all the rest, one after the other - onto the total dissolution of a general Collapse, and a return back to something resembling Chaos.</div><div><br />But, though it always happens - it isn't what we usually think characterises such a Revoluion: for, that is always the following High-Speed Re-constructive Phase, that allows a Total Re-building of all Active Stabilities, but upon an Entirely New Basis, this time solely from the Chaos that has been produced, yet on a different and indeed higher Level. <br /><br />Indeed, from the exact same included resources, a Wholly New Set of True Emergences appear, which though they were always possible within that set of resources, were also totally impossible to predict from the prior situation.<br /><br />The promises of a successful Revolution can NEVER be specific: but when a Revolution is finally successfully completed, against the forces of reaction - the active stabilising processes of the prior system - the gains will always be significant!<br /><br />Both in Nature and in Human Societies, development always occurs via a succession of such Necessary Revolutions: it can not be any other way, because all prior elements exist only in a rich interconnected fabric of interacting parts, which present a complex whole to thwart significant changes! There is NO ideal achieveable situation - for Reality-as-is constantly creates ever new possibilities, while simultaeously developing ways of safeguarding past gains. But, that will persist only until the System is no longer viable - at that point a Revolution is inevitable. </div><div><br /></div><div>Until we understand these complex processes in Multi-Level Systems, we won't know when this will occur, or have any idea what is likely to happen afterwards. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-71247423104729986972022-03-01T12:15:00.003+00:002022-03-01T12:15:24.461+00:00Development and Evolution<p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjowdV0X283fpzZB05xjTPIC8vojGylUFQs504pzU_5zz1ZRAbp6xySzTC40-SiEYFEhpl_28Wnb62X3doh53Hssmp1T9q22y6EwVJmMQ0uRPD3G6UcCwRTZWO4qReDNh-2odlEeQF_K8eo1MZu8BctscCZ4X3wa7VcXovZK98Uo1HiVj9jdOigSkXg=s1189" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1189" data-original-width="850" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjowdV0X283fpzZB05xjTPIC8vojGylUFQs504pzU_5zz1ZRAbp6xySzTC40-SiEYFEhpl_28Wnb62X3doh53Hssmp1T9q22y6EwVJmMQ0uRPD3G6UcCwRTZWO4qReDNh-2odlEeQF_K8eo1MZu8BctscCZ4X3wa7VcXovZK98Uo1HiVj9jdOigSkXg=w458-h640" width="458" /></a></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b> How life changed tempos radically...</b></p><br />In beginning, to explain the Natural Development of Reality-as-is, and having to consciously change from the once primitive Approach by assuming a single All-Embracing Rationality to a strictly Formal One, epitomised solely by Mathematics: it gradually (and haltingly) became clear that such an Approach was far too restricted - excluding all relevant causative factors, to highlight only those that are wholly defined by a Set of Forever Fixed Laws - just like those of Mathematics, and hence making those rationalities entirely Pluralistic.<br /><br />So, if the readers of this (as they should) require a comprehensive proof of this important conclusion of mine, I can refer them to many evident arguments, culminating in this stance, within SHAPE Journal - compiled over the last 12 years by this writer: where the main intention was to win over participators to the Alternative Holistic Approach, as originally initiated by The Buddha, though only finally and extensively established by the historian/philosopher, Karl Marx, very much later, in the 19th cebtury - some two and a half millennia after The Buddha.<br /><br />But, Marx never extended his crucial changes into any of The Sciences, which turned out to be an absolutely vital omission: so he did not complete the necessary transformation, thereby leaving his version of Holism, woefully lacking in many important and indeed necessary areas. And, most important of all, he did not establish sufficiently an All Embracing Version of Holism!<br /><br />For, it should also have comprehensively tackled the problem of multiple, simultaneous and mutually- affecting factors, that would have involved what I have called <i>The Systems Approach.</i><br /><br />But, even those meagre additions, by this Thinker and Writer, turn out to be nowhere near enough, as FIRST: The Emergence of Life totally transformed the available mechanisms within the properties of the now newly available agents of all the possible concrete development, namely ALL Living Entities, and the then, ultimately, the qualitatively different Thinking, finally possible by Mankind!<br /><br />Now, the latter undertaking is now somewhat underway, but the former involving the effect of Life itself, has, as yet, NOT been addressed. So, the purpose of this paper will attempt to begin to sufficiently fill that vital gap!<br /><br />For the tempo-and-nature of Development, itself, was majorly-and-qualitatively transformed by the Emergence of Life - as embodied in the unavoidable, appaerent limitations delivered by the relatively Short-Lengths of all the Lifetimes of the interacting living entities involved, and also significantly also compounded by the only possible concrete legacy between generations, being via the sexually-produced, and hence genetically-defined determinators, combined within the produced seeds-or- offsprings: and which always being distinctly genetically- different to the contributing individual parents, and, thereafter directing the competition of those differently- endowed others of their type.<br /><br />For, the somewhat inferior products would always survive less well, and, over time, the genetic stock of the various populations would clearly improve and even their means of life would change and be passed on both purely genetically, and by parental instruction! And though other factors would undoubtedly be involved, there would be significant tempo developments via Evolution, than was ever possible before the Advent of Life!<br /><br />From two very ordinary Working Class families, including my Grandma, who could neither Read nor Write, my son now has a Doctorate and directs a significant course at a well-eatablished English University!<br /><br />Yet, nevertheless, actual ascending trajectories of possible individual development, are not yet what they should be, as the World Economic System grinds increasingly haltingly towards an inevitable Worldwide set of Devastating and even Existential Crises, in many different directions, each with no obvious solutions, being either pursued, or even proposed.<br /><br />The opportunities that are still possible, are increasingly opposed by those who for a very long time have been reaping most of the rewards available , and doing it in such a way, that, on a Global Scale, they work against such developments, if applied generally, and instead re-direct the driving imperatives involved away from the general involvement of all populations, so that they show themselves as driving things, at least partially, only to their own working populations, so that they are ever more likely to be blamed. Global calamities such as increasingly irreversible, yet wholly Damaging Climate Change, and the also ever-growing impoverishment of the majority of the World’s poorest Populations!<br /><br />And, by so doing, attempting to divert the blame for all of the Crises onto ordinary people, and certainly not the fault of the decision makers, who actually caused it, as long as they didn’t suffer!<br /><br />The Objective of the Ruling Class is clearly to ensure their own well-endowed future, while everyone else bears the brunt of any fall-out, even though to continue to get away with it all, they will act as if they are struggling against colossal odds outside of their control, while they continue to try to alleviate the lot of the Common People “as best as we can!”<br /><br />But, though the tempos of development involved in Society were vastly increased, those improvements were NOT directed in the very best directions, for the benefit of the majority of the population. But, always aimed in the directions that affected the tempo of monetary benefits selectively to the Owners and Directors of all Productive, Transportive and Distributive undertakings! The needs and benefits for Employed Workers did NOT figure at all in these remunerations!<br /><br />Theory:<br /><br />Without a doubt, further progress in the intellectual developments that Mankind has pursued, is needed in order for us to survive beyond this century. Literally ever since we abandoned the Trees of the Equatorial Forests for the significant Emergence of the new open expanses typified by the unsustaining grasses, with their populations of grazing, fleet-footed animal inhabitants, along with the fierce predators that preyed upon them, so clearly having the strong effect of selecting for ever increasing speeds of the prey animals, in order to even survive! Surely, that didn’t seem at all coducive as a habitat for Human Beings! So, what was it that even gave them a chance of surviving? They were NOT fleet- of-foot: nor did they possess dangerous teeth, claws, or remarkable strength!<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9BWe3pz0dchncySBxYbiZLO8W-JigGd9cVoao89JSW5lYs_KY62CpuGkjqL-hOfyBGIub9WUnxwTXs63yuj1np43wRB98PElNZp-GChI4cwm90OiW0G1WqGKDdUK3p4Mu2S6fgp01wKSF6o4fSxkVQHQb-ktUT-hTVRVHo4mfg0oQwUzkTVq3Zqe5=s4380" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3285" data-original-width="4380" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9BWe3pz0dchncySBxYbiZLO8W-JigGd9cVoao89JSW5lYs_KY62CpuGkjqL-hOfyBGIub9WUnxwTXs63yuj1np43wRB98PElNZp-GChI4cwm90OiW0G1WqGKDdUK3p4Mu2S6fgp01wKSF6o4fSxkVQHQb-ktUT-hTVRVHo4mfg0oQwUzkTVq3Zqe5=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /><div>Those Hominids seemed hopelessly ill-equipped for the wide open Praries, and far better off remaining where there closest relatives, the Gorillas and Chimpanzees chose to remain, with the protection and relative abundence of the fast shrinking Forests... But, they didn’t do that!</div><br />So what features in the lives, suggested that the Praries were the best place for them?<br /><br />They had already abandoned the trees for the Ground! For by doing so they enabled their forelimbs to become manipulators of things: and their hands evolved very differetly, into brilliant manipulators of many different things. The became bipedal, with NOT tree-grasping “hands”, but running feet! They had already found ready-made rools in the form of sticks and stones, and could maintain a naturally caused Fire, both for warmth and to scare off predators.<br /><br />And these changes radically altered their ability to THINK! It was as yet still similar to how they used their brains in the Trees - but was changing fast! The new environment was greatly more challenging than it had long been in the forest: for there was literally no secure places to go to when challenged by predators. Somehow early Humans had to stand and fight and arrive at effective wasys to do that! They had to constantly think of how they would survive: and those who didn’t measure up, perished! There was a selective pressure upon them that fairly rapidly selected for the cleverest!<br /><br />They found caves to use as refuges: and ever better weapons to fight with, including spears and Fire itself; and, accordingly, only the best thinkers survived, and, along with the developments in intelligence, the Humans (or, most probably, their immediate ancestors), rapidly adapted to make the best of this new environment for their survival and development. In particular, they lost most of their body-hair, and rapidly adapted sweating to further cool down their increasing temperatures - while also adapting thier legs and feet, for extended necessary running. They became ever better animals of the plains!<br /><br />Now, such swift and concentrated adaptions also demanded major changes in their brains, but, most significantly, in how they solved the very different problems of Survival: for without that ability too, they could not have continued their conquest of ever new environments, which they continued to do until they were literally everywhere upon Planet Earth!<br /><br />But, to assume that all these developments were based upon ideal ways of internalising the Truth of these New Situations, you would be very wrong indeed. For, there was Absolutely NO Easy Access to such “Truths”! Reality-as-is is far too multi-layered and complex for that to be directly achievable by mere Experience of it.<br /><br />Indeed, all such achievements ONLY had to marginally increase the possibility of survival - and that has to include something of the Truth!<br /><br />So, literally NONE of the improvements ever enabled Human Thinking to alight upon any absolute Truths at all: they were all only ever partially true, and would, every single one of them, lead to error in all attempts at analysis!<br /><br />Our concept of both the Nature of Reality-as-is, AND of of our predictions from it, have so far been inadequate, as every New Area of Study only ever reveals wholly New, previously-hidden features, that, even when they are fully addressed, are STILL not by any means, the Whole Story! Indeed,these revelations prove undisputedly that the Holist View and Approach to the study and control of Reality-as-is is absolutely correct, and that from the tiniest morsel of Matter to the Infinite Universe, there will exist many, many very different Systens, Structures and Laws, which, nevertheless, naturally co-exist, and even contribute to one another: YET at each Level deliver different dominances and hence a surprising measure of temporary independance, while still via Emergences, are always capable of changing overall situations dramatically - even into what appears to be a Direct Opposite situation!<div><br /></div><div>This paper is taken from the latest issue of SHAPE Journal (76):</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i76home.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="3508" data-original-width="2480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3ZVhPeeEnUYrc0OOFur5VeA36tg5b_ONLXIgxhy99dKRhYYJx9-oKEZwT5a4fvXZndx45pDjcJEKbOE9ams__1O1WswTQGGvST7X9vW-Vhl9YqSbUb25ZDObPmwlG8vfQeadP31Lc02pkVbDDaumKSveP3YjwjJoHRKUr12GMWL9esEbgvwudFvzc=w452-h640" width="452" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-80933014673204588042022-02-23T11:22:00.001+00:002022-02-23T11:22:04.177+00:00Issue 76: Development<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i76home.html" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="3508" data-original-width="2480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPM8xxh86JX1THCGeW9OVHUTATjqP3IuNuXHSOaQCLCjgGvToXAlj3xJoSvfJW3kuCSg8tPP52AOYpKioXuCUlcZXAY76NpbqTLj80zXsLXeDFTx3MH5u36wlaNoY1OCBRbxxcXUiYrnN29lhw7Czy1Jh_pN1Bz45oRMkdQ7vCL5R0WX8yXQFgwIAz=w452-h640" width="452" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/i76home.html" target="_blank">Read Issue 76 of SHAPE Journal</a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">...</div><br />This edition looks at evolutionary development, but certainly not in the usual and expected ways. Jim Schofield's new Systems Approach to Science reconfigures how we think about how both natural and social systems change over time. <br /><br />From the revolutionary tool use of Early Man, to the problems of solving Climate Change today, from the mysteries of Sub-atomic Physics to the unknown Origin of Life on Earth, this discursive series of essays plots a path through the many flaws in current Human Understanding, to reveal the vital need to appreciate systems holistically for the first time. <br /><br />Revolution and Emergence are just as important to understanding Life's development, as genetics and incremental Evolution. How do such vast systems become stable in the first place, what finally makes them collapse, and how does that process lead to the Wholly New?<div><br /></div><br /><blockquote>The initial conceptions by Human Beings, as with all the other simultaneously-existing living-creatures, assumed the Constancy of their Common World - and this intial assumption, in the Sole Case of Mankind alone, was then increasingly challenged, by their own, if initially meagre, sucesses in dealing with that World.<br /><br />Now, such real developments, that were achieved, did not ever come easily, so there was nothing automatic about our progression. Indeed, it was also clear that they were difficult to “get right”, and Reality-as-is, was also definitely composed of multiple features, some of which seemed Contradictory...</blockquote>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-42047443202236397612022-02-18T09:40:00.002+00:002022-02-18T09:40:24.214+00:00Speculation!<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOIj3e4y4nvFGF55Vb0NiJir9zGrcYFaw-W6zAcUFnS_8q-bvZgbZW-1WEVBIDwq0nKWcN5QvX7pod4pbylEMJnP3jxG-0XjCjbQMMESArWrOuPGNK6pz5v2gHQ8ggxVAFux-j4Lt4GmxeCVeS1qghp4hwWq0jfPjT7UvFK7TaQ7E-yV6y37EF-5tc=s540" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="540" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOIj3e4y4nvFGF55Vb0NiJir9zGrcYFaw-W6zAcUFnS_8q-bvZgbZW-1WEVBIDwq0nKWcN5QvX7pod4pbylEMJnP3jxG-0XjCjbQMMESArWrOuPGNK6pz5v2gHQ8ggxVAFux-j4Lt4GmxeCVeS1qghp4hwWq0jfPjT7UvFK7TaQ7E-yV6y37EF-5tc=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />The historical development of Thinking in Mankind involved accurate observation, prediction, and finally Understanding. It is, at the very least, a veritable tragedy, that this absolutely vital trajectory in Human Thinking, has as its current culmination, after many millennia of development, to ultimately be satisfied-theoretically only with Speculation!<br /><br />For, let us be absolutely clear, Mankind, when it emerged initially, had NO Language, and certainly no Logical Thinking as we now consider it. Human Thinking therefore is entirely Man-made, and has developed along with Mankind's changing abilities and understanding: so it could only reflect their current state of development. It is, most certainly, far from perfect, and must NEVER be assumed to be universally capable of formulating Absolute Truth.<br /><br />For, what we now have, is this treasured final achievement: and we must be clear as to what makes it considered to be so special. It is considered to be the highest-possible Product of Pure Thought alone, in interpreting the Real World, without, in consequence, being able to both theoretically accurately Explain, and then further Predict what will happen next... Of course, there will doubtless be a unified Chorus of Dissent at this particular characterisation, but it is nonetheless True!<br /><br />For NO such wholly theoretically-arrived-at Predictions were involved in the usually accepted characterisation: they actually depend primarily solely upon Direct Observations as such, very carefully arranged-for, and NOT as Direct Predictions from Theory alone!<br /><br />So, to make such an amalgam work, the "theoreticians" follow up such hopefully-confirming observations, by the absolutely necessary inclusion of either New Free Parameters (and even concepts) or indeed both, which are so designed as to look like Theoretical Reflections of Reality, instead of Pragmatic, cleverly-invented tricks! <br /><br />And, yet another, illegitimate Rational System (when applied directly to Reality), is that of Mathematics, which is only ever brought in by matching measured Data into General Mathematical Forms, having only unknown constants, and evaluating these via Simultameous Equations from that Data! That is how legitimate Data "becomes" a Mathematical Equation, which is THEN taken as The Law delivered by that Data.<br /><br />It isn't!<br /><br /><div>It is instead merely the adjustment of valid Data into a Forever Fixed mathematical relation, turning the specificity of individually-measured Data into a Forever to-be-obeyed purely Mathematical Law!<br /><br />It can, and indeed is, then fed into the Amalgam, as a "Confirming Proof", that the overall system is both sound and sufficient! And, used, thereafter, to supposedly deliver "absolutely all possible" vaid cases under that "Natural Law".<br /><br />But it isn't Correct!<br /><br />I have been an exceptionally-able mathematician all my Life, and have undertaken both significant research within that area - working with other world class mathematicians (in particular upon a modified Van Der Pol Equation, as an approximate model for a beating Human Heart), and have also written extensively upon the Philosophy of Mathematics! I know exactly what Mathematics is, AND what it isn't!<br /><br />Mathematics is an entirely Pluralist Discipline, dealing ONLY in Forever Fixed Laws, and hence incapable of accurately reflecting a Developing Holistic World, which actually EVOLVES!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSrvf3JfFUH1xKMbnxRciPATawPHxpVLLa9vYrwzTynrJCcI60x6HO8k6URYNgstFTGnDSZlFxAuDC8Jafl7pyQe1P58FLjCsivuoIJB9QXD9BrnvUZsImCAZBj3ewU06qLw2EaKkdKfnRr3fDZv-pej6IuovXO8MS-GuerB6-_Hl36UGbfpScAegJ=s500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSrvf3JfFUH1xKMbnxRciPATawPHxpVLLa9vYrwzTynrJCcI60x6HO8k6URYNgstFTGnDSZlFxAuDC8Jafl7pyQe1P58FLjCsivuoIJB9QXD9BrnvUZsImCAZBj3ewU06qLw2EaKkdKfnRr3fDZv-pej6IuovXO8MS-GuerB6-_Hl36UGbfpScAegJ=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br />The absolute clincher in proving these ideas, has to be Cosmology: because the absolutely essential Scientific means of confirming Theory is totally unavailable in this discipline. Predictions are not products of Theory, but entirely delivered by fixed mathematical forms fitted up to past observations, which is certainly NOT Theory. For Theory would have to also <i>Explain</i> Why things happen as they do, and not just replicate what has happened before, at some point.<br /><br />The Key is revealed when something <i>New</i> occurs.<br /><br />If the "theory" cannot deliver that new occurence, it isn't a Theory! Neither is it one if it cannot deal with Qualitative Change in an Explanatory way.<br /><br />Indeed, all Qualitative Changes, in all real Developments, are omitted in such "Laws" :for they are then as they must be, merely Pluralist Laws. And, such a System will always be totally incapable of explaining the Evolution of Reality - from the Everyday, to the Cosmic!<br /><br />And such Thinking, though it purports to be Theory: is, in fact, Mere Speculation (pretending to be Theory)!<br /><br />Now, you might well wonder why, such a slip is so consistently made!<br /><br />The reason for this is successful <i>Technology</i>, which (most of the time) doesn't have to know Why? but only How?<br /><br />So the Engineer, within his carefully contrived-and-maintained wholly Pluralist Situations, can legitimately depend upon the relevant Formulae to deliver exactly what will happen. But, of course, that isn't Science, which has also to know <i>Why</i>?<br /><br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0nNk-Zw1vdVXaBj8GGmWAlC4r5Krj_Ts01OAt7iskdRS-LBwZ2PM3_s8XndjF_q8lskKSdcsxaubJf1FqNkLF2ZJvQBefxAsJLlxgjaaqlNKcEw4stRHb9hsuy0didQri4_PdV03naySGl_iSnK84RzPNeYZRJJ7JJq9QEgG0ScQ6wRVjMRF8Y3_G=s540" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="540" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0nNk-Zw1vdVXaBj8GGmWAlC4r5Krj_Ts01OAt7iskdRS-LBwZ2PM3_s8XndjF_q8lskKSdcsxaubJf1FqNkLF2ZJvQBefxAsJLlxgjaaqlNKcEw4stRHb9hsuy0didQri4_PdV03naySGl_iSnK84RzPNeYZRJJ7JJq9QEgG0ScQ6wRVjMRF8Y3_G=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />If this essay does not convince you of the truth of these ideas, may I recommend a thorough critique of Current Cosmology Theory, with its Big Bang "Theory", its Inflationary Period, followed by its ever Increasing Expansion of the Universe, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Black Holes, and even Multiverses!<br /><br />Do you think that they have all been proven? explained? predicted? understood?<br /><br />There are alternatives, however!<br /><br />In 1970 Hammes Alven was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with his Theory of Plasmas (Electricity and Magnetism in all possible Spaces)!<br /><br />For, it has since been extended into an alternative Theory of the Development of the Universe - based for the first time upon Plasma Theories, which have turned out to be likewise applicable in experiments in Laboratories upon Earth, yet acting in exactly the same way in the Cosmos!<br /><br />They are Scale Invariable...</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXmd1XlmiRbdhLS2gdOWSqpTgYykYY7HXkYJcEoUZfX5JL5AWz72XMs-ye--xQx0hKg42KPyUhtc9oe3CtGGbPLsfSAxX5HVyIK-YuM2JFTn4gxpIBblWh-02YHHZuED4kVDYXhUY81aK5p6tZb9ZbNyEU574mAOWJebxrHuEwQmdL7SzVjUnnaqsW=s540" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="540" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXmd1XlmiRbdhLS2gdOWSqpTgYykYY7HXkYJcEoUZfX5JL5AWz72XMs-ye--xQx0hKg42KPyUhtc9oe3CtGGbPLsfSAxX5HVyIK-YuM2JFTn4gxpIBblWh-02YHHZuED4kVDYXhUY81aK5p6tZb9ZbNyEU574mAOWJebxrHuEwQmdL7SzVjUnnaqsW=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> </div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1148894365832051745.post-33131666900210652422022-01-26T12:11:00.000+00:002022-01-26T12:11:06.563+00:00Taking SHAPE I: Denis Noble and Systems Level Approach<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="444" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/W2w3ifOLf2M" width="534" youtube-src-id="W2w3ifOLf2M"></iframe></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>New video from SHAPE films, Taking SHAPE I, is part of new series looking at a nascent holistic science and attempting to take SHAPE Journal and these radical ideas to a new audience. <br /><br /><i>Top down or bottom up? Which method best helps us understand complex natural systems? We look at Denis Noble's "The Music of Life" and the argument that reductionism misses the vital role of multi-level systems in organising reality... But what happens when these systems fail? </i><div><br /></div><div><i>This contribution begins a new series of experimental videos on the philosophy of science from SHAPE Films. Each episode features theorist Jim Schofield discussing a different key thinker or researcher, and how their work may help the development of a new holist scientific method.</i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>E Journalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03337103068341562618noreply@blogger.com0