Brian,
But thought matters… if the things of the world that matter to us are not machines, why would thinking of resources like a machine be of help? I think it would be better to put our pension for machine-like thinking in it’s place, drop what makes machine thinking demand total control, rather than drop our […]
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I’ve been studying the puzzles of natural systems, how they all have their own individually divergent behaviors, and individual reactions to their environments. Then I noticed that that aspect of nature entirely conflicts with the idea of ‘determinism’, that everything (except human free will) is controlled by its surroundings.
Last year I read a paper […]
I think ‘magical thinking’ is apt for what brought down our financial system, but it’s a view from hindsight, not foresight, and altogether too imprecise. I wrote my first comprehensive paper on growth induced collapse 30 years to the day before the Fed called this one to a halt.
The problem now as seen from foresight […]
A Small Mistake
I think maybe we should believe our eyes rather than make excuses for some old rules that aren’t working.
Maybe what happened, in the beginning, was that God sent the scribe a text message, saying, “…and I give you all this and a wonderful mind with which you can make models to bee the […]
Chris,
Your article: “America’s Self-inflicted Societal Collapse” (http://www.energybulletin.net/node/46564) is insightful and passionate. I’ve been writing and doing research on the problem for 30 years. I think you miss = the simplest and most undeniable way to point to the deep cause. Money as we manage it has to multiply for stability.
What confuses things is the kind of […]