A reply to Bill Dixon on Global Foresight regarding Soddy and the need for changing assumptions in economics.
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I do agree with you generally, but it seems that the specific forms that things take come from how they individually develop *within* the possibilities allowed by “the laws of nature” as limits on their individuality.
Economies and ecologies are obvious examples of things that develop individualistically
So, though I don’t expect the system of the universe to alter it’s more general laws any time soon, :-) like maybe… upset the conservation laws for example. I see those “fixed laws” as sound explanatory principles, that still offer very diverse possibilities for individual developments within them.
Economies and ecologies are obvious examples of things that develop individualistically. They develop their own consistent “local laws of nature”, or as others call them “emergent properties”, serving as laws of the system developing them.