{"id":1017,"date":"2009-05-03T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T04:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.synapse9.com\/signals\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2009-05-03T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T04:00:40","slug":"climate-science-our-gaps-in-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/climate-science-our-gaps-in-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Science & Our Gaps in Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the CCG list RML had posted a good article on how\u00a0public engagement is critical to solving climate crisis<\/a>. \u00a0It overlooks\u00a0the special problem we have, that science still tries to describe uncontrolled systems with control theory\u2026<\/p>\n

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RML,<\/p>\n

Well, one of the major barriers to using science to communicate the choices available to people is that scientific models, confusingly, represent the parts of economic systems as having no individual choices\u2026<\/p>\n

scientific models, confusingly, represent the parts of economic systems as having no individual choices<\/h3>\n

Equations represent systems as composed of controlled variables and actual physical systems are generally composed of individually learning parts.<\/p>\n

The miss-match produces a multi-fold miss-communication. \u00a0It leaves all sides, even people on the same side, confused and ineffectual. \u00a0Economies always behave by themselves. \u00a0They were never “steered” by policy pressure except at the margins.<\/p>\n

So our micro views of systems (of individual people, and choices) is as wrong about the macro views (those of science) about as much as the reverse. \u00a0Science has been simply leaving out the role of the parts of complex systems in learning new behaviors for the whole.<\/p>\n

science uses “control theory” to describe exploratory environmental systems, full of independently learning parts.<\/h3>\n

No model could ever predict those. \u00a0Pressures represented in theory as controling economies actually never did is the problem. \u00a0Artificial pressures wouldn’t control them either, then, except at the margins or where they are found to be natural for the learning parts of economies as a way to change their whole ways of living.<\/p>\n

That gap calls for inventing a different sort of learning process, both for scientists more interested in the large scale properties of systems, and for people more interested in understanding their own options for changing their roles.<\/p>\n

The traditional problems of communicating science is still there. \u00a0What is a huge mistake is forgetting that science uses “control theory” to describe exploratory environmental systems, full of independently learning parts.<\/p>\n

It suggests the need for new modes of explanation. I\u2019m finding, though, that even with help ecologists feel uncomfortable in admitting that nature has more than rules and equations for us to acknowledge and study. \u00a0With other sciences it’s even more difficult.<\/p>\n

I think the public would much better understand the science if science was better at being truthful about the\u00a0mismatch\u00a0between deterministic theory and our highly animated real world reality.<\/p>\n

Phil Henshaw \u00b8\u00b8\u00b8\u00b8.\u2022\u00b4 \u00af `\u2022.\u00b8\u00b8\u00b8\u00b8
\nNY NY www.synapse9.com<\/p>\n

2\/13\/12 ed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On the CCG list RML had posted a good article on how\u00a0public engagement is critical to solving climate crisis. \u00a0It overlooks\u00a0the special problem we have, that science still tries to describe uncontrolled systems with control theory\u2026 RML, Well, one of the major barriers to using science to communicate the choices available to people is that … Continue reading Climate Science & Our Gaps in Learning<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-econn","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synapse9.com\/signals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}