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Regional System.

November 18, 2023

Ideologies almost always end up in catastrophes or botched up state of affairs because they are essentially philosophical systems emanating from very few facts and/or propositions or assumptions about humans, natural , or physical worlds. Invariably, they overextend and overstep their defining boundaries to create a panacea system for paradise, theory of all, or road to heavens on earth. All the principles derived or deduced from the core principles of the ideology are perversely tweaked in order to match reality and fact that cannot be subsumed by the system.

This is only natural because the immense complexity of life, existence, matter, energy harvesting, and cosmos renders it impossible for management of life using rules derived from a few interconnected principles. For example, When a factory manufactures a light bulb it combines principles from chemistry, material science, electric charge physics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, economics, behavioral psychology, political science, etc. Obviously those principles are, for all intents and purposes, quite distinct from each other.

And even so, continuous empirical observations weigh in with an equal weighing in the production and management processes. An overly witty chuck would step forward and claim that a coherent philosophy encompassing metaphysics would be sufficient to frame all the principles involved in almost everything. He might as well add that a theory of everything in physics shall one day be all what is needed to run the wheels of our existence.

In my opinion such claim is a logical fallacy and involves a confounding of science and philosophy, as well as a misunderstanding of both. Philosophy is about the generation of concepts. Concepts might connect to create a system that is expedient in organization of human world and in arguments integral to science making. Here scientific thinking chips in and initiates a process found on what is really out there which doesn’t always fit in with the system, and is, moreover, never fully captured leading to the open-ended nature of science. Things become specially messier when it comes to the social world that is impertinent to cohesively predictive and even organizing concepts though the social sciences concepts can generate new states open to new enquiry. Eventually governing systems modify; or reproduce sexually to build new systems. As regards the theory of everything, it seems to me that it is as elusive as the concept of god, to say the least.

Another fellow might make a pertinent point about the absolute nature of the founding mathematics behind language, science, and even the social world, though for the latter it is in ways way beyond our current epistimological state. Yet, while it is true that the said point is pertinent, it is indeed moot. We use different equations to represent the circumfrances of either circles and ellipses.

To make a practical point, I would say that whilst a mega governing system, encompassing the totality of society, is indispensable in the placement of order required for civilized organization of the localized different human worlds, and for charging the microdisc battery essential for the ticking of the clock that regulates science making, such systems turn into dogma self-containing their factors of demise when the system shuts out feedback from output signals, and inputs from microcontrollers communicating with other systems, and sensors providing input about conditions external to the system. The system stops self-correcting and steadily but gradually fails to deliver the output required by society. Malfunctioning systems spatter around their damaged and worn down parts randomly, causing non-localized nuisance, to say the least.

In order to understand the nature of the required output, one has to invoke the organic features of life. Going off on what I find as an irresistible tangent, I would waffle that even rocks, stars, and cars are organic but just not carbon and hydrogen based.

Interaction with the rest of the world and humanity; accumulation of knowledge, the altered natural habitats of our species by the effect of technology and urban design decide on the ‘relative’ output required by a certain society ultimately refered to its own self and its defining and distinct conditions and parameters.

In such light one could conceive dogma as an anti-growth social virus. Meanwhile, the fact that the anthroposhere, biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere are each a single dome—regardless—requires an overarching set of norms and rules for the different localized human systems in order to yellow and red card systems that pose threats, such as Fascism, Nazism, fanatic religious ideologies, environmentally damaging ones with non-localized impacts.

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