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It provides an example of Germanic Capitals in Modern English Usge. It
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SCHOOL::NEWTON "Thomas Newton" 97 lines 19-OCT-1994 05:15
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Here's something that might be useful in explaining why there is so much useful
and intelligent ratholing in this computer-related topic.
Once you understand it, you will write stuff like this as fast as you can type.
After I wrote the initial proof (which forced me to write it; simple prediction
of its own mathematical theory), it first got me to write 100 pages in no time
flat, and is now getting me to prune the text down to the Big Picture.
From: SCHOOL::NEWTON 19-OCT-1994 05:02:10.60
To: US1RMC::"[email protected]"
CC: NEWTON
Subj: Shorter Version of Feedback Theory Proof
[ I can now see that even this version is a Rough Draft, which will fuel its
own Revision/Shortening and Distribution. ]
All of Society is governed by modular, recursive, nested, control-theoretic
and information-theoretic Feedback Loops which strongly resemble a Mandelbrot
Set graph. Most of Human History can now be explained as the Understandable,
Hard-To-see, Hard-To-prove Result of building Well-intentioned Organizations
and/or Businesses and/or Governments which drove these Loops in Dangerous or
Mixed Ways. Once you prove scientifically that these Loops exist and apply
them to Human History, you discover
* That there are many, many False Dichotomies, Incorrect Implementations
of Real Needs, Honestly Mistaken Conclusions, etc., etc. which caused
the Problem to be nearly Impossible for Anybody to See or to Solve in
a Conscious Fashion.
* That broken Loops can be beyond the control of Anyone to fix Piecemeal
or even All at Once, until everyone understands the Theory and applies
it to understanding the Big Picture.
* That Ethics / Religion are your Best Guides to Searching For The Truth,
but that you need Science and Control Theory and Information Theory to
Let The Truth Set You Free, and that the Proof must be discovered with
neutral, practical Business / Engineering / Architectural Tools, whose
nature is then strongly Foreshadowed in Music and Science Fiction.
* The Unprofitable Nature of Blame The Boss, Blame The Employee, Blame
The Co-Worker, Hide the Problem at Any Costs, Fail to Recognize Your
Own Personal Strengths and Weaknesses, Fail to Think Hard about Real
Problems, and Fail to Look for the Win-Win Solution. These reactions
are frequently perfectly understandable and forgivable, but can Drive
Uncontrollable Negative Feedback Loops to a No-Win Situation, Unless
You Understand That The Loops Exist -- and that they can be Tuned to
drive a Win-Win Upwards Spiral of Efficient Progress for Everyone.
* The Profitable Nature of Tolerance, Forgiveness, Learning from Honest
Mistakes, Teamwork, Knowing Your Own Strengths and Limitations -- and
also of Efficiently Recognizing the Difference between Good and Evil,
and Quickly Neutralizing The Latter In The Best Interests Of Society.
This seems Hard today, but becomes Easy once you accept the Proof(s).
* That Religion, Science, Architecture, Business, Engineering, Computer
Science, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence/Life, Economics, Biology,
Psychology, Motivational Psychology, Law Enforcement, English / Foreign
Language Studies, Art, Music, Science Fiction, Politics, and many, many
other Fields of Human Endeavor are Deeply and Inextricably Linked.
* That Ethics is Deeply Practical and Profitable in every Possible Sense
of the Word, and has already Rewarded Us Beyond Belief, for major and/
or accidental Inventions such as Human Rights and Computer Technology,
which seem to be Distinct but actually walk Hand In Hand.
* The huge number of Practical Implementation Guides which already Exist,
in the form of the U. S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution
and Bill of Rights; English Common Law; the Bible; the Koran; the
Torah; Ethical reference works; Adam Smith's work; Charles Darwin's
work, and uncountable other Science and Art and Music and History,
etc., etc. works in Every Field.
* The great Dangers of not Understanding the Feedback Loops, and how they
drove World War I, World War II, the Holocaust, Saddam's failed Attempt
to build an Efficient Conquest/Killing Machine Success Story, the great
Danger of building Artificial Intelligence/Robots (without first having
complete Understanding of their Theory of Operation), the Rise and Fall
of Communism, the Vietnam War, the Soviet-Afghanistan War, and the U. S.
Civil War, to name just a few well-known and now explainable examples.
* The great Benefits of the Feedback Loops such as U. S. World Leadership,
the rise of Democracy, the rise of Capitalism, the peaceful dissolution
of Idealistic Communism, and the new Roads open to peacefully Reforming
Tyrannies and/or Dangerously-Mistuned Societies.
Anyone can see and/or work out the Proof for themselves. Many great Leaders,
and/or Visionaries, and/or Musicians, and/or Scientists, and especially, many
Science Fiction authors such as Isaac Asimov already have -- but just did not
not know how Complete and/or Close they were.
Once you understand the scientific value of the Proof, it starts tuning your
own Thought processes to become continuously-more-productive. That leads to
a World in which everyone can lead Interesting, Fun, Productive, Profitable,
and Ethical lives without being forced into the Demeaning role of the Insect
or the Machine. We are their natural Masters; not they ours.
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