Optimal Toolset to address Complex Problems - Enabling Action

Recently I was challenged by a PhD about the validity to utilize computer simulations as the ideal tool to solve our complex problems. Scenario play-outs have been used for decades by the military. The company Mitre has developed a suite of modeling and simulation platforms to address a broad variety of threats. The throughput is that the Military Industrial Complex is growing and catalyzing an entropic Ecology. This is not an affront to the Military, but an acknowledgment of their tools to succeed and thrive. Shouldn’t we consider utilization of those same tools with an expansion of threat consideration to include Earth dynamics?

Massive amounts of academic and real-world vetted papers have been produced over the past 3 decades; when big data management and visualization tools were critical for multiple applications.

People and so-called leaders are finally accepting that the systems humanity has built are by there very nature - complex and resistant to obsolescence.

Communication Systems and the developments of computers to support the system have evolved to the point that they can make correlations between diverse data sources. This creates a pattern that systems solution architects, like myself can use to design whole-systems solutions.

These systems were hijacked by the advertising industry because of their power to influence human behavior and accelerate the consumptive capacity of Industries.

This has lead to our current mass consumptive/polluting dilemma of killing our Environment. The disruption of Life Support Systems. Our systems are designed toward the entropic phase of #thermodynamics .

So now we have a plethora of PhD theorists telling us we need to change all of our systems toward regeneration and resilience. But they lack the design and toolset capability for civilization scale systems. Planting trees and loving one another doesn’t translate to the implementation of systems that operate in harmony with our environment and the physical dynamics of Nature. Nor do they address the remediation of accumulated toxins/life disrupters we have all over the planet - radiation, forever chems, plastic, vaporized toxins.

Investment continues to flow toward bandaids and reactionary efforts to our trans-systemic breakdown. Chase carbon and bury it. Offer relief to the suffering while the system that caused the suffering remains in operation.

We are definitely hurling toward entropy, even accelerating toward it with our Industrial Systems.

"Disruption through Innovation should be our Mantra."

Well, for those who believe that solving our problems will take more than another conference, policy change, summit, training, or white paper; there are pioneers (Solutionaries) converging to enable the coherent design of systems that operate in harmony with Nature. Pioneering work has been accomplished through Space Exploration for energy, water, waste, and architecture. Scientists from multiple disciplines spanning biology, physics, and neuroscience are developing elements of a platform that would utilize our most advanced analysis and design tools to enable a critical path forward for humanity to pursue, build, and refine.

Unfortunately, this represents disruption/change to the establishment of thought and industrial systems.

We are running out of time before our systems accelerate into collapse of our Environment and the Life Support (Syntropic) systems we rely upon and are globally interdependent. We are rapidly approaching chaos that spans a fully reactionary state by threats from war, pollution, and extreme weather conditions. A parallel analogy is the breakdown of the caterpillar in the cocoon. But we have to construct the butterfly version in time to breakout of the chrysalis before Life Support runs out. Building our Future Vision is critical. See Doomday Clock Status.

Implementing probes/pilots at different scales in different bio-regional dynamics is key. That way we can implement whole systems solutions and adapt/tune them for optimal function and stasis within the greater ecology.

Buckminster Fuller developed the World Game as a platform to look at our whole earth systems to better understand how we can harmonize our existence within it. If you believe humanity will go back to primitive means of survival by living in huts and eco-villages - you have no understanding of human psychology and our drive to improve quality of life, safety, and self sufficiency.

Buckminster was hopeful that we would build a computer toolset to play the Worldgame and develop unique solutions. Even #IONS was established to simulate the Overview Effect that astronauts experience when they Earthgaze and recognize this is One Living System and is unique within Galaxies. The Human Sustainability Institute has been weaving together amazing resources from NOAA, NASA, and some of the most advanced technologies to play the Worldgame starting with the creation of the Atlas Biospheric Design Center. A real-time Worlds Fair of Best-In-Class Tools, Methods and Technologies.

Will we be able to implement this complex analysis, design, and implementation toolset in time? That remains to be seen. This is an evolutionary process for our species. And our understanding of thermodynamics may lead us down a path toward a future we are attracted and can thrive within.

Onward.

“It is tempting to suggest that physical entropy—the quantity which determines how much work can be extracted from a physical system—should take into account its algorithmic randomness. This suggestion can be substantiated by detailed discussions of examples of computer-operated engines as well as by results concerning the evolution of entropy and algorithmic randomness in the course of measurements. It provides a direct link between thermodynamics, measurements, and the theory of computation. Moreover, it is relevant to the definition of complexity.”

Note: Computer-Operated Engines.

They connect the natural sciences to the science of computation, and they characterize the emergence of classical physics from the quantum realm in the early universe.?

#HSI #atlasbiosphericdesign #bfi #worldgame #biomimicrydesign #sustainability