Perry Bezanis
Godel's Proof and The Human Condition - The Basic Essays

The 'Black Box' Nature and Course of Human Existence

Kernel Properties of the Hominid Organism

Pecking Order ... Government and Economic Policy

My Ecological Footprint -from Redefining Progress

Population, Evolution and Development ...

Afro-American Idiom, Experience and Unemployment

On Scientific Integrity -(e.g.) Relationals

Thus-Far Evolved Human Intellectual Thought

Human Nature and Continuing Human Existence

Lexicon
Key Words, Phrases and Concepts

Heuristic Government and Economic Policy
-Part 4 of-
The Nature and Course of Human Evolution as The Basis of Economic Policy

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Godel's Proof and The Human Condition

Economics has evolved out of fundamentally natural mechanisms of human diasporation and eventual trade. For the greater part of history, these mechanisms were more or less satisfactory in the sense that it was not possible to foresee problematic consequences from underlying dynamics. Economics and economic theory, in this respect, have evolved as less concerned with consequences than with 'invisible hand's, 'economic growth' and abstract market properties more or less ignorantly conjured into 'existence and importance'.

Critically missing here is any reference to the biological nature of man and the nature of his influence on what is a closed-earth system -four considerations:

1 - There is no way for humans to have learned or to learn anything of 'unambiguous factuality' except out of ignorance and successively more logical and less ambiguous 'refinement'.

2 - Mankind dispersed into an eventual constitution of discrete, ethnic nations, but all government continues to reflect natural and primary evolution out of (a) origins as 'pecking-order-based vertebrates' and (b) 'essentially belief-based authority as source of knowledge and guidance'.

3 - Science continues to show that 'natural overpopulation and economic growth' is degrading ecological and environmental dynamics to varying degrees of irreversibility and 'a certainty of pejorative impact on future generations regrettable in hindsight'.

4 - How continuing degradations of the environment and general ecology affect human existence depends upon how 'heuristic government and economic policy' becomes determined -inevitable, by 'science regarding the nature and course of the human organism'.
(-from Human Nature and Continuing Human Existence)

The author notes that 'sophisticated people everywhere opine their concern for The Human Condition'. The spoken or written word today, consequently, clearly identifies massive, ignorant opinion beating the shit out of intelligent, informed concern. Progressively developed thruout here, the material of this web-site is serious -and difficult- reading: the etiology of the human condition and a more or less singular extrapolation of state-of-art biology and (macro)anthropology into a probable future of mankind -no moralizing, no philosophizing, no academic pronouncements; if that's not your interest, you will not be happy here. There is, on the other hand, a huge amount of seminal material here -sometimes dated, but substance intact- for further exploration in essays, monographs, dissertations et cetera (two examples -*5).

Interested? -one essay provides an overview into that futurology, 'Sustainable Resource Use' ... under Thus-far Human Evolution; recent events, furthermore, have pushed the essay Gross Demographic Changes Attaching Sustainable Resource Use (long under rewrite) into partial posting -'visit' strongly recommended.

(Note: Graduate students in particular are advised to use only most recent updates for sometimes subtle, but important changes -all material continuingly under update and improving readability -plagiarism recommended. -Also, downloading files of interest into a common directory facilitates moving between files for their heavy cross-referencing.
-Last modified: January 8, 2008 )

(*1) Four sections follow:

I - The Basic Essays(*2)-
Based on an extrapolation of Godel's Proof as 'unequivocally encompassing the human phenomenon and things human', essays 1 thru 7 (below) take the sciences (and mathematics) today into an etiology of 'the human condition'. (You don't think there's a problem??? -Recent little news items on 'the human condition'.)
II - Economics: Analysis, Opinion and Speculation(*3)-
In order below are the single essay (item 8) of the website formally advancing basic essays material into (inevitable) 'economic policy of the future', various monographs (item 9) supporting that development(*9), an early 'venture' (item 10 -*c) into this such material and a 'futurology' (item 11 -*b) on various aspects of civilizational breakdown imminent in one way or another.

III - Miscellaneous (*4): some 'excellently pithy observations' for any political or other 'soft-science' arena; The State of the Planet, abstracts from Science Magazine; film reviews and poetry -and always an excellent and recent little news item on some aspect of the human condition.

IV - Internal Links -Alphabetical
Alphabetical List of Essays and Appendices(*a)
Alphabetical Index of Subject Words and Phrases, and their related essays(*6)

(*7) - Questions? -comments? -curses? -get on our listserve for recent little news items on 'the human condition'? -no subject or body necessary.

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I - The Basic Essays (1989-1992)

1 - Introduction with two companion notes on the organization of knowledge developed for The Nature and Course of Human Evolution as The Basis of Economic Policy -the first on Organizational Aspects of 'the human phenomenon and things human' and the second on the systematics implicit that and developable out of Roget's Thesaurus. A third note addresses the matter of scientific integrity thru discussion of one of the more important concepts developed here, the idea of Relationals.

2 - Godel's Proof and The Human Condition - argument that a human condition is intrinsic -that we do have the knowledge to better 'meliorate' it.

3 - The Matter of Forensic Integrity - attention politicians, lawyers, 'philosophers' and 'the man-on-the-street': on the futility (endless) of discussing 'what you can't define'. (Why so many single apostrophes???)

4 - Kernel Properties of The Hominid Organism - evolutionally more primitive and more correct than 'selfishness', 'morality' and other confusing 'non-properties' of society and 'civilization' today.

5 - The System of Human Experience - a properly formal, phenomenological construction of what is known today as opposed to 'what has been ignorantly and primitively conjured into existence' -with companion piece On Scientific Integrity in These Essays - On 'Relationals', as Example

6 - Feminism, Male Sex, Evolution and Jail - the etiology of certain sexually-based problems in society and civilization today -with a note on homosexuality (and divorce and pederasty and ...). (Companion piece, The War Between the Sexes.
[Author notes that implications of these pieces are all of profound economic importance -section below.]

7 - Key words, phrases and concepts (definitions) -see also alphabetical index(*6) of general words or phrases and the essays in which some aspect of those items is discussed.

8 - The Human Condition - Q and A conversational mode discussion of the human condition -nature (material and substance), origins, uses of the phrase, and 'prognosis'.

Introductory notes extrapolating The Basic Essays to (soft-science) economic theory-
Evolution, Autonomy and Aristocratization (Economics Note 1) -'in the nature and course of hominid evolution'.
Economics and The Human Condition (Note 2) -in the course of thus-far-sapiens evolution and current theorization (primitive and primitive).

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II - Economics: Analysis, Opinion and Speculation (1993-)

'American free-enterprise, capitalist democracy and the right to make as much money as you can and spend it any way you choose' (as long as there's no law against it :-) is the single agency of greatest per_capita resource/environment destruction and waste in the history of man.
(-from 'Business' and 'Making money')

8 - The Nature and Course of Human Evolution as The Basis of Economic Policy
"All government and economic policy today has come into existence out of pecking-order and beliefs more or less circumstantially evolved out of primitive learning and neonate ignorance -beliefs effectively 'traditional' now. This 'warm-blooded animal property' however -pecking-order, is destined to have only vestigial influence in 'the ultimate course of human progression'

-and those beliefs, too, are destined to be superceded by the 'phenomenology of the configuration space'. -In time, consequently, the 'nature' and structure of government and economy will be significantly different from what it is today" (thumbnail -Economics Note 5); companion piece to this is Gross Demographic Changes Attaching Sustainable Resource Use -or The Failure Of Sustainable Resource Use By 2040-50.

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9 - Monographs developed primarily during the writing of The Nature and Course of Human Evolution as The Basis of Economic Policy.

fact

Pecking Order, Competition, Institution, Government and Economic Policy - comments on inevitable reconstitution of society.
The Base-Domain of Human Requirements
- because of deliberative capability in particular, there is a set of viability requirements that is unique to hominids apart from all other organisms.
'Sustainable Resource Use' and The Nature of Civilization and Government/Economy under Thus-far Human Evolution - a monograph of major implications.
Global Warming and Other 'Geological Time-frame Matters of Economic Interest' (Note 7).
The 'Black Box' Nature and Course of Human Existence - the inevitability of 'tailoring' our existence on earth.

(analysis)

'Business' and 'Making money' - companion piece to essay Gross Demographic Changes Attaching Sustainable Resource Use -above.
The Unemployability Conjecture - on the 'impossibility of full employment' (Note 3).
Unemployment and Economic Policy - case-study development of computerized stock-trading as 'of no possible validity whatsoever'.
Population, Development and Pollution -Sustainable Resource Use and Latino (and other) Power -immigration policy central to the whole.

(opinion)
Afro-American Idiom, Experience and Unemployment -comments on the Afro-American's 'clumsy' assimilation into inevitably 'polka dotted' mankind (American in particular).
The Origins, Nature and Future of Social Security -examining social security suggestion by the 'new-baby-Bush' administration.

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10 - Arms Reduction and Global Reconstruction
This essay was written in response to a 1992 solicitation by Economists Allied For Arms Reduction (ECAAR, The Economist Magazine) for essays of 2500 words or less under that title... It is dated, but 'on target' nevertheless, and only superficially changed from that submittal.

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11 - Breakdown - A Futurology
The human condition prevails as a decreasing controllability over an increasing momentum of humanity jamming a closed earth which -short of massive changes, can only but wear eventually into a catastrophic breakdown. It is a matter, solely, of 'what the system can bear':::

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III - Miscellaneous

Godel's Proof and 'the human condition'???
Recent news items that typically turn on incongruities or peculiarities of one kind or another in 'the human being' and that are due, essentially, to (a) dispositions and beliefs developed by evolving man out of primitive observation and habit, and to (b) the circumstantiality and repetition of continuing daily life that eventually institutionalized and therefore still propagates those dispositions and beliefs -what we call 'the human condition'.
'pithies' -any one of which can be expanded into an essay -what 'well to do' means for example:

"The underlying 'prerogative' of the well-to-do is his
not wanting his life-style disturbed by others 'scratching'
(generally 'beneath' him :-) for that same prerogative."
The State of the Planet - abstracts from Science Magazine addressing expectancies approaching the year 2050.
The Ecological Footprint Quiz (by Redefining Progress) - How many acres does it take to support your lifestyle?
Film Reviews - current three months and past, and then listed separately as 'worth seeing' or seen and not worth it, but definitely not just 'pop American taste'.
Poetry -early, but more than decent, and photos (still being made) of sculpture variations made as once 'investigative' art student.

(Question: is there anyone out there that understands this material well enough to handle maintenance, rewrite and extension without loss of integrity? -under contract? perryb@condition.org)

(Feedback? -In an experiment here, we will post any scientifically-sound argument (state-of-art) or opinion (within reason :-) related to website material -perryb@condition.org)

*5 - what's going on here -two examples:
(*d)

1 - 'The right to make as much money as you can and spend it any way you choose' can be traced (cultural anthropology) to 'the pecking order of warm-blooded, cerebrating vertebrates'. Inherent this however, is 'indenturing the constituency to make amassed such money good(?)' in ways that may be pejorative to constituency AND posterity best interests (to 'sustainable resource use' for example). What considerations should economists (and others?) make regarding that evolution? -and how might they best go about influencing it?
2 - Cultural anthropologists are generally agreed that as a form of government, 'democracy is only an artifact of our thus-far evolution'. What considerations should economists (and others?) make regarding that evolution? -and how might they best go about influencing it?

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IV
Alphabetical List of Essays and Appendices

Essays
Afro-American Idiom, Experience and Unemployment
Arms Reduction and Global Reconstruction
The Base-Domain of Human Requirements
The 'Black Box' Nature and Course of Human Existence
Breakdown - A Futurology
'Business' and 'Making money'
Economics and The Human Condition [economc2]
Energy Expenditure in 'Well-Being and The Quality of Life'
The Etiology of Homosexuality (and Divorce and ...
Evolution, Autonomy and Aristocratization [autonomy, economc1]
Evolving Society's Issues and Variables [econpol3]
Heuristic Government and Economic Policy [econpol4]
Feminism, Male Sex, Evolution and Jail
Global Warming and Other Geological Time-frame Matters of Economic Interest [economc7]
Godel's Proof and The Human Condition
Gross Demographic Changes Attaching Sustainable Resource Use
Introduction
Kernel Properties of The Hominid Organism
Key Words, Phrases and Concepts
The Matter of Forensic Integrity
The Nature and Course of Human Evolution as The Basis of Economic Policy
Organizational Aspects of 'The Human Phenomenon and Things Human'
The Origins, Nature and Future of Social Security and Other Such Civilizational Phenomena [economc6]
Pecking Order, Competition, Institution, Government and Economic Policy
'Pithies'
Population, Development and Pollution -Sustainable Resource Use and 'Latino (and other) Power' [immigra]
Questions and Answers
Roget's Thesaurus and 'The System of Human Experience'
Scientific Integrity in These Essays - On 'Relationals', as Example
'Sustainable Resource Use' and The Nature of Civilization and Government/Economy under Thus-far Human Evolution [history]
The System of Human Experience
A Thumbnail of 'The Nature and Course of Human Evolution as The Basis of Economic Policy' [economc5]
The Unemployability Conjecture [economc3]
Unemployment and Economic Policy
The War Between the Sexes

Appendices
The Circumstantial Complexity of Today's 'Thus-far Pecking-Order-Based, Diasporation Economics'
The Circumstantial Superfluity of Mankind(*l)
(A Word on) Dirigiste Heurism -Appendix 1 of Evolving Society's Issues and Variables
The Ecological Footprint Quiz by Redefining Progress
(A Note on) Education
Energy and The Nature and Use of The Resource/Environment
Evolutionary Framework Factors
(A Selection of) Issues 'Discovered' in The Course of These Writings
Institutionalization and 'Sustainable Resource Use'
(A Note On The) Nature and Constitution of 'Sustainable Resource Use'

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Alphabetical Index of Subject Words and Phrases

(not rigorously maintained)