Heuristic Government and Economic Policy

A Proposal For 2007 ICAPE Panel Discussion

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 'abstract market properties' and 'economic growth'.

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'.(*1).

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'.(*2)
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Proposed here is that some panel be created to examine economic implications of these four statements.


[FOOTNOTES]
*1 - 'Pecking order' remains essentially intact because the only way it can be 'reduced' is by deliberately addressing its natural, evolutionary existence. Such address is yet to exist or be known to have existed anywhere so far. Other than pecking order then, there are no naturally resident dispositions channeling the naturally evolving hierarchizations of human interaction. Procedures and rationales for such interaction have evolved, consequently and so far, out of circumstance and the belief-system respect 'ignorant lessers' had for the leader that demonstrated (example) 'special connection with the fire spirit by knowing how to make fire and keep it going'.
*2 - Science continues to discover how (above) procedures and rationales evolved out of 'ignorance and circumstance' affect ecology and the environment -and, therein, the continuing well-being and viability of man. There is, however, nothing to prevent science from continuing its natural supercession of those mechanisms with science-based, naturally heuristic procedures and rationales based solely upon optimizing that well-being and viability of man as a life-form.