Optimising toward a paradise
I claim that we will end up in a paradise much like the paradise in the beginning of time but this time with technology around. Why would it be so? For understanding this we need to understand something about the optimisation of complex systems:
Let us say that a system consists of two different types of parts, A (= the nature) and B (= the technology and other artificialities), which are nto by their nature connected to each other: they can both survive alone, even though the parts of type A connect to form a whole which needs to be optimised.
Now say that the adabtability of the parts of type A is a "number" a, and the adabtability of the parts of the type B is likewise a "number" b. There are tow tasks: the optimisation of each type of parts and the adabtation of them to the whole. If the type B can adabt well to the type A, the type A needs not adabt so much and can spend its forces to the optimisation of the whole formed by the parts A. So, as technology develops and becomes more and more adabtable to the needs of humans, humans can return to the ways of living that best suit them, that bring the best capacity: to a natural healthy life in the nature.
Why do I then treat these two types of parts as two clusters of things instead of taking a small part and an another and emphasising them as I feel needed imn each situation. First of all, the biggest things matter the most. So if I take very general coordinates, I can treat everything at once, and see how the large scale effects get formed. If I overlook no factors, my calculations bring the very best result even if I have stayed at thew level of the whole. That depends solely on the generalisation that I am using.
On the other hand, if I start with a cruxial part and try to ensure its safety and well functioning in the longs run while taking the whole system into account, I have to follow rules which give it enough safety. That means allying with as many as possible and that brings the wellfare of the masses into focus…??? Ally with rationality, ally with moral,…
Why to not to optimise only the technology part and some chosen part of the human kind? If the pool from which the competing human strategies arise isn’t as large as possible or if the best strategies do not get chosen because one does not follow justice which does not take sides, the competition ability of the group gets smaller – see my text ”If one denies power from some group” for this in my first book Power Politics Leads Toward Excellent Moral.
Similarly if one does not follow human values fully, the different people with different styrategies of life will not be fit to work and those strategies will drop away from the conpetition against justice, so weakening the group. The keays to the full optimising of a biological system are health (human values) and justice.
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