[Fis] Inviting you to join Club of Remy

Sat Mar 15 04:06:04 CET 2025

    On Friday, March 14, 2025 at 02:41:29 PM EDT, Jason Hu <jasonthegoodman at gmail.com> wrote:   

 Dear Howard,
Thanks for your kind comments. I have been pondering how to reply you synergetically. At our age, we are all like fully loaded container ships, very deterministically sailing to our previously set goals with very stubborn agendas and priorities. But still, the optimistic part of me still want to try to invite your attention towards the direction that I think more urgent/important than building an omniscience or cure-it-all Tiger Palm. That was why I sent you the "Limit of X" PPT (attached again per your request.) 
In case you agree with even a small part of the ideas in that PPT, I wish you would consider sparing some of your attention towards less omniscient but more "limited but practically useful" projects that we might be able to cooperate on. Three possibilities (non-realities yet) come to mind. 
#1: A general theory of civilization evolution based on Cultural Gene Hypothesis, which will not only describe "Clash of Value Systems" but also provide practical solution-oriented strategies for today's problems of the world. Analyzing questions such as, "Is American in decline?" "Is Trump able to achieve MAGA, how?"  "Where the Western Civilization is head to?" "What could be a solution towards the peace in the Middle East?" Etc. I'm listing these questions because they are the ultimate challenges to any intellectuals who might have a strong ego believing that he or she has found the silver bullet to save the world. Well, let's Fool Around and Find Out.  For this I've attached a "term paper" of my RA, comparing Richard Dawkins, you, and me, about ideas on culture genes.   Do you know that Richard Dawkins is doing this: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://centerforinquiry.org/the-sea-of-homer-with-richard-dawkins/?ms=RDSeptCruise__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piHiRMT97Q$  ? If you're interested and agree to work together, perhaps you and I can do another one of such cruise too? It must be very fun!
hb: a cruise would be tremendous. so would further dialog with you.  even though i don't have time.  
i've been on the trail of civilizations, their conflicts, the compromises, their synergies, and their accomplishments since i was 12.  seriously.
when asked to describe my role on this planet, i sometimes say i study mass behavior from the mass behavior of quarks to the mass behavior of human beings.
meanwhile, i appear on 545 radio stations once a week, commenting on current affairs.  like my work in pop culture, it's fieldwork in mass behavior.  below is a substack based on my appearance two nights ago, about how donald trump threw our position as the world power away on february 28th when he balled out zelensky on tv and proved to europe and japan what they had long suspected, that america would no longer come to their aid if they were attacked.  so they needed to put together their own military alliances.  alliances without us americans.

#2: The currently going on "Oxford Project" to develop an entry-level online course for youngsters about Systemics-Cybernetics-Informatics (SCI). This is purely online effort participated by a number of colleagues from multiple countries, but we are lack of brains and lack of hands. This is a spin-off project of the Club of Remy activities - more specific and more hands-on. (The general meetings of CoR can be any topic (of importance and urgency) initialized by any member (I just put you on the member list), but different from the traditional solo lectures, we need three discussants willing to talk about a topic before we can schedule a session.) The next working meeting of the group will be on March 17, on which we will collect "interesting stories that will attract youngsters to learn SCI.hb: my mondays are generally overbooked.  i have a meeting of the Space Development Steering Committee to run. monday the 17th is an even bigger problem.  i will appear by video on a panel about Michael Jackson, one of my clients in my pop culture fieldwork days, for british tv, piers morgan uncensored. 
#3: "Getting Ready to Die" project, that I invite a number of aging colleagues to consider. It is very simple, just an effort to figure out your "1-54-367" content that I explained in the previous email.  You said your "367" is being edited now, and your "54 quotations" are ready - I would love to read them! But what will be that "1"? I'm sure it is a moving target, but what is your current one? It would be interesting if we could Zoom to "interview" each other.hb: i suspect that could be arranged.  i maintain an uberconference room where we could meet with video and have a recording of our talk when it's over. 
Please let me know which one of the above is more interesting for you.hb:  it's your theory of the evolution and future of civilizations that's of greatest interest to me.

alas, i must run.  hope to see you soon.
with warmth and oomph--howard 

Why Are AmericansUneasy?

We are sitting onthe edge of a volcano.

By

Howard Bloom

Why are Americans uneasy? A year ago, in the spring of 2024, TheChapman University Survey of American Fears, indicated that over 50% ofAmericans harbored fears of  a thirdworld war, corrupt government officials, and terrorism.  Since then, things have gotten worse.  

Why? Because the earth seems to be shaking under ourfeet.  And things we once took forgranted, things we relied on, are being kicked away.

The White House is one source of our anxieties. One daytariffs are in.  the next day, they’reout. The businesses that cut our paychecks need certainty to thrive.   

But the tariff chaos is just the tip of the iceberg.  There’s a fundamental shift in the globalbalance of power.  And that tectonicshift will impact your life and mine.

>From 1948 until today, NATO enforced a Pax Americana, anAmerican Peace, a peace we could rely on, a peace of which we were theguardians.  We were the leaders of thefree world.  Those days are gone. 

On February 28th, Donald Trump’s televised humiliation ofUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky convinced our allies that they could notdepend on us. So our allies in Asia and our allies in Europe have begun to turntheir backs on us. 

Japan is actively pursuing an Asian NATO, recruitingother Asian nations and relying on a security partnership it has signed with,not us, but the European Union.  Meanwhile, the Europeans realize they can’t count on us to come to theiraid, either.  So they are puttingtogether a European military alliance of which we would not be a part.  

But this is just foreign policy stuff, right?  And foreign policy doesn’t matter to youreveryday life and mine.  That’s not true.

As you know, we have a new peer competitor, China.  A peer competitor very unlike the SovietUnion we faced in the Cold War.  Chinahas become the workshop of the world.  Wehave become dependent on Chinese goods  

So what happens when our ability to buy cheap iPhones andiPads slips away?  What happens whenChina becomes the leader in biotechnology, medical research, and artificialintelligence?  

Nine years ago, China overtook us in the number ofscientific papers it published.  Thismonth they have claimed to overtake us in artificial intelligence. And China isworking hard to lead the world in the next big thing, intelligent robots.  Meanwhile, we are hacking our scientific agenciesto pieces. 

What does any of this have to do with your life andmine?  Why does it make us insecure evenwhen we don’t realize it?  Until the lastfew months, we were the one stable nation others could count on.  So foreigners parked their money in America.  Including the Chinese, who loan us money bybuying close to a trillion dollars in US Treasury securities.  

Now we are the most unstable of the superpowers.  And China is advertising itself as the onlystable superpower on the planet. What will happen when all that money that wasonce parked here flees our instability and goes to China?

We saw a bit of what will happen in early March.  In just nine days, the US stock market lostfour trillion dollars in value.  That’sthe equivalent the entire economic output for a year of Germany. 

Now there’s increasing talk of the possibility ofrecession, or, worse, a depression. Which would mean that many of us would lose our jobs.  

And the Federal government, which would at least helpgive us a weekly unemployment check, is being ripped apart.  The irony is that the deepest red states, themost reliably Republican states, are the most dependent on federalsupport.  

What’s more, many believe that our constitutional democracyand our balance of powers are being ripped to shreds. Topping even that is thelooming possibility that the government could shut down on March 14th.  

So why are we uneasy? We’ve given up our position as theleading nation on earth. And as Joni Mitchell said, “you don’t know what yougot ‘til it’s gone.”

References:

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Can-Japan-really-trust-America__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piG80Lc-jQ$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Zelenskyy-Trump-showdown-shows-Asian-allies-can-t-fully-count-on-U.S__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piGPIvu5Ew$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.caixinglobal.com/2025-03-12/chinas-regions-power-up-ai-and-robotics-innovation-with-financial-incentives-102297178.html__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piF-a6hMYw$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ft.com/content/73aef243-0518-42b5-b732-2e64ace3994c__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piE9awSK3w$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/research-centers/babbie-center/survey-american-fears.aspx__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piF8vt0reA$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-official-expects-q1-gdp-squeak-into-positive-category-2025-03-10/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piE2Z8F7cQ$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/investors-flee-equities-trump-driven-uncertainty-sparks-economic-worry-2025-03-10/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piGZJAbX6A$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2025/03/11/employee-confidence-labor-jobs-doge__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piEBDkL_Wg$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nypost.com/2025/03/11/lifestyle/quarter-of-americans-experience-burnout-by-30/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piFUJxnphw$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.axios.com/2025/01/24/musk-doge-trump-billionaires-disapprove-poll__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piGNf8lgsw$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.investopedia.com/inflation-worries-hit-americans-confidence-about-retirement-11695105__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piFo_rP3DA$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/ny-fed-worry-over-outlook-increases-amid-stable-inflation-expectations-2025-03-10/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piGOMSZVEQ$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2025/03/11/most-least-federally-dependant-states/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piHNPFyxVQ$ 

https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piHWLMdgsg$ 

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Howard Bloom of the Howard Bloom Institute has beencalled the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century by Britain'sChannel 4 TV. Bloom's next book, coming out in spring, 2025, is The Case of theSexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong. Says Harvard's EllenLanger of The Case of the Sexual Cosmos, Bloom "argues that we are notsavaging the earth as some would have it, but instead are growing the cosmos. Afascinating read." One of Bloom's eight previous books--Global Brain---wasthe subject of a symposium thrown by the Office of the Secretary of Defenseincluding representatives from the State Department, the Energy Department,DARPA, IBM, and MIT.  Bloom's work hasbeen published in scientific journals, and in The Washington Post, The WallStreet Journal, Wired, Psychology Today, and the Scientific American. SaysJoseph Chilton Pearce, author of Evolution's End and The Crack in the CosmicEgg, "I have finished Howard Bloom's [first two] books, The LuciferPrinciple and Global Brain, in that order, and am seriously awed, nearoverwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done. I never expected to see, inany form, from any sector, such an accomplishment.  I doubt there is a stronger intellect thanBloom's on the planet."   For more,see https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://howardbloom.net__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piE-fLQG4A$  or https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://howardbloom.institute__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piFaU8UUOw$ 
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM Howard Bloom <howlbloom at aol.com> wrote:

 Jason, you are amazing.  
i couldn't figure out how to sign on to the club of remy.  could you put me on it?
the story of what you experienced during the chinese culture revolution is the lead chapter of the lucifer principle.  amazing that you lived it and that you lived through it.
could you send me your powerpoint again?
two questions:  how did you acquire such extraordinary english?  and your astonishing ability to put arcane scientific ideas in such simple prose.  few people born into the english-speaking world are capable of such a feat.
is your company WINTOP Organizational Learning Laboratory?
more notes below.

    On Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 03:11:06 AM EDT, Marcus Abundis <55mrcs at gmail.com> wrote:   

 Without a doubt! – mapping emergence is the single greatest unanswered scientific challenge! hb: absolutely.Any details/references you have to offer on progress on *formally* mapping emergence are greatly appreciated.hb: so far, that hasn't been my quest, alas.  my job seems to be to kick open the door to what i hope will prove to be a new paradigm. 
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM Jason Hu <jasonthegoodman at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Howard,
Waiting for your opinion on the PPT I sent you last time, I have been able to watch your movie during my waiting time to upgrade my laptop (from 16G/1T/4core/8logical processors to 32G/2T/16cores/22logical processors). It is indeed as amazing as your perception of my life; thus, I need to write you more about the fact that we came from very different societies; therefore, we might have a lot to exchange. 
E.g.#1: In 1967, you (and your generation) were rocking your society loose, if not upside down. In my society people were killing each other, my mother had to arrange us to sleep on the floor because bullets were flying outside our windows. Mao's Cultural Revolution was from 1966 to his death in 1976. When you guys were able to chase scientific knowledge and explore space, my generation had a top priority to survive both biologically and psychologically, the later we call "a prison break" from Marxist ideology (by the way, effectively through learning systemics/cybernetics/informatics). 
E.g.#2: Around 1988 I came to a same point as your Lucifer Principle by publishing about "dual-phase principle," i.e. Self-Disorganization versus Self-Organization that works like a pendulum in living systems, spontaneous order emergence versus sudden loss of order and redefining "system" through an order-less state - like a chicken hatched to the point to break that shell. However, the "Lucifer" concept was neither aware by me at that time nor a good/positive image in Western culture, if you would agree.
hb: my suspicion is that the dual phase principle corresponds, in part, to what evolutionary biologists (and I) have called the fission-fusion strategy.  spread out and explore exuberantly, then rush together fearfully and consolidate what you've learned.  spin apart and hug again.  do the big bang tango.  you can see this at work all the way from bacterial colonies to human civilizations.  and you can see it at work in sex and gender.  for how, see my upcoming The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature Is Wrong.
in my book The Genius of the Beast: a Radical Re-vision of Capitalism the fission-fusion strategy manifests itself in boom and bust, exuberant speculation and fearful consolidation.  but why does a pattern so basic recur on so many planes of emergence?  
that is covered in a concept from my book The God Problem, ur patterns.  patterns that show up on one plane of reality after another.  patterns that, as a consequence, can be captured in the plane of emergent reality that houses metaphor.
but why and how do these patterns exist?  much less recur? it all goes back to two social forces that emerged in the first flick of the cosmos, attraction and repulsion.  but how and why were attraction and repulsion burped out in the first blast of the big bang?  why do they manifest themselves from the square dance of quarks to the us vs them of human beings?  and why do they show up even in the functions of chemical signals like oxytocin?

E.g.#3: Your 595-page Table of Content invokes a "JJH number" I had been advocating to my intellectual friends. It is "1-54-372." "1" means the one sentence that you would like to carve on your tombstone - what would it be? "54" means that we produced a deck of poke cards with one quotation of you on the back of each card - so kids could learn them when they play card games. What would be your most important 54 quotes? "372" happens to be the pages of a book from a colleague, an advisor of my company, that I translated and published in Chinese for our clients. The title of that book is "Ackoff's Best."  So the question to you is, given a 372-page limit, what content would you select to put into this book named "Bloom's Best"?
hb: these are interesting challenges.  we already have the best quotes.  the bloom's best will appear in the next book I'll write, The Grand Unified Theory of Everything in the Universe Including Sex, Violence, and the Human Soul. 

I hope if you could consider this number seriously and perhaps make a difference in your current priorities/working agendas, and consider accepting my invitation to join Club of Remy discussions (clubofremy.org), for "important and urgent" issues of our time. 
For example, I hope, if possible, to get people like John Mearsheimer, Alex Dugin, and you to our Zoom to discuss "where our civilization is going (in next 10 years)" or things like that. I'm also interested in why you chose that communist hat to wear - is that from China or from Russia... I might have something with a similar icon in my souvenir closet too.... It must be an interesting discussion!
hb: wow.  dugin.  i've done a lot of research on him and have mentioned him in my weekly radio commentaries on 545 radio stations.  mearsheimer, someone i frown on.  heck, dugin is also someone i frown on.  but dialoging with those you don't approve of can sometimes teach you lessons. 

Apologies for the long message, but I just wanted to share some "oxygen of attention" with you so we might be able to work out something interesting.

hb: Jason, you are a keeper.  how did pedro, a true fisher of men, find you?
with warmth and oomph--howard

Best regards - Jason

On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM Howard Bloom <howlbloom at aol.com> wrote:

 jason, you have an amazing life story and an amazing ability to write with utmost clarity.
i've downloaded your power point and will hopefully have time to enjoy myself with it friday or saturday.
with warmth and oomph--howard

    On Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 10:59:27 PM EST, Jason Hu <jasonthegoodman at gmail.com> wrote:   

 Hi Howard, Glad to meet the virtual you - and thank you for your kind praise. I did run into your jargon of "omnology," and asked my RA (not Research Assistant, but Robot Assistant) what it means. I got a number of Chinese interpretations: 全知学，宝藏学，博学，全学，which means "Know-it-all-logy, Treasureology, Broad-PhD-ics, and Everything-whole-ics."  I was born in a remote province in south China and we had a local dialect, so I suddenly got it in our dialect: "万金油“ - literally "Ten-thousands-gold-oil," the name of a special ointment that said to cure a lot of sicknesses (from headaches to mosquito bites to car sickness to fever etc., English name Tiger Balm. Its usefulness has surpassed traditional medicine in social dynamics - during my second escape (through the USSR and Berlin Wall) from China in the summer of 1989, my ex-wife and I carried two types of bribery currency - small bottles of vodka and a full bag of "Ten-thousands-gold-oil" (they are little red metal cases just a bit larger than a quarter but thicker). On that 7 day long trip in USSR, for bigger trouble we gift a vodka, for small convience we tip one Tiger Balm. Works magic! I'm sharing this with you because in my local dialect, this same name is used to call an omnologist! A person who "knows-it-all!"
That story told, I do share the same interests in "those emergent properties" that we encounter in all kinds of complex systems - from what's going on inside one brain to social dynamics and organization behaviors all the way to the evolution of our civilization, there are a number of specific research agenda that are attracting my attention. But one understanding from my learning might cause me to be not compatible with your omnology, which is "the Localness Limit of X," (X={consciousness, cognition, knowledge, science, rationality, & wisdom})  (Sorry for the simplest/easiest form of math.) I've attached a PPT about this point in case you're interested in continuing the discussion.
Best regards - Jason------------------------------------Jason Jixuan Hu, Ph.D.Independent Research Scholar Organizer: Club of REMY:  https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.clubofremy.org__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piHgfGG5DA$  General Partner: WINTOP Group: https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.wintopgroup.com__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piGIwiR9pw$  Introduction: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://drjasonhu.com__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piHb5c55Lw$ 
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On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM Howard Bloom <howlbloom at aol.com> wrote:

 jason--extremely well written contribution.  in clear language with scarcely any jargon.
enclosed is the mystery i'm exploring with all my heart.  it starts like this:

Thereis a massive mystery hiding in science. A mystery called emergent properties. Plus the mystery of one of the most important of those emergentproperties—you.  Your identity.  And how it has managed to sustain itselfdespite the fact that you’ve gone from a baby to a toddler to a child to ateenager, to a young adult, with middle age and old age in your future somewhere.  Despite all of your physical propertieschanging dramatically—from your height and weight to your brainpower and your athleticabilities—the 80 trillion constantly changing cells of you have managed to pulloff the illusion of being just one person, just one special person, with thename you go by. So which is really real, your constantly changing mass of cellsand your steadily shifting physical properties or your identity, your you?  

with warmth and oomph--howard

__________________________Howard BloomThe Howard Bloom Institutehttps://howardbloom.instituteAuthor of: The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong, coming March, 2025 ("A massive achievement, WOW!"  Richard Foreman, MacArthur Genius Award Winner, Officer of the Order of Arts & Letters, France)Previous books: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History ("mesmerizing"-The Washington Post), Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering"-The New Yorker),The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism ("A tremendously enjoyable book." James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic),  The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates ("Bloom's argument will rock your world." Barbara Ehrenreich),How I Accidentally Started the Sixties (“Wow! Whew! Wild! Wonderful!” Timothy Leary),The Mohammed Code (“A terrifying book…the best book I’ve read on Islam.” David Swindle, PJ Media),Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me: a Search  for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock & Roll ("Amazing. The writing is revelatory." Freddy DeMann, manager of Michael Jackson and Madonna), Best Book of 2020, New York Weekly Times 
A Quartz Magazine ProProfessor of Practice, Kepler Space University Co-founder, The Asian Space Technology SummitFormer Visiting Scholar, Graduate Psychology Department, New York University, Former Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute; Founder: International Paleopsychology Project. Founder, Space Development Steering Committee.  Member Of Board Of Governors, National Space Society. Founding Board Member: Epic of Evolution Society. Founding Board Member, The Darwin Project.
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    On Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 11:10:09 AM EST, Jason Hu <jasonthegoodman at gmail.com> wrote:   

 Were such debates already finished by Popper (demarcation through falsification)? Or by Wittgenstein (Shut up - (if you run out of correct language))?
I agree with Howard that math is just "one of many" but not "only" language. There exist, say, music and emotional gestures (such as what we just saw in the drama in the White House two days ago), dances, arts, architecture, etc. You count them.
One Russian scientist said long ago that the wings of science are methodologies, and facts are like air. Without air, wings cannot work. Now, what is this thing called "fact"?
It is the stable eigenstate reachable by our cognitive system. 
Recently, the phenomenon of the LLM's tendency to confabulate has been highlighted. I think it is like a mirror for us to re-examine our cognitive system (and our rationality). How reliable is it, actually?  
Is anyone here interested in discussing possible types of rationality/science and the role/position of math and logic? In the context of "Information" or "Informatics", of course. But I tend to collect Informatics and Systemics and Cybernetics together in a 3-D or 4-D framework (adding time), at least as a thought experiment.
Best regards - Jason 
On Sun, Mar 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM Pedro C. Marijuán <pedroc.marijuan at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear FIS Colleagues,

Some days ago there was a thought-provoking exchange between two FISers which I was incidentally following-- Howard Bloom and Andrei Igamberdiev. The argument was about an essay --with a critical stance on the vulgar use of the second law-- that Howard had written to be published in the Journal BioSystems, the chief editor of which is Andrei. They have allowed me to compile the whole exchange (the initial essay is not included). Here it is:

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Andrei's comments on Howard's manuscript:
  Dear Howard,  I have read your manuscript with great interest. I like many ideas and challenging points expressed in it. Your criticism of the Second Law is based on important arguments that should be analyzed in detail and evaluated by the scientific community.  However, as I mentioned in my previous letter, this style and arrangement of the paper is not suitable for a journal specializing in natural science such as BioSystems, and probably for any other similar journal.  It is more suitable for a journal specializing in philosophy or a popular scientific magazine discussing hot topics in modern science.  You are suggesting that the concept of entropy and the Second Law are wrong completely. However, they work for ergodic systems, i.e. the systems having the property that, given sufficient time, they include or impinge on all points in a given space and can be represented statistically by a reasonably large selection of points. Definitely, the Universe as a whole is not ergodic, and it may be possible to prove that living systems are also not ergodic. Thus, the Second Law and the concept of entropy have severe limitations that are often not considered by scientists.  Robert Rosen discussed this idea but very briefly. In particular, he mentioned that complexity is not the objective property of the system but it is the characteristics arising from its description (including the internal description by the system itself). He criticized the concept of entropy from this point.  Recently, Stuart Kauffman attempted to limit the Second Law and to formulate the Fourth Law that he is considering as more general. You can check his papers (see, e.g., Kauffman, S., 2022. Is There a Fourth Law for Non-Ergodic Systems That Do Work to Construct Their Expanding Phase Space? Entropy (Basel) 24(10), 1383. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.3390/e24101383__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piEdSIQ7Ww$   Thus, in my opinion, it is really important to analyze the assumptions taken for the formulation of the Second Law and the possible limitations connected to it. It is more productive to concentrate on possible limitations of the Second Law Instead of claiming that it is wrong. I don’t see this development in your paper. The Law of Flamboyance is suggested vaguely without any definite physical formulation. This presentation may be useful for general philosophical discussion but not as an introduction it as a new physical law.  The paper contains many interesting references to the debates of famous scientists, which would be useful for a popular scientific publication, however, in its current form it is not suitable for BioSystems or another journal with a similar scope.  I am sorry for not being supportive at this time, but your interesting essay does not fit the scope of BioSystems.  With best regards,  Andrei ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Howard's response: 
   andrei, hi, 
  thanks for an extremely thought provoking, generous, and engaging turndown. 
  i look forward to the next time we have an opportunity to communicate. 
  with warmth and oomph--howard

ps.  here's what your extraordinarily knowledgeable thoughts have prodded me to:

MIT physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark says that math is the universe.  and many believe that ideas without a mathematical foundation are not science.
 Jesus had an opinion on this sort of thing.  he said about the strictness of the high priests of his day, the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.  the same is true of mathematics in science.  math is a tool of science.  science is not a tool of mathematics.   
  in other words, often math helps us understand the cosmos.  but the living things in the cosmos vastly outstrip our math.  Newton was able to reduce the solar system to math.  but if darwn had been forced to mathematize his origin of species, there would have been no evolution.  no darwinism.  no origin of species. 
  which explains more, newton's principia or darwin's origin?  in reality, they are both potent tools of understanding.  but the number of puzzles that neither of them can solve is vast.   
  each of them--Darwin's approach and Newton's-- is far more limited than it imagines.  and math is far more limited in its powers than today's scientific community thinks.   
  it's important to keep this in mind: newton's principia has almost no equal signs. in other words, newton did not have modern algebraic equations.  he expressed his laws with the math of his day: geometry, ratios,diagrams, and verbal reasoning.  today it would be said that newton's principia is not sufficiently mathematical to be taken as serious science. 
  we forget that the equation was only invented in 1557 and only put to common use 80 years later.  in other words, our math is primitive.  it's the equivalent of the first collection of stone tools 3.2 million years ago, the oldowan stone toolkit.   
  the new developments in math 300 years from now will startle us.  but science will still be mistaken if it imagines that all that we see and know can be expressed in equations.  
  tegmark is wrong.  the cosmos is not a product of math.  math is a product of the cosmos. and the most startling thing in this universe, life, is ahead of the meager grasp of equations by light-years. 
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrei's response:   Hi Howard,  thank you for your engaging response. I completely agree with you regarding Max Tegmark. Together with Joseph Brenner, I tried to express the views on mathematics that are completely opposite to Tegmark's, in our book "Philosophy in Reality" (Springer, 2021). However, in the scientific discourse, it is difficult to develop the framework to describe the origin of mathematics as we use the reasoning that assumes the existence of some formal structures before they develop in reality. We can further discuss possible solutions of this paradox.  I will look forward to our future communication.   With warmest regards, Andrei  
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  Final Note: 
   What Howard wrote to Andrei was turned into an article and posted it on substack.  The announcement of that article on X got a quarter million views. 
  see https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://howardxbloom.substack.com/p/why-math-must-not-godzilla-science__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VTw3gR6-raZmn82HQyRenhdB9ygucofa_uBQPPl8QgMlKVmw4qle9tf0MwL30g0yVcTVm4J1piEDtDEvQA$ 
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