THE ENGINEERING OF GOLBAL DEMOCRACY
BY FRANZ JACOBSEN
published in April by the /Science-art Research Centre of Australia
Inc
PO Box 733 Murwillumbah NSW 2484 Austrlia
registered with the Australian National Library 0 9586640 8 0
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Scince the manuscript 'The Engineering of Global Democracy' was
published,
it has been discovered that the general concept of using fractal
logic to
obtain new technologies from information overload has been pragmatically
developed by the former Chief Scientist to Britain, Lord Robert
May. The
desperate need to embrace relevant human survival value imput
into the
information overload is now beyond question. It is clearly now
a desperate
matter of life and death.
The model of an open infinite universe is now scientifically
acceptable.
The Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University has
stated that
the ancient Greeks had got it right about an infinite universe.
In 2001, The
Times in London published an A-Z of the Universe,"compiled
by some of the
world's finest cosmologists" in which the open infinite model
of the
universe was included.
Now that the concept of linking the living process to infinity
is
scientifically acceptable it becomes immoral and unethical to
continue to
develop a global culture that forbids any scientific reasoning
about
infinite human values because of the dictates of the entropy law
from
physics. The seriousness of this issue is made crytal clear by
William Krem,
Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform, in his manuscript entitled
"Introducing the Entropy Concept to Economics" which
argues that to obtain
the ground rules for the symbiosis of various subsystems in our
economy the
entropy concept from physics must be used. This can be seen as
being part of
the acceleration of the global entropic crisis.
PREFACE
When I was a high school student in the early 1940s, I attended
all the
science lectures I could get to. Frequently speakers would make
a
statement to the effect that no matter what discoveries science
will produce
in the future, we could always be sure that the second law of
thermodynamics
would always be valid and the universe will run down in a kind
of a 'heat
death'. Happily, by this time [1999] we know that the second law
of
thermodynamics has its limitations and is certainly not true for
the
universe as a whole.Theoretical physicists Landau and Lifschitz
already
stated their reservations about the universal validity of the
second law in
the 1950s. But their doubts did not seem to have much influence
in the
physics community. Now in the past year astrophysics has observed
an
acceleration in the expansion of the universe. This observation
has forced
physics to consider the possibility of some expansive or repulsive
force
which is due to fluctuations of the vacuum. Many new ways of looking
at
phenomena will be opened up in the future. Since science is a
tight
framework of thoughts, this new insight does not enter easily.
Scientific
questions and theories are largely a function of society in general,
so the
reductionist viewpoint is deeply rooted. Jacobsen places the new
insight
into a historical framework by considering philosophy and political
leaders
of past centuries. He notes the struggle of new ideas by citing
the examples
of Giordano Bruno who was burned alive for considering a universe
similar to
the one accepted today. Some groups of alternative philosophers,
such as
Bruno, Goethe, Newton (in his private writings), Henri Bergson,
and Alfred
Whitehead have survived alongside the prevalent mechanical universe
thinking. These people thought of nature as being much more than
isolated
atoms and molecules in a mechanical framework. Jacobsen connects
past
philosophical ideas and the new discovery. The idea of a universal
energy
with its creative properties is now advanced towards having an
experimental
basis.
The existence of an Art-Science Center as a home base for people
trying to
establish the unity is important because there is much more to
cooperative
thinking than the same heads in isolation.
Dr Adolph Smith
Dr Adolph Smith is a former Professor of Physics at NASA and
is a scientist
who has published experimental work in the origin of life field.
THE ENGINEERING OF GLOBAL DEMOCRACY
Since Edwin Hubble in the 1920s found that the universe is expanding,
it has
been felt that the tug of gravity must be slowing down the velocity
of
expansion, but this does not seem to be the case. The breakthrough
scientific event of 1998, according to the journal Science, was
the
discovery that Einstein's cosmological constant is non-zero. A
force
emerging from vacuum is more than countering the pull of gravity,
with the
result that the speed of expansion of the universe is increasing.
A further
possible implication is that, since our material universe is not
a closed
system, entropy doesn not necessarily have to increase, for energy
and
information coming from a vacuum may intrude creatively.
The discovery of a force powerful enough to move the universe
is so
startling that researchers will be grappling with the implications
for years
to come. However, what of the scientists and philosophers who
for millennia
have been involved with these sorts of ideas? From the time of
Plato and
Epicurius, to the contemporary work of the Science-Art Research
Centre of
Australia, a common denominator has been that a knowledge of universal
physics and geometrical principles can be used to bring about
an ennobling
form of government.
This concept, which is over two thousand years old, was used by
the thinkers
who met in Philadelphia in 1787 to create the policies that led
to the
writing of the American Constitution. Professor John Patrick Diggins,
in his
paper, 'Science and the American experiment - How Newton's laws
shaped the
Constitution', in the Nov- Dec 1987 issue of The Sciences, expressed
this
point quite clearly. One of the founding fathers of the Constitution,
Alexander Hamilton, summarised the thrust of the 85 essays (published
in New
York to promote the adoption of the Constitution), when he said:
"Liberty is ensured not by civic virtue but by the design
of government
itself, which, in turn, rests upon the principles of physics and
geometry."
Besides freeing the colonies from England's control, the War of
Independence
also sundered America's ties to the traditions of governance that
had
dominated England until the 18th Century. In looking for other
models to use
in developing a new form of government, the framers of the Constitution
aligned themselves with the intellectual movement that had swept
across
Europe: the Enlightenment. Another important model was nature
itself, which
offered templates for social laws; and the interpretation of nature
considered most valid during the Enlightenment was that offered
by such men
as Isaac Newton.
To many of the scientifically-oriented thinkers of the Enlightenment,
the
ideas of the past, emphasising as they did the repression of self
interest
in the name of Church and State, were unrealistic. The chief architect
of
this critique was the Scottish philosopher, David Hume. Taking
Newton's
empiricism as his model, Hume held that there can be no knowledge
of
anything beyond experience. He felt that philosophy in general,
and
political thought in particular, was an inductive, experimental
science.
Sound government must be based on the science of politics
on the direct
observation of human behaviour.
2
Such observations led Hume to conclude that human nature is uniform;
that,
even in the face of social and economic differences, invariant
rules can be
drawn from how people behave. The most important of these rules
is that,
since reason is subordinate to the passions, political thinkers
must be all
the more scientific, for they cannot expect the same of the people.
Noting
how the condition of the human species for centuries remained
miserable
under religious and autocratic rule, Hume argued that the aim
of government
should not be to exhort citizens to attain grace or virtue but
to accept
that they are pleasure-seeking creatures. (This concurs with the
Epicurean
philosophy that pleasure is induced by atomic movement 1 ). Rather
than
leading to political instability, the pursuit of material gain
induces
productive work habits and thereby contributes to the creation
of wealth and
progress as long as government is designed to offset opposing
passions.
This picture of humanity agreed well with the world view of 18th
Century
science; this view was based largely on Newton's three laws of
motion, in
particular the third: for every action there is an equal and opposite
reaction. Both Hume's ideas about government and Newton's outlook
on nature
came together in early American political thought. Hamilton, Madison
and the
other framers of the Constitution were particularly impressed
with Hume's
essay, 'That Politics Be Reduced to a Science'.
The Science-Art Research Centre's modification of this noble scientific
experiment is quite reasonable; it upgrades the concept by introducing
new
life-supporting physics and geometrical principles, including
discoveries at
the leading edge of modern scientific research, in order to build
a reliable
foundation for the establishment of a future ennobling global
democracy.
1 See the book "Molecules of Emotion" by Candace
Pert, prefaced by Deepak
Chopra
BACKGROUND
During the birth of Western science in the universities of ancient
Greece,
the two cultures of Arts and Science were combined in an attempt
to provide
explanations for such things as love, beauty and compassion. In
particular,
the Epicurean University taught that these ethical phenomena were
caused by
atomic movement. This early Greek spiritual atomic physics co-existed
with
the science of material atomism, designed to act as a balance
to prevent the
destruction of civilisation being brought about by a science,
obsessed with
that which the Greeks termed as the 'evil' within the atom itself.
While
the ethical content of the Platonic tradition in Greek philosophy
was
incorporated into Christianity by St Augustine, its original science-art
philosophy was lost during the Dark Ages, when an ancient Roman
law
forbidding research into ethics derived from the movement of material
particles, was enforced.
Following their banishment from the Roman Empire, the Platonic
science-art
geometries were adopted by Arabian scholars and used as the foundation
of
Islamic art. Johannes Kepler attempted to develop a science based
upon the
harmonies of ancient Greek geometry. He partially succeeded, and
from it was
able to quite accurately measure the distance of the planets from
the sun.
It is relevant that such geometries can be extrapolated into fractal
expression, which, according to the research program behind Arthur
C.
Clark's documentary, 'Fractals: the Colours of Infinity', are
thought to
form a new logic base that may stop our presently narrow and unbalanced
way
of scientific thinking from destroying our 'doomed civilisation'
2 .
Francis Bacon felt that to increase our knowledge of nature, we
had to
extrapolate from the findings of the senses, for the human mind
is capable
of understanding nature. The knowledge obtained must be derived
from direct
observation, not from abstract reasoning. Scientific inferences
should be
drawn from nature and should be inductive, not deductive, in nature.
Bacon
was a hero to Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle, founders of the Royal
Society.
Jean d'Alembert, classifying the sciences in the great 28-volume
Encyclopedia in France, published between 1752-1775, saluted him.
Kant,
rather surprisingly for one so concerned in limiting science in
order to
make room for faith, dedicated his Critique of Pure Reason to
Bacon, or not
so surprisingly, as the Science-Art Research Centre advocates,
if Kant had
intuitively glimpsed the reality of the holographic universe,
later proposed
in the writings of David Bohm and Primbram, as Kant's infinite
universal
'supra- physics' is compatible with such a holographic model.
In an attempt to modernise Christian theology, the powerful Medici
of the
14th Century Italian Renaissance re-established a Platonic University.
They
knew from trading with Arabia that a science about such things
as love and
beauty must have a specific geometrical logic base, a base which
once was
part of classical art education. In the enlightenment that followed
the
Renaissance, however, the two cultures of Art and Science were
divorced,
which meant the vital geometrical logic base was lost to Western
scientific
reasoning. Furthermore, the ancient Roman law forbidding research
into
ethics derived from the movement of material particles was still
enforced.
One of the world's greatest scientists, Giordano Bruno, was burnt
alive for
teaching about the ennobling effects of planetary movements being
spread to
an infinite number of other solar systems throughout the universe.
It is
remarkable to note that Isaac Newton's little-known alchemical
writings
referred to the existence of a more profound philosophy: a philosophy
that
would balance his mechanical description of the universe, a philosophy
with
principles based upon the movement of particles. (see Alchemy
of Matter and
Mind by Professor Richard L Gregory, Emeritus, Professor of Neuropsychology
at the University of Bristol, published in NATURE Vol 342 30 Nov
1989 pp 471
- 473)
2 See the book "The Beauty of Fractals - Images of Complex
Dynamical
Systems" by H.-O. Peitgen and P.H. Richter
SCIENCE-ART RESEARCH CENTRE OF AUSTRALIA INC.
Under the auspices of the Science-Art Research Centre, a mathematical
physicist, Professor Chris Illert, used classical geometrical
criteria to
obtain computer simulations of a living form, its futuristic survival
form,
and its 20-million-year old fossil ancestor. When Illert's scientific
methodology was able to classify a famous fossil,
something which orthodox scientists had been unable to do for
almost 100
years, the work was internationally recognised. First published
during the
1980's by Italy's leading scientific journal, Il Nuovo Cimento,
two of the
papers were reprinted in 1991 by the SPIE Milestone series in
Washington, as
being among some of the most important scientific work of the
20th Century.
In 1992 the Hadronic Journal Society in the U.S.A. published Illert's
work
as a special mathematical book supplement, and in 1994 as an important
new
physics book. In 1995 this book was expanded in a second edition,
being
acclaimed for the discovery of new physical laws governing optimum
(human)
biological growth and development for humans. This validation
of Robert
Pope's predictions over a decade earlier caused the Government
of Australia
to agree to the incorporation of the Science-Art Research Centre
as An
Approved Research Institute.
As well as sponsoring rigorous mathematical research based on
ideas
originating in work conducted by the 14th Century Italian art
masters, the
Centre had modified Leonardo da Vinci's own science-art Theory
of Knowledge;
and in doing so it has successfully predicted two major scientific
discoveries. Leonardo had tried to reunite the lost ethical science
with the
mechanical science of his time in order to derive new technology
and
futuristic inventions. After a study of Leonardo's work, the Centre
corrected a key error which brought about a situation where new
technologies, and a new way of approaching science, become apparent.
This new outlook described a new science of medicine in which
the energy
patterning flux functioning on the cellular membrane to maintain
human
health and well being could be read to provide an accurate assessment
of an
individual's health. The success of the Sydney based Co-operative
Research
Centre for Molecular Engineering and Technology's 30 million dollar
1997
nano machine science of medicine experiment completely validated
the
Centre's theories. (Nature Vol 387 5 June 1997, pp 569 - 572 &
580 - 582)
In 1988 Dr Bruce Lipton, while a professor of molecular biology
in the
Department of Medicine at Wisconsin University, wrote a paper
which fully
predicted the nano machine experiment. This reinforcement of the
Centre's
philosophical reasoning not only acknowledged the importance of
its computer
simulation bio-research and the corrections to Leonardo da Vinci's
science-art theory, but also suggested that a novel concept had
been
identified, a geometric concept that demonstrated how human destiny
could be
modified through new physics and fractal principles. These principles
are
associated with human co-operative evolution, in contrast to the
present
violent and out-of-date competitive neoDarwinian theory. Dr. Lipton's
assessment of the Science-art Centre's work in 1997 stressed the
importance
of his and the Centre's agreement on that point in particular.
David Bohm, one of the leading theoretical physicists of the 20th
Century,
postulated an unmanifested order that he considered inherent in
the web of
cosmic relations. This order, which he termed "implicate"
explains both the
unity and the dynamic nature of the universe. To develop his theory,
he used
methods based on topology. This confirms, in some ways, the role
that
geometry seems to play in the functioning of the universe, a proposition
that the ancient Greeks understood.
Nature has evolved levels of engineering sophistication well beyond
anything
achieved by human engineers, according to Andrew Downing, foundation
Professor of Engineering at the Flinders University of South Australia.
He
says in Engineering World (August 1992, p.25), that all of the
design,
manufacturing and construction techniques used by modern engineers
have
already been perfected, over millions of years, by nature. As
well, most of
nature's designs incorporate features and nuances which we cannot
understand; and they also possess characteristics, such as the
self-healing
of injuries, which we are unable to match in our own designs.
The ability of
a life form to self heal is an attributed to holographic properties
associated with the Science-Art Centre's published morphogenetic
field
discoveries.
A close and critical inspection of nature's secrets can provide
insight and
inspiration that may help us to develop new methods, techniques
and
products, and as well to solve new and complex engineering and
medical
problems. There are countless familiar examples of well-designed
structures
in nature the hollow stems and reinforcing rings of bamboo;
the spiral
reinforcement in insect trachea or a nemertean worm's skin; the
exoskeleton
of insects; and the complex structure of bird feathers. All of
these have
counterparts in our own technology in hollow pylons, reinforced
pressure
vessels, military tanks, box girder bridges and aircraft wings.
Since the writings of the late Buckminster Fuller, there has been
a growing
realisation that structural engineering is going to have a place
in modern
biological research. The success of the 30 million dollar nano
machine
science of medicine experiment mentioned earlier, emphasised the
medical
importance of being able to measure the structural geometrical
patterning
associated with the energy flux functioning on the cellular surface.
During his lifetime, Fuller observed a growing acceleration in
the time
taken to apply his Platonic geometrical engineering principles
and
accordingly, things are now moving fast and it behoves the intelligent
engineer to keep his tabs on this, relative to structural applications
to
biological systems in our time. The discovery of a vast new biological
science and technology found to be functioning on the cellular
membrane,
made by Foundation Professor, Barry Ninham, of the ANU and his
colleagues in
Australia, Europe and America, as was announced on A.B.C television's
'Quantum' program in 1992, involved a successful modification
of Fuller's
engineering designs which help describe a completely new world
of biological
engineering principles.
A surprising aspect of Fuller's discoveries and predictions are
that they
are based on the assumption that the laws of physics must be rewritten
to
include the existence of a universal negentropy energy system.
In his book,
Utopia or Oblivion, Fuller states that knowledge of this creative
force is
needed to prevent the destruction of human civilisation. This
line of
reasoning mostly has been ignored in modern physics, but the news
that a
force emerging from vacuum actively participates in the evolution
of the
universe means the scientific community is now faced with a new
model of
universal reality, one in which Fuller's proposals now no longer
seem
unscientific.
In 1997, a Sydney surgeon, Dr George Cockburn, realised that he
was going to
die of cancer. As a director of the Science-Art Research Center,
he had
accumulated a quarter of a century of research experience in the
pioneering
of the Centre's Creative Physics. Cockburn requested that his
work be
reviewed by my colleague, Griffith University's Dr Bert Cunnington,
who was
a futures author with a solid engineering background. At the request
of the
Centre's managing director, the artist Robert Pope, I became involved
with
Cunnington's approval of Cockburn's work, which had quite clearly
anticipated the previously mentioned successful modification of
Buckminster
Fuller's geometrical designs by Professor Ninham at the ANU. I
was amazed
to discover within the documents an appraisal of the Centre's
work by
Professor Ninham, holding it to encompass a revolution of thought,
held to
be as important to science and humanity as the Copernican and
Newtonian
revolutions.
While at Griffith University, Dr Cunnington authored a paper,
'Building a
Planetary Civilisation', which asks how the actions and policies
of
government and business can be evaluated in terms of contributing
towards
developing a sustainable planetary civilisation. The paper focuses
on
premises underlying the reality of both the industrial state and
the
scientific method, and asserts that there is growing evidence
to suggest
that they have undergone, and are still undergoing, significant
changes in
nature. For government and business, the implications of these
changes are
highlighted in terms of new guiding ethics based on values inherent
in the
ongoing evolution of the universe. As Cunnington writes in his
paper: "With
the appearance of the human mind, the cutting edge of Universal
Evolution is
no longer biological but meta biological evolution in the mental,
cultural,
spiritual and creative realms. . . Within the processes of Universal
Evolution, there are certain nodal points which reveal new patterns
of order
not previously manifested. We are presently passing through such
a nodal
point the building of a Planetary Civilisation". Therefore,
ongoing
evolution emphasises the increasing relevance of the philosophy
developed by
the Science-Art Research Centre of Australia.
Since an artist realistically can't be expected to write sophisticated
papers, Robert Pope's long list of published works started with
a basic
research program aimed at modernising the lost ethical science
of ancient
Greece and replacing it with a new creative physics. As his research
became
more complex, it increasingly was involved directly with the discovery
of
important novel phenomena, and therefore it fulfills the criterion
of being
a truly scientific research program.
After Dr Cunnington and I conducted a detailed investigation of
Pope's
research, we saw that his program had obviously been running parallel
to the
course taken by Buckminster Fuller. Combining these separate research
efforts suggests that the concept of using energy principles to
enhance
global democracy is a pragmatic, sensible mechanism. This practical
approach
to the conduct of human affairs offers us the hope that we might
be able to
influence and alter our presently unbalanced science, diverting
it from its
present path of fatalism (in which society is powerless and cannot
halt the
march of Frankenstein science) and aiming it instead towards Fuller's
global
Utopia.
The Science-Art Research Centre's research program has now entered
its final
stage. This is compatible to that predicted as necessary for human
survival
by Buckminster Fuller, who saw that art must be the catalyst that
persuades
the scientific community of the significance of a creative force
in the
universe, a force that negates the dreary increase of disorder.
Dr Cunnington's collaboration with the Centre resulted in the
Centre's ideas
being included in a tertiary educational futures studies form
compiled by
Sohail Inayatullah and Paul Wildman (CD Rom ISBN 1 875 603 12
1),
subsequently endorsed by the United Nations University in 1999.
The
educational course included some twenty prominent futures authors
and was
well received internationally. It was set as an undergraduate
History of
Futures course in the Department of History at the University
of Queensland.
Its relevance to the future of health care is being explored by
Professor
Agbayewa of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of
British
Columbia, while Professor of Political Science, Dr. James Dator
of the
University of Hawaii declared it to be excellent forward thinking,
as did
Professor Emeritus Dr. Allen Tough of the University of Toronto.
Cunnington
felt that the Centre's methodology, which promises to bring Fuller's
predictions into reality, was an Australian major national research
project
(as he commented to the Government in 1997).
The Science-Art Research Centre's artists have a unique knowledge
of those
scientists in the world who are working at the cutting edge of
Creative
Physics. This has led to the idea of an international traveling
science-art
exhibition involving the work of at least 30 such scientists,
each of whom
will prepare a paper which links their work to the general human
survival
theme of the exhibition. Each paper will be portrayed in art form
by the
Centre's artists and each paper will be put into a computer logic
matrix. Dr
Wolfgang Goerigk, of the Institute for Computer Science and Applied
Mathematics of Kiel University, Germany, has assessed the feasibility
of
this proposed science-art experiment and has written of its unique
value to
the world community.
SUMMARY
Guaranteeing human survival and global world betterment rests
upon a
technology based on the observable functionings of a new creative
second law
of thermodynamics: i.e., a realisation of a universal negative
entropy.
If the new supra-technology is based on a revised second law of
thermodynamics, then human survival is linked to the natural functionings
of
a creative universe. The scope of such a supra-technology is,
quite
literally, beyond all belief. This manuscript may serve to alert
engineers
to consider the Science for Ethical Ends as a foundation for their
attempts
in the future to become responsible for new rigorous ethical standards.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to thank Don Eldridge for his assistance in preparing
this
manuscript