I am a scientist, which has developed a biological model of Economics
and History.
The model is based in the main laws of Complexity and social evolution,
fields in which I am specialized. It analyzes the Industrial
r=evolution, as a process of evolution of 'metal-machines', that are
displacing Life, and creating a new ecosystem different from the Human
Earth - the "Metalearth'.
A biological model of economics:
The model has 2 clear advantages over both, the Smith-based systems of
Economics [capitalism] and the Marx-based systems:
- It explains in scientific terms the nature and laws of Economics.
Since it deduces and harmonizes those laws from established laws of
physical sciences, evolution, and complexity. A fact that gives the
model wider and sounder scientific basis than Marxist or Capitalist
models. And so it integrates for the first time Economical sciences
within the wider frame of biological sciences.
- It relates closely the economical and historical process, which become
integrated in a single theory, without any jump of 'quality', since the
first historical ages of man.
And an unavoidable political conclusion:
- It proves that the political thesis of Ecologism and Socialism are
right: creditation and defense of life, human goods, and lesser
technological cultures - the bulk of human population - against
uncontrolled expansion and creditation of machines, reproduced and
evolved by companies .
Why?
Because a biological expansion of the "Metalearth" would be 'menacing'
not only the survival of animal life, but also the survival of human
life.
The industrial r=evolution is not only growth of human welfare, but
mainly evolution of human functions and ecosystems into machine forms
and ecosystems. So we substitute legs for cars, brains for computers,
arms for cranes, etc, creating maxi-replicas of human functions in forms
of metal, of higher complexity, and physical resistance.
In such biological model, the Industrial R=evolution, can be understood
in 3 ages:
I Horizon: [±XVIII, XIX Century]: Creation of 'Metal-bodies' [gunboats,
railroads].
II Horizon: [XX C.]: Creation of 'metalminds' [Radio-ears, TV-eyes, and
Chips=Metal brains].
III Horizon: Fusion of both components, in 'sentient machines' or
'animetals' [XXI Century].
This 3rd age that now starts with the first autonomous robots, might
cause our extinction, as previous radiations of species of higher
informative and energetic power caused massive extinctions in the past.
In the evolution of the Earth when a new, efficient specie of
informative+body organs is completed, she radiates in the previous
ecosystem, displacing weaker species, that become extinct, directly or
indirectly by the new radiation [that hunts them or expels them from its
vital space]. So the arrival of eyes, with cephalopods, probably extinct
90% of blind species, in the Cambric. The arrival of complex neural
systems in mammals, probably caused the extinction of eggs and offspring
of dinosaurs. In both cases the new top predator specie appeared just
before massive extinctions took place. We could extrapolate those
effects to future economical radiations of 'animetals' [a digital
eye-brain + body-platform]; which extinct humans indirectly, expelling
labor from the industrial 'ecosystem', under myths of productivity, or
directly in wars caused by the evolution of top predator weapons. Since
in all ages of the Industrial r=evolution the more evolved, more perfect
machines have been weapons: a 'top predator' specie designed - today
programmed - to kill men.
We argue the theme in depth, within the parameters of economics,
biology, war and complexity. The result is a theory of evolutive
radiations, now expanded to History and Economics, that explains
economical, historical, and war cycles, with much more insight that
present theories.
[1] You can find a brief account of the model in the book "Radiations of
space-time. The extinction of man?" published by Bookmasters [250 pg.]
info at bookmaster.com, http://www.bookmasters.com
