Learning lessons

During this absence I have been very busy conceptually. I have learned a number of hard and frustrating lessons, all of which are related to the anomaly of this species and system we call the human race. We have become so accustomed to our current condition that we have begun to believe that it is normative. All our lessons have been learned from nature yet we refuse to apply the most important lesson that nature has taught us, which is that every system exists to maintain its own existence.

There are many reasons for this. The first is that scientific research, which is the main engine of human development is not designed to benefit the human species. Science, by its very design, is meant to benefit individuals or groups of individuals.

This is not easily seen because science, more directly the statistical probabilities that underly scientific research, invokes the distribution of populations. We always assume the population in our research. But that is only a major factor in our analysis of the data. When it comes to application our thoughts go to the individual. This is why we employ the negative term "outlier."

What is an outlier? How can any human being be an outlier in a distribution of human beings? It only means that he does not fit the characteristics of a particular group of humans. So we find that the fragmentation of humanity is built into the tool on which we depend to forge our development.