Written by Frank van Empel
All kinds of scientists have constructed a fantasy linear world, where ‘b’ is born out of ‘a’ and ‘b’ gives birth to ‘c’. It’s a pity that such an orderly fantasy world doesn’t exist. In reality we have to deal with King Chaos, ruler of a non-linear World where almost nothing happens in line with expectations.
What is a sustainable development in that kind of shaky context? To answer that question we have to travel to the frontiers of science, there where Wilderness – the Wolf - tames Predictability, the Cat.
Some people call themselves scientists. They have strict guidelines. Most of the times – especially when the scientists are still young and eager -they formulate something they want to know as a hypothesis and they add a theory that explains why the hypothesis almost certainly has to be valid. Then they have to find some evidence. Last but not least they put the whole thing to the test. If they’re lucky they find a law, a new kind of order that nobody has noticed before.
A law in economics, biology, physics, psychology or whatever science makes it possible to foresee and predict the future. In theory. In reality the forseeable future of the past never happens. It’s the unpredictable that rules reality and the outcomes of a lot of scientific tests as well. The shortcomings of most scientists have to do with such a strong focus on linearity that they miss the entrance to a fascinating world: the world of non-linearity, where Chaos is King.
(will be continued)
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