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economic" plan for commodity-money exchange of resources to the level of
autopoietically managed natural-resource exchange. In other words, we are
talking about doubling the natural reality in terms of the formation of artificial life
forms as the optimal (or, perhaps, the highest) form of technological mediation of
man with nature environment. In other words, there is a process of "grabbing
God by the beard," no matter how one treats this. The peculiarity of this process
is that it, leaking within the framework of the ceasing economic model, is aimed
at reaching not only beyond its borders, but beyond the economy in general, and
is able to form behind these frameworks a reality that is described in the usual
terms as the reality of objects of natural rent. It's as if it were suddenly discovered
that some animal or vegetable organism, known long ago in the biocenosis, was
once somehow created by someone. It all sounds, perhaps, clumsily and
fantastically, but the trend is exactly that. And, most likely, it is in connection with
it that the post-maritime industrialization of control systems will take place – in
any case, such a process would be natural; the industrialization of management
systems in a separate financial sector did not lead to anything good – it's like if
homeostasis would be provided within only one subsystem of the body.
There are many examples to support the existence of such a process, and there is
no sense here of bringing what might be the result of careful, but not complex,
monitoring. Of the
high profile recent events, I believe the Pentagon launched the
Autonomous Research Pilot Initiative. It is possible, of course, like Oleg Grigoriev,
to say that all these are beautiful, but empty advertising ideologies for attracting
a depleted flow of investment in R&D (for which, indeed, there are good reasons,
which, however, must be different from the real process) . But the results that fit
into this trend are too diverse and workable. Moments of doubt, really worth
attention, in my opinion, there are two. The first is connected with the question
of whether the collapsing multi-hundred-year economic model will not bury the
process that extends beyond its framework before it can fully crawl out. The
second is related to the systemic contradiction already known for various
cyberpunk anti-utopias: autonomously controlled and reproducible systems
created to optimize the interaction of man and nature must maintain control and
friendliness to their creator, that is, for such technologies the ratio of auto- and
allopoiesis should be optimal; However, to maximize the efficiency of such
systems, their level of autonomy should also be maximized. Outside the economy,
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this process will be insofar as the self-reproduction of the doubled nature will be
oriented not only to the final demand, its solvency and return of investments
invested in R&D, but also to adaptation to climatic and biocenose conditions.
Adaptation, which, in the end, will proceed without regard to investment,
demand and other things. In other words, these moments of doubt are connected
with the possibility of transition to a new evolutionary stage of the organic
presence of man in nature. And how this evolutionary coil or a leap to the level of
the "new" natural rent will be interpreted – as progress or as a regression – a
secondary issue. Of course, the transition to it will be accompanied by the
emergence of concomitant forms of consciousness and relationships, including
mystical and mythopoetic, as is well-known today. But it is worth remembering
that the mythologems of one type or another always accompanied major social
transformations.
History of European technology and neoconomics: to clarify the roots of
the fundamental and combinatorial economies of knowledge
Before turning to the questions of the history of technology in connection with
the general theoretical task of neoconomics to clarify the issue with scientific and
technical progress, several remarks should be made concerning science, in
addition to my further material "The question of approaches to science in
neoconomics in the aspect of the concept of a model" where we
are talking about
"pure science," which, according to theory, took the origin in medieval
scholasticism, which solved the problems of cognition on the basis of the
paradigm presumption of the divinity of the world order, and developed the
apparatus for this purpose ial concepts and logical-hermeneutic means as a
rational comprehension tool. Beginning with the New Time, this toolkit was
supplemented by the category of the model (which assumed a concrete historical
form), which became classical and paradigmatic, and continued to exist in science
after the presumption of the divinity of the world order ceased to be the
dominant scientific paradigm. The essence of the methodological proposals
outlined above is that the meaningful construction of neoconomics requires a
revision of the general scientific classical structure in general (and hence of
fundamental logical intuitions) and that they can be applied to developments in
the field of immersibility of logical systems, tasks, as well as the "semantic
monsters" that I proposed for a meaningful interpretation of the relationship
between reproductive circuits. However, the one presented there refers to the