1. Nonlinear Dynamics and the Indefinite Future

Nonlinear dynamics is dynamics that manifests extreme sensitivity to the initial or prevailing conditions of the system exhibiting it. How extreme this sensitivity is may be appreciated when it is apprehended that the prevailing conditions of the system may vary by even an infinitely small or infinitesimal magnitude and still it will alter the dynamics of the system to produce an observable effect. Because the effect is disproportionate to the cause, systems exhibiting nonlinear dynamics are characterized as being more than the sum of their parts. That is, nonlinear dynamical systems exhibit behavior, as a whole, that none of their parts or subsystems (that may possibly also be emergent) do. Accordingly, understanding of the parts, to the extent that this is at all possible, requires understanding achieved through aperture of the whole. Nor are nonlinear dynamical systems the exception in nature. On the contrary, they are the rule (Barrow 1991: 123-125).

Nonlinear dynamics becomes increasingly relevant as we advance into the indefinite future. In accord with the characterization of systems exhibiting it as being more than the sum of their parts, nonlinear dynamics teaches us that the indefinite future does not and cannot amount to the mere sum of short-term futures (Stewart 1995: 111-112). Rather, the indefinite future must instruct the efforts of each generation if those efforts are to amount to the indefinite future.  Failure to do so and de facto constructing the indefinite future through the mere addition of short-term futures would foster the incidence of needlessly numerous and possibly fatal disruptions to the economy of man and to human civilization (such as it is).This would transpire because we would then be neglecting cumulative causes and their effects from the distant past that may make the next step taken, even in the short-term, qualitatively different from even the near past (Velasco 2011: 66).

2. Our De facto Algorithm for Constructing the Future

Unfortunately, this algorithm of constructing the indefinite future through the mere addition of short-term futures happens to be our de facto algorithm for constructing the indefinite future. This is in large measure due to the demand of mainstream, neoclassical economics that there be no uncertainty in the future. As ecological economist, Charles Perrings (1987: 139-140), writes:

“[T]he greater the uncertainty, the greater the temptation to discount the future more heavily. The more the future is discounted, the fewer the effects that are relevant to the optimization problem and the fewer the data that will be sought in its solution. …”

“The market solution represents an approach to the uncertainty of an evolutionary system that ultimately depends on flexibility of response, and the ability to rewrite the programs [i.e. algorithms] of production that are in part the cause of the uncertainty. That is, after all, what the market is supposed to be good at. But there is a certain irony in this, given that the decision-making models underpinning the approach assume an omnicompetence on the part of the decision maker that makes no allowance for uncertainty. The result is that such models have to be restricted to what has been termed here the environmental short period. They have to exclude surprise. They must be myopic, ignoring the fact that myopic behavior is a magnet for unexpected effects.”

3. The Destructiveness of Our De facto Algorithm for Constructing the Indefinite Future

How destructive this algorithm is of constructing the indefinite future through the mere addition of the short-term future (in the interest of avoiding uncertainty to the future) may be appreciated through the following self-negating sequence: Sustainable logging gives way to agriculture because the latter is less risky and offers quicker monetary returns. By the same reasoning, agriculture gives way to manufacture. Finally, carrying  the reasoning to its ultimate conclusion, manufacture gives way to speculative, financial activities, and institutions (Velasco 2011: 66).

How speculative activity precipitated and visited upon us the recession we are all suffering from by paying attention only to the short-term, risk free future and ignoring cumulative transformation and corruption of information from the past deserves elaboration.

The speculative activity leading to the recession was mediated largely through complex financial instruments called derivatives. These derivatives involve a vertical transformation of information having to do with transactions “stacked on top of each other,” with each transaction transforming “the data of the transactions beneath it on the stack” according to some formula. Through these derivatives,  “a transaction can make money based on how it interacted with the other transactions it referenced directly, while having no relationship to the real events on the ground that all the transactions are ultimately rooted in.” In effect, derivatives only pay attention to immediate, risk-free reward in the future by paying attention only to the immediate past and ignoring cumulative transformation of information (with attendant corruption of that information through cumulative error of transmission deceptively abetted by seemingly minimal and therefore acceptable distortion of information at each step) from the more remote past. Derivatives therefore effect a disconnect between the real economy on the ground and the picture of the economy that emerges at the rarefied heights of finance.

Despite the ravages inflicted on the economy of man by short-term interests, it might be objected by some that the economy of nature also exhibits short-term interests and yet it has managed to survive for nearly four billion years. The answer to this is that, of course, we may always choose to emulate the economy of nature in constructing the indefinite future through the mere addition of the short-term if we are not concerned how many species, including our own, may possibly go extinct in eventually achieving an economy with self-organized criticality. As it is, by de facto being guided only by short-term interests, we have depleted the geological capital represented by fossil fuels accumulated by nature over hundreds of millions of years in just a matter of centuries. In so doing, we have dangerously de-stabilized the planetary climate and effected, through our economic activities, the sixth great mass extinction episode so far sustained by this planet. That the danger to our species from short-term interests is real is evidenced by the book written by astrophysicist and cosmologist, Martin Rees, transparently entitled Our Final Century: The 50/50 Threat to Humanity’s Survival.

4. How to Construct the Indefinite Future

If we are, therefore, concerned to minimize the extinction of species (including possibly our own), then the indefinite future must perforce instruct our activities in the present. That instruction can only come, as per the intelligence above about nonlinear dynamical systems being more than the sum of their parts, through Aristotles’ final cause, telos, or as we know it, Purpose. Further, the purposes that are to instruct our present actions must be collective, long-term, irrevocable purposes such as sustainability, justice and complexity which bear upon the survival of the collective—in this case, the human species. After all, it is the species which is potentially quasi-immortal, not the individuals that compose it.

How instruction of present actions through collective purposes acting as a proxy for the indefinite future may be effected would be through social institutions imposing quantitative boundary constraints on the distribution of resources and of social and economic capital between  and within generations. As concerns sustainable use of resources, how this is to be effected has been discussed in Velasco (2008). This paper marshals research from various thinkers to show that a virtual infinity of qualitative improvement in the human condition may be effected from even finite resources if the indefinite future guided our efforts at sustainability and our resource mobilization practices observed a pulsing mode, in the manner of plants periodically going to stasis in seeds, such that the stasis periods successively lengthen without bound. As concerns justice, the philosopher, John Rawls, has advocated, in his seminal, A Theory of Justice, a maximin decision rule constraining the distribution of resources and social and economic capital between and within each generation in perpetuity (Velasco 2009).

The indefinite future, therefore, need not have an asymmetrical relationship with us in which it is to be de facto constructed by us through the mere summation of short-term futures or interests. It is precisely because we are doing just this that we have imperiled the capacity of this planet to support life. If we are to rectify this state of affairs, then it will be necessary that the indefinite future—through collective, long-term, irrevocable purposes such as sustainability, justice, and complexity compatible with species perpetuation—instruct our individual, short-term purposes. Through such instruction, our individual purposes then become bound with the species destiny, thereby investing our lives with meaning transcending their span.

Otherwise, to pretend that individual, short-term purposes may simply be summed to attain collective, long-term, irrevocable purposes, we find, as with mainstream economic practices that so dominate the affairs of this planet, that we cannot do it. Thus, as concerns justice, it has long been known that the economic measure of allocative efficiency of resources among individuals known as Pareto optimality (in which no one can be made better off without making someone worse off) is not necessarily compatible with a just distribution of resources because competition (which is what develops if individual interests are emphasized) is cumulative. Accordingly, re-distributive measures marring allocative efficiency of resources  must be socially instituted if the collective purpose of justice is to be achieved. Similarly, technological efficiency cannot simply be left to its own devices (no pun intended) at the individual level to achieve sustainability: Jevons’ paradox implies that any efficiency gains achieved at the individual level by any technology will be wiped out at the collective level by increased demand. Accordingly, the collective purpose of sustainability must be independently attained through collective social institution of resource apportioning between and within generations.

(References: Barrow, John D. 1991. Theories of Everything: The Quest for Ultimate Explanation. London: Vintage, 1992; Perrings, Charles. 1987. Economy and Environment: A Theoretical Essay on the Interdependence of Economic and Environmental Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Stewart, Ian. 1995. Nature’s Numbers: Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; Velasco, Horacio. 2011. “Nurturing Life: From Economic Dynamics to Economic Semiotics.” Environmental Philosophy. Spring, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 63-82; Velasco, Horacio. 2009. “Complexity, Sustainability, Justice, and Meaning: Chronological Versus Dynamical Time.” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy. Vol. 5, No.2, pp. 108-133; Velasco, Horacio. 2008. “Sustainability: The Matter of Time Horizon and Semantic Closure. Ecological Economics,” 65: 167-176; )

(References: Lanier, Jaron. 2011. “Cumulative Error.” http://www.edge.org/q2011/q11_5.html#lanier)

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