Human Action, Ethics, Praxeology, Economics, and History

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October 29, 2010 · Posted in General Economics, Philosophy 

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2 Responses to “Human Action, Ethics, Praxeology, Economics, and History”

  1. This Election Make a Statement – Don’t Vote! on October 29th, 2010 10:05 pm

    [...] working toward change is not to condone this apparatus, but is to live with integrity in regards to objective morality and reason, is to be free in your own lives by making sure that at least your own relationships are free of [...]

  2. Keith Hamburger on February 14th, 2012 11:28 am

    All of existence is gray. Chaos/complexity theory has taught us that in recursive feedback systems minor changes in input or initial conditions can result in very large variations in results, and large changes can result in small variations in results. This also becomes important in errors in measurement to determine results.

    All of existence consists of recursive feedback systems. Some such systems have a granularity that is so large or so small as to appear to be regular and ordered. Quantum mechanics, for example, is of a scale that to the human experience it results in the order that is studied in the field of physics. When scales are roughly equal to the human experience, however, the gray areas become extremely visible and important.

    The social sciences are studies of systems that are characterized by such recursive feedback mechanisms that are exactly on the scale of the human experience, they are the study of the human experience. We can recognize tendencies and trends in such studies but can never see the absolute order that can develop from the apparent chaos of human action and interaction. To understand that the greatest order is spontaneous and arises from free action of individual humans almost has to be taken on “faith” and a reliance on an understanding of the mechanisms that give such. As far as I can see it can’t be “proven”.

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