Part 1.: Herbert A. Simon on «Aufheben» ‘Meta-Unit-ic’ Dialectics
[but using different
nomenclature].
GLOBAL
STRATEGIC PSYCHOHISTORICAL HYPOTHESES.
Dear Reader,
GLOBAL
STRATEGIC PSYCHOHISTORICAL HYPOTHESES. In his influential 1962 paper, published in
the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society [vol. 106, no. 6, 12DEC1962], entitled The Architecture
of Complexity, Herbert A. Simon -- who Arthur Koestler cites in his
writings on ‘‘‘Holonism’’’, discussed here in an earlier recent blog-entry -- sets
forth what he holds to be a common “property” -- perhaps a universal architectonic -- not
just of ‘human complex-systems’, but of “complex
systems” in general. This
proposed “general systems” architectonic is deeply related to the universal principle that forms the core of the Seldonian «aufheben» dialectic, and that is therefore key to the interpretation and solution of so many of the applied dialectical ‘meta-equations’
formulated via the Seldonian ‘First Arithmetic for Dialectics’, and via its dialectical
algebra, per the Seldonian ‘Algorithmic-Heuristic
Universal Dialectical Method’.
The Seldonian
term for this
universal architectonic is ‘«aufheben» meta-unit-ization dialectic.’
Its ‘‘‘vertical’’’ aspect is the systematic presentation of a co-extant,
co-PRESENT,
or synchronic ‘finitary qualo-fractal
content-structure’,
which is an ‘«aufheben» multi-meta-monad-ic, multi-meta-ontic cumulum’.
Its ‘‘‘horizontal’’’ aspect is the reconstruction of the HISTORY of a successive, progressing, diachronic, ‘finitary temporal qualo-fractal’
longitudinal sequence of kinds of
self-producing monadic population ‘‘‘systems’’’, which is a ‘recurrent «aufheben» meta-monad-ization historical process, progressively forming and accumulating an
‘«aufheben» multi-meta-monad-ic, multi-meta-ontic cumulum’ of such populations, via the ‘self-iterated
self-involution’ of each given Domain’s
original, or «arché», monadic population ‘‘‘system’’’, as of the successor monadic
population ‘‘‘systems’’’ successively generated, ‘meta-genealogically’, thereby.
Herbert Simon, like Arthur Koestler, was a capitalist ideologue, but an insightful one, ripe for immanent critique, just as were
the classical political-economists with whose work Marx worked.
Simon, too, is ‘a whore of the Capitalist Ruling CLASS HIERARCHY’, and, once again, wants to
fool his readers into further submission by retro-projecting the viciousness of class-social hierarchy
back upon all of ‘pre-human Nature’, as well as upon all of contemporaneous
‘exo-human Nature’, thereby prochronistically overburdening and overloading
those ontologies with all of the violent, oppressive, exploitative, pathological and perverted, sado-masochistic connotations of this
excrescence of the class-society phase of human-social development-in-alienation,
in the hopes of cementing an ideology throughout the human species which will
preserve class
hierarchy for
all futurity, by stamping class
hierarchy with
a seeming imprimatur from “NATURE”.
Therefore, again, as with the Koestler quotes in our
previous blog-entry here, we will not follow Herbert Simon in his ideology-reinforcing psy-op, chanting “hierarchy” at every
opportunity. Instead, in quoting him
below, we
will substitute our
own terms, in square brackets, whenever he launches into his prostitute duties and ruling-class favor-seeking, promoting the “eternality”
of mass-murderous
ruling class despotism via his
incessant invocations of his claims of ‘‘‘universal hierarchy’’’.
We will, instead, seek to
rescue some
of the genuine
scientific insights
from his account, as follows --
[p. 469]: ‘‘‘BIOLOGICAL
AND PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
[F.E.D.: Note
the 'crypto-vitalist' false dichotomization implicit here, as if biological systems are not also
physical systems].
The hierarchical [the «aufheben», ‘meta-monadic’, ‘qualo-fractal’,
i.e., dialectical] structure of
biological systems is a familiar fact.
Taking the [F.E.D.: eukaryotic]
cell as the building block [F.E.D.: i.e., as the relative «arché» monadic «arithmos» for this Domain of “biological systems”], we find
cells organized into tissues, tissues into organs, organs into systems.’’’
‘‘‘Moving downward [F.E.D.: i.e., lower in
‘qualo-fractal’, and here also
in volumetric, scale]
from the cell [F.E.D.: i.e., taking
the eukaryotic cell
now no longer as relative
«arché», but as the relative culminant],
well-defined subsystems -- for example,
nucleus, cell membrane, microsomes, mitochondria, and so on -- have been
identified in animal [F.E.D.: eukaryotic]
cells.’’’
‘‘‘The hierarchic [the «aufheben», ‘meta-monadic’, ‘qualo-fractal’,
i.e., dialectical] structure of
many physical systems is equally clear-cut.
I have already mentioned the two main series. At the microscopic level [‘qualo-fractal scale’]
we have elementary particles, atoms, molecules, macromolecules.’’’
‘‘‘At the macroscopic level [‘qualo-fractal scale’]
we have satellite systems [F.E.D.: i.e., planets and their satellite moons],
planetary systems, galaxies.’’’
As we have noted here in earlier blog-entries,
e.g., in --
-- a ‘dialectical cumulum’ is not, in general, a “hierarchy”. But here, once again, we see that there may be special
cases of human-social,
e.g., ‘class-social’, ‘multi-meta-monadic cumula’, within which
‘‘‘horizontal’’’ interactions are suppressed, and within which
egalitarian tendencies are forcibly minimized, which are, indeed, authoritarian, dictatorial, perverted and pathological -- sado-masochistic
-- human-social hierarchies [just
consider the Catholic Church, recently ordered, by the International Truth-In-Naming
Tribunal [ITINT], to change the church’s legal name to ‘Baby-Rapers Incorporated, International’].
Yet
even, at
least formally,
in a capitalist,
representative-democratic republic -- however often ‘‘‘honored, actually, in the breach’’’ -- the “lowest”
level of authority in the “hierarchy”
of governmental power,
that of the citizenry; of the, largely proletarianized, wage-laboring [i.e., self-selling, or
‘self-alienating’], relatively-impoverished
people at large -- may, on its own, independent initiative, over-rule and
topple the “highest” level of authority in that “hierarchy” of governmental
power, e.g., the presidency, e.g., by voting the president out
of office in the next election.
Despite their
inadvertent insightfulness regarding dialectic, my
encounter with all of the paeans
to “hierarchy”
that these ideologues dish out makes
me hope for, even more -- and, more importantly, makes me work for, even more
-- the potential future epochs of global human thriving and flourishing,
in which our future species-mates will no longer suffer the class rule of
parasitic, psychopathic and sociopathic mass-murderer-predators, warping,
perverting, ruining, suppressing, wasting, and massacring human life at every
opportunity.
FYI: Much of the work
of Karl Seldon, and of his collaborators, including work by “yours truly”, is
available, for your
free-of-charge download, via --
Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica
[F.E.D.],
Officer, F.E.D.
Office of Public Liaison
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