Learning by Training

by Arend van Campen

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OUR MAN-MADE SOCIETY has been and currently is in entropy (disorder) because of an erroneous human perception. People separate information from the physical reality by force, because they perceive that this is the way they can achieve their objectives. People believe that by deception they can achieve their aims. This is impossible due to this law of physics: information deficit ≙ entropy.

People who oppose the current negatively interdependent paradigm (profit for some but at the cost of others) are shut up, stifled and censored. This suppression of information is not permitted by physics without causing entropy (disorder). Laws of physics cannot be broken nor escaped from by people. Linear enforcement of man-made systems in a non-linear, complex reality causes disorder and automatically renders enforced goals unattainable, due to the information deficit.

Goals that are dependent on the negation or denial of information are unreachable. Imposing them accelerates disorder (entropy) which usually results in damage (externalities).

This is the main cause of a perpetual entropic state of society. Natural systems survive because they are teleologically programmed to adhere to the natural criteria for survival - for which the processing of information (cognition) is fundamental. Man-made and natural systems that do not communicate, cannot learn and fall into disorder (disorganisation a.k.a. entropy).

We no longer have to ask: is it real, is it sustainable? We ask and intend to answer this question: can what people create and build remain functional without being or becoming harmful? Man-made systems versus natural systems. We have created two metaphysical equations to measure and map functionality of living systems.

The criteria needed to ensure non-harmful functionality can be found in nature. Because information appears more fundamental than physics we intend to demonstrate that information is the life force that allows living systems to function in negentropy (order). The opposite, ‘entropy’ or disorder is caused by an information deficit: this can be information overload, lying, suppression, censorship, fake news or disinformation in the form of propaganda.

To measure and predict the probability of entropy and negentropy in man-made systems I will use the two equations, which have an unlimited application potential. When applied, social, living systems of communication (Luhmann) can reach maximum equilibrium and performance by feedback: this can be operating within the limitations of reality (realimiteit) and boundaries of functionality, in line with the teleological purpose of nature, which is survival and evolution.

The application potential is unlimited; every man-made system - including a shipping and transport company, a refinery, a marine storage tank terminal or a chemical production plant - can apply these equations to optimise their performance, reduce their risks, become ‘sustainable’ for the long term. It allows managers to ‘steer’ by information that is proactive, rather than ‘control’ by regulation (reactive). This approach will allow all man-made systems to thrive because it will give them access to measure and map the non-linear probabilities of their organisations. For our future it is essential to understand this.

This is the latest in a monthly series of articles by Arend van Campen, founder of TankTerminalTraining, who can be contacted at arendvc@ tankterminaltraining.com. More information on the company’s activities can be found at www.tankterminaltraining.com.