Peter Belohlavek

This year The Unicist Research Institute has celebrated the 35th anniversary with the most fruitful research effort in their history having finished more than 600 researches including some of them than demanded far more than 20 years (consciousness, unified field of human adaptive systems, etc). They made 600 new aspects in the field of individual, institutional and social fields become possible.

The unicist approach is based on finding out what is possible in order to focus on it. The unicist approach deals with the “possible”, defined as a noun. It has to be considered that a possibility is a conditional situation while the “possible” is an assertive fact.

What is possible sustains success. Everything that is possible can be achieved. But this has a problem: while it provides the security of what can be done, it demands the freedom of assuming the responsibility for doing it.

The crises in the world happen because something was not “possible” but this situation was disregarded. Failures are always a consequence of someone trying to do something impossible or of something possible that was not done because people did not assume the responsibility.

That is why The Unicist Research Institute promotes:

2012, the year of the “Possible”

Executive Committee

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,200 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until December 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

The European Crisis demonstrated a lack of risk management in the wide sense. Fundamental analysis has been left aside. Fundamental analysis is based on the ontological structures of a functional entity and allows forecasting its behavior. When it is integrated with technical analysis it provides fully reliable information for risk management.

Fundamental analysis was an early technology to manage opportunities and risks, but mathematical solutions were consistent enough to displace and transform it into a subjective and perhaps intuitive approach to opportunity/risk management.

It has to be considered that human adaptive systems have a three dimensional structure following the ontogenetic intelligence of nature: http://www.unicist.org/deb_uoin.php

An ontological approach is necessary to deal with opportunities and risks in the field of adaptive systems in order to manage their three dimensional ontogenetic algorithms.

As it is known, mathematical models for adaptive systems are necessarily based on “ceteris paribus” or empirical solutions that are based on historical information with sophisticated projections.

That is why we consider that time has come to integrate technical analysis with fundamental analysis to provide reliable diagnoses and prognoses to the markets. This will surely prove a security framework that will bring relief to them.

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Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,000 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

Distributionism drives towards involution. Distributionism implies that the concept of scarcity, which drives the minimum strategy of economic growth, has been left aside. It has to be considered that the declination of cultures has always been preceded by distributionism.

The unicist economic theory defines that the maximal strategy for economic behavior is driven by production and the minimum strategy is driven by distribution.

Economic evolution implies the prevalence of production, while using the distribution to ensure the minimum strategy for economic equilibrium and social well-being. Unicist distributionism is a concept that differs structurally from the Catholic use of the word.

State actions should provide the well-being of future generations while governmental actions, being driven by electoral needs, are naturally focused on present well-being.

In 50 years there will be nearby 9 billion inhabitants in the world. That is why the need for productivity is basic to ensure their existence without entering into endless survivor conflicts which necessarily drive towards an increase of fundamentalism with the corresponding consequences.

Nowadays neo-monetarism prevails; monetary disposal supersedes rational economic behavior. Countries’ external and internal debts that have not been the consequence of infrastructural investments are an indicator of lower or higher levels of distributionism.

Distributionism is focused on ensuring the distribution of materialistic resources without considering their relationship with the value generated. This necessarily generates structural crises and conflicts.

But there are also subtle aspects in distributionist behaviors. Incentivizing war-industry to increase the monetary circulation to reactivate an economy or speculative businesses are collateral damages of a distributionist attitude.

Distributionism begins when cultures consider that they achieved their “zenith”.

Where are we now  in the European Union and in the USA?

Peter Belohlavek

When hopelessness becomes widely and deeply spread in some segments an explosion or implosion in the society needs to happen.

This can be seen in “The lack of hope triggers social cathartic conflicts”: http://www.theoryofevolution.net/blog/the-lack-of-hope-triggers-social-cathartic-conflicts/

This explosion or implosion happens making all the members feel guilty because of their incapacity to find solutions to integrate their fellows.

As guilt is a feeling that cannot be borne, it is transformed into an extreme anxiety first, and then into hate at the end, in order to allow individuals to adapt.

Guerrilla wars are fundamentalist wars

Guerrilla wars require a high level of hate in order to legitimate the killing of fellows. External wars happen in order to obtain a booty, whatever the kind. But booties are illegitimate in civil wars. Therefore “hate” is needed to legitimate booties in civil guerrilla wars. But, on the other hand, hate also makes them extremely irrational.

This situation drives naturally to addictive behaviour.

Addictions are a natural response to an uncertain environment in which a person feels hopeless, impotent and without identity.

When these conditions are given, individuals enter the shelter of addictions.

Addictions help to deal with these self-destructive feeling in a paradoxical way. While the individual is installed in the parallel world s/he feels fulfilled, but, after returning to the real world, s/he feels worse than before and the need for addictive stimuli rises.

On the one hand, the rebels need to build a parallel reality based on their utopia. On the other hand, the establishment enters into a parallel reality to solve a conflict they cannot deal with in a rational way.

Fundamentalism is an addiction with many benefits

1. It creates a real world to live in which appears to be the parallel world one is seeking.
2. It creates social bonds among the members of the group sharing the same belief.
3. It generates or empowers the development of a micro-cosmos in which addicts feel free of addictions and the self-destruction is deviated towards “the rest of the world”.

Considering the level of self-destruction or destruction, four segments can be characterized:

1. Pleasure addictions: providing instants of extreme pleasure.
2. Rational/spiritual addictions: providing the sensation of absolute empowerment.
3. Suicidal addictions: providing the power of “dancing” beyond human limits.
4. Terrorist addictions: providing the power of feeling God.

Conclusions

Stagnated hopelessness fosters guerrilla wars in extremely individualistic countries that lack institutionalization and therefore cannot have a conservative/liberal alternation.

The level of institutionalization can be measured in the separation between the Government and the State of a country and the “social sanction” for illegal behavior of individuals.

In highly institutionalized countries hopelessness drives towards a marginal violent behavior that works as a catharsis until the alternation conservatism/liberalism provides a solution.

Legitimacy is all what matters to overcome the wounds of civil wars.

Peter Belohlavek

An innovative solution is the consequence of a creative personal action to overcome scarcity in a given context in an environment that has the expectation, trust and credibility that a new solution will be found.

All innovations imply change, but not all changes are innovations in the sense it was described. Innovations require the existence of a structural change of how a scarce element is being managed.

Inventions and discoveries are innovations only when they modify the management of scarcity. Inventions and discoveries only exist if the innovation can be apprehended.

The use of an innovation is a condition for its existence. Until this happens it is perceived as an expression of the inventor’s or discoverer’s ego.

A necessary condition to apprehend an innovation’s functionality is its operational recreation. This recreation requires a high level of adaptation to the environment in order to be able to “introject” the functions of the innovation.

Innovation blindness is an unconscious response of individuals who do not perceive the proposed change, when the conditions to make use of it are not given.

The functionality of innovation blindness is the avoidance of energy consumption to introduce a new task in an individual’s brain.

In order to avoid the innovation, the necessary fallacies are built. Thus those who do not have the necessary knowledge to apprehend a new reality are “blind” and those who do not have it but think they do, are blind and deaf.

The consequence of innovation blindness is that individuals cannot see an innovation and cannot hear about it.

Peter Belohlavek

The unicist ontology of a “biological entity” defines its structure and functionality in an environment.

The genotype defines the genetic structure of the entity that rules its evolution and generates the phenotype of the being.  The objective of the genotype is to ensure the permanence of species, it reproduction and production.

The phenotype defines the morphologic, behavioral and materialistic characteristics of the entity. It defines the functional characteristics, the functional power of the entity and the functional assurance.

Functionality defines the effectiveness of the phenotype measured as the consequence of the adaptation of the biological entity to the environment. Functionality is measured in the capacity of adapting and growing on the one hand, and surviving, on the other hand.

The understanding of the ontology of “biological entities” helps to follow the laws of nature when dealing with genetic engineering processes and use it to apprehend the nature of beings with “artificial life” such as institutions.

Peter Belohlavek

We define mutation to all structural change in the purpose of a being, or of any of its “vital subsystems”. We refer to mutation every time that a subsystem is somehow annulled for some non-“traumatic” reason, and this is hence transmitted to future generations.

Modifications of functions will cause different effects according to the role the functions comply with. Mutations occur when the purpose of given concepts change.

If there is a modification in the adverbial function mutations could take place, and even if there is none, the system has lost stability and will generate a change in the verbal function.

Mutation may occur because of evolution or because of involution. In the first case mutations are based on the action of the verbal function to fulfill its purpose. Involution is produced by the inability of the verbal function to produce results.

Evolution implies that the verbal function, representing a more functional intelligence, turns to be the purpose of a concept.

Involution implies a structural change in the functionality of a concept. The verbal function sub-concept replaces the concept.

Socially, there is mutation when there is a change in the habits of a given society. The purposes of a society are implicit in its habits.

Fifth evolution law: The law of mutation

Mutation occurs when a living being or a being with artificial life is marginalized and his survival is threatened. In this context, living beings mutate and adapt again when they have the necessary energy to do so.

This law can be observed in the evolution of diseases. Viruses mutate frequently. They mutate when they need to find new ways to survive hostile environments.

Mutations occur in chaotic contexts. It is hardly impossible to influence mutations to cause evolution.

Peter Belohlavek

The emulation of reality is a hyperrealistic construction. A business model is, by definition, a hyperreality.

Unicist hyperrealism becomes functional when the unified field of a business has been envisioned in its oneness, including the operational aspects that allow achieving the established goals.

Unicist hyperrealism requires being able to define a business model at an ontological (conceptual) level and describe its operational aspects.

This process requires integrating different contexts, including the person who is envisioning it, in a unified field. A reflection process is necessary because dualistic thinking doesn’t suffice to build a unified field; it hinders its building.

It has to be considered that the unicist reflection process is driven by real pilot tests.

This is what allows building the hyperreality of a business model. Without real pilot tests there is no possibility to validate a business model.

Until the emulation demonstrates its actual functionality, it is just a hypothesis or a projection of those who did it.

The Ladder

There was a clan living at the seaside of the “Land of Opportunities”. They were 6 men and 6 women. They lived in nice huts in a small village. These huts surrounded the shack of their chief, demonstrating his rank.

They were happy and comfortable with their life and deeds but the global warming process was endangering their survival. It was expected that during the next ten years the melting of the North Pole would produce the invasion of their land by the ocean.

Under this extreme condition, the need to survive forced them to seek for new opportunities. The access to other opportunities required climbing a cliff that separated their remaining land from the rest of the country. Fortunately, there was no apparent problem for climbing the cliff because in the Land of Opportunities there were ladders for everyone who wanted to grow.

The chief decided that it was time to grow before the sea invaded their property. So there they went, all together, while the chief entered his shack to plan the details of the new life. Everyone picked up a ladder and began to ascend the cliff. The ladders were large enough to achieve the upper land.

But while they were ascending step by step the ladders began to sink in the soil until they disappeared when they put their foot on the last step.

They looked astonished at each other. What kind of ladders were these?

As there were many ladders available they tried again….. But the result was the same.

They didn’t want to call the chief for such a meaningless problem. They had to solve it.

The senior of the clan proposed to build stone basements for the ladders to sustain them.

So they did and it worked!

They climbed three steps without problems but then, suddenly, the basements disappeared and the ladders sunk into the soil.

Finally, there was a unique ladder left. It was their last chance to grow.

To avoid spoiling their opportunity they called the chief and told him what had happened.

He was astonished and became wordless.

“We need to build ladders”, was the final decision. But the situation was extremely bizarre.

There were neither screws nor nails available to build ladders, because their use had been forbidden many years ago since people used them to screw and nail other people.

Ladders needed to be built using sticks and ropes.

“Let’s build one ladder to test it”, decided the chief.

So they built it following the model of the last ladder that was left. As soon as it was finished they began to climb the ladder one by one. The last one would be the chief.

It worked! And they reached the top land. But suddenly, without notice, the landscape changed and they were again on the same place where they had started.

“Crazy, crazy, crazy!” were the silent words of the chief.

They went to sleep to overcome their frustration in order to start from scratch the following day.

Early in the morning the chief decided to be the first one to explore the Land of Opportunities in order to avoid the frustrations of the group.

And there he went!

Of course he arrived and… “Good!” he thought; “and now what?”

Suddenly the landscape changed again but instead of going back to the starting point he found himself in the middle of a fruitful farm.

He became astonished and wordless again.

He picked up some “Apples” looked down from the new land at his group and showed them shouting that they should follow him because the Land of Opportunities had opened its gates. His invitation was accepted by some members of the group but others didn’t believe him.

Six climbed the ladder and joined him but five remained in their old village.

They arrived one by one. Every new member who arrived produced a change in the landscape making it more fruitful. Thus they started a new life away from the seaside. At the beginning it was too different, hard and uncertain, but fruitful.

What had to happen happened. Weeks later, three of the members of the original group joined them and were welcome and integrated as if they had been there from the beginning.

Two remained on the seaside. Years after, the ocean finally invaded the seaside and their village disappeared. No one really knows what happened with the two who remained in the village. It is said that they went to Peter Pan’s Neverland before the ocean invaded the seaside.

Peter Belohlavek

What is the Ladder?

Riddles don’t have a right answer; they have many possible answers…

(1) Riddles have many solutions. In the Far East, riddles are used to develop internal freedom and responsibility.

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NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is the pioneering complexity science research organization developing solutions for complex adaptive systems using ontogenetic ontologies and object driven technologies. More than 3,500 ontological researches were developed since 1976 until September 2010 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution.

Fallacious myths are social constructions to avoid the disgregation of a group or community, hindering the perception of significant dysfunctional behaviors.

Fallacious myths are necessarily built to cover:

a)      Implicit weaknesses that cannot be accepted.
b)      Weaknesses that cannot be solved nor faced.

They transform social chronic dysfunctions into acceptable characteristics.

Fallacious myths are necessary to build cohesion

Humans integrate based on their weaknesses and collide based on their strengths. This is self-evident, although it is also a taboo.

But in extreme cases people cannot explicitly accept that they join based on their weaknesses.

Fallacious myths are built to join people without needing to face taboos. Their purpose is to integrate people in spite of existing unbearable weaknesses.

Groups would disgregate if the fallacious myths had not have been built.

That is why they are extremely functional in any culture.

The Ontology of Fallacious Myths

The purpose is disgregation avoidance. Therefore no interaction with the “external” environment is necessary. As no interaction is necessary, utopias do not need to foster actions.

Their utopias are apparent active functions that are coincident with the energy saving fallacies. As they are coincident, no action is necessary and the fallacious myths avoid disgregation without requiring any action.

The interaction happens among the members of a group. The purpose of this interaction is to confirm the validity of the fallacious myths. People who do not share the fallacious myths of a culture are aliens and cannot be part of the group.

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Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is the pioneering complexity science research organization developing solutions for complex adaptive systems using ontogenetic ontologies and object driven technologies. More than 3,500 ontological researches were developed since 1976 until September 2010 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution.