This quote by Buckminster Fuller, arguably a Cybernetic, can be seen as the scientific principle par excellence, perhaps only matched by the Einstein quote: God doesn’t play dice. These two quotes taken together is all we need to embark on a career as a scientist. The premise is that there is one reality, and we just have to find the right model to explain it, and then act accordingly. So far so good, but if God (Einstein meant „nature“, but that is irrelevant here) does not play dice, there are certainly people who do play dice, including gambling and deceiving and cheating, right ? We have to understand that these people operate with different premises since they don’t feel any obligation to respect the set of scientific ethics. The only way to understand them (and perhaps find efficient counter-strategies to keep them in check) is to apply Game theory. In a game, there is no such thing as a „truth“, that can be discovered, or a better „model“, that makes the old one obsolete. No, in a game there only winners and losers. If you hear politicians or business people talk, you will see that they often use these terms, whereas in the scientific community, you rarely hear these words. In real life, we often see constellations, where „gamers“, such as politicians and businesspeople, will use and abuse scientists. Business and political leaders will use scientific inventions and findings for their next victory. If science can be held against their convictions, they will dismiss the scientific findings as „biased“. No matter if you are an American president or a football coach in the English premier league, you can choose to simply destroy any effort of your adversary to come up with a new, better model - one that would make your own model obsolete. You can even behave in a way that provokes everybody around you to try to „fight existing reality“, aka you. - That will guarantee you that your adversaries will spend all their energies on the wrong focus - namely, fighting existing reality, instead of building a new model - to change something. Oh, wait a minute, I am drifting into uncharted territory. Yes, the subject of my blog is the Digital Habitat, so be assured that „All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.”
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