Multidimensional Human Information Synthesis

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We’ve become far too refined and precise placing excessive faith in our mathematical formula based models. Mathematics is only a tool that may approximate a reflection of the inner workings of our complex world. There is nothing omnipotent about the results of an economic (or for that matter any discipline based) model especially when it is derived from an imperfect conception of a reality rooted solely in illusion. We my just as easily arrive at error through an intricate complex mathematical model has one that is uniquely simplistic. Basing entire hypothesizes upon the ebb and flow of historical events tied masterfully to probability is sheer nonsense.

Complex systems theory utilized heavily at places like the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico arrive at better approximations of future trends by attempting to incorporate all the seemingly disparate unrelated variables that act within dynamical systems. But these are nothing more than primitive attempts at elegant soothsaying.

The future travels along many paths that diverge, converge, and merge at indeterminate points in time. It is far too difficult to determine when these unrelated endogenous and exogenous events will take place and affect this or that variable. Not to mention our attempts at rationalizing the human experience down to a predictable determinism – nothing about the human experience is predictable for we are far to complex beings to be anything but perceptibly irrational in our actions. We may even be perceived as being irrational to a single or group of average observers but deep within our subconscious we may fully comprehend our actions as being totally rational in light of our past experiences and current situation.

So beware of any impeccably credentialed analyst that is purportedly foreseeing a future for which only her ‘tea leaves’ are capable of conveying. What we should all attempt to do is wipe clean the ‘fog’ of preconceptions from our minds that inhibit our ability to see reality in an un-obscured fashion. We’re all capable of understanding events that are shaping our world and lives. It doesn’t take any special credentials obtained over innumerable years whereby advance mathematics was applied to very obscure models to understand a world that where already attuned to naturally.

The truly human gift lies with our ability to synthesize information simultaneously from a variety of sources. With this messy heterogeneous information stream mingled with our past experiences our minds are far superior to even the most elegantly crafted mathematical models in perceiving the direction of disparate elements all interrelated and reacting to produce a future stream of possibilities. Where always attempting to ‘down play’ our humanity without realizing that this is what provides us with our most invaluable tools for surviving in a dynamically chaotic world. For we represent a piece of this very chaotic world that where always attempting to rationalized away - in a very systematic machine oriented way. Our ability to utilize multidimensional information synthesis provides us with a direct tie in to the naturally complex systems that our ‘flat’ mathematics is incapable of fully linking to - at least currently.

Our machines are only capable of producing very rudimentary results when compared to their makers. We need to elevate our humanity and learn to use our innate abilities while realizing full well that our machines are a poor substitute for anything that a human being may be able to accomplish.

Beware of the purveyors of seemingly infallible mathematical models that purportedly explain complex systems like our global economy, because they will never incorporate the full spectrum of rich copious reality that may simply be perceived through proper human based synthesis of available information streams. We should never be ashamed of being human for it is a gift bestowed upon us that provides us with unique perceptual abilities, and awareness. Our humanity elevates us beyond our tools that should only supplement our inherent analytical capabilities – we are human and should be eminently proud of the fact.