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New Ways of Seeing Things; Nature’s Laws for Energy as a Model or Policymaking
April 29, 2013
Raymon R. Bruce
Adjunct Professor at
University of Electrical Science and technology China
Chengdu, P. R. China and at
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Albuquerque Center
7620 Vista Cedro Ct NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109
[email protected]
505 798-9855
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Bio
Raymon R. Bruce, Ph.D. is presently an Adjunct Professor with the University of Electrical
Science and technology China (UESTC) in Chengdu, P. R. China and Adjunct Professor at the
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Albuquerque Center, NM.
He has a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from Virginia Polythechnical Institute and
state University (1992), an MS Organization Development from Pepperdine University, a BA
and MA from the University of Montana.
He is a Fulbright Senior Scholar in (Lithuania1995) and Fulbright Senior Specialist (China 2005,
Sri Lanka 2007, Slovakia 2009) and an Invited Fellow at the University of Rajasthan, India
(2008).
His research interest is focused on Organization Development in Public Administration. He has
worked in local, state and Federal government as well as national and international consulting
and teaching assignments in Micronesia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Serbia, Montenegro, and India. He
was Process Historian on the Clinton-Gore Presidential Transition Team and a member of the
Franchise Planning Committee and Working Group of Vice President Al Gore’s the National
Performance Review. He is co-author of several books, including Changing Organizations;
Practicing Action Training and Research (Sage) Positive Outcomes, Raising the Bar on
Government Reinvention, and also, Enterprise Government; Franchising and Cross-Servicing for
Administrative Support.(both ; Chatelaine Press).
He has presented and published many articles in national and international journals.
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New Ways of Seeing Things; Nature’s Laws for Energy as a Model for Policymaking
Abstract
This paper proposes a way of seeing how Nature’s forces evolve together in formation of local
thermodynamic systems that are in dynamic equilibrium, yet evolving toward increased
complexity. Viewing change through the lens of energy relates things as local thermodynamic
systems. Using a scientific description method the paper follows energy at work and guided by
Nature’s laws. This journey follows energy view in three parts. It examines Nature’s laws of
energy as the model for universal guidance. Then it follows Energy in its dual inorganic and
organic domains as it works under Nature’s laws in the function of duty~cycle directives. The
paper then examines the major complexity factor: people as agents for complex adaptive change
by creating their own duty~cycles. Metropolitan Policymaking is examined relative to how
Nature’s guidance is adapted by humans and designed into a complex array of their own work
duty~cycles to guide human cultural evolution.
NEW WAYS OF SEEING THINGS;
NATURE’S LAWS FOR ENERGY AS A MODEL FOR POLICYMAKING
April 28, 2013
Introduction: Finding a New Way of Seeing Things
The new way of seeing things will involve an imaginative
leap that will astonish us,” (Bell, 1966: 284).
This paper establishes a way of seeing Nature from the point of view of energy. The purpose
is to gain insights into how Nature’s guidance of energy has evolved change in the universe
resulting in increasingly complex forms. The complex forms of energy are examined are the
human social communities’ capacities as agents for adaptive change and for self-governance
including Metropolitan policymaking.
Why energy? Current physics generally accepts that matter is energy in formation of things.
Frank Wilczek points out that, “Einstein’s original formulation of the law was m=E/c2 indicating
a possible way of explaining how mass arises from energy . . . The concept of energy is much
more central to modern physics than mass,” (Wilczek, 2008: 19-20).
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One new way of seeing things is through the lens of energy. It is to imagine the universe as
only energy in its many forms including sub-atomic particles and all the things made up of from
them such as atoms, molecules, stars, and living things. An advantage of seeing through the lens
of energy is that energy’s view always includes the dark energy that composes 68.3% of the
evolved universe as well as matter composing the other 31.7% of the universe (SPACE.com
Staff, 2013). The energy way of seeing things is developed using a descriptive science method.
Things inter-reacting in order to co-adapt within the evolving constant energy environment
can be perceived only by their present participation together in and of the environment. The
energy point of view of things is similar to W. H Ittelson’s description of things and particularly
humans as being determined by the research of space perception:
One cannot be a subject of an environment, one can only be a participant. The
very distinction between self and nonseIf breaks down: the environment
surrounds, enfolds, engulfs, and no thing and no one can be isolated and identified
as standing outside of, and apart from it. Environments surround (Ittelson, 1973:
12-13).
Ittelson’s view can be applied through the lens of energy to all things; energy sees all things as
local thermodynamic systems in the energy environment. The presence of energy at its work of
energy exchange is the dynamic participation that evolves the greater energy environment. The
approach of this point of view is to describe a credible and convincing case that relates how
Nature’s laws have functioned as evolutionary guidance allowing humans to reimagine those
laws as a model for creating our own guidance duty~cycles for self-governing and administration
of their public affairs. Therefore, in describing things we ask ourselves, “How does energy work
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to make these things happen this way?” Imagining the view through the lens of energy is
presented in five parts.
Part one examines Nature’s Laws of Energy as the model for universal guidance. The paper
describes energy at its work duties along the pathways of evolutionary change. Nature’s Laws of
Thermodynamics are examined as Nature’s guidance system directory for energy working in the
form of local thermodynamic systems, which may or may not have mass.
What is a local thermodynamic system? In energy’s point of view, a thermodynamic system
can be envisioned basically as a manifold of oscillating energy force fields dynamically
stretching out and unfolding energy to its power force extreme, then enfolding it back to a
balance point before unfolding it out again in an opposing force extreme, in constantly
oscillating cycles.
Part two describes Nature’s Duty~cycle directives for work in energy’s dual inorganic and
organic work domains. Nature’s Law of Thermodynamics rules are examined as energy’s task
duties comprising its work duty~cycles. These duty~cycles guide energy in enacting its work
duties of evolutionary change in Nature’s inorganic and organic realms. A model is constructed
to show how duty~cycles work to meet the particular local thermodynamic system’s needs in
sustaining its presence as a participant in the omnipresent cosmos energy environment.
Part three relates people as free energy agents that create their own Duty~cycles. Various
aspects of human development have added extensive complexity to evolution. Among the key
human developmental aspects are: 1) people having a significant degree of free will; 2) a
semiotic sign/signal system of language forms; and 3) a very expansive capacity for cognitive
retention and reflection of energized information waveform signals have evolved people to
become to a degree, free energy agents of change. Under Nature’s guidance humans learn to
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imitate and adapt Nature’s guidance model of duty~cycles and develop a vast array of energy
sources and energy work duty~cycles to intervene in the energy environment to meet their own
needs. However, the motivation of human intervention into energy’s domain of energy exchange
can range from responsible stewardship, to innovative science, to ecosphere exploitation.
Part four examines Metropolitan Policymaking as an informative example to look through
energy’s lens and see in detail how Nature’s guidance as a model has been adapted by humans
and designed into a vast interconnected array of their own work duty~cycles. Examining
Metropolitan Policymaking through energy’s lens can provide a continuity of insights into
energy’s work duty~cycles of energy exchange along Nature’s pathway of evolution. Part five
includes the insights and conclusions gained from viewing things from through the lens of
energy.
Part One
Nature’s Laws of Energy: the Model for Universal Guidance
Nature’s laws guide energy at its work of exchanging energy among thermodynamic systems
that leads toward the equalization of all thermodynamic systems. After the universe’s originating
Big Bang the unified energy separated into the competing fundamental cosmos forces of the
strong, weak, magnetic, gravitation, and perhaps other yet to become known forces such as the
Figure 1. Nature’s Universal Guidance for Energy’s
Duties
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Higgs machine. The inter-reaction of their energy exchanges together is the source of local
thermodynamics systems such as particles, atoms, molecules, and galaxies of the universe.
Energy’s basic work duties of energy exchange are spelled out in Nature’s Laws of
Thermodynamics in figure 1. On the whole, the laws focus on Nature’s communication of
guidance for energy to work to promote entropy. What is energy in relation to entropy? Entropy
is Nature’s guidance directing energy to exchange energy (disperse) in any way that it will tend
toward the equalization of universal energy (entropy).
However, conformity to Nature’s energy laws is a notion requiring to be further examined.
Are nature’s laws absolute or do they take in the notion a degree of leeway for chance in their
observance? Charles Saunders Peirce approached this question in the late nineteenth century,
“Since law in general cannot be explained by any law in particular, the explanation must consist
in showing how law is developed out of pure chance, irregularity, and indeterminacy,” (Peirce,
1888: 277). Later in 1905, perhaps after his conversations with James Clerk Maxwell who had
described molecules as a vortex of force fields, Peirce clarified his notion of chance, indicating
that natural laws must include relative degrees of latitude for inter-actions involving energy
exchange in the dynamic energy environment.
What I mean by saying that if the universe were governed by immutable law there
could be no progress. In place of the word progress I will put a word invented to
express what I mean, to wit, vari-escence. I mean such a change as to produce an
uncompensated increment in the elements of a situation,” (Peirce in Hardwick,
1977: 143).
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The need for building some variable slack in a local thermodynamic dynamic system is due to
the nature of the dynamic analog waveform oscillation motions of the energy comprising the
system.
Local thermodynamic systems as Nature’s energy agents of change are governed by a few
simple initial instructions in Nature’s laws that guide energy in creating local thermodynamic
systems, both organic and inorganic shown in Figure 2. This view through energy’s lens suggests
Figure 2. Nature’s Model Instructions Guiding Energy
and Life
insights from chaos theory. For example, Nature’s dynamic energy is guided by an initial set of
fairly simple yet far reaching guidance instructions: the Laws of thermodynamics depicted in
figure 1. Exchanging energy is the definition of all work and energy exchange is the exclusive
process of change.
From the first appearance of bio-molecular cells on earth as local thermodynamic systems
they have established effective inter-reaction molecular communications with abiotic molecules.
They need was to inter-react with abiotic molecules to acquire needed energy exchange in the
form of nutrients for life’s development and metabolism processing. Nature’s evolutionary
guidance for energy exchange among organisms focuses on their tentative hold onto a
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sustainable balanced energy exchange presence in the energy environment along life’s pathways
over the past 4 billion years. This human evolutionary energy domain, referred to by what Jay
Gould described as the “Pathway of Life,” (Gould, 2004: 92-100).
It is somewhat
counterintuitive to the general thermodynamic pathway of enfolded energy waveform force
fields that turns energy exchange toward entropy (turning into, enfold). Nature’s law of mortal
life guides got organisms functions through inherited DNA in order to sustain life, to grow, and
to self-replicate in passing DNA along the pathway of life. This unfolding (negentropy, opening
up, unfold) toward growth, evolves progressive greater forward evolving growth and increasing
organic complexity. In that sense, from the start of life on earth nature guides organisms to
become in effect, agents for complex adaptive change.
Part Two
Nature’s: Duty~cycle Directives: for Energy’s Thermodynamic and Organic Work Domains
What is a duty~cycle? “When astronomers talk about matter being fed into supermassive
black holes, they talk about ‘duty cycles.’ The speed of a black hole duty cycle describes how
rapidly it changes back and forth from feeding on matter to sitting quietly,” (Sharf, 2012: 36).
ature’s guides for energy are in the form of duty~cycles tailored to various needs in energy’s
work domain. What is energy in relation to a duty~cycle? The energy waveform oscillates in its
duty~cycle of energy exchange it functions as Nature’s dynamo engine for evolutionary change
toward equalized universal energy level of entropy. Therefore, once formed by energy, such as
an atom or a human, a local thermodynamic system needs to sustain its energy level within the
allowable vari-escence limits of Nature’s universal law of thermodynamics in order to continue
its duty~cycle and presence as a participant in the omnipresent energy environment.
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For example, the instant the local thermodynamic system’s oscillations pass through its exact
equilibrium balance zero point on its way to its opposite extreme, the local thermodynamic
system can be considered by Nature’s law to have achieved, if ever so briefly, an actual, energy
entropy moment. However, just before and just beyond that instant energy equilibrium point, the
exchanging of energy within the Law of Thermodynamics’ work duty~cycle variance limits, the
local thermodynamic system itself can be considered to be in a sustainable quasi-entropy state.
By viewing Nature’s duty~cycle guidance through the lens of energy Nature’s guidance
strategy extends to all local thermodynamic systems. They are all, in effect, contributing to
sustaining the general quasi-entropy of the universal energy environment. To the degree a local
thermodynamic system can no longer sustain its equilibrium it can become incorporated through
inter-reactive energy exchange with other local thermodynamic systems.
Nature’s work duty~cycle for a local thermodynamic system as an open energy system is
briefly sketched in figure 3. Each local thermodynamic system’s primary duty is to promote
universal energy equilibrium through constant exchange of energy from higher energy levels to
lower energy levels, i.e. entropy. This can be accomplished by each local thermodynamic system
working to sustain its own energy level equilibrium within the local energy environment. The
Figure 3. Energy Quasi-Entropy duty~cycle; 4 Energy
Exchange Venues
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model in Figure 3 suggests several possible energy exchange venues open to each local
thermodynamic system to perform as a constant engine pumping energy toward the universal
equilibrium of entropy. They can: 1) inter-react with its originating cosmic energy forces.
Similarly, they can 2) acquire energy locally from a higher energy level, and 3) disperse energy
to a lower energy level in the local energy environment. Another possible venue is 4) where they
can inter-react with other local thermodynamic Systems to exchange energy in selfreorganization of themselves together as a lower overall energy level, dispersing leftover energy
to the local energy environment.
In order to accomplish energy exchange, each local thermodynamic system needs to interreact with the other local thermodynamic systems energized information wave forms. What is
energized information? Local thermodynamic systems are composed exclusively of its energy
waveform force fields that dynamically broadcasting itself embedded as a participant in the
energy environment. The configuration of local thermodynamic system’s broadcast waveforms
conveys all the information there is about the local thermo dynamic system’s capacities to interreact in the energy environment. In the 1970s, John Archibald Wheeler envisioned this
connection between energy and information when he saw everything as information, (Wheeler,
1998. p. 63-64).
The first venue in Figure 3 raises the question, “Could local thermodynamic systems possibly
remain in some relationship to original cosmos energy waveforms from which they originate?”
Once the local thermodynamic system is in formation of matter it is guided to some degree by
gravity. Also, the strong and weak cosmos forces play a key role in keeping particle together in
formation of protons and neutrons in forming an atomic nucleus. The Higgs boson and other
thermodynamic systems appear to be involved in stabilizing local thermodynamic systems and
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may be linking them to the cosmos forces. Does this relationship connection to cosmos forces
provide any common network that links all local thermodynamic systems to each other?
If so, they would be able to inter-react with other local thermodynamic systems, actively
participating as the energy environment in what David Bohm compared to, “Listening to music,
one is therefore directly perceiving an implicate, enfolded order . . . of a Universal whole.” The
complexity of a local thermodynamic system may be extremely complex. It is still connected
through the enfolded energy back to the originating cosmos forces. Thereby its possible
connection is networked to the other thermodynamic systems to the point where it can be seen to
be connected in a deeper enfolded/implicate order necessary for Nature’s laws to guide things to
work toward universal energy equilibrium of entropy.
Part Three
People as Free Energy Agents Creating Their Own Social Duty~cycles
Nature’s fundamental thermodynamics and mortal life duty~cycles are in effect to guide the
evolution life forms. However, for humans there are many factors of complexity in the energy’s
human work domain duty~cycle for the evolution of human civilization, some of which are listed
Figure 4. Humans as complicators
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in Figure 4. The key aspects listed of those listed are: 1) a degree of free will, 2) an extension of
Nature’s complex energized information waveform sphere of communication to one of a
semiotic sign/signal process, i.e., languages and electronic transmissions; and 3) a very
perceptive capacity for cognitive retention and reflection of energized information.
These evolutionary innovations have helped lead to human’s capability to become free
energy exchange agents currently able to intervene throughout much of energy’s work domain.
The motivation of human intervention into energy’s domain can range from responsible
stewardship, to innovative science, to ecosphere exploitation.
Part three focuses on humans’ duty~cycle artifacts they create to self-guide themselves and
the evolving development of their various social groups. An increasing complexity devolves out
of the dual reflexive hierarchies that makeup human’s stewardship in the energy environment
depicted in Figure 5. It lists a few examples of a hierarchy of typical human Agents for Adaptive
Change, i.e., social groups, Figure 5 also lists a few examples of human Duty~cycle Artifacts
created to guide human inter-reactions in the energy environment. The duty~cycle artifacts are
reflexive with the social group agents for adaptive change. That means that each listed example
in either hierarchy can relate to any or all the listed examples in both hierarchies.
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Figure 5. Humans as: Agents for Adaptive
Change & Their Artifact Duty~cycles
(Examples)
Humans have learned to copy and adapt Nature’s guidance duty~cycle model to meet their
own needs. Nature’s original life guidance duty~cycles had evolved to reside in the DNA
energized information center of organisms to be carried forward evolutionarily well before the
emergence of humans.
Where then do the duty~cycle artifacts humans create reside? They reside only in the
energized information system located in the human nervous system and particularly in retention
in the brain. Although the duty~cycles have often been written down as laws and rules, they have
no effect until a person learns, internalizes, and trusts them in response to being accepted as a
trusted member of the particular social group. Appropriate human duty~cycle artifact regimes are
internalized through observation, learning, behavior, language, and cognitive retention-reflection
of each social group in which each person actually participates.
In this way, the person becomes connected in a holographic way as they internalize, trust,
and assume the group’s values and duty~cycle responsibilities. In this way the person becomes a
co-member with the other people as the energy agents for adaptive change in those social groups
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in which the person participates. It is to the degree that the values and norms of the social agents
for adaptive change group’s espoused and enforced human duty~cycle artifacts are internalized
and shared by its members that guides a person’s self-managed inter-reactions in, with, and for
the group.
Keeping in mind that most people are concurrently a member of most of the example Agents
for Adaptive Change listed in Figure 5, they are concurrently self-guiding their behavior
according to the human duty~cycles Artifacts listed in Figure 5. Together a person’s many
human duty~cycle artifact regimes are ready to guide a person’s self-managed behavior in to
self-select the opportunities and problems for enacting suitable intervention performance of
inter-reactions for the person’s various social group’s energy environment. However history is
also replete with examples of negative outcomes when human duty~cycle regimes have become
in entangled with Nature’s life duty~cycle regimes causing a cognitive dissonance so strict or so
vague to where it loses its guidance effect. By far, the human brain is the incredibly powerful
and fast energy exchange agent.
Part Four
Metropolitan Policymaking: Developing Human Duty~Cycles.
Metropolitan Policymaking is presented as an example to explore humans’ adaptation of
Nature’s duty~cycle guidance through the lens of energy. Figure 6, depicts the Dual Hierarchies
of Human Guidance examples of
1) Agents for Adaptive Change and 2) Human Duty~cycle
Artifacts respectively. They inter-react in the Energy Duty~cycle.
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Figure 6. The Energy Network of Governance
Policymaking
Exchange Complex depicted as En in Figure 6. Considered from the energy’s
interconnecting network En point of view, a human or a group of humans comprise and extended
local thermodynamic system at work in energy’s work domain. However the person or social
group of people is able to create and use appropriate duty~cycle artifacts to self-refocus as
energy agents for adaptive change to work collectively for results in their best interest.
In hierarchy theory, the higher complex levels of the hierarchies constrain the lower levels.
However, lower levels may also constrain the higher levels (Marinakis, 2012: 90). This dual
hierarchy of fluid relationships is a model showing how energy work agents for adaptive change
can relate to and multiple human duty~cycle artifacts appropriate to achieve their intended
results. At the same time, multiple human duty~cycle artifacts can relate to and re-sort the
hierarchy involvement order of the appropriate human agents for adaptive change. Thus this
reflexive relationship between human agents for adaptive change and human duty~cycle artifacts
provides opportunity for vast complexity increases on the order of many magnitudes, especially
as the number of people stakeholders in the involved social energy work agent community
increases.
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Metropolitan policymaking provides an example of the extreme complexity of humans using
public policy to guide energy at work in evolutionary change of the city. What is metropolitan
policymaking? It is metro-polis making. What makes policymaking work? It’s the stewardship of
the policymakers and the buy-in trust together of the citizens through internalizing the policy
duty~cycle values as a perceived social contract responsibility. However each participant citizen
balances that guidance ethically with one’s self-interests and other social duty~cycle obligations
that guide participants to be able to self-manage their inter-reactions in the energy environment
in support of toxic waste management.
Policymaking is the business of designing energy work duty~cycles as guidance for others. It
is, if course, beyond the scope of this paper to examine policymaking procedures. However,
examining the geometrics of the Energy Duty~cycle Complex of energy exchange helps see
policymaking from the point of view of energy. Figure 6 above is meant to suggest the relative
coordination of inter-reaction connection through the Energy Duty~cycle Exchange Complex
between the dual hierarchies of agents for adaptive change as well as the appropriate human
duty~cycles artifacts.
For Metropolitan policymakers, the implicate network order of the social hierarchy’s Agents
for Adaptive Change in Figure 6 are for the most part policy issue stakeholders connected
through the Energy Duty~cycle Exchange Complex. This energy exchange complex links them
up to all the appropriate Human duty~cycle Artifacts to guide them as a holographic agent group
for adaptive change. Policymaking here is creating human duty~cycle artifact regimes within
proscribed policy parameters of dealing with the policy issue. For example, a growing increase
of toxic waste can become a threat to the city. Policymakers research to develop guidelines to
help individual citizens’ participate and to inter-react in in the attendant problems and
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opportunities in a way of the city’s behalf and its dynamic cultural evolution. These are seen as
duty obligations of enlightened self-interest.
In figure 6 policymakers are in the process of creating duty~cycles to guide citizens to interreact effectively in the energy environment. In this example, duty~cycles of action are needed to
guide and encourage citizens in participation of resolving the developing, in this case, toxic trash
issues in the interest of their metropolitan city. This issue poses the city both problems and
opportunities. Policy issues usually encompass transient complexities.
Policymakers create their versions of Nature’s duty~cycle regimes to provide guidance for
the city citizen stakeholders to work on the problems and opportunities being brought about by
the impending toxic waste policy issues. It is to the stakeholder citizens to focus their work on
the solving the problems and opportunities issuing forth from the issue, rather than to try to solve
the policy issue as such. In that way each citizen decides how they can best apply their energy in
viable energy exchange inter-reactions to deal with toxic waste for the combined benefit of their
city.
Thus, fashioning polices of energy duty~cycle artifact regimes according to Nature’s design
makes it possible for policymakers to provide guidance to the individual citizen in resonance
with their own free will to self-manage their inter-reaction choices. It is through the evolving
complexity in the energy environment that humans can make use of policymaking. Policymaking
is developing innovative energy duty~cycles to shape the evolutionary change of their
communities, their cultures, and their self-governing of their metropolis in innovative ways
through the ever chances in their immediate circumstances. This is especially true in light of the
evolving changes in the city’s energized environment.
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However, there is the danger of hubris for policymakers and for participating citizens alike.
Policymakers, in imitating nature’s laws of guidance are actually stand-ins as Nature’s stewards
in creating the polis. Policy duty~cycles are human artifacts that bring the responsibility of
stewardship to those who design and propose policies of social energy duty~cycle regimes upon
others. The public trust is the social contract bond among people coming from heterogeneous
cultural and ethical backgrounds as municipal citizens recognizing they have responsibilities and
duties to the city for the benefit of living in it. Public trust is a form of a social duty~cycle
contract that organizes citizens directly to city’s hierarchy of duty~cycles available for guiding
the citizens to come together as a metropolitan city to deal with their problems and opportunities
that may issue forth from the city’s imminent toxic waste issues. But what is more particular to
interest in the development of metropolitan policymaking is the value to the community of public
policymakers’ stewardship responsibility capabilities to make policy in terms of nature’s energy
duty~cycle regimes that have fair and equitable value to the community and trusted in the eyes of
the citizens.
Here, Peirce’s variescence becomes problematic. The difficulty is that free will inter-reaction
by both policymakers and participating citizens self-interest can easily override the Metropolitan
duty~cycle policy guidance of for the community’s interest.. The result is the public
administrators and the citizens become more and more distantly connected. At that point the
public trust between the individual and government begins to dissolve along with the community
polis.
The public trust is an important part of the social fabric of any nation — one of its
most precious resources. Uncaring public officials can tear away at this social fabric,
and there is a threshold of public trust, below which a regime can no longer be
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effective and is brought down of its own weight. History is strewn with the wreckage
of regimes that have ignored this fact, (Keene et al, 2000: vii).
A policies’ balance between its regulatory guidance and selection of inter-reactions duties should
strive to reflect current reality of the situation to be effective, and yet have enough freedom for
discretion of action freedom that the policy can also develop as the environment evolves. Public
Administration often finds that it is in need of change itself to continue to be stewards of
sustainable equitable development in the global neighborhood. The question is: If not Public
Administration, then who? The answer is Public Administration working together with the
citizens.
Part Five
Insights and Conclusions
Viewing things through the lens of energy is presented here of course, not as a theory of
reality. Rather, it is for seeing things in a new way to gain credible new insights regarding the
theories that we already have of reality. Charles Saunders Peirce imagined this new way of
seeing things by looking through Maxwell’s lens of energy’s force fields, “All this universe is
perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs,” (Peirce, 1905, 5-448).
In the current issue of Scientific American’s Forum, Geoffrey West observed that, “When the
industrial age focused society's attention on energy in its many manifestations—steam, chemical,
mechanical, and so on—the universal laws of thermodynamics came as a response. We now need
to ask if our age can produce universal laws of complexity that integrate energy with
information,” (West, 2013, 14). Viewing things through the lens of energy as energized
information have provided for us preliminary insights into West’s proposed question.
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Metropolitan policymaking makes an insightful example of the complexity of humans
imitating and adapting work duty~cycle artifacts from Nature’s energy model for guidance. But
the participants can often be looking through quite different lenses. Humans have been thrust (or
have invaded) into a stewardship role of helping self-guide their evolution as well as the
evolution of the eco-sphere in which they dwell. To that degree we can influence our own fates.
Seeing the universe composed strictly of energy is astounding in its many different forms and
in accordance to the guidance of Nature. Energy’s evolving complexities of energy exchange
reveals strange pathways roundabout entropy and back to us again.
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