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    %FEED BACK LOOP EXPONENTIAL GROWTH DECAY ADDICT 910404

     Non-scientists   often   fail   to   appreciate   the
importance    of  recognizing  situations  in  which   the
quantitative  aspect  of  a  current  situation  tends  to
enhance the aspect,    or lead  to   its   decay.     Such
situations  are  characterized  by exponential  growth  or
exponential  decay of  the  aspect;  because   the    size
of  something  in   such    situations determines the rate
or growth or decay.

     Examples   of   exponential   growth    include   all
biological   population  explosions  within  contexts   of
adequate food and an absence of debilitating factors.  The
growth  of  the use of  fossil  fuel  by homo  sapiens  is
another   example   of exponential growth of use,    which
will soon come to an end as the supply is depleted.

     Examples  of  exponential  decay  include radioactive
decay,  water  leaking out of a container,  cooling of hot
objects  to   the ambient temperature,   and the decay  of
energy in a swinging pendulum.

     There   are    examples    of    feed-back-loops   in
human   relationships,     but   they  are   not   readily
recognized  by people  who  do know about feed-back-loops,
because  the scientists who do know about  feed-back-loops
are  not  very perceptive  regarding the dynamics of human
relationships.   On   the  other hand the people who   are
perceptive  about human  relationships  do not know  about
feed-back-loops.  Thus  there thus are few people with the
prerequisites  for recognizing  the  dynamics   of   feed-
back-loops   in  human relationships.    Even  though  few
people can recognize  the dynamics  of  feed-back-loops in
human    relationships   the  dynamics  are  still   real,
present,   and often lead to tragic consequences;    e.g.,
when  trust  decays exponentially  and  technocracy  grows
exponentially.

     Scientists  are preoccupied with objectivity,  and to
the  degree  that  they are preoccupied with   objectivity
they  tend   to   generate   growth   in    preoccupations
with  objectivity;   and the associated inability to  deal
with  the dilemmas of science education.  Thus the "crisis
in science education"   is an exponential growth situation
which   very  few  people  have  the   qualifications   to
understand.    It is a situation   which   arguments   its
own   tragic  character,  because  the  victims of it  are
blinded  by   the  processes which  are  promoted  by  the
situation.    Thus  there  is  an exponential  growth   of
technocracy,  and  an  exponential decay  of understanding
of the nature of  technocracy  and its hazards.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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