Projections towards resolving ingenuity gaps for complex learning societies: Prerequisites for sustainable development?

摘要

ldquoIt isn't that they can't find solutions, it is that they don't see the problemrdquo Gilbert K.Chesterton (1874-1936) Critical destabilized resource uses that endanger individual and societal life require gap reductions between what is and what ought to be. In a genuine ldquolearning organizationrdquo (Peter Senge) and society, the progressive narrowing of ldquoIngenuity Gapsrdquo (Thomas Homer-Dixon) is likely assured with prevention of a Tragedy of the Commons (Garrett Hardin). What retards and prevents learning for innovations? Paradoxically, one primary obstacle relates to the most successful and entrenched applied solutions that can permeate societies. Such cultural patterns have been historically documented as ldquoprogress trapsrdquo(Ronald Wright), with consequences of societal decline and collapse. A systemic analytical approach may provide the means to discern what disconnects interacting flows within The Essential Tension (Thomas Kuhn) between an innovative potential and an actual solution, more specifically between ldquodescriptive and prescriptive technologiesrdquo (Ursula Franklin). A ldquoBoolean Dynamicrdquo(Stuart Kauffman) as a conceptual navigational tool might serve to advance means for unlocking gridlocks for optimizing requirements, like human-centric and techno-centric balancing as paradoxical contraries to sustain progressive development for complex societies. ldquoWithout paradox no progressrdquo, Niels Bohr (1885-1962).