20240417_SumOfHistories_pen
Based off Richard Feynman's 'Sum Over Histories'
https://muchomas.lassp.cornell.edu/8.04/Lecs/lec_FeynmanDiagrams/node3.html
"A history is a sequence of fundamental processes leading to the the event in question."
Our need/desire for improvement, change for the better good, leads to results that are both intended and unintended.
20240308_ASeriesOfUnintendedConsequences_pen
Most of us enable ourselves into a constant state of change, at least in one aspect or the other.
The fluidity of our being is our greatest challenge as well as our most valuable asset.
Humanity's nature of improving things can also be our downfall if we continue to neglect the unintended consequences of our changes.
Isn't that how entire economic systems shift and lead to unexpected phenomena? How political climates change every quarter, bit by bit?
How our collective social culture changes as a result of the ensuing changes in ideologies, the ongoing mob mentalities?
Unintended consequences may be the biggest reason for the changes we observe in our global society. Why?
Because of interconnection. Every single thing that we do has a tangible effect on the things we observe. This seems to be a never-ending cycle.
The amount of effort put into bringing or keeping a system in order is directly proportional to the amount of disorder released into the universe.
Our lives, a continuous sum of our histories, signaling both the positive and negative aspects of our development.
The main problem is, we mostly focus on creating the positive outcomes we desire without anticipating the negative ones.
We keep forgetting that there are ALWAYS going to be negative outcomes.
Every action has an equal/opposite reaction. Newton's 3rd law of motion, right?
The question that remains; how prepared are we to estimate the relative impacts of what we do?
Maybe it's time to look at the sum of all the histories as a whole instead of the individual histories.
[P.S. Spotify knew that 'Stairs to the Attic' was on my mind this morning.]