I have yet to read Science Unshackled. I added it to my top reading list.

I keep getting this idea that potential is simply downstream from organization and vice-versa; that organization is simply downstream from potential. Between each cycle a growth occurs, positive feedback reinforcing the next cycle.

You can echo this multiplier idea using instead the concept of anti-entropy, or amplification.

It’s essentially the same idea as growth by a series of qualitative changes, each of which unlocks some potential, which then leads to an increased rate of growth, which unlocks potential, on and on, to a point of saturation, then the whole game needs to be reinvented, or at least most of the time. The interesting part is the ratchet effect, where the good parts are kept, but while leaving room for further exploration. It seems a conservative balance in this would be crucial, otherwise all gains could be lost to untested enhancements failing, ending the whole thing, like a business bankruptcy, lol.

You arrive at the issue raised by Chuck Stevens, of how 1 + 1 can be greater than 2, or as Liebnitz wrote, the scholastics forgot that sometimes effects add, but other times they multiply!

There is arbitrary organization generally, but then a specific organization in a given context, yields orders of magnitude more results for the same problem, because its parts multiply more greatly than an arbitrary arrangement.

This science, whatever it is, is literally where the action is. Like a chain reaction, effects that multiply are a different thing than everything else under the wide search for fundamental knowledge.

The issue across all subjects and methods, is to identify the power multipliers in the noisy haystack of attributes.

Like how a fire or a tornado builds, power is centered on self-reinforcing phenomenon, and organization emphasis gets focused on that, speaking most broadly across all human agency and lines of development. Some call it feedback loops, oh, there’s the dreaded recursion issues Russel tried to avoid, but reality is recursive anyway so he was pushing a rope with his logical positivism.

I call it bootstrapping. As in, take what ya got, and build in stages from there, lawfully. Every successful entrepreneur knows this by practice, every scientist, every artist, all spheres. All life is based on bootstrapping.

This is the same general idea, as LaRouche’s theory of political economy based on Riemannian manifolds, or the Nooesphere, where the crucial parts like better education, multiply the total economic gain, not simply sum, like doing each other’s laundry and calling that economics, as Lyn used to say.

This theme of finding the multipliers, seems like the most universal theme to me, at least as a tool for regrounding all subjects in that particular context. The meta is what binds them all.

The question is how to bootstrap within the context of changing reality lawfully by finding and applying that which multiplies original action.

Now what comes to mind in this relation are the concepts of spacial coherence and temporal coherence. That harmonic relationships make for “harmony”, which is another word for amplification. The laser works because reflection gets all the atoms marching together in both time and space.

Resonance has been abused into an occult topic, but the shell of the idea still is interesting, perhaps the focus needs to be on coherence of parts rather than mere resonance.

Resonance, being simply one note or frequency, rejects change of the one note as the main operating principle, it’s tuned. It’s not enough. It gets more interesting when one considers it takes two to tango, a boundary (1) containing whatever is vibrating (2), making a system containing many overlapping relationships.

There is a lawful set of relations which permeates all reality, and the best we know is harmonic and anti-harmonic relations, in physical systems, social systems, and thinking systems. And they all coincide with each other and the mind.

Our best guess is we need to revisit these concepts and take them to a more meta-level of abstraction. To do this we use recursion and reflection. The result will be greater than the sum of the parts.