HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE DEEP ECOLOGY PARADIGM
S.I. Kretov
Research Center of the Russian Academy of Entrepreneurship
14, Radio st., Moscow, Russia, 105005
M.V. Fedorov
The Department of Theory and History of State and Law
Law Institute of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
6, Miklukho-Maklaya st., Moscow, Russia, 117198
V.I. Vasilenko
VDA-Trans
2, bld. 7, Bolshoi Znamenskii per., Moscow, Russia, 119992
The article is devoted to the analysis of the crisis of civilization in the context of the theory and
history of state and law, which is systemic. The authors believe that the way out of this crisis is possible
only through the formation and transition to a new, more progressive Humanistic socio-economic sys-
tem as a basis for creating a new state and legal system.
Key words: theory of state and law, crisis of civilization, humanistic socio-economic system,
complexity theory, cybernetic epistemology.
Several thousand years passed and nobody, but Confucy gave the most over-
whelming and precise characteristics for Human being of the Future. Till now his
«noble man» may be regarded as the goal looked for by the whole educational and
training system for a new generation [4].
The frameworks of this presentation do not allow to open up all details of the
thesis declared in the first paragraph. We shall specify only several parameters of the
«noble man» category as an ideal materialization of the abstract scientific term «hu-
man capital» and absolute target for educational and training system.
In Confucy’s era, apart from many existing till now positive and negative human
qualities, an important one was aristocratism. Intellectual-aristocrat radically differs
from intellectual-liberal because the former was free from thoughts about personal
material consequences while researching any problem, decision making and taking
responsibility for it. Aristocrat moral self-appraisal was prosperity of compatriots in-
fluenced by his decision and his own reputation among the people. Translating this
thesis into the modern language of cybernetic epistemology, one can declare that un-
disputable values for noble man, intellectual-aristocrat was the principle «the gain for
the society ruling subsystem is the gain for the society guided subsystem».
Can we see something similar in modern intellectual-liberals’ behavior? No. The
most vivid illustration of this contradiction is the comparison of public speeches de-
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livered by Chech President V. Klaus, who, in the modern history, managed to ap-
proach as close as possible to the title of «noble man» and by his antipode Barack
Obama. The latter is not only constantly demonstrating his bad plebeian behavior,
cynicism, neglect to the people, peoples and states, but publicly puts on air his «new
barbarism» as the top achievement of American democracy. At that, one has to under-
line that this is not the guilt of Obama and majority of modern high-ranking represen-
tatives of the countries-debtors, but their misfortune, because modern educational sys-
tem, stuck in cultivating egoistic and greedy individuals for the needs of capitalitarian
model of human society, does not have even the most general comprehention about
such necessary quality of any noble man.
Scientific analyses of the current situation using the cybernetic epistemology
(complexity theory) methodology requires introduction of new categories. We all re-
member recent interest in class theory of society construction, the remnants of which
one can still notice in some marginal Marxist publications. However such primitive
and ideological approach to complex dissipative system of society can only lead to
the revolution, bloody and ruthless. Scientific analyses and complexity theory allow
to split any system into two obligatory subsystems: the ruling subsystem (further-RS)
and the guided one (further-GS). RS is ruling until it becomes inadmissibly much too
simple in comparison with complexity of GS. In such case machinery and instruments
will go off in technical systems. In living ones, the substitution of biological species
happens in the form of natural evolution. In human society the historical change of
socio-economic formations takes place.
The best historical illustration to prove the point is the USSR destiny. If one re-
gards the events which took place in USSR-Russia in the past 40–50 years, interesting
historical phenomena will be discovered. The reforms in the USSR were begun be-
cause its RS kept on becoming more and more primitive, while its economy and soci-
ety objectively reached unprecedented complexity. In other words organized, compli-
cated and well educated society and multilevel diversified economy of the USSR was
resistant to the total directive regulation and imposing of primitive will of the ageing
minority. GS of soviet society reached out of the RS control of Politbureau and the
CPSU Central Committee which broke about the collapse of the State. It happened so
catastrophically rapidly due to the fact that process of RS reformation was accelerated
by both inside and outside «help».
In the trouble waters of so called reforms, the new Russian RS was formed from
even less professional, interested in personal enrichment and, the most important, so-
cially irresponsible characters. It meant, it became even more primitive in comparison
with soviet epoch. So called Russian reform actors and their numerous advisors from
foreign intelligence services felt it and therefore quickly began to solve the problem
of RS-GS relative complexity. But instead of increasing the complexity of RS in ac-
cordance with the meritocratic principle, they began to simplify GS, trying to bring it
in line with their level qualification, interests and moral.
As a result, the systems of state planning, forecasting and management, financ-
ing, price formulation, taxation were wiped by paper laws of «national treachery ep-
och» . Scientific researches, education, medical care and culture were put on the brink
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of survival. All enterprises and branches of 4th technological wave and those engaged
in creation of 5th wave technologies were destroyed along with scientific and techni-
cal infrastructure. Active scientists were pushed abroad or generally out of science by
economic strangulation. Agricultural production and transport system were ruined as
well. Drastic simplification of all sides of economical, political, cultural and social
life in Russia continues by enforcing Universal State Examination (USE) in the
schools, with western standards of pupil’s education, introduction of paid education
and medical care and so on. The achievements in GS simplification allowed to begin the
final stage of Russian Academy of Science demolition, regardless its 300 year history,
traditions and continuity. Nobody, nowhere and never even tried to put scientists among
which are a lot of really noble men, in dependence from lower educated, lower qualified
and only profit thirsty managers, unless the idea was to destroy the science corporation.
Second, also fundamental problem, is the scientific search for such tools, which
could allow to train and educate noble men for meritocratic build up of RS for future
society out the existing primitive human capital, oriented on profit maximization by
all means. Here we can fully rely on cybernetic epistemology. The key idea for un-
derstanding the process of training and education is the process independent from our
will and consciousness of «territory into map» transformation or transformation of
facts and phenomenon from the sphere of functioning into the images (pattern com-
ponents or subconscious images) by which only human consciousness operates.
For simplicity sake we shall regard, how such an ordinary thing as «stool» is
kept inside human head and transforms into recognizable by all and everyone image
of «stool». According to the laws, discovered by scientists, sound vibrations, arising
from spoken word, reach the humans ears. There, without consciousness interference
according to bio-physical-chemical process they transform into the certain electro-
chemical signal, promptly entering the brain via hearing nerve. This is researched by
sciences with prefix «neuro-» (this is already physiology) in response on this signal
gets from its bibliotheca the pattern component (subconscious image)of organization
(further PCO) for decoding of the received electrochemical signals combination. In
our case they are «sitting place» and «support». Subconsciousness delivers to the hu-
man consciousness on the inside kind of dialogue, unconscious for man level, these
PCOs, so explaining the meaning of those vibrations that entered the ears.In the re-
garded case, the stool itself might not be present. The same PCOs will be delivered if
man sees one of the numerous models of stool or reads this word in the newspaper,
feels familiar smell of wood or even hears the characteristic sound of the falling stool.
PCOs are delivered by subconsciousness in response for any familiar signals, coming
from hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and even from the sensations called 6th human
feeling. It is exactly the subconsciousness that is driving the consciousness and self-
consciousness of any human being, school boy, student or scientist delivering to their
understanding, by means of corresponding PCOs, what they heard, saw, felt etc. Un-
fortunately majority of scientists ignore this defining process, which is called in cy-
bernetics «transformation territory into map», or real fact into image. Such misunder-
standing is particular catastrophic for education and training systems of what is called
«human capital».
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The example is clear, if sound vibrations came from the familiar word «stool».
In case if some signal came transforming from unfamiliar sounds, for example, from
unfamiliar word or concept, the subconscious keeps silent until it is informed by other
channel or some other way, that this new electrochemical signal corresponds to cer-
tain PCO, kept in subconscious.
PCOs do not depend upon language, by which man receives information. The
routine term «market economy» sound differently in different languages, but its PCO
is uniform, because these are the «basic stones» which support the consciousness in-
teraction with the environment by assistance of our organs of feelings. Subconscious-
ness explains consciousness two principally different words in foreign languages by
the same PCOs and one can understand the foreigner. So, it is the subconsciousness,
which is unavoidable and dominating intermediary, which provides understanding be-
tween the people basing on its internal dialogue with consciousness. This understand-
ing is the key to the radical change of the whole system of training and education.
And the scientific thought requires transition to the system of permanent education
for renovation of quick ageing PCOs.
In foreign language western term «pattern components of system organization»
is used, which further will be regarded as foreign analogue of Russian term «compo-
nents of subconscious image». Those two scientific categories have uniform PCOs.
But it has to be noted, that «pattern components of system organization» is category
in some sense external in relation to the pair «consciousness – subconsciousness» of
the human being. This is, so to speak, an element of «external memory». «Subcon-
scious image» is a phenomena appearing inside human brains, in the process of think-
ing, independent from man, In this sense Russian version of the category («subcon-
scious image») is more precise and organic category to characterize the process of
transformation the «territory into map».
«Territory into map» transformation is typical not only for the cognition process.
Most important, that it is definitive for the processes of teaching and training people.
In other words the process of human relations and cognition is realized through the
time interval and unconscious process, which defines human perception of the envi-
ronment according to PCO, created in the process of previous education and experi-
ence stored in subconsciousness without our conscious participation. Understanding
of this property of human perception explains majority if not all the problems of mis-
understandings, quarrels, scientific arguments and discussions, which sometimes
bring about grave consequences for certain people and entire nations.
In this connection, it is fair to formulate the main fundamental task, one might
say, even mission for education and training system. It consists of humanistic PCOs
bibliotheca creation for society members, which excludes their behavior outside of
frames, for example, of Godly commandments. As for rating of current education sys-
tem, it can be formulated very shortly — modern citizens confidently perceive the
boundaries of their knowledge as the boundaries of Universe. This example highlights
the quality of modern human capital.
The regarded facts — they are only one side of the coin. The other objective one,
is also important and has to be taken into consideration by education system. To pre-
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sent it, let us bring into picture the wonderful Gödel’s theorems on incompleteness .
The essence of first theorem in simple terms one can present in the following form. In
any non contradictory system of images, based on the counted number of basic axi-
oms, it is always possible to formulate an expression, which principally cannot be
solved within the frameworks of accepted axioms. To solve it, one has to introduce
into the system a new axiom. In this way Euclid’s mathematics was transformed into
Peano’s mathematics, where axiomatic line is not closed, but is open.
All modern socio-economic theories in the final count are based on three funda-
mental axioms. They are exactly the ones, which form the PCO backbone of biologi-
cal life on Earth.
First component is dead nature, matter, substance and methods of natural energy
transformations on the way to heat balance (entropy growth) in accordance with sec-
ond principle of thermodynamics.
Second component is cell, as complex micro formation, capable for self organi-
zation and self development, increasing its degree of order and moving in reverse di-
rection to the chaos of dead matter world.
Third component is macro process of primitive organisms’ evolution into human be-
ing. This is component of enterprising innovation of Nature which, without scientific re-
search institutes, designing bureaus and even without parties and governments, succeeded
to create the most perfect creature on the planet — human being, possessing an intellect.
These 3 components were presented by F. Engels following Feuerbach, in the
«Nature Dialectics» [3. P. 50–51; 5. P. 213–215]. However, the socio-economical
process, which rapidly develops in the world, already is impossible to explain within
these three axioms. Globalization is unpredictably stopped by world crises of a mil-
lennium. Following fascism and socialism the last ideological construction — liberal-
ism is falling. Only listing of the western publications expose the deepest crises of the
liberal paradigm. Beginning from foresight of genius What’s Wrong With Econom-
ics? Ward, B. (1972), following by Econometrics — Alchemy or Sciences? Henry, D.
F. (1980), The Crises in Economic Theory Bell, D., Kristol, I. (1981), Why Econom-
ics is not yet a Science Eichner, A.S. (1984), Economic in Disarray Wiles, P., Routh,
E. (1984), The Intrinsic Limits of Modern Economics Theory Kirby, M. W. (1992),
The Deаth of Economics Ormerod, P. (1994) and ending up by Economic of the 1%.
How mainstream Economics serves the rich, observes reality and distorts policy John
F. Weeks. (2014), the scientists raise their voice to demand thorough investigations of
the current processes. IX Congress of Polish Economists «Economizing for the Fu-
ture: to Discover Nature and Reasons for Economic Phenomena» which took place in
Warsaw 28–29.11.2013 following its leader G. Kolodko, closed the neoliberal page in
science and in practice.
The new task is facing the humanity (it is formulated in accordance with the
Gödel’s theorems) which has no solution in the frameworks of 3 classic axioms,
which were formulated in 2 extreme forms: Homo Economicus in the West and
Homo Soveticus in the USSR. To answer the challenge of modern civilization and
education system crisis it is necessary to formulate new axiom, which is offered by
the author.
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The fourth axiom (PCO) until now had never been formulated by any researcher.
It can be represented as autopoetic (from basic autopoesis), independent from proc-
esses in education and science, consciousness evolution process, which comes into
materialization in two forms:
– in innovations as the method to magnify human capabilities for Nature con-
quering;
– in paper laws as the methods for RS to take control over GS for redistribution
of public product in private interests of minority.
The discovery of the millennium is the understanding that in the base of the
socio-economic relations in general and relations in connection with education and
training in particular, lays the human consciousness evolution. The future of relations
in the process of production activity was described yet in 1967 in J.K Galbraith’s
book «The New Industrial State».[2. P. 130–131] He showed 4 consequent stages of
human activity motivation: 1) physical enforcement; 2) economic enforcement; 3) in-
ternal need to be useful for other people; 4) creativity in a pure form. This 4th axiom,
interpreted as humanistic transformation of our consciousness and pushing out of it
the egoism, greed, individualism etc., explains the roots of modern crises and unsolv-
able contradictions. It brings forward principally new tasks for education and training
system, as long life uninterrupted process and offers the outlines of further socio-
economic construction of our civilization [1].
As the conclusions, we can formulate the following thesis.
Development of reciprocally complimentary system of education and training
should take into consideration both autopoetic and objective process of consciousness
evolution and handmade processes of «getting in line» corresponding PCOs in proc-
ess of education and training.
For forming the authentic representatives of RS — Noble Men, principally dif-
ferent programs of forming PCOs are needed, contrary to modern ones forming «mil-
lions of little tyrants» according to very accurate K.Popper’s expression.
Objective process of consciousness evolution brought about final crach of ideo-
logical and economic paradigms of fascism, socialism and liberalism.
In the base of future socio-economic structure of society the ideologic economic
paradigm of humanism will lie, the main elements of which will become:
– reformation of modern hierarch principles of public institutions structures into
the form of cooperation and interaction of «communities of communities»;
– meritocratic principles of RS formation will provide increasingly complete
execution of truly democratic principle «gaining of RS — gaining of GS»;
– the forms of individual and collective private property will naturally transform
into the form of associated private property of citizens, which will provide (following
the studies of J.M. Cains and program theses of German Ch.D.U.) full and uncondi-
tional satisfaction of all human beings vital needs on the Planet by the fact of their
birth (as it is guaranteed for billion years to all other biological species on Earth).
Marx’s money, as self-growing value will be pushed out by Gesell’s money with
demurrage, which eliminates financial capital, parasitiziting on labor of all people,
turning it into market tools for vital consumption economy development.
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Objectively being formed in the world Humanistic Socio-Economic Formation
can be built solely by the people of new way of thinking, who should be educated and
trained by the new education system. This is realistic and achievable.
If these conclusions and results will not be taken into consideration at the point
of bifurcation of modern civilization, we shall face the long period of renaissance af-
ter the fall into the modern medieval relations of beast instincts and law of the
strongman, which already had been in the human history, after autopoetic demolition
of Greek-Roman civilization. All is in the hands of scientists, who have to make
maximum to avoid negative scenario of outcome from the point of bifurcation and
appeal to Humanity to move towards the heights of humanistic formation, acting as
new RS — Noble Men.
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В ГЛУБИНЕ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ ПАРАДИГМЫ
С.И. Кретов
Российская академия предпринимательства
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М.В. Федоров
Кафедра теории и истории государства и права
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Статья посвящена современному состоянию и кризису цивилизации в контексте теории и
истории государства и права, который носит системный характер. Авторы считают, что выход из
этого кризиса возможен только на пути формирования и перехода к новой более прогрессивной
Гуманистической общественно-экономической формации как основы создания нового государ-
ственно-правового строя.
Ключевые слова: теория государства и права, кризис цивилизации, гуманистическая об-
щественно-экономическая формация, теория сложности, кибернетическая эпистемология.