From some recent posts I got the idea that it might be interesting -- possibly even useful! -- for people on the Advanced Freedom Solutions List to discuss the question: "Is "Government" Possible?"

Note that I'm not asking whether "government" is "necessary"; I'm asking whether "it" is possible.

To get the discussion going, I present two major propositions with minor corollaries:

1. Individual human beings are volitional. We have power of choice. Through our brains, we essentially control the energy that animates our bodies. I lift my finger as a result of a decision in my brain. To learn more how and why this implies that we are free by nature, read The Discovery of Freedom by Rose Wilder Lane -- available from http://www.laissezfaire.org/. This issue is also covered in some of the basic freedom reports.

1a. The notion that we can be "externally controlled" is a myth. It's only because most people have been brainwashed into believing and obeying terrocrats (coercive political agents or terrorist bureaucrats) that the apparency of "external control" is created in some people's minds.

2. From cybernetics (the science of control and feedback systems) we learn that in many cases a controlling process has to be around 1,000 - 10,000 times faster than a controlled process. Consider, for example, a steel-making oven controlled by a computer. The "significant time frame" of the oven is about five minutes. If the oven starts overheating, corrective action typically has to be taken within five minutes to prevent permanent damage to the oven.

In order for the computer to take corrective action within five minutes, it typically has to perform of the order of 100 actions or calculations per second. The "significant time frame" of the computer has to be around one-hundredth of a second. In addition, the computer must be able to "sense" the temperature of the oven, detect changes that require intervention, and transmit signals to the oven's heating mechanism for corrective action. (In this example, the controlling process is about of 30,000 times faster than the controlled process.)

2a. Consider driving a car. Your brain and senses constitute the controlling process. The car is the controlled process. If the car starts veering off the road, or some other eventuality requires corrective action, you typically need to do something within a second to prevent an "accident" or disaster. Therefore, the "significant time frame" of the car is around one second, maybe less.

In order for your brain to be fast enough to signal your muscles to take the exact and precise corrective actions necessary, within a second, it probably has to perform actions and calculations at the rate of at least 1,000 per second. It may have to perform parallel processing to achieve this. A strong case can be made that the brain as controlling process requires a "significant time frame" 1,000 times or more faster than that of the car being controlled.

2b. There are certain "dumb" control processes such as the governer of a steam engine. The governor consists of "flaps" that rotate above openings from which steam can escape. As the engine speeds up, centrifugal force raises the flaps, enlarging the openings, enabling more steam to escape, slowing down the engine. The governer establishes and maintains the maximum speed of the steam engine.

Another example of a dumb control process is the thermostat that turns the simplest of electric fan heaters on an off.

2c. Considering these cybernetic factors, you could conclude that, in order for "government control" to be possible: (i) The terrocrats who masquerade as "government" would have to have extremely fast brains; (ii) The "controlled" victims would have to provide the terrocrats with all the information necessary for "external control" (or the terrocrats would have to be omniscient); (iii) The "controlled" victims would have to have extremely slow brains; (iv) The "controlled" victims would have to be brainwashed into belief and obedience, that is, further "dumbed down"; (v) The "controlled" victims would have to be subject to control by dumb control processes.

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