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Modeling Sustainability

Life is sustainable in that living organisms can reliably adapt to find the resources required to sustain their homeostasis, reproduction, growth, and other life processes as long as those resources are available. Are any sustainable development programs today sustainable in this sense that they can fuel their own growth? Taking a job creation program for example, can that program be designed in a way such that it reliably funds its own growth? Can the same be achieved with every other social impact? Can the same be achieved with climate change initiatives? If this sustainability is a fundamental property of any living process, how do might it be possible to model this sustainability so that sustainability can be measured and this measurement used to confirm that social impact programs are sustainably self-funding?

General Collective Intelligence platforms are hypothesized to have the capacity to target any social impact, and to increase that social impact per volume of inputs (usually money) to the point that the social impact becomes sustainably self-funding at whatever scale is required. What does this mean? Does it mean that all problems from poverty, to climate change can be addressed through GCI? In order for a problem to be addressed, better measurements might be needed to help determine what exactly the problem is and when it has been solved. Human-Centric Functional Modeling might assist in this by defining system properties in a human-centric and therefore universal way. As an example, in Human-Centric Functional Modeling sustainability is represented in terms of the system staying within a bounded region within its “fitness space”.

The United Nations has stated that there is a $23 trillion USD gap between the funding that is required to achieve the sustainable development goals and the funding that is available. If General Collective Intelligence has the capability to make development and other social impact sustainably self-funding, then is the funding gap merely a lack of General Collective Intelligence ?