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The Biologic Stability of the Industrial Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2010

H.G. Danielmeyer  and
Thomas Martinetz
H.G. Danielmeyer*
Affiliation:
Universität zu Lübeck, Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-23562 Lübeck. E-mail: danielmeyer@inb.uni-luebeck.de
Thomas Martinetz
Affiliation:
Universität zu Lübeck, Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-23562 Lübeck. E-mail: danielmeyer@inb.uni-luebeck.de
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Abstract

We compare G7 life expectancies with the existential conditions from 1870 to date, using the real annual outputs of goods and services per capita as a measure of existential conditions. Wars destroy analytic relations, but life insurers eliminate catastrophic losses, and the outputs have an envelope representing the undisturbed existential condition. Both evolutions are S-functions with the same growth parameter of 62 years. Its length bridging three generations and its constancy over two orders of magnitude in output implies biologic pace control. For the first time it is seen that the mean life expectancy precedes the existential condition by a constant 59 years and approaches asymptotically an age of 118. This precedence and the ratio of 2 follow quantitatively from life’s integration over the existential condition. On the conditions of stable environment and openness to new knowledge, the industrial evolution will continue as a stable predictable process, immune to world wars and financial breakdowns.

Type
Focus: Central and Eastern Europe
Information
European Review , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , May 2010 , pp. 263 - 268
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2010

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