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Can affordances save civilisation? Darryl Penney1 Received: 2 March 2020 / Accepted: 6 October 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020

This paper is an ’opinion’ piece and is not scientific because it does not have a bibliography and does not build on the peer-reviewed work of others, and that is because it is new and fills a ’hole’ in our thinking that currently lacks relativity by being top-down only. This paper has arisen out of the application of relativity to fundamental physics and I have chosen this journal because Mind and Society is social engineering in a fractal and changing the mind changes society and vice versa, also, the mind and social engineering arise from fundamental physics and they have not been available because physics does not access the physical [only Newton’s laws]. Mathematically, the universe is a fractal [Adam Smith (economics) agrees by saying the what is good for the individual is good for the economy] derived from the creation equation [energy plus organisation equals zero] and is simple in form. Consider the quotation, ’the basic idea is that the perceptual systems of any organism are designed to “pick up” the information relevant to its survival and ignore the rest. The relevant information is about opportunities “afforded” by the furnishings of the world: Holes afford hiding in, cups afford drinking out of, trees afford climbing …. Affordances are what the environment “offers the animal either for good or ill,” according to Gibson, and “the information is in the light.” (This Idea Is Brilliant, edited by John Brockman, Daniel C. Dennett, p 147) ’The huge gap in Gibson’s perspective was his refusal even to entertain the question of how this “direct pickup” of information was accomplished by the brain.’ (p 148) The ’gap’ is the relativity of the creation equation converting the organisation of the surroundings into emotion [energy] that is generated by the measurement and the level of emotional energy signifies the importance of the affordance to the animal’s requirements. This, I call the mathematics of concept-context and is the basis of thought. Social engineering does not (effectively) exist according to Wikipedia, but I believe that it is equal in scale to technology and is the bringing together of all the social ’sciences’ into a whole, based on the physical properties of emotion which arise through the use of affordances in society and are completely outside the realm of current physics. To gauge the importance of social engineering consider that it is the ’mirror image’ * Darryl Penney [email protected] 1



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[orthogonality] of technology applied to ourselves. As an example, Christianity is a breathtakingly successful social engineering experiment that turned the savagery of the times into a world changing organisation [context] with a message of ’love your neighbour’ with an ethics [concept] of ten