2026-06-20
Cars have warning lights (and in extremis clonking noises!), aircraft for obvious reasons have taken the art of operational diagnosis and warnings to extremes, but human organisations have a hodge-podge of accounting systems and "human resource" (the words tell you all you need to know) departments, but no corresponding engineering theories in common usage that would reliably flag up failures to function actual or impending.
" ... the 'loss of reality' domain ... lies beneath established disciplines rather than alongside them. It studies not their objects, but the conditions that allow those objects to remain connected to reality ... "
" ... a domain that asks 'How do we know your discipline remains corrigible by reality?' is awkward for everyone"
Anybody who realises that much of our current world has become detached from reality is going to approve of this.
