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Will human beings ever devise an incorruptible system?

Asked by josie (30934points) January 12th, 2011

Humans clearly love to devise systems to help their instituions run smoothly. The government, the attending bureaucracy, business, etc all run according to a human devised system.
The problem with human systems is that the instant that they are conceived and implemented, individual humans begin to sylize them, and they become increasingly corrupted.
Thus, they need to be constantly tweaked or even discarded and done over.
Computers helped with this problem for a while.
But now everybody uses computers, and the operating system interface is no longer intimidating.
Human activities mimic nature. Systems are new and exciting when they are “born” but they eventually decay and “die”.
Civilization rise and fall, governments are overthrown by revolution.
It goes on and on.
Will human beings ever devise in incorruptible system?
On that day, will they discover immortality?

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Summum's avatar

That is why we are here to learn and to succeed and fail. This is our time of learning or school and if we learn what we need we will progress to a higher status where things are not in choas.

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

Ever heard of entropy? No matter what we invent, it will always reduce itself to stasis. You are right to assert that human systems mimic nature. They follow natural laws, and the second law of thermodynamics is one. In it, you will find entropy.

marinelife's avatar

What makes you think that perfect systems mean immortality? Or that immortality is something to be sought after?

Winters's avatar

But where’s the fun in that?

CaptainHarley's avatar

Humans won’t but AIs might. : )

blueiiznh's avatar

I think the fact that humans are involved really explains your answer. Humans have flaws. It is in those flaws that the cracks allow corruption to seep through.

Meego's avatar

I think we won’t ever get to that point. I strongly believe in God and I do believe it will end on his time we can corrupt and rebuild all we want until then, the immortality part comes when and if we are accepted into heaven. I don’t actually believe nothing will ever not be corrupt, our species is designed to figure things out and if it can be put up it can be taken down sometimes we have to know why like with the pyramids. Whose to say the earth doesn’t regenerate every however many years any way and that we are only an imprint in it as Atlantis is an imprint to the sea. Maybe if it regenerates life has to start all over again from the beginning, the next ways of generations may be trying to figure out why and what the hell we were doing, just like we do would they be the more advanced ones? Would they find immortality? Would they have no corruption? We’ll never know.

Pandora's avatar

Only if they ever let me run the whole system. If I had the power to investigate everyone and the time. Only then woud you have someone who can fire all the losers in charge.

Jeruba's avatar

No matter what the system is, political, religious, economic, social, or otherwise, some people will figure out how to use it to their advantage. Until you can eliminate greed and human self-interest, you can’t eliminate corruption. Supplies sufficient to ensure that there is no competition for scarce resources will not do it because some will always want more than their share of power and influence and because some of us will always annoy others of us.

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