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A government's energy policy is a subset of its policies. In making these policies, a government needs to have a model of each physical system that is to be regulated through the enactment of this policy into law. In building this model the builder of this model needs to have a solution to the so-called Problem of Induction. The problem is of how, in a logically permissible way, to select the set of inferences that are made by a model of a physical system from a larger set of possibilities. This problem is solved by the rule that the induced model expresses all of the available information but no more than this information. Details on implementation of this method are published in the seven volume Entropy Minimax Source Book by the late Ronald Christensen, circa 1980. However, this method is seldom used. Instead, a builder of a model of a physical system selects this set of inferences through use of the intuitive rules of thumb called "heuristics." However, on each occasion in which a particular heuristic selects a particular set of inferences for being made by the model, a different heuristic selects a different set of inferences for being made by this model. In this way, the Method of Heuristics falsifies Aristotle's Law of Non-Contradiction. Replacement of the Method of Heuristics by the rule that the induced model expresses all of this available information but no more solves the Problem of Induction and in this way provides a logically sound basis for public policy making. Usage of a logically unsound basis forr public policy making is he cause for Mass Formation Psychosis as described by Mattias Desmet in "The Psychology of Totalitarianism."

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Cordially,

Terry Oldberg

Engineer/Scientist/Public Policy Researcher

Los Altos Hills, CA

1-650-941-0533

terry_oldberg@yahoo.com

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Bob Armstrong's avatar

A group of us here in Colorado Springs are working on putting together a cirriculum specifically addressing this . Contact us if you can offer support .

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