Mysticism and truth of the hyperbolic law
Abstract
The analysis of findings from the works of scholars studying the law of hyperbolic growth of the world population shows that they are based almost exclusively on population statistics for the period from 1650 to 1970. In other periods population growth dynamics were governed by other laws. Moreover, the growth stages which could be identified with the attractors’ flow were followed by stages of stagnation which could be defined as bifurcations.
The dominant understanding of the cause of hyperbolic growth as a consequence of technological development should also be rethought. The majority of the paradoxes of the law can be resolved if we admit that information processes are the driving force of human development.
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