By M. Rafiqul Islam
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Islam natural result. It is a method that relies on the principle of obliquity to reconstruct, proceeding step-wise by exhaustion, whatever would be necessary and sufficient. At the conclusion of the characteristic duration of any process, Nature is in a state of zero net-waste, tolerating neither surpluses nor shortages. Thus generating and incorporating these necessary and sufficient conditions should render faithfully at least all the relevant stage(s) of the natural pathway, if not precisely each and every one of its details.
11 Only with these solutions may one begin to emulate nature. Table 2 shows how natural processes are, and how they are opposite to aphenomenal processes. Current models essentially emulate the aphenomenal model, thereby removing any credibility of the outcome, even if every once in a while the results may agree with experimental observation. Table 2. True difference between sustainable and unsustainable processes Sustainable (Natural) Progressive/youth measured by the rate of change Unlimited adaptability and flexibility Increasingly self evident with time 100% efficient Can never be proven to be unsustainable Unsustainable(Artificial) Non-progressive/resists change Zero-adaptability and inflexible Increasingly difficult to cover up aphenomenal source Efficiency approaches zero as processing is increased Unsustainability unravels itself with time Figure 4 shows how this pragmatic approach has lead to the promotion of perception manipulation tactics.
This ‘purification’ scheme would be used from oil refining to uranium enrichment. The truth, however, is that if the natural state of some portion of matter, or the characteristic time of a process, is violated, the process becomes anti-nature. For instance, chemical fertilizer and synthetic pesticides can increase the yield of a crop, but that crop would not be the crop that would provide nutrition similar to the one produced through organic fertilizer and natural pesticides. H2S is essential for human brain activities, yet concentrated H2S can kill.