Innovative Socio-Technological Evolutions: A Conceptual Ecological Dynamic between Open-Ended and Closed-Ended Transformation?

"It isn't that they can't find solutions, it is that they don't see the problem" Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936) Related to "cognitive engineering" and equivalent to LCA (life cycle analysis), a dynamic "adaptive cycle" analysis is projected for "living systems". Cultural and technological "paradigm shifts " could be traced from (1) orientation and growth to (2) disorientation and crisis leading to breakdowns without (3) reorientation and (4) renewal. Established techniques, once they become closed-ended lose sight of tranformative open-ended and evolutionary requirements. The inablility to generate renewal relates to terminal disorientation. Methods no longer able to cope with sustainable demands have been identified as "progress traps ", "ingenuity gaps, " and are potentially related to cognitive "mental traps. " A generic analytical tool tracing transformational and transactional interactions could preventively mitigate risks. The Two Cultures (C.P. Snow, 1959) identify the (A) humanities and the (B) sciences in "mutual incomprehension" and opposition. Deficiencies in (AB) interactions diminish means that can guard against devolutionary and catastrophic disorders. Analogously, cultural certainties and uncertainties as a paradox in variance could be analyzed in terms of imbalance and optimal equilibrium, possibly with dynamic boolean logic. "Without paradox, no progress " Niels Bohr (1885-1962).