Universal Permanent Number
(UPN)
Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market

UPN represents the globalization and automation of
number systems based on the completely automated software
which remembers the number with Human Associative Memory.

Introduction

* How to assign permanent and globally distinct names to permanent entities, such as books, real estates, and DNA, where the names can be automatically handled by the computer, is the problem solved by Universal Permanent Number.
* Two Existing Incorrect Solutions:
(1) All the past number systems apply to specific items or areas and, thus, can come into conflict.
(2) Words are fuzzy: keyword systems cannot be well-defined or be automatically handled.
* The native language of the computer is integers.

What Is UPN?

* UPN is the complete set of distinct integers from minus infinity to plus infinity.
* All the existing number systems, such as ISBNs, Patent Numbers, DNA ID Numbers, and all other ID Numbers, have been designed incorrectly because they are not universally distinct.
* UPN is globally or universally distinct and is for giving permanent names to permanent entities.
* UPN can be remembered not by the user, but by the completely automated Universal Permanent Software, when the number of UPNs is large.
* UPN is a Natural Standard, not an artificial standard.

What Is the Social Significance of UPN?

* UPN is a product of life science, which is characterized by permanent existence.
* UPN exposes the short-sighted and narrow-minded design of the existing number systems and reflects the temporary nature and the finite consideration in science.
* UPN becomes essential when society is globalized, particularly, in the global search of permanent information, such as knowledge.

What is the Knowledge Significance of UPN?

* UPN can be used to eliminate all the technical barriers, such as the technical barriers to computer usage, by representing all technical information with UPNs and by having Universal Permanent Software , not users, to remember the meanings of UPNs.
* Universal Permanent Software uses the Human Associative Memory to allow users to access an unlimited amount of information.
* UPN is based on the patent “Completely Automated and Self-generating Software System” (Pat. No. 5,485,601) and copyrights.

Post-science assigns priorities based on the solution of value or decision making, which is demonstrated by the

Infinite Spreadsheet.

Post-Science Focus for 2014

1. Jumpulse Dance for Health
2. TEMPORARY TO PERMANENT LIFE
3. Universal Permanent Number (Device)

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2014 Social Trends on Collision Course Against Post-Science

1. Robotics Initiated by Google (vs. Jumpulse, Solution of Touch):
Can Google be better than the Japanese Government in Robotics Research? Japan's Sixth Generation Robotics Failed because robots could not touch. A robot finger bounces off a surface, as a ball bounces off a racket. The problem of touch (collision withoiut bounce) has been missed by Isaac Newton and all the physicists since Newton for the past 300 years. Dr. Ta-You Wu, the Father of Chinese Physics, and Hugh Ching, the Father of Post-Science, solved the problem of touch based on the newly discovered concept of jumpulse, a sudden change of force, as impulse is a sudden change of momentum.
2. Brain Research Initiated by Obama (vs. Self-generated Electronic Brain):
The brain is made of cells. One needs to understand the cell before the brain. Post-science has demonstrated a software cell with the ability to slef-generate to an unlimited number of cells with different names. The current brain researchers do not understand the software cell, which is based on the solution of completely automated software. By the time, they understand the self-generated neural network based on the software cell, they might rethink whether they want to attack the brain, which is two order of magnitude more complex, with around 500 variables vs. 5 variables, than today's problems in science.
3. Turing Award Potential Winner Lotfi Zadeh (vs. Fuzzy Foundation of Computer Science):
Computer science deals with the interaction of the fuzzy human and the exact computer. Humans use permanently fuzzy human language, and computers should use exact computer language. In the opinion of post-science, computer language should be in the form of integers, for the integer is the native language of the machine. The human and the computer should communicate using Universal User Interface, such as 1.Print 2.Calculate,3.File,4.Branch, 5.Generate, 6.Exit? where the user reads the human language, here, in English, and the computer reads the integers. Most importantly, THE PROBLEM OF SOFTWARE is defined at: http://humanlanguageprogramming.com.
4. New Federal Reserve leaders Janet L. Yellen/Stanley Fischer (vs. Solution of Value):
From 1984 to 1991, The Founder of Post-Science, Hugh Ching, with William Kinnard and the top real estate appraisal instructors led a Knowledge Team trying to introduce the solution of real estate appraisal as the solution to the Savings and Loan Crisis. But, the Political Team of Alan Greenspan backed be Milton Friedman, who was a friend of mine and debated fiercely with Ching on the Free Market vs. Non-violable laws in social science, endorsed FIRREA of 1989, in which Title XI solved the S&L Crisis by licensing all the appraisers. Ching is still trying to propose the repeal of Title XI, as a debt to all the real estate appraisers in the country. As we all know by now, the Subprime Woe had ignited a global financial crisis an order of magnitude worth. Ching predicted the Subprime Woe on June of 2006, as could be verified by the Federal Reserve Board and Bernanke. Greenspan probably remembered post-science prediction of the S&L Crisis using the solution of value from 1984. All that is need is do three calculations of the Infinite Spreadsheet (http://www.123is.com) to predict either crisis. The main problem today is no longer productivity, but distribution, which should be based on the correct determination of the price. As all the Great Depression Economists are dying off, except Arrow, who is a friend of post-science, and as today’s best minds are trying to becoming billionaires, post-science predicts disasters for the world, if the smartest economist can not be found to help introduce the solution of value.

NEWS: Istanbul Speech on Nov. 1, 2013 (Peace Day) invited by V. Bulent Corak

Post-Science Next 2000 Years
Starting with Non-violable Laws of Nature in Social Science

Below is the link to the part of the speech related to Non-violable Laws of Nature in Social Science.
Post-Science Next 2000 Years Part 3 of 7: Solution of Value, a Non-violable Law of Nature

The other parts of the speech are in the following links:
Post-Science Next 2000 Years Part 1 of 7: Discovery of Non-violable Laws of Nature in Social Science
Post-Science Next 2000 Years Part 2 of 7: From Religion to Knowledge
Post-Science Next 2000 Years Part 4 of 7: Good vs. Evil, From Equation of Evil to Equation of Good
Post-Science Next 2000 Years Part 5 of 7: Complete Automation, DNA, and Life
Post-Science Next 2000 Years Part 6 of 7: What It Takes To Move from Science to Post-Science/Financial Crisis
Post-Science Next 2000 Years Part 7 of 7: Acceptance Theory of Knowledge, Demo of Jumpulse Dance

Click Here to Go To the Infinite Spreadsheet

Instruction:

(1) Go to "Input" to change inputs (at Item 4, you can input numerical net income by click on the radial button),
(2) Click "Calculate" to calculate,
(3) Go to "Output" to see outputs.
Also
Read explanation following Output and Input.

Unique Features:

1. The Infinite Spreadsheet does not need to ask for a resale price to determine the price.
2. The Infinite Spreadsheet provides FULL DISCLOSURE and FULL ACCOUNTABILITY.
3. FULL DISCLOSURE includes ALL the inputs to infinity in time, ALL the outputs to infinity in time, the full methodology in the patent "Qunatitative Supply and Demand Model Based on Infinite Spreadsheet" (Pat. No. 6,078,901).

Technical Definition of Infinite Spreadsheet:

Valuation software where the cash flow equation
{Total Cash Return = Sum of Cash Flow + Cash From Resale}
is satisfied for the price and all the resale prices to infinity in time.


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Comment to the Federal Reserve Board (the central bank of the United States to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system) on Capital Reserve by Hugh Ching, Post-Science Institute, PO BOX 2663, Fremont, CA 94536 USA (With Comment to National Science Board)

[Subject: Non-Violable Laws of Nature vs. Man-Made Laws]

Capital Reserve Requirement will affect the money supply in the economy and could be an important tool to regulate the economy. The relevant equation is PQ=VM (Price x Quantity = Velocity of Circulation of Money x Money Supply), which could be a non-violable law of nature. In the future all man-made regulations should be based on non-violable laws of nature in both physical and social sciences. The solution of the problem of value posed by Gerard Debreu in his book Theory of Value is another important non-violable law of nature discovered by Post-Science Institute. The solution of value, being the foundation of decision-making, should be considered the beginning of rationality.

Most of the economic factors, of which capital requirement is just one, have mutual dependence. Capital requirement, thus, depends on other factors. In fact, it does not make much sense to just discuss one of the factors or making laws to regulate just one factor. In particular, capital requirement depends on the stability of the economy, which involves around 50 factors, corresponding to the numbers of inputs to the solution of value. Most importantly, all man-made laws should be based on non-violable laws of nature, the most relevant of which for setting the capital requirement are PQ = VM and the solution of value. The economy should move from the Pre-Friedman economy of man-made regulations to deregulated Free Market of Milton Freidman to the Post-Friedman economy regulated by non-violable laws of nature. In conclusion, the capital requirement policy should be replaced by policies based on PQ=VM and on valuation, which might make fixed policy for capital requirement unnecessary.

I predicted the Subprime Woe in June 2006 to the Federal Reserve Board based on the solution of value. Subsequently, I have made the following suggestions, of which only the first one checks with Fed action:

1. “Lowering the interest rate as much and as rapidly as possible” a public comment to US Treasury,

2. Implementing the solution of value (the Infinite Spreadsheet) to permanently set the price correctly to avoid future financial crises due to overvaluation,

3. Implementing the solution of value as the basis for calculating mortgage insurance premium and the capital reserve, replacing the current mortgage insurance premium and capital reserve calculations based on actuarial analyses(the estimation of the probability of random accidents),

4. Distributing resources correctly based on the solution of value, particularly, the distribution of employment or work in regions with different unemployment problems around the world.

On Item 1 above, lowering the interest rate will increase M and V in PQ = VM to stabilize PQ. From the solution of value, the lowering of the interest rate by 1% will increase the appraised price by about 10%. In fact, the Subprime Woe could be caused in large part by the rapid increase of the Fed fund rate from 1% to 5.25%, which could have lowered the price of subprime properties by about 40%, if the mortgage rate of subprime properties increases proportionally to the Fed fund rate. The effect of the interest rate on the price can be calculated by the Infinite Spreadsheet, which is a very seasoned commercial valuation software system developed by the Post-Science Institute and authored by me available at: http://www.infinitespreadsheet.com

On Item 2 above, value is calculated from the sum total of all the benefits and losses extending to infinity in time. Value can be expressed in terms of the price or the rate of return on investment. In the calculation of value, all the inputs must be expressed to infinity in time in order to have a deterministic solution, where the number of equations equals the number of unknowns. All the inputs extending to infinity are expressed as approximate time-invariants and obtained from market comparison, where the output is the price.

The solution of value is a departure from solutions in science, where deterministic sets of data are collected within a finite time. Empirical verification is the standard of rigor of science, but when infinity in time is involved, such as in the solution of value, empirical verification becomes impossible, because infinity, by definition, never arrives so that the deterministic set of data can never be collected. The formulation of the solution of value has to be based on mathematical rigor, and the accuracy of the inputs has to be relaxed in order to express them to infinity in time and space. Generally, time-varying inputs are used for a finite time, after which approximate time-invariant inputs are used for the future time extending to infinity. An approximated stable economy extending to infinity provides the last equation for a deterministic set of equations and unknowns. The real practical significance of the calculation to infinity simply indicates a short-term economic trend, which starts at the future time when all the inputs are represented by approximate time-invariant inputs. When the quantities at a given price are summed, the supply and the demand curves can be constructed. The intersection of the supply and the demand curve gives the price of commodities of similar functionality. The solution of value can easily detect over-valuation and under-valuation. Over-valuation of the real estate price was the primary cause of both the Savings and Loan Crisis and the Subprime Woe.

On Item 3 above, the mortgage insurance premium should be an inverse function of the percentage of the equity or of the down payment on the property. Real estate mortgages have individualities, which vary with the changes of the prices of the real estates. Real estate foreclosures, thus, are not like automobile accidents, which can be estimated using actuarial analyses. Similarly, the capital reserve of each and every bank should be determined individually by, for example, how the bank invests its funds and the quality of its mortgages or the percentage equity on its loans.

I am completely against the fixed capital reserve rates. Milton Friedman also wrote me about the ill effects of fixed regulations. From the point of view of the solution of value, the capital reserve rate for each bank should be reconsidered, say, quarterly to be adjusted according to the changes in the quality of the bank loans. Accordingly, the price of a real estate or any business should be recalculated anytime there is a significant change in factors affecting the price due to a change in the condition of the financial situation. Yes, there will be an enormous amount of recalculations in order to catch up to the changes in the economic condition, before economic crises occur.

The solution of value is a departure from solutions in science. As a time-variant, the price, the decision, or the plan needs to be reconsidered anytime there is significant change in the future expectation. The capital reserve for a bank is similar to the down payment on a real estate or on a business. The percentage down payment on a single family house is very different from that on a commercial property or on a business. The capital reserve should be proportional to the riskiness of the loans. In the past and currently, most banks will try to invest their fund in high-risk and high-return loans because they are risking mostly other people’s money, which they can get because of the money is guaranteed by the government. As the riskiness of the loans increases, the down payment and the capital reserve should increase. Since the riskiness of the loans changes continually, the capital reserve should not be a fixed amount for all banks, but should be individually and timely determined.

On Item 4 above, the concrete suggestion is simply to reduce working hours due to increasing productivity world-wide. The correct distribution of employment is the immediate solution to the current global financial crisis. With the continuing increase in productivity, the world should gradually switch from a work-oriented economy to a leisure-oriented economy. After all, the goal of increasing productivity is to increase leisure time. The final goal is that all the work be taken over by machines.

The production-distribution-consumption chain is an alternative description of the supply and demand model. The current scientific and technological age is preoccupied with the production of goods and services. The solutions of distribution and consumption should be based on the solution of value, which can only be found in post-science in the form of a quantitative supply and demand model based on an infinite spreadsheet. The infinite spreadsheet calculates the price of one commodity, which, when summed over multiple commodities of similar functionality, quantifies the supply and demand model.

Today the productivity of the world is nearly high enough to supply all the basic needs to all the people, but the problems of distribution and consumption are not solved. The solution of distribution and consumption should be based on the solution of value. The current chronicle financial crises are due to over-productivity, which is caused by over-valuation. In Africa or even in Russia, freely distributed goods and services often have difficulty in reaching their consumers. The right or efficient method of distribution is through the correct price, which can only be determined by the correct solution of value.

Also, the consumer must have the money to buy the product. Employment will provide the money to the consumer. The solution to consumption is full employment or the proper distribution of work and money. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is solving the current financial crisis based on the equation PQ=VM (Price x Quantity = Velocity of Circulation of Money x Money Supply). The current Great Recession is caused by the small V. To keep PQ stable, Bernanke greatly increases M, but he distributes the money mostly to big banks and big companies with good credit. The permanent solution to increase V is to have full employment, which means the proper distribution of work and money. In this regard, it can be speculated that the Great Depression was saved by the greatly increased available work due to WWII.

The ultimate reason for increasing productivity is to increase the leisure time, not just to increase the profit. Unemployment is forced leisure and causes a drastic reduction in the circulation of money. Gradually the current work-oriented economy should be transformed into a leisure-oriented economy with a growing leisure industry. The available work should be properly distributed and is gradually reduced by productivity, when machines take over human labors. In order to make everyone an effective consumer, the average working hours of each labor must be reduced according the unemployment rate. For example, in USA the 10% unemployment can be reduced by reducing the weekly working days from 5 to 4, starting with government employees with corresponding reduction in wages. The social benefit of full employment, which remains to be debated, should take priority over company profits. The current Universal Health Coverage should be accompanied by Full-Employment. Taking care of the necessity of life of every citizen should be one of the first responsibilities of a society.

In the not so distant future, as the current Age of Science advances into the coming Age of Social Science, all people will have work to earn enough money to satisfy their basic needs of food, clothing, housing, transportation, and health. The wages in a full-employment economy will keep the money circulating. The current fad of accumulating wealth based on extraordinary profits will become an unnecessary goal of life for most people, who will have the freedom in a leisure economy to do whatever they think is best for themselves as individuals and for the society as a whole. The leisure time will greatly increase creativity. The current natural employment system should be replaced by a Planned Full-Employment System, where the total available work will be distributed among all the people willing to work by reducing (or increasing) the average working hours with the goal of achieving full-employment.

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Encl. [Subject: Establishment of Organizations for Knowledge: Case Studies of National Science Foundation, Federal Reserve Board, and Post-Science Institute]

An Open Comment to National Science Board (which directs the goals and function of the National Science Foundation) June 25, 2012 by Hugh Ching, Founder of Post-Science Institute:

[Topic of Discussion I: Innovation Crisis vs. Financial Crisis]

Our society is facing two countering currents. On one hand, the establishment has acquired such a tight grip on society that it would only allow changes inside the box of established ideas and can prevent any anti-establishment idea which threatens the foundation of the establishment, and on the other hand, the society is being incessantly punished by chronicle financial crises, which are starting to threaten the very foundation of the global economy. Interestingly, the two countering currents share the same remedy: the solution of value. The problem of financial crises must be solved. The human race must become rational. The next stage of human progress is to solve the problem of value or decision-making.

Nature teaches us through pain and suffering. Currently, society is being punished by a financial crisis for its ignorance of the solution of value, a non-violable law of nature. Putting it simply, the solution of value defines a mathematically rigorous relationship between the price and the rate of return, and arbitrary naming the price without knowing the rate of return causes the financial crisis. Furthermore, the solution of value is needed to introduce other fundamental changes to the establishment.

Society will surely continue to progress. It must have knowledge organizations to accept innovations. Standing in its way of progress, in my opinion, is an incorrect solution of value, where value should be the foundation of valuation, decision-making, and planning. A similar innovation crisis today is caused by the same mechanism as that caused the financial crisis. The mechanism is the comparison to the past, while a rational decision should be based on the expected future consequences. The incorrect mechanism in the real estate crisis is the market comparison method, and the incorrect method in the innovation crisis is the peer review process. As a simple logic, truly original ideas should have no peers. My solution to the problem of value posed by Gerard Debreu in his book Theory of Value has publicly predicted both the Savings and Loan Crisis in 1984 and the recent Subprime Woe in June 2006. Kenneth Arrow asked me about the temporal solution of value on page 34 of Debreu’s book with the question: “What’s wrong with the discounted cash flow method?” My solution of value is the correct temporal solution. Value, in the quantitative form of the price or the rate of return, is calculated from the sum total of all the future benefits and losses to infinity in time. The solution is a non-violable law of nature.

Both Fed Chairmen Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, due to my correct predictions of the Savings and Loan Crisis and the Subprime Woe, respectively, contrary to theirs, have changed their mind about my public comments from negative to positive. Please feel free to contact, if possible, Dr. Kenneth Arrow, Dr. Alan Greenspan, and Dr. Ben Bernanke to verify my above statements related to them.

[Topic II: Knowledge vs. Politics]

What I see today is a world increasingly being engulfed in politics, which prevents any fundamental change, and, at the same time, being punished by financial crises for the lack of the fundamental knowledge of valuation. Politicians fight for the economic pie, and knowledge expands the pie. Politics serves special interests, and knowledge serves the interest of all the people. Politics should be kept out of knowledge organizations, such as NSF, NSB, and the Federal Reserve. In the past few decades, my personal observation is that NSF seems to follow a trend of turning from a knowledge organization into a political organization, one serving, instead of the interest of knowledge, the special interests of its employees and the established scientific community, whose decisions are more politically-motivated than knowledge-motivated with the goal of minimizing responsibility and risks. With NSF leading the world knowledge organizations away from knowledge and toward politics, the world is facing, in addition to the very visible financial crisis, a nearly invisible innovation crisis, both of which have their root cause in politics and the absence of the knowledge of valuation or decision-making.

[Topic III: Valuation vs. Peer Review]

The main knowledge involved in this and my past communications with NSF and NSB is the solution of value, the foundation of rational decision–making and the solution to the current global financial crisis. One of my main objections to NSF is the anonymous or open peer review process, which is causing an innovation crisis, as the market comparison method is causing our chronicle financial crises.

My public communications with the National Science Foundation started in the early 1980s, when I exchanged letters with Dr. Mary Clutter, an Assistant Director of NSF, warning her of the pending Savings and Loan Crisis. In the 1990s and 2000s, I contacted the National Science Board directly. In my latest communication with the Board, I was advised to contact the Director of NSF, but had never received a reply from the Director. However, since 2008 I have been submitting research proposals to NSF and have learned about NSF from actual experiences dealing with NSF.

In one of my communications with the US Patent Office, the Commissioner of Patent expressed interest in my idea of replacing the qualitative concept of utility with a quantitative concept of value, which can be represented by the price or the rate of return. I would like to further advance this idea by proposing an “Open Valuation” by each NSF proposer for a proposed research. The Open Valuation will allow anyone to execute the business plan based on the Open Valuation commercially, not necessarily by the author of the Open Valuation. The Open Valuation must conclude with a quantitative value, which is calculated by the solution of value, to determine the desirability of the proposed research project.

[Topic IV: Research vs. Education]

I would like to have a chance to communicate closely with members of the Board or any of the staff members of the Board to make concrete suggestions of fundamental reforms at NSF. Among my suggestions, the most important is the replacement of the anonymous peer review process of research proposals with a process based on the solution of value with full disclosure and full accountability. In this regard, I believe that the NSF proposal review process should be completely open to the public, instead of being secretive, as it is now. Also, NSF should deal solely with research, which would correspond to new knowledge, not with education, which promotes establishment knowledge. Funding research is far more difficult than funding education. Thus, specifically, the wording of “research and education” in NSF policy statement should be replaced by “research and the education of the research.”

[Topic V: Valuation vs. Market Comparison Method]

Interestingly, the peer review process for knowledge is similar to the market comparison method for real estate valuation. The former is causing the innovation crisis today by keeping knowledge unchanged, as the later has caused both the Savings and Loan Crisis and the recent Subprime Woe by keeping price unchanged when the economic conditions have changed. Moreover, knowledge is more fundamental than finance, and a reform in knowledge valuation is needed to fundamentally change the solution of price from the market comparison method to the solution of value based on future cash flows. Similarly, the solution of value can calculate the value of the proposed project, but the future cash flows do not necessarily need to be generated personally by the proposer of the research project.

[Topic VI: Post-Science vs. Science]

Post-science is based mainly on the three solutions of touch (solved in 1968), value (1972), and software (1986), with the goal of achieving complete automation, which characterizes life. The solution to the problem of value posed by Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu is needed to make rational decisions, such as what prices to pay and what robots to construct, and has publicly predicted both the Savings and Loan Crisis and the Subprime Woe (http://www.postscience.com; http://www.non-violable.com; http://www.infinitespreadsheet.com). Rational decision-making is the behavior separating humans from other animals. The completely automated software has the capabilities of self-generation, auto-update, and auto-documentation (http://www.humanlanguageprogramming.com). The software will be needed to program a proposed Self-Manufactured General Purpose Robot with the ability of touch (http://www.jumpulse.com). Ultimately, the Robot will become the human and the software, DNA.

The standard of rigor of science is empirical verification, which is possible only when a deterministic set of data can be collected. The solution of value must consider all the future consequences of a decision to infinity in time. Completely automated software is designed to satisfy the requirement of permanence. The solutions of both value and software involve infinity, which, by definition, will never arrive (Kant said infinity only exists in the mind), making empirical verification of the correctness of the price or the decision impossible. Acceptance of science is based on empirical verification. Acceptance of the solutions of value and software must be based on mathematical and logic rigor, respectively, in their formulations. However, the accuracy of the inputs and outputs of the solution of value must be relaxed when dealing with an uncertain future involving infinity. In general, only time-invariant quantities can be empirically verified. Prices and decisions are time-variant quantities, which change continually with time to infinity and, thus, cannot be empirically verified. In my solution of value, all the inputs extending to infinity have been expressed as approximate time-invariant quantities, which are obtained by the market comparison method.

In the past 40 years, Post-Science Institute has contributed the solutions of value, software, and touch with its own funding of around just $2 million. While most problems in science involve about 5 variables, the problem of touch involves around 25 variables, that of value, 50 variables, and that of software, 500 variables. The current society of 5-variable intelligence is having difficulty coping with the real world of social and life sciences, which are orders of magnitude more complex than the materialistic world of science. The scientific establishment must loosen its hold on knowledge by recognizing the limitation of empirical verification, and by looking forward into the uncertain future rather than just looking backward into the certain past. Post-science will no longer have the luxury of empirical verification.

I would like to suggest holding public debates between the scientific community and the post-science members on the solutions of value, software, and touch. In particular, the solution of value should be publicly discussed immediately to be led and sponsored by Federal Reserve Board, National Science Foundation, and Post-Science Institute. All people or organizations, which claim to have the solutions of value, should come forward with their solutions of value. The public discussion will not be futile because there will at least one concrete solution from Post-Science Institute to be challenged by all.

I appreciate the timely guidance from the National Science Board in the past and hope that this time we might actually get something done in the wake of a global financial crisis with the magnitude equaling the world Gross Product of about 60 trillion dollars. For your interest, enclosed please find my draft of a prepared comment to the Federal Reserve Board on how to set policies to solve the current global financial crisis. In any case, after nearly 30 years communicating with government knowledge agencies, I could be one of the very few people, politically independent enough and with sufficient training in engineering (MIT), physics (Ta-You Wu), mathematics (grand, grand student of Hilbert), and philosophy (8 yrs. with Paul Feyerabend) and business experiences, to make this fundamental change in knowledge.

Sincerely,

Hugh Ching, Founder and President, Post-Science Institute, http://www.jumpulse.com/ching.pdf