In the latter half of the 20th Century, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Herold C. Urey (*29th April 1893 in Walkerton, Indiana; † 5th January 1981 in La Jolla, California), proposed an explanation for how that layer of oxygen arose which serves as protection for the whole earth. This classic example of a «feedback effect» has entered scientific history under the name of the «Urey Effect».
This «Effect» describes the connection between UV radiation and photolysis: water is divided, under the effect of this energy-rich UV radiation, into oxygen and hydrogen. One of the two substances thus arising, however – namely, oxygen – acts in turn as an effective filter for just this UV radiation, so that the more oxygen there is present in the atmosphere, the less photolysis occurs. It was thanks to this process of effect and counter-effect alone that the equilibrium indispensable to the emergence of life on earth was established – since this very same UV radiation has a tendency also to destroy organic molecules.
The Dilthey Model also features, in the form of its specific manner of calculating the amount of the UBI it proposes, a type of self-regulation by means of «feedback effect» closely analogous to Urey’s.
Communism also attempted, by means of its characteristic «planned economy» to bring supply and demand into harmony with one another. The free-market economy, however, is always oriented to economic growth, attempting, in principle, constantly to increase the amount of goods on offer and to generate a demand for these. The main reason for this is that the diversified distribution of ownership in the means of production demands such growth.
The «dynamic» design of the Dilthey Model of the UBI serves to carry the «Urey Effect» described above over into the sphere of the economy - as a natural form of cybernetic.
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