The author is as quick to describe it as a "natural malfunction" as he is to his findings of his toy models to large complex societies. Can his analogy be appli

The author is as quick to describe it as a "natural malfunction" as he is to his findings of his toy models to large complex societies. Can his analogy be applied on a different order of organization? Cells have very limited means of communicating with each other like this model, and in multi-cellular organism, they have a tendency to cooperate with things that share their code. Could this be said to be a malfunction?