It might not be optimal if we knew the future but to me its just a natural organic process, organizations and factions inside of organizations are slime molds.

It might not be optimal if we knew the future but to me its just a natural organic process, organizations and factions inside of organizations are slime molds. A new value gradient appears in the environment and we all spread out and crawl in a million different out growths feeling blindly in the general direction of something that feels like a good idea until one of the tendrils hits actual value and becomes a path of least resistance and the other ones dry out and die.