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I agree that effective human organization is, by far, our largest problem today. All of our contemporary problems are, at their core, organizational problems.
by throwaway13337 2y ago
I agree that effective human organization is, by far, our largest problem today. All of our contemporary problems are, at their core, organizational problems.
However, we actually lack an understanding of how large systems are organized.
In the human body, each cell performs its task without a centralized authority but as an individual agent. The cells are selfish and just try to survive. But emergent in this behavior is a human that thinks itself the master of all the cells.
Michael Levin has done surprising things that fall from studying cells of animal bodies and how they can act independently.
We really need a science of agent based systems. I don't know of something that captures it entirely.
What I do know is that top-down hierarchical organizations are fragile and will corrupt with time. Agent based systems are the only way nature will allow to progress much.
- WillAdams 2y ago>We really need a science of agent based systems. I don't know of something that captures it entirely. Wasn't that Stephen Wolfram's _A New Kind of Science_?
- chaosist 2y agoNo, this is the field of complex systems. We already have this field. It is just too new though. We seem to conflate the sciences with the efficient market hypothesis instead of the reality of progressing one funeral at a time. We may even have structures now that keep things in place after the funeral and stall progress even further. I study complex systems on my own but if I was a PhD student I am not sure it would be a great career move.