Reply to Steven and Ted
By genetic constraints I assume you simply mean that we have certain
capacities and are not omnipotent. Is not conflict and war an indicator
of our individual failure to manage social complexity? Or would you argue
that war is social complexity management?
I was
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Pedro Marijuan wrote:
Dear Igor and colleagues,
Your question is fascinating, perhaps at the time being rather puzzling or
even un-answerable...
Pedro, Yes, unanswerable in the absolute sense, but there are some
quantitative approximations that yield helpful insights.
Discussion of Social and Cultural Complexity
Dear Joe and colleagues,
Thanks for the new angle. The problem on how to ascribe complexity looks
quite complex in itself... It connects with the aspect of
decomposability in parts / components of entities which surfaced last
month (when arguing
Dear Igor and colleagues,
Your question is fascinating, perhaps at the time being rather puzzling or
even un-answerable...
What are the complexity limits of societies? Our individual limits are
obvious ---the size of natural bands depended both on ecosystems and on
the number of people with
On Feb 2, 2007, at 5:07 AM, Igor Matutinovic (by way of Pedro
Marijuan [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
...
Considering that we necessarily operate under certain genetic
constraints, are there (absolute) upper limits to our ability to
manage social complexity?
...
By genetic constraints I
Point of reference.
At the first ICCS conference on Complexity
at Nashua NH, USA in 1997, I presented the
concept that Complexity is driven and established
by communication probabilities between agent systems,
with entropy-related re-distribution of information
or energy or mass, being the
Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote on 2/2/07:
Or would you argue that war is social complexity management?
Interpreting the term as you have, I would probably present that war
is merely part of the dynamics of social systems but indicative of
the inability of single humans (or small groups) to
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Dear Igor and colleagues,
Your question is fascinating, perhaps at the time being
rather puzzling or
even un
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Dear Igor
