Evolutionary possibilities: Can a society be constrained so that 'the good' self-organizes?
| Autor: | John E. Stewart |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | World Futures. 74:1-35 |
| ISSN: | 1556-1844 0260-4027 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02604027.2017.1357985 |
| Popis: | Can a human society be constrained in such a way that self-organization will thereafter tend to produce outcomes that advance the goals of the society? Such a society would be self-organizing in the sense that individuals who pursue only their own interests would none-the-less act in the interests of the society as a whole, irrespective of any intention to do so. The paper sketches an agent-based model that identifies the conditions that must be met if such a self-organizing society is to emerge. The model draws heavily on an understanding of how self-organizing societies have emerged repeatedly during the evolution of life on Earth. The model demonstrates that the key enabling requirement for a self-organizing society is ‘consequence-capture’. Broadly this means that all agents in the society must capture sufficient of the beneficial (and harmful) consequences of their actions for the goals of the society. ‘Consequence-capture’ can be organized in a society by appropriate management (systems of evolvable... |
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