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English: Complexity's bloom and decline: This animated hexagonal community dot-cloud shows the attention-slice distribution of 100 community members evolving toward increased, and then toward decreased[1], multiplicity of niche-network layers that look in/out from the boundaries of self, family & culture in a single-species model-community over a (hopefully long) period of time.
Each community member is assigned a unique color, and is represented by one dot in each of the six triangular projections of the 6-vertex attention-slice simplex which unprojected inhabits a space of 5 dimensions. When a given mode of activity is shut down, the dots in associated triangles are of course pulled toward triangle edges or vertices. Layer-multiplicity increases are likely to continue in any community only as long as the environment, and the thermodynamic availability flows, which support that development persist[2]. As Don Brownlee and Peter Ward have pointed out e.g. in their book Rare Earth, the world outside our planet is not all that friendly to lifeforms made mostly of liquid water[3]. Raise one of your appendages if that includes you. |
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| Author | P. Fraundorf |
Added notes
As free energy per capita decreases[4], our human communities may be expected to lower their center-of-mass multiplicity from around 6 down toward 5 or smaller, especially given that our population is largely comprised of folks who spend most of their time at buffering correlations on only 4 or 5 of the 6 layers that look in/out from the boundaries of skin, family & culture. The good news is that individual (i.e. a geometric-average) multiplicity of only around 4¼ layers may be all that's needed[5] to maximize task layer diversity, should we decide to focus on community-level well-being in this context.
Some might also be interested in the potential of such simple ad hoc "task layer attention-slice" models for monitoring and predicting electronic media's role in refocusing a community's attention e.g. toward a focus on politics with a concomitant reduction in community level focus on other layers of organization. In much the same way, a highly publicized space-mission might inspire the population as a whole to put energy into layer 6 (i.e. the professional/observation layer) in the same way that a church scandal might move the population's attention toward layer 5 (i.e. the cultural/belief layer), and an article about contaminated food might move our attention toward concentration on layers 1 (self) and 3 (family).
Footnotes
- ↑ Jared Diamond (2005) Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (New York: Viking Books) ISBN 1-586-63863-7.
- ↑ P. Fraundorf (2013) "An order-parameter for communities", arXiv:1106.4698 [physics.gen-ph].
- ↑ Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee (2000) Rare earth: Why complex life is uncommon in the universe (Copernicus, New York).
- ↑ Eric J. Chaisson (2004) "Complexity: An Energetics Agenda", Complexity 9, pp 14-21.
- ↑ P. Fraundorf (2019) "Task layer multiplicity as a measure of community level health", Complexity 2019, 1082412, 8 pages, hal-01503096, laTeX pdf, new[dead link]/earlier google sites.
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