Self-organizing systems of vast complexity are the way of the world
We get in trouble when we try to impose external, hierarchical order on ourselves—much like how monoculture fails to thrive, and instead entangled ecosystems are key.
If something as complex as a human body is a self-organizing system, could you not scale it up and infer that all of humanity is a self-organizing system as much as mycelia are? And on and on, ad infinitum?
- see also: the limits of the individual are porous — “protocooperative” behavior emerges naturally from physical interactive principles as opposed to ones driven by human competitive, sociological or economic motivations
- see also: diversity provides stability — the more diverse an ecosystem is, the more robust it is
- see also: rhizomatic thinking is non-hierarchal and relational — we have the idea that the more complex a system is, the more it requires hierarchal structure, but the opposite is true