Comments on: Autopoiesis and how hyper-connectivity is literally bringing the networks to life

By: Alexander Laszlo

Alexander Laszlo — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Given recent insights from contemporary science on the phenomenon of coherence, I wonder how this relates to and helps confirm the observations of hyper-connectivity you describe. It is now understood how liquid water is made up of networks of “coherence domains” — regions in which the molecules act in phase. This is called coherence. What is interesting and particularly significant for issues of hyper-connectivity is that when sets of coherence domains come into coherence among themselves, an emergent phenomenon known as “super-coherence” occurs. As it turns out, only dissipative systems — ones capable of exporting to their environment the energy that they produce — are capable of super-coherence. A system composed of super-coherent sub-systems is highly resonant. That is, it carries, sustains, and conveys patterns of health and wellbeing so long as it is not actively destabilized in it’s resonant milieu. When brought to the level of human social and societal systems, this phenomenon appears to manifest in ways you describe in terms of hyper-connectivity. Would you agree?

By: Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:28:00 +0000

In reply to Gary Hayes.

The global brain is an old idea, with the ancient Greeks, Teilhard de Chardin, and H.G. Wells among those putting forward related ideas – here is a nice bibliography:
https://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GBRAINREF.html

I’m a big McLuhan fan but the global village concept is slightly different I think – the reference in the Wikipedia article is to a different point about extension of consciousness.

By: Gary Hayes

Gary Hayes — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:04:00 +0000

Realise this is a two year old post Ross and accessibly described. Wonder if you think the now 50th year old, oft quoted Marshall McLuhan concept or observation of the Global Village https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_village_(term) with it’s cascaded interconnectedness backbone lay the foundations for much of the single human organism thinking – or there were even earlier bio-anthropological studies turned metaphors used to describe our hyper connectivity…

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By: Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:38:13 +0000

Very cool Michael.
Back a decade ago Maturana and Varela were all the vogue as complexity science hit management, but they seem to have been largely forgotten again. Their work is still very relevant.

By: Michael Kieran

Michael Kieran — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:27:18 +0000

How funny. After finishing my blog post this morning on “Enterprise 2.0: Three Lessons from Biology 101” I decided it was time to clean up my open browser tabs, whereupon I discovered your recent post about autopoiesis.
I was fortunate to attend a lecture by Maturana in the early 1980s, and remain convinced that he and his colleagues have discovered an important pattern. It made my day to see that we both saw its applicability to enterprise collaboration!

By: Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson — Tue, 18 May 2010 16:18:16 +0000

Thanks Chris, very interesting.
Yes there’s a wide range of people’s propensity to participate in the living networks – for me that’s what’s most enjoyable.
Every chapter of Living Networks can be downloaded from here:
https://livingnetworksbook.com/

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:46:34 +0000

Ross –
Your have a fascinating thought process, and some well developed arguments.
Frankly, I couldn’t argue with any of it.
As ants are to ant colonies, so humans are to their communities. With increased levels of connectedness, those communities can grow richer, and the ‘living networks’ connecting them more robust. I have heard the human brain is vastly underutilized, possessing greater potential than we know how to tap. So too are the historical limitations of our uber community ‘civilization’ .. full of diverse insight and potential but too local and disconnected to accomplish much as a unit. Mere survival can often prove a challenge. But when its members begin to work together, sharing knowledge and insights, learning and adapting, the game is different.
I like using the concept of ecosystem to describe the functioning of highly interdependent social networks, and have often referred to the next evolution of networked intellectual processing power as a knowledge renaissance.
You may want to check the work that’s been done on EcoDNA. A few of us renegade neuron’s have built process models on what it would take to drive social innovation, with some progress here:
https://bit.ly/ecoedu
Our paradigms are framed a bit differently (personally, I have yet to fully come to terms with a ‘global brain’, though with your article, I’m warming up to it) but our meta-framing seems to be built on the same foundation of complexity science, with a healthy dose of the practical – observing what is being done, and giving credence to what is possible.
Much work remains to get this global network functioning at even a fraction of its potential. Most human neurons are reluctant to fire. In the context of the social vernacular, I call it lack of engagement.
We’re definitely of like mind, Ross. Apparently, in more ways than one. Now I just need to track down your book.
Looking forward to learning more.
Chris (@SourcePOV)

By: Robert Mendez

Robert Mendez — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:42:29 +0000

Autopoesis didn’t catch on for its author either, as mainstream biologists still can’t get behind the idea of symbiogenesis. Perhaps even the smartest among us don’t want to admit we are all conglomerates of life itself. As a metaphor for networks, it seems inappropriate because it is so much more complex than any network I’ve ever seen. As someone who believed emergence would be an interesting topic for study when the Internet began, I am seriously disappointed. I am convinced that until humans evolve far beyond where we are today, intellectually, we will continue to produce networks that disappoint and are impossible to secure.

By: Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:55:44 +0000

Thanks Frank, Marco. Yes there are a wide range of books and resources on the topic - best reference is at the Principia Cybernetica site https://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/GBRAINREF.html