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| SELF-ORGANIZATION “AN ECOSYSTEM LINKS TOGETHER A WIDE VIRETY OF HETEROGENEOUS ELEMENTS ( ANIMALS AND PLANTS OF DIFFERENT SPECIES) WHICH ARE ARTICULATED THROUGH INTERLOCK, THAT IS, THEIR FUNCTIONAL COMPLEMENTARITIES..” MANUAL DE LANDA, ‘GEOLOGY OF MORALS’. INTERDEPENDENT INTELLIGENT UNITS/ PUBLIC INTERACTION OPEN RESOURCING/ OPEN PLACE/ OPEN COMMUNITY“TWO EXTREME FORMS OF ORGANIZATION ARE THE COMMAND ECONOMY AND THE MARKET ECONOMY…THE COMMAND ECONOMY HAS FREQUENTLY BEEN CONSIDERED MORE ‘RATIONAL’ SINCE IT INVOLVES THE VISIBLE APPLICATION OF REASON TO THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM AS A WHOLE..IN ACTUALITY, DECENTRALIZED PLANNING IS POTENTIALLY MORE RATIONAL, SINCE IT INVOLVES MORE MINDS TAKING INTO ACCOUNT MORE TOTAL INFORMATION. ONE MIGHT TRY TO ASSIGN MACHINE RESOURCES TO TASKS THROUGH AN OPERATING SYSTEM USING FIXED,GENERAL RULES, BUT IN LARGE SYSTEMS WITH HETEROGENEOUS HARDWARE, THIS SEEMS DOOMED TO INEFFICIENCY. KNOWLEDGE OF TRADEOFFS AND PRIORITIES WILL BE DISTRUBETED AMONG THOUSANDS OF PROGRAMMERS AND THIS KNOWLEDGE WILL BEST BE EMBODIED IN THEIR PROGRAMS. COMPUTERS ARE BECOMING TOO COMPLEX FOR CENTRAL PLANNING.IT SEEMS THAT WE NEED TO APPLY ‘METHODS OF UTILIZING MORE KNOWLEDGE AND RESOURCES THAN ANY ONE MIND IS AWARE OF.. MARKET ARE A FORM OF ‘EVOLUTIONARY ECOSYSTEMS AND SUCH SUCH SYSTEMS CAN BE A POWERFUL GENERATOR OF SPONTANEOUS ORDER … (M.S MILLER/KE DREXLER) |