Post #2512615
2025-09-26 20:06 UTC
@linrui@mathstodon.xyz @mdcory@mastodon.social @tao@mathstodon.xyz
I used "leak" to refer to local agency that still does not contradict wider goals. As in: the brain does not control every cell, but still a body functions in unison. Cancer would be a negative "leak".
I think its important to frame society analogous to biology, since that's what it is (my obsessions with fractals tells me).
@linrui@mathstodon.xyz Given your own arguments a multicellular body should be impossible.
I view all of this as a struggle for a cohesive social "body".
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@linrui@mathstodon.xyz 2025-09-26 22:40
@atlas667@mastodon.social @mdcory@mastodon.social @tao@mathstodon.xyz Multicellular bodies are possible precisely because they do not conform to any of the basic axioms of social systems. The reason a body can "operate as one" is that the trillions of units that constitute it have no free will, no conflicting objective functions. They are hardware, driven by an operating system hardwired into DNA. Human society, on the other hand, is a distributed network composed of N sovereign users running independent operating systems. You are mistakenly drawing an analogy between a computer's internal bus and the entire internet's TCP/IP protocol. This is a category error. EOF.