PhD Candidate @UCMCogSci | Graduate Fellow @ipam_ucla | Junior Fellow @TheIHS: collective intelligence, systems collapse, complex systems, networks, etc.
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Dec 23, 2022 • 18 tweets • 13 min read
My 2022 year in review. Basically a personal thread of stuff I published academic and non-academic, some things I did, people I met...
First in the year was with my advisor, @psmaldino, a review paper "Organizational Development as Generative Entrenchment."
Asked is why do organizations look the same? What human constraints lead to the emergence of an organization's group-level traits?
Schank & Wimsatt (1986): Generative Entrenchment and Evolution. A paper on adaptive hierarchy.
In 1962, Herbert Simon proposed a lock analogy to explain the natural selection of problem solving.
Consider a complex problem space as a lock with 10^10 possible combinations.
Due to the randomness of the problem space, problems of this type are difficult, if not near-impossible, for problem solvers to solve (in fact, if the problem is "solved" it is only done so through randomness).
Luckily, in nature, most problems are not completely indecomposable.