Philosophy is one of humanity’s oldest systems of institutionalized knowledge production, predating science by thousands of years. But not all eras are equal. Some are marked by debate and innovation, others by the preservation of tradition.

What drives these differences? In this preprint, we use tools from network science to explore the dynamics that distinguish different eras of philosophical discourse. Using networks from Randall Collins' 'The Sociology of Philosophies', we examine differences between different philosophical systems through time and how they develop across history, examining networks of philosophical interaction from ancient India (800BCE) to modern North America (1980CE).

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?

https://twitter.com/LTF_01/status/1514990736072138754

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.