Previous posts have hinted at shortcomings of organism-centricity as a general trait of human communications & perception. Two special cases of the problem, namely anthropocentricity where we think of our species collectively as the center of the universe, and self-centricity which may leave our individual actions un-informed to the perspective of even those closest to us, are already familiar themes.
One of the less-recognized consequences of organism-centricity in
general is our pre-occupation with individuals for credit and blame, while
collective processes (like the effects of evolving media,
policy design, and self-assembly) remain largely invisible or at best
treated anecdotally. Data-driven approaches to these
collective-processes are starting to get attention (cf. Picketty
in economics), although multi-layer approaches i.e. systematic
consideration of processes on multiple-levels of organization at once
are still in their infancy.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
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