The awareness of the agent in human complex systems
…humans are actors in the system and they make choices…as such their actions can influence what order emerges. Just letting things happen may produce emergent order, but it may not, and the nature of that order if it happens may be perverse as well as beneficial
…human complex systems have an additional order of complexity that arises from the awarness of the agent and the ability of the agents to communicate beyond their immediate proximity.
Not all order in human systems is “emergent” some is designed. Human’s have the capacity to create equilibrium states and the maintain them. Also emergence is morally neutral.
- Dave Snowden
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Humans do not behave like ants, termites, bacteria, etc…
Complex adaptive theory in human systems is different from in the physical world
…organisations are not systems at all
Organisations are not Complex Adaptive Systems
(Source: cognitive-edge.com)
