RE: [Fis] Continuing Discussion of Social and Cultural Complexity

> Curiously, these complex societies also
> devour far more
> energy and produce far more physical entropy (both types of
> entropies seem
> to go hand with hand)... Well, and what are finally those
> social "bonds"
> but information?

Dear Pedro:

*Social* bonds are by their very nature generated by the social system, that
is, the self-organization (or non-linear dynamics) of interhuman
interactions. The specification of these dynamics in terms of how meaning is
processed in interhuman relations generates a research program for sociology
(socio-cybernetics). One can expect this system to operate differently from
psychological systems because the latter are integrated into identities,
while the former may remain differentiated in terms of distributions (which
produce and self-reproduce entropy).

With best wishes,

Loet
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