Publication
Task layer multiplicity as a measure of community level health
This article suggests that we can improve our understanding of individual well-being by shifting our focus to community-level well-being, while respecting indiv
What is it about?
Now may be a good time to explore apolitical strategies for working together. We might begin by taking into account that:
(i) new types of communication media are able to over-drive emotions, until we learn to use them effectively,
(ii) tribal narratives (looking outward from gene-pool i.e. family boundaries) may under these conditions eclipse stories of collaboration on shared issues (looking outward from idea-pool i.e. cultural boundaries),
(iii) models & measures of layered complexity in human communities might help us guide our way to finding what works in context of these shared issues.
We can hopefully now all agree on these things, and perhaps work together to put these insights to use.
Why is it important?
Media in general are being terribly misused, with a continuing focus on what people disagree on, and no discussion at all on the challenge of adapting to new media in part by learning to tamp down your emotional reaction (and behavior) to stuff that might upset you. This happened across the world with radio in the last century, but now (with the internet) we have multiple participants with access to atomic bombs and ICBMs.
Perspectives
This began as a search for healing narratives, and a physical look at modes for information (subsystem-correlation) storage via the occupation of dynamical states by metazoan individuals, i.e. in biological niches. For instance, a technical report in 1989 on physical observables suggested that buffered correlations fall into only a half-dozen categories, but that robust strategies for quantification were not yet available. Connections to the emergence of broken symmetries, and to simplex models for tracking developments, only developed later.
