Re: causal clusters

Hugh Trenchard wrote:

I suggest tentatively that these causal clusters are more closely analogous
to neurons than are individual humans, and it is this sort of information we
are looking at when we look for the patterns of self-organizing phenomena
which emerges from a currently very highly interconnected network of causal
clusters.  And here, just as Watts and Strogatz demonstrated with other
sorts of networks, the long-distance networks are what tightens the whole
human network into a highly dynamic, continuously shifting network of causes
and effects.  Thus a third dimension or layer, if you will, to any
self-organizing patterns emerge.

What I mean by this "extra-dimension" or layer is that the self-organizing
phenomena are no longer easily observable.  For example with an ant colony
or a sheep herd, we can look from above to observe directly the actual
self-organizing phenomena which results from the interactions of the
individual ants or sheep. In the case of causal clusters highly
interconnected via long distance connections, we are unable to observe in
this fashion the precise nature of any self-organizing phenomena which
arises: hence the added dimension to the self-organizing phenomenon.

(Alfredo) In agreement! But what is the physical "glue" that binds the
network's nodes and allows the self-organizing process to occur? Or maybe
the extra dimension is not physical? In other words: could informational
processes be described as the dynamical evolution of correlated causal
clusters?


Alfredo Pereira Jr.