This document presents a theoretical framework for measuring social complexity based on the relationship between complexity, entropy, and evolutionary dynamics. It uses entropy principles to study the emergence of cooperation in social systems. The collapse of the Rapa Nui civilization is used as a case study. The framework defines social complexity using information-theoretic entropy measures and relates higher entropy production and cooperation to greater sustainability. Cooperation emerges when average fitness exceeds local fitness.
Consciousness as holographic quantised dimension mechanicsIstvan Dienes
This document presents a new theory called the Consciousness-Holomatrix Principle (CHM) which aims to provide a unified framework for understanding consciousness. It proposes that consciousness arises from any physical system's ability to self-observe or self-interact, forming an observer-observed-observation structure. The CHM views reality as interacting quantum fields, including the brain, where objective and subjective quantities are exchanged. Logical structures in the mind undergo transformations that can be described by the same mathematics as fundamental physical processes. The CHM thus seeks to describe both logical and physical processes with a single framework involving logical operators, spaces, and "branes" that parallel concepts in physics. This provides a way to understand consciousness and its
The document discusses the General Theory of Systems as formulated by Ludwig von Bertalanffy. It provides definitions of key terms like system, systems theory, and general systems theory. It also summarizes several trends and developments that emerged from general systems theory, including cybernetics, information theory, game theory, decision theory, topology/relational mathematics, factor analysis, systems engineering, and operations research. Each of these areas applies a systems perspective to analyze various technical, conceptual, and complex systems.
Abstract: Complex dynamical reaction networks consisting of many components that interact and produce each other are difficult to understand, especially, when new component types may appear and present component types may vanish com- pletely. Inspired by Fontana and Buss (Bull. Math. Biol., 56, 1–64) we outline a theory to deal with such systems. The theory consists of two parts. The first part introduces the concept of a chemical organisation as a closed and self-maintaining set of components. This concept allows to map a complex (reaction) network to the set of organisations, providing a new view on the system’s structure. The sec- ond part connects dynamics with the set of organisations, which allows to map a movement of the system in state space to a movement in the set of organisations. The relevancy of our theory is underlined by a theorem that says that given a dif- ferential equation describing the chemical dynamics of the network, then every stationary state is an instance of an organisation. For demonstration, the theory is applied to a small model of HIV-immune system interaction by Wodarz and Nowak (Proc. Natl. Acad. USA, 96, 14464–14469) and to a large model of the sugar metabolism of E. Coli by Puchalka and Kierzek (Biophys. J., 86, 1357–1372). In both cases organisations where uncovered, which could be related to functions.
This document discusses theoretical ecology, which uses theoretical methods such as mathematical models, computational simulations, and data analysis to study ecological systems. It provides examples of different types of mathematical models used to model population dynamics and species interactions, including exponential growth models, logistic growth models, structured population models using matrices, predator-prey models, host-pathogen models, and competition/mutualism models. It also discusses how theoretical ecology aims to explain a variety of ecological phenomena and how computational modeling has benefited from increased computing power.
This document provides an overview of a paper exploring creativity as a transcendental system using James Miller's General Living Systems Theory as a framework. It summarizes key concepts from Miller's theory, including space-time, matter-energy, and information. The document also discusses some challenges in applying a theory of concrete living systems to abstract, transcendental systems like creativity. It aims to connect creativity in transcendental space to the physical space through metaphor and symbolism.
This document summarizes a keynote address given by Mario Bunge on systemism. It begins by noting that small problems can be addressed within individual disciplines, while larger, systemic problems require multidisciplinary collaboration. It then discusses how systemism provides an alternative to atomism and holism by combining top-down and bottom-up analysis. Systemism views the world as composed of interconnected systems and was first proposed in the 18th century. While little known in philosophy, scientists have generally practiced systemism. The document defines a system as having composition, environment, structure, and mechanisms. It argues systemism is a key part of the philosophical framework underpinning scientific research.
Consciousness as holographic quantised dimension mechanicsIstvan Dienes
This document presents a new theory called the Consciousness-Holomatrix Principle (CHM) which aims to provide a unified framework for understanding consciousness. It proposes that consciousness arises from any physical system's ability to self-observe or self-interact, forming an observer-observed-observation structure. The CHM views reality as interacting quantum fields, including the brain, where objective and subjective quantities are exchanged. Logical structures in the mind undergo transformations that can be described by the same mathematics as fundamental physical processes. The CHM thus seeks to describe both logical and physical processes with a single framework involving logical operators, spaces, and "branes" that parallel concepts in physics. This provides a way to understand consciousness and its
The document discusses the General Theory of Systems as formulated by Ludwig von Bertalanffy. It provides definitions of key terms like system, systems theory, and general systems theory. It also summarizes several trends and developments that emerged from general systems theory, including cybernetics, information theory, game theory, decision theory, topology/relational mathematics, factor analysis, systems engineering, and operations research. Each of these areas applies a systems perspective to analyze various technical, conceptual, and complex systems.
Abstract: Complex dynamical reaction networks consisting of many components that interact and produce each other are difficult to understand, especially, when new component types may appear and present component types may vanish com- pletely. Inspired by Fontana and Buss (Bull. Math. Biol., 56, 1–64) we outline a theory to deal with such systems. The theory consists of two parts. The first part introduces the concept of a chemical organisation as a closed and self-maintaining set of components. This concept allows to map a complex (reaction) network to the set of organisations, providing a new view on the system’s structure. The sec- ond part connects dynamics with the set of organisations, which allows to map a movement of the system in state space to a movement in the set of organisations. The relevancy of our theory is underlined by a theorem that says that given a dif- ferential equation describing the chemical dynamics of the network, then every stationary state is an instance of an organisation. For demonstration, the theory is applied to a small model of HIV-immune system interaction by Wodarz and Nowak (Proc. Natl. Acad. USA, 96, 14464–14469) and to a large model of the sugar metabolism of E. Coli by Puchalka and Kierzek (Biophys. J., 86, 1357–1372). In both cases organisations where uncovered, which could be related to functions.
This document discusses theoretical ecology, which uses theoretical methods such as mathematical models, computational simulations, and data analysis to study ecological systems. It provides examples of different types of mathematical models used to model population dynamics and species interactions, including exponential growth models, logistic growth models, structured population models using matrices, predator-prey models, host-pathogen models, and competition/mutualism models. It also discusses how theoretical ecology aims to explain a variety of ecological phenomena and how computational modeling has benefited from increased computing power.
This document provides an overview of a paper exploring creativity as a transcendental system using James Miller's General Living Systems Theory as a framework. It summarizes key concepts from Miller's theory, including space-time, matter-energy, and information. The document also discusses some challenges in applying a theory of concrete living systems to abstract, transcendental systems like creativity. It aims to connect creativity in transcendental space to the physical space through metaphor and symbolism.
This document summarizes a keynote address given by Mario Bunge on systemism. It begins by noting that small problems can be addressed within individual disciplines, while larger, systemic problems require multidisciplinary collaboration. It then discusses how systemism provides an alternative to atomism and holism by combining top-down and bottom-up analysis. Systemism views the world as composed of interconnected systems and was first proposed in the 18th century. While little known in philosophy, scientists have generally practiced systemism. The document defines a system as having composition, environment, structure, and mechanisms. It argues systemism is a key part of the philosophical framework underpinning scientific research.
This theory provides a new scientific perspective on social interactions. It includes social phenomena and politics within the systematic study of natural scientific causality and quantity. The key aspects are three axioms: Differentiation, Complementarities, and Alteration, called the Axioms of Vital Time and Space. These axioms are applied to analyze concepts like culture, civilization, ethics, and international relations. The goal is to develop a natural theory to help address issues in human social, cultural, and political interactions.
Fundamental Characteristics of a Complex Systemijtsrd
In this review basic concepts are presented, as well as the fundamental characteristics related to Complexity and some examples of their applications in organizations. It is an interdisciplinary area that is becoming increasingly important in the relentless pursuit of science to expand the limits of our knowledge and the laws governing the phenomena of nature. The main argument of this paper is that the understanding and consequent application of such approaches in the organizational process, provides an improvement in the decision making. Celso Luis Levada | Osvaldo Missiato | Antonio Luis Ferrari | Miriam De Magalhães Oliveira Levada "Fundamental Characteristics of a Complex System" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-6 , October 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd28098.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/other/28098/fundamental-characteristics-of-a-complex-system/celso-luis-levada
This document discusses biology and language from a biological perspective. It addresses two questions: 1) What processes must occur for an organism to establish a linguistic domain with another organism? 2) What processes occur in a linguistic interaction that allow an organism to describe and predict events it may experience? The document defines key terms from an epistemological and biological perspective to lay the groundwork for addressing these questions, including definitions of observer, unity, organization, structure, property, space, and interaction.
This document summarizes the relationship between systems biology and theoretical physics. It discusses how systems biology combines experimental techniques with mathematical modeling to understand biological processes, and how this field draws from both engineering and physics approaches. While engineering aims to numerically simulate biological systems, physics seeks universal principles and laws. The document reviews how concepts from physics, like statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics, have influenced systems biology research and how further integrating theoretical physics perspectives could aid understanding of biological systems.
A PHYSICAL THEORY OF INFORMATION VS. A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATIONijistjournal
This article introduces a general notion of physical bit information that is compatible with the basics of quantum mechanics and incorporates the Shannon entropy as a special case. This notion of physical information leads to the Binary data matrix model (BDM), which predicts the basic results of quantum mechanics, general relativity, and black hole thermodynamics. The compatibility of the model with holographic, information conservation, and Landauer’s principle are investigated. After deriving the “Bit Information principle” as a consequence of BDM, the fundamental equations of Planck, De Broglie, Bekenstein, and mass-energy equivalence are derived.
A PHYSICAL THEORY OF INFORMATION VS. A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATIONijistjournal
This article introduces a general notion of physical bit information that is compatible with the basics of quantum mechanics and incorporates the Shannon entropy as a special case. This notion of physical information leads to the Binary data matrix model (BDM), which predicts the basic results of quantum mechanics, general relativity, and black hole thermodynamics. The compatibility of the model with holographic, information conservation, and Landauer’s principle are investigated. After deriving the “Bit Information principle” as a consequence of BDM, the fundamental equations of Planck, De Broglie, Bekenstein, and mass-energy equivalence are derived.
1. The study of chaos analyzes nonlinear dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. While a universal definition of chaos is still lacking, mathematicians generally agree that chaos involves sensitive dependence on initial conditions, mixing, and dense periodic points.
2. This paper formulates a new approach to studying chaos in discrete dynamical systems based on concepts from inverse problems, set-valued mappings, graphical convergence theory, and topology. The author argues that order, chaos and complexity can be viewed as parts of a unified mathematical structure applying topological convergence theory to increasingly nonlinear mappings.
3. By applying concepts from spectral approximation theory and introducing "latent chaotic states", the author aims to develop a theory of chaos and interpret how nature
NG2S: A Study of Pro-Environmental Tipping Point via ABMsKan Yuenyong
A study of tipping point: much less is known about the most efficient ways to reach such transitions or how self-reinforcing systemic transformations might be instigated through policy. We employ an agent-based model to study the emergence of social tipping points through various feedback loops that have been previously identified to constitute an ecological approach to human behavior. Our model suggests that even a linear introduction of pro-environmental affordances (action opportunities) to a social system can have non-linear positive effects on the emergence of collective pro-environmental behavior patterns.
This document presents an internship report on studying atomic dynamics out of thermal equilibrium using a three-level atom model. It first derives a Markovian master equation to describe the dynamics of open quantum systems interacting with environments. It then introduces the model of a system interacting with electromagnetic fields at and out of thermal equilibrium. Finally, it examines three-level atom configurations (ladder, Λ, and V) and how population inversion can be achieved when the environment is out of thermal equilibrium.
Partitions and entropies intel third draftAnna Movsheva
The document discusses statistical properties of the entropy function of a random partition. It introduces the concept of counting the number of partitions of a set X that have entropy less than or equal to some value x. This counting function is denoted Θ(p, x). The document hypothesizes that the normalized counting function θ(p, x) = Θ(p, x)/Θ(H(p, X)) can be approximated by a cumulative Gaussian distribution, with the mean and standard deviation of the distribution being functions of the probability distribution p. Evidence for this conjecture is provided by computer simulations.
The Majority Rule is applied to a topology that consists of two coupled
random networks, thereby mimicking the modular structure observed in social
networks. We calculate analytically the asymptotic behaviour of the model and derive a
phase diagram that depends on the frequency of random opinion flips and on the inter-
connectivity between the two communities. It is shown that three regimes may take
place: a disordered regime, where no collective phenomena takes place; a symmetric
regime, where the nodes in both communities reach the same average opinion; an
asymmetric regime, where the nodes in each community reach an opposite average
opinion. The transition from the asymmetric regime to the symmetric regime is shown
to be discontinuous.
How to Calculate the Public Psychological Pressure in the Social NetworksTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
1) The document proposes a method to quantitatively calculate public psychological pressure on social networks using principles of social computing and information entropy.
2) It describes using a maximum entropy approach to model social events as multidimensional random variables, where the entropy function is maximized when the joint probability distribution is uniform.
3) The entropy calculation for multidimensional random variables representing a social event is similar to a single variable, where the entropy is the logarithm of the number of possible value combinations of the variable subsets. This provides a quantitative measure of public psychological pressure.
Linguistics models for system analysis- Chuluundorj.BKhulan Jugder
This document discusses various models and concepts for analyzing systems, including:
1. It describes different types of systems including mechanistic, animate, social, and ecological systems.
2. It discusses open, closed, and semi-closed systems and how they interact with their environments.
3. Several mathematical and scientific concepts are proposed as models for linguistic and semantic analysis, such as group theory, topology, Hilbert spaces, and quantum mechanics.
4. The document suggests that these concepts from mathematics, physics, and other fields can provide frameworks for understanding semantic structures, mental representations, and cognitive processes.
This document provides an overview of medical physics and biophysics. It discusses key topics in systemology including the definition of a system, system classification, inputs and outputs, and modeling biological systems. The key points are:
1. Biophysics uses physical laws to explain phenomena in biology. It studies systems at the molecular, cellular, and whole organism levels.
2. A system is a set of interconnected elements that function as a whole. Systems can be simple or complex, deterministic or probabilistic.
3. Inputs enter a system from the environment and outputs exit the system, connecting it to the environment. Models are used to test and understand real systems.
I argue in favour of an elementary analogy that links physical and biological systems. In two words, the interplay between reproduction and cooperation may turn out to be relevant to both physics and biology.
This basic analogy has probably been overlooked as a consequence of the "shut up and calculate" dogma which dominated 20th century physics.
This document discusses the connection between deterministic evolution over time and differential equations from philosophical, historical, and mathematical perspectives.
From a philosophical viewpoint, the author argues that deterministic motion can be associated with semigroups and is characterized by differential equations with time derivatives. Historically, the exponential function and semigroup theory emerged from efforts to solve linear differential equations. Mathematically, the document outlines the basic theory of uniformly, strongly, and σ(X,F)-continuous semigroups of linear operators and their generators.
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Complexity Theory and Organization Science
Philip Anderson
Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire 03755-9000
Abstract
Complex organizations exhibit surprising, nonlinear behavior.
Although organization scientists have studied complex organi-
zations for many years, a developing set of conceptual and com-
putational tools makes possible new approaches to modeling
nonlinear interactions within and between organizations. Com-
plex adaptive system models represent a genuinely new way of
simplifying the complex. They are characterized by four key
elements: agents with schemata, self-organizing networks sus-
tained by importing energy, coevolution to the edge of chaos,
and system evolution based on recombination. New types of
models that incorporate these elements will push organization
science forward by merging empirical observation with com-
putational agent-based simulation. Applying complex adaptive
systems models to strategic management leads to an emphasis
on building systems that can rapidly evolve effective adaptive
solutions. Strategic direction of complex organizations consists
of establishing and modifying environments within which ef-
fective, improvised, self-organized solutions can evolve. Man-
agers influence strategic behavior by altering the fitness land-
scape for local agents and reconfiguring the organizational
architecture within which agents adapt.
(Complexity Theory; Organizational Evolution; Strategic
Management)
Since the open-systems view of organizations began to
diffuse in the 1960s, comnplexity has been a central con-
struct in the vocabulary of organization scientists. Open
systems are open because they exchange resources with
the environment, and they are systems because they con-
sist of interconnected components that work together. In
his classic discussion of hierarchy in 1962, Simon defined
a complex s ...
This document discusses applying thermodynamic concepts and methods to ecology. The author proposes the "entropy pump hypothesis" - that climatic and environmental conditions organize ecosystems in a way that only a natural ecosystem specific to those conditions can achieve dynamic equilibrium. The author then calculates the entropy production for an ecosystem under anthropogenic stress over a one-year period, showing that the entropy produced must be "pumped out" by solar energy to maintain steady-state conditions. The document examines how thermodynamic concepts like entropy, exergy, and information theory can provide a physical approach and criteria to analyze ecosystems.
Harnessing WebAssembly for Real-time Stateless Streaming PipelinesChristina Lin
Traditionally, dealing with real-time data pipelines has involved significant overhead, even for straightforward tasks like data transformation or masking. However, in this talk, we’ll venture into the dynamic realm of WebAssembly (WASM) and discover how it can revolutionize the creation of stateless streaming pipelines within a Kafka (Redpanda) broker. These pipelines are adept at managing low-latency, high-data-volume scenarios.
This theory provides a new scientific perspective on social interactions. It includes social phenomena and politics within the systematic study of natural scientific causality and quantity. The key aspects are three axioms: Differentiation, Complementarities, and Alteration, called the Axioms of Vital Time and Space. These axioms are applied to analyze concepts like culture, civilization, ethics, and international relations. The goal is to develop a natural theory to help address issues in human social, cultural, and political interactions.
Fundamental Characteristics of a Complex Systemijtsrd
In this review basic concepts are presented, as well as the fundamental characteristics related to Complexity and some examples of their applications in organizations. It is an interdisciplinary area that is becoming increasingly important in the relentless pursuit of science to expand the limits of our knowledge and the laws governing the phenomena of nature. The main argument of this paper is that the understanding and consequent application of such approaches in the organizational process, provides an improvement in the decision making. Celso Luis Levada | Osvaldo Missiato | Antonio Luis Ferrari | Miriam De Magalhães Oliveira Levada "Fundamental Characteristics of a Complex System" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-6 , October 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd28098.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/other/28098/fundamental-characteristics-of-a-complex-system/celso-luis-levada
This document discusses biology and language from a biological perspective. It addresses two questions: 1) What processes must occur for an organism to establish a linguistic domain with another organism? 2) What processes occur in a linguistic interaction that allow an organism to describe and predict events it may experience? The document defines key terms from an epistemological and biological perspective to lay the groundwork for addressing these questions, including definitions of observer, unity, organization, structure, property, space, and interaction.
This document summarizes the relationship between systems biology and theoretical physics. It discusses how systems biology combines experimental techniques with mathematical modeling to understand biological processes, and how this field draws from both engineering and physics approaches. While engineering aims to numerically simulate biological systems, physics seeks universal principles and laws. The document reviews how concepts from physics, like statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics, have influenced systems biology research and how further integrating theoretical physics perspectives could aid understanding of biological systems.
A PHYSICAL THEORY OF INFORMATION VS. A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATIONijistjournal
This article introduces a general notion of physical bit information that is compatible with the basics of quantum mechanics and incorporates the Shannon entropy as a special case. This notion of physical information leads to the Binary data matrix model (BDM), which predicts the basic results of quantum mechanics, general relativity, and black hole thermodynamics. The compatibility of the model with holographic, information conservation, and Landauer’s principle are investigated. After deriving the “Bit Information principle” as a consequence of BDM, the fundamental equations of Planck, De Broglie, Bekenstein, and mass-energy equivalence are derived.
A PHYSICAL THEORY OF INFORMATION VS. A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF COMMUNICATIONijistjournal
This article introduces a general notion of physical bit information that is compatible with the basics of quantum mechanics and incorporates the Shannon entropy as a special case. This notion of physical information leads to the Binary data matrix model (BDM), which predicts the basic results of quantum mechanics, general relativity, and black hole thermodynamics. The compatibility of the model with holographic, information conservation, and Landauer’s principle are investigated. After deriving the “Bit Information principle” as a consequence of BDM, the fundamental equations of Planck, De Broglie, Bekenstein, and mass-energy equivalence are derived.
1. The study of chaos analyzes nonlinear dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. While a universal definition of chaos is still lacking, mathematicians generally agree that chaos involves sensitive dependence on initial conditions, mixing, and dense periodic points.
2. This paper formulates a new approach to studying chaos in discrete dynamical systems based on concepts from inverse problems, set-valued mappings, graphical convergence theory, and topology. The author argues that order, chaos and complexity can be viewed as parts of a unified mathematical structure applying topological convergence theory to increasingly nonlinear mappings.
3. By applying concepts from spectral approximation theory and introducing "latent chaotic states", the author aims to develop a theory of chaos and interpret how nature
NG2S: A Study of Pro-Environmental Tipping Point via ABMsKan Yuenyong
A study of tipping point: much less is known about the most efficient ways to reach such transitions or how self-reinforcing systemic transformations might be instigated through policy. We employ an agent-based model to study the emergence of social tipping points through various feedback loops that have been previously identified to constitute an ecological approach to human behavior. Our model suggests that even a linear introduction of pro-environmental affordances (action opportunities) to a social system can have non-linear positive effects on the emergence of collective pro-environmental behavior patterns.
This document presents an internship report on studying atomic dynamics out of thermal equilibrium using a three-level atom model. It first derives a Markovian master equation to describe the dynamics of open quantum systems interacting with environments. It then introduces the model of a system interacting with electromagnetic fields at and out of thermal equilibrium. Finally, it examines three-level atom configurations (ladder, Λ, and V) and how population inversion can be achieved when the environment is out of thermal equilibrium.
Partitions and entropies intel third draftAnna Movsheva
The document discusses statistical properties of the entropy function of a random partition. It introduces the concept of counting the number of partitions of a set X that have entropy less than or equal to some value x. This counting function is denoted Θ(p, x). The document hypothesizes that the normalized counting function θ(p, x) = Θ(p, x)/Θ(H(p, X)) can be approximated by a cumulative Gaussian distribution, with the mean and standard deviation of the distribution being functions of the probability distribution p. Evidence for this conjecture is provided by computer simulations.
The Majority Rule is applied to a topology that consists of two coupled
random networks, thereby mimicking the modular structure observed in social
networks. We calculate analytically the asymptotic behaviour of the model and derive a
phase diagram that depends on the frequency of random opinion flips and on the inter-
connectivity between the two communities. It is shown that three regimes may take
place: a disordered regime, where no collective phenomena takes place; a symmetric
regime, where the nodes in both communities reach the same average opinion; an
asymmetric regime, where the nodes in each community reach an opposite average
opinion. The transition from the asymmetric regime to the symmetric regime is shown
to be discontinuous.
How to Calculate the Public Psychological Pressure in the Social NetworksTELKOMNIKA JOURNAL
1) The document proposes a method to quantitatively calculate public psychological pressure on social networks using principles of social computing and information entropy.
2) It describes using a maximum entropy approach to model social events as multidimensional random variables, where the entropy function is maximized when the joint probability distribution is uniform.
3) The entropy calculation for multidimensional random variables representing a social event is similar to a single variable, where the entropy is the logarithm of the number of possible value combinations of the variable subsets. This provides a quantitative measure of public psychological pressure.
Linguistics models for system analysis- Chuluundorj.BKhulan Jugder
This document discusses various models and concepts for analyzing systems, including:
1. It describes different types of systems including mechanistic, animate, social, and ecological systems.
2. It discusses open, closed, and semi-closed systems and how they interact with their environments.
3. Several mathematical and scientific concepts are proposed as models for linguistic and semantic analysis, such as group theory, topology, Hilbert spaces, and quantum mechanics.
4. The document suggests that these concepts from mathematics, physics, and other fields can provide frameworks for understanding semantic structures, mental representations, and cognitive processes.
This document provides an overview of medical physics and biophysics. It discusses key topics in systemology including the definition of a system, system classification, inputs and outputs, and modeling biological systems. The key points are:
1. Biophysics uses physical laws to explain phenomena in biology. It studies systems at the molecular, cellular, and whole organism levels.
2. A system is a set of interconnected elements that function as a whole. Systems can be simple or complex, deterministic or probabilistic.
3. Inputs enter a system from the environment and outputs exit the system, connecting it to the environment. Models are used to test and understand real systems.
I argue in favour of an elementary analogy that links physical and biological systems. In two words, the interplay between reproduction and cooperation may turn out to be relevant to both physics and biology.
This basic analogy has probably been overlooked as a consequence of the "shut up and calculate" dogma which dominated 20th century physics.
This document discusses the connection between deterministic evolution over time and differential equations from philosophical, historical, and mathematical perspectives.
From a philosophical viewpoint, the author argues that deterministic motion can be associated with semigroups and is characterized by differential equations with time derivatives. Historically, the exponential function and semigroup theory emerged from efforts to solve linear differential equations. Mathematically, the document outlines the basic theory of uniformly, strongly, and σ(X,F)-continuous semigroups of linear operators and their generators.
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Complexity Theory and Organization Science
Philip Anderson
Amos Tuck School, Dartmouth College, Hanover New Hampshire 03755-9000
Abstract
Complex organizations exhibit surprising, nonlinear behavior.
Although organization scientists have studied complex organi-
zations for many years, a developing set of conceptual and com-
putational tools makes possible new approaches to modeling
nonlinear interactions within and between organizations. Com-
plex adaptive system models represent a genuinely new way of
simplifying the complex. They are characterized by four key
elements: agents with schemata, self-organizing networks sus-
tained by importing energy, coevolution to the edge of chaos,
and system evolution based on recombination. New types of
models that incorporate these elements will push organization
science forward by merging empirical observation with com-
putational agent-based simulation. Applying complex adaptive
systems models to strategic management leads to an emphasis
on building systems that can rapidly evolve effective adaptive
solutions. Strategic direction of complex organizations consists
of establishing and modifying environments within which ef-
fective, improvised, self-organized solutions can evolve. Man-
agers influence strategic behavior by altering the fitness land-
scape for local agents and reconfiguring the organizational
architecture within which agents adapt.
(Complexity Theory; Organizational Evolution; Strategic
Management)
Since the open-systems view of organizations began to
diffuse in the 1960s, comnplexity has been a central con-
struct in the vocabulary of organization scientists. Open
systems are open because they exchange resources with
the environment, and they are systems because they con-
sist of interconnected components that work together. In
his classic discussion of hierarchy in 1962, Simon defined
a complex s ...
This document discusses applying thermodynamic concepts and methods to ecology. The author proposes the "entropy pump hypothesis" - that climatic and environmental conditions organize ecosystems in a way that only a natural ecosystem specific to those conditions can achieve dynamic equilibrium. The author then calculates the entropy production for an ecosystem under anthropogenic stress over a one-year period, showing that the entropy produced must be "pumped out" by solar energy to maintain steady-state conditions. The document examines how thermodynamic concepts like entropy, exergy, and information theory can provide a physical approach and criteria to analyze ecosystems.
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Measuring Social Complexity and the Emergence of Cooperation from Entropic Principles. The Collapse of Rapa Nui as a Case Study
1. Measuring Social Complexity and the Emergence of
Cooperation from Entropic Principles. The Collapse of
Rapa Nui as a Case Study
O L´opez-Corona1,2,3,*
, P Padilla2
, E Schmelkes2
, JC Toledo-Roy2
, A Frank2
, A Huerta5
, D
Mustri-Trejo6
, K P´erez2
, A Ruiz2
, O Vald´es2
, and F Zamudio2
1
Instituto de Investigaci´on sobre Desarrollo Sustentable y Equidad Social, Universidad
Iberoamericana, CDMX, M´exico
2
Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Aut´onoma de M´exico, CDMX,
M´exico
3
Former: C´atedras CONACyT, Universidad Aut´noma Chapingo, Estado de M´exico, M´exico
4
Instituto de Investigaci´on en Matem´aticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional
Aut´onoma de M´exico, CDMX, M´exico
5
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Aut´onoma de M´exico, CDMX, M´exico
6
Maestr´ıa en F´ısica, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, M´exico
7
Grupo de Estad´ıstica Social, Universidad Aut´onoma Chapingo, Estado de M´exico, M´exico
All authors contributed equally to this work.
*
Correspondence: lopezoliverx@otrasenda.org, Tel: +52-55-5950-4339
Abstract
The quantitative assessment of the state and dynamics
of a social system is a very difficult problem. This
issue is important for both practical and theoretical
reasons such as establishing the efficiency of social
action programs, detecting possible community needs
or allocating resources. In this paper we propose a new
general theoretical framework for the study of social
complexity, based on the relation of complexity and
entropy in combination with evolutionary dynamics
to assess the dynamics of the system. Imposing the
second law of thermodynamics, we study the conditions
under which cooperation emerges and demonstrate
that it depends on the relative importance of local
and global fitness. As cooperation is a central concept
in sustainability, this thermodynamic-informational
approach allows new insights and means to assess it
using the concept of Helmholtz free energy. We then
introduce a new set of equations that consider the more
general case where the social system changes both in
time and space, and relate our findings to sustainability.
Finally we present a model for the collapse of Rapa
Nui island civilization in NetLogo. We applied our
approach to measure both the entropy production and
the complexity of the system and the results support
our purpose that sustainability needs a positive entropy
production regime which is related to cooperation
emergence.
I. Introduction
Complexity comes from the Latin plexus, which means
interwoven. Something complex is thus difficult to
divide, since its interactions are partially responsible
for the future of the system [1].
Given that interactions generate novel information, a
reductionist scientific approach has been recognized to
be inappropriate for studying complex systems, since it
attempts to simplify and separate each component in
order to predict its behavior [1]. Considering that the
information generated by the interactions is not included
in its initial and boundary conditions, the predictability
of the system is restricted by Wolfram’s computational
irreducibility [2].
Interactions can also be used by components for self-
organization, producing global patterns from local dy-
namics. Furthermore, another major source of com-
plexity is the fact that the interactions themselves may
change in time, generating non-stationary state spaces.
Therefore, even when a solution can in principle be cal-
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culated, it will become inapplicableat in a futue point if
the problem for which it was originally obtained ceases
to exist [1].
Just as Lyapunov exponents characterize different dy-
namical regimes, or temperature represents a statistical
average of the kinetic energy of the system, it would be
very useful to have global measures for complexity. The
interactions between the components in each particular
case are difficult to calculate, but complexity measures
that represent the type of interactions between them
can actually be calculated.
A useful measure of complexity should enable us to
answer questions along the follow lines: Is a desert more
or less complex than a tundra? What is the complexity
of different influenza outbreaks? Which organisms are
more complex: predators or prey; parasites or hosts; in-
dividuals or society? What is the complexity of different
music genres? [3]
As Michaelian (2000) [4] has pointed out, one of the
greatest misconceptions preventing the description of
biological or social systems from a physical perspective
had its origin in the concept of entropy, and the for-
mulation of the second law of Thermodynamics during
the original development of the theory of heat engines.
In this context, entropy is a measure of the energy
that is not available to perform work. Boltzmann later
developed Clausius’s concept at the microscopic level,
relating the entropy of a system to the probability (pi)
of it existing in a macroscopic state, based on the num-
ber of equivalent microscopic states that are consistent
with the macroscopic state. Here entropy is defined as:
S = − pi log pi (1)
Entropy, unfortunately, became associated with dis-
order, the antithesis of complexity. How was it possible
that biological or social systems appeared to increase
their complexity and reduce disorder, when the second
law seems to demand its decrease? One of the most ac-
cepted of these explanations establishes that the second
law applies only to closed systems, and hence it does
not apply directly to biological or social systems which
are not closed (they exchange energy, matter and infor-
mation with their environment). Then, these kind of
systems may only reduce their entropy at the expense of
the environment, with which they form a closed system.
As discussed by Brooks in his book Evolution as En-
tropy, the key to solving this apparent paradox is to
realize that biological and social systems are nonequi-
librium phenomena characterized by an growing phase
space and a tendency for realized diversity to lag behind
a maximum in entropy. In a physical context, two of
the postulated mechanisms for increasing the number
of microstates were the expansion of the universe, and
the production of elementary particles [6].
Let us consider the diagram in Fig 1 where the vertical
Fig 1. Adapted from ”Evolution as Entropy” [7],
shows the relation between the total information
capacity of a system, associated with the maximum
available entropy, and the actual information content
of the system after all macroscopic constraints are
applied.
axis is a measure of the entropy of the system (S). If
the maximum entropy Smax grows with time, then the
observed entropy or the final entropy that is attained
once all constraints (macroscopical and historical) has
been taken into account may also grow.
Considering a more abstract definition of entropy,
given a string of characters X, composed by a sequence
of values or symbols x which follow a probability dis-
tribution P(x), information (according to Shannon) is
defined as,
I = − p(x) log p(x) (2)
which has the same functional form as physical entropy.
Therefore, in this work we shall talk about entropy (S)
and information (I) interchangeably. Then, maximum
entropy Smax is the system’s total information capacity,
while observed entropy (Sobs) is the actual information
content. The macroscopic constraint is macroscopic
information and the historical constraint is historically-
excluded information.
Further, Gershenson and coworkers [5] have proposed
that complexity (C) may be directly measured as,
C = aIout(1 − Iout) (3)
where a is a normalization constant and Iout is the
system’s information after all computations have taken
place. In terms of entropy, it can be written as,
C = aSobs(1 − Sobs) = aS(1 − S) (4)
In this form we may measure the complexity of a
system by measuring its entropy.
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II. Complexity in Evolutionary
Dynamics
At this point, we present a simple computation in the
context of game theory as applied to the social sciences
that poses some interesting questions. Essentially, we
show that if social interactions are described by a game
and we compute the associated entropy, then there
are some cases in which it will increase monotonically.
More precisely, assume for simplicity and without loss
of generality that individuals in a society can adopt
two strategies A or B, and let xA and xB describe the
proportion of the population choosing strategy A and
B respectively. So we have xA + xB = 1. Since they are
both positive, we can interpret them as probabilities.
We assume, in the standard context of game theory,
that they satisfy the replicator equations,
˙xA = (fA (xA, xB) − φ)xA
˙xB = (fB (xA, xB) − φ)xB
(5)
where the dot indicates the derivative with respect to
time, fA (xA, xB) describes the fitness level assigned
to an individual that adopts strategy A, and φ is the
average fitness. Now, we may define the entropy of the
system as,
S(xA, xB) = −[xA ln xA + xB ln xB] = − xi ln xi
(6)
and the corresponding entropy production as,
dS(xA, xB)
dt
= − [ ˙xi ln xi] (7)
since xi = 1 and therefore d
dt xi = 0. Using the
replicator equation we finally get,
dS
dt
= − xi (fi − φ) ln xi (8)
III. Sustainability and Emer-
gence of Cooperation
This is an interesting formulation because the sign of the
entropy production depends on whether the fitness of a
particular population exceeds the average fitness of the
entire population or not. Of course we should be careful
about exactly which entropy we are measuring. For all
open thermodynamic systems, entropy production has
two terms, internal and external, so,
dS
dt
=
dSi
dt
+
dSe
dt
(9)
All macroscopic systems and processes with an un-
derlying physical basis are subject to definite thermo-
dynamic laws. One of the most important is the second
law of thermodynamics, which establishes that the inter-
nal production of entropy due to irreversible processes
occurring within the system must be positive,
dSi
dt
> 0 (10)
and, for some special cases where external constraints
are constant, classical irreversible thermodynamic the-
ory establishes that the system will eventually arrive at
a thermodynamic stationary state in which all macro-
scopic variables, including the total entropy, are station-
ary in time,
dS
dt
= 0 (11)
and therefore,
dSi
dt
= −
dSe
dt
(12)
implying that,
dSe
dt
< 0 (13)
Maintaining such a system in a stable thermodynamic
stationary state requires a continuous flow of entropy
into the system.
As the (6) is the total entropy of the game, then
the game will evolve to a thermodynamic stationary
state when there exists a dominant strategy. Strategic
dominance (commonly called simple dominance) occurs
when for one player one strategy is better than the
other strategies, no matter how his opponents may play.
Many simple games can be solved using dominance. The
opposite, intransitivity, occurs in games where for one
player one strategy may be better or worse than another
strategy, depending on how his opponents may play.
Let us assume that A is the dominant strategy and
let us write the entropy explicitly,
dS
dt
= − [xA (fA − φ) ln xA]−[xB (fB − φ) ln xB] (14)
then, since A is dominant, the population with this
strategy has to decline over time since its fitness is
lower than the average and eventually will disappear.
Then, since the population with strategy B is the entire
population, the fitness of B and the average fitness are
the same and entropy production is zero, reaching a
stationary state. This of course means that if the game
is representing a social process, this process will require
a continuous flow of entropy into the system, which is
not sustainable.
Most interesting is that from the thermodynamic
stand point, sustainability (understood as the capac-
ity of a system to reach states of greater longevity) is
attained by minimizing the Helmholtz free energy,
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F = U − TS (15)
where T is the temperature of the system associated
with the internal randomness, and U is the internal
energy associated with the energy due to interactions [4].
There are two ways of minimizing Helmholtz free energy,
one is by minimizing U and the other is by maximizing
S. Most of the time the internal energy U is fixed or
cannot be controlled deliberately, so the only alternative
is maximizing the entropy. As dS/dt > 0, entropy grows
and the system is in a more sustainable configuration.
In contrast, when dS/dt < 0 entropy decreases and the
system is moving away from sustainability.
Positive entropy production is only achievable when
the average fitness is greater that the local one and
that corresponds to cooperative games. Cooperation
is essential to sustainability, as might be expected, but
now we have a quantitative indicator for measuring how
sustainable a system is.
Another interesting aspect of this formulation is that
it also clarifies the role of entropy in complexity. We
have shown that complexity may be indirectly measured
by using the system’s entropy, but again we must be
very careful in not oversimplifying this with the false
idea that complexity and entropy are exactly the same:
they are related but they are not the same. The common
conception of complexity, prevalent among physicists, is
based on the notion of a noninteracting ideal gas. It is
only in this case that a direct association with entropy
has some legitimacy. In the real world, interactions are
an integral part of the ordering of material particles.
In fact, as pointed out by Michaelian (2000) [4], a defi-
nition of order had been given long ago by Helmholtz
in his formulation of free energy (15). Increasing the
entropy in (15) decreases the free energy of the system.
In this scheme, order has a very natural description,
and increasing the order of the system makes it more
stable, lasting longer in time, more sustainable. This is
true in the ideal gas approaching equilibrium, the crys-
tallization of matter, or the evolutionary dynamics of a
community of interacting biological or social systems.
Then, the association between information and en-
tropy is tricky because complexity is measured as in-
formation after all the computations of the system has
been carried out. This information, of course is partially
comprised of interactions and thus the entropy to be
used must include them. The entropy that appears in
the Helmholtz free energy expression is thus appropriate.
This allows us to make a direct connection with the en-
tropy production calculated from the replicator equation
and, as Michaleian [4] suggests, identify sustainability
with Helmholtz free energy minimization. Then, fitness
is a measure of this capacity for minimization.
Until now, in this first approximation, we have only
worked with the temporal dimension and not even fully
so, because we have assumed that interactions do not
change over time. But, of course, in social systems inter-
actions may evolve with time; for example two agents
that used to cooperate may suddenly stop cooperating
(or vice-versa), changing the form of the interaction and
thus the entropy of the system as Axelrod proved [8].
Even more, the spatial dimension plays a key role in
the emergence of cooperation [9] so we must understand
how it contributes to entropy.
Let us begin by considering only the spatial contribu-
tion to entropy with non-time-dependent interactions
in a system of n replicator equations in a space defined
by a set of rj coordinates as,
∂xi(rj, t)
∂t
= xi (fi(x1, ..., xi, ..., xn) − φ) (16)
We assume some basic probabilistic properties for
these equations as if 0 ≤ xi(rj, 0) ≤ 1 then for every
subsequent time period 0 ≤ xi(rj, t) ≤ 1. In the same
way if xi(rj, 0) = 1 then for every subsequent time
period xi(rj, t) = 1.
Under these considerations, the first approximation
for considering a spatial contribution would be intro-
ducing a diffusive term in the replicator equations,
∂xi(rj, t)
∂t
= i∆xi + xi (fi − φ) (17)
where i is a diffusion coefficient and ∆ is the laplacian
operator.
Now, an interesting question arises: under which
conditions is the rate of change of total entropy,
d
dt
Ω
S(rj, t)drj, is larger than zero, so the second law of
thermodynamics holds?
We have that,
d
dt
Ω
S(rj, t)drj =
Ω
∂
∂t
S(rj, t)drj (18)
and using the definition of entropy, S = − xi ln xi,
d
dt
Ω
S(rj, t)drj = −
Ω
∂
∂t
(xi ln xi) drj
(19)
Applying the derivative and using the replicator equa-
tion,
d
dt
Ω
S(rj, t)drj = −
Ω
∂
∂t
xi(rj, t)
+ [ i∆xi + xi (fi − φ)] ln xi drj
(20)
and using the normalization condition xi(rj, t) = 1
it turns out that ∂
∂t ( xi(rj, t)) = 0, and so,
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d
dt
Ω
S(rj, t)drj = −
Ω
{[ i∆xi
+xi (fi − φ)] ln xi} drj
(21)
and finally,
d
dt
Ω
S(rj, t)drj = −
Ω
i∆xi ln xidrj
−
Ω
xi (fi − φ) ln xidrj
(22)
Now the sign of the entropy production is, in part,
defined by the sign of (fi − φ) in the second integral
but, also, by the spatial term in the first. Focusing on
the spatial integral and using the Divergence Theorem
we obtain that,
Ω
i∆xi ln xidrj = −
Ω
xi · (ln xi) drj
+
∂Ω
ln xi
∂xi
∂rj
dσ
(23)
where an inflow of probability to the region Ω is sta-
blished when ∂xi
∂rj
> 0 and an outflow from the region
occurs when ∂xi
∂rj
< 0. Considering that ln xi = 1
xi
xi
then we have that
Ω
i∆xi ln xidrj > 0 for positive prob-
ability flux.
These results imply that if φ > fi and the probabil-
ity flux is positive then we recover the second law of
thermodynamics dSi
dt ≥ 0.
Now let’s consider a more general case where the
interaction may change in time and space. For this
instead of the replicator equation, we start by using the
L´opez-Padilla equations [10].
∂xi(rj, t)
∂t
= div [ei(rj, t) xi(rj, t)] (24)
where xi is the probability of finding a player in the
position rj at the time t; and e(rj, t) is the corresponding
strategy that obeys the equation,
∂ei(rj, t)
∂t
= −div [fi(rj, t)ei(rj, t)]
+ 2
[φ(rj, t)ei(rj, t)]
(25)
As before, we want to calculate entropy production,
d
dt
Ω
S(rj, t)drj = −
Ω
∂
∂t
(xi ln xi) drj
(26)
but now we use the new set of equations.
d
dt
Ω
S(rj, t)drj =
−
Ω
{div [ei(rj, t) xi(rj, t)] ln xi} drj
(27)
This new expression for entropy production considers
the complete contributions of space and interactions,
but now the analysis for determine the conditions in
which entropy production is monotonous is not a trivial
one, and it will depend on the nature of the interactions
represented by the strategies e(rj, t).
IV. The Collapse of Rapa Nui Is-
land, a case of study
Easter Island, also called Rapa Nui by its inhabitants,
is a place so remote that its civilization never contacted
any other human group from the time of its settlement
(c. 000-1200 a.d. [11]) to the year the first Europeans
arrived in the island (1722 a.d.). This civilization flour-
ished for for several centuries, developing an impressive
economy and culture. However, between 1600 and 1800
a.d. the Rapa Nui civilization underwent ecological,
societal, and economic collapse. From a high watermark
of around 13000 people [12], the population of the is-
land crashed to 3000 in less than two hundred years.
The reason for this collapse is as yet unknown, but the
most accepted hypothesis is that excess deforestation of
the island caused a food shortage that led to internal
warfare and an eventual radical decline in population
and material culture [13].
The population of Rapa Nui survived and thrived on
a few sources of food. They grew taro and bananas,
bred Polynesian chickens, fished tuna and dolphins and
gathered shallow-water mollusks. Though the island has
been barren since we have record of it, pollen records
offer strong evidence that the island was once completely
covered by palm trees [14]. The Rapa Nui people must
have cut down these trees to clear land for agriculture,
and to build vessels to fish in the open ocean [13].
The monumental stone statues of the island, called
moai, were built during this period of growth and pros-
perity. However, at some point in the 17th century,
obsidian spearheads begin to appear in the archaeo-
logical records [15]. After a thousand years of peace,
war broke out between the clans of the island. When
the island was first contacted by Europeans, the great
statues were all standing, but each successive European
visitor to the island during the 18th and early 19th cen-
turies records more and more toppled moai. By 1850,
all statues had been toppled, and the island had shifted
to a different religion and form of government.
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IV.1 The Rapa Nui Model
The fact that this self-contained ecosystem harbored
a population that had no contact with any other civi-
lization, and therefore no trade, migration or military
activity, makes it a very interesting natural economic
experiment. This model was first developed in Elisa
Schmelkes undergraduate dissertation to create a simu-
lation of the island that could bring us closer to under-
standing what caused the collapse of Rapa Nui. The
model uses system dynamics and two interacting stocks
of population and resources to create a simple simulation
of a coupled population-resource system.
In this model, the variable that determines the class
of outcome obtained in the simulation (stability, oscil-
lation or collapse) is technology, defined here as access
to the scarcest resource in the system. This variable,
which relates to labor productivity, affects the speed
at which population grows, and hence the speed with
which it can recover from ecological crashes. When a
population has low access to its scarcest (renewable)
resource, it cannot grow fast enough to erode it, and
reaches ecological equilibrium. At intermediate levels of
access, when the population starts eroding the resource,
as population grows resource levels fall, allowing the
resource to recover and oscillate. Finally, when a popu-
lation has high access to its scarcest resource, it grows
too fast at a rate that exceeds its capacity for recov-
ery. Once this happens, it’s too late for the resource to
recover, and they both collapse.
In order to further study the dynamics of the system,
the model was later extended into a spatial agent-based
model with several different clans. Each clan is an
agent and grows organically according to the rules of the
earlier model. The finite area of the island is subdivided
into patches that contain resources, determining the
carrying capacity. Each of the patches can be harvested
for resources, and its resources renovate according to
the erosion of the entire island. Each clan initially owns
a single patch of land. As the clans grow and require
more food, they begin acquiring more land by occyping
nearby patches, until the entire island is settled.
We introduced competition by including in this ex-
panded model several strategies that can be taken by
each of the agents. Loosely following the model for bac-
terial coexistence proposed by [16] Kerr et al. (2002),
each of the agents (i.e. clans) can use their human
resources to either (a) be more productive and grow
faster, (b) be more aggressive and take other clans’
patches more easily, or (c) defend itself from attacks by
other clans. Aggression is considered more expensive
than resistance and thus imposes a heavier resource toll,
generating Rock-Paper-Scissors-like dynamics. Further,
each turn the clans see if their strategy has worked by
checking whether they have grown in the past two turns.
If they haven’t, they randomly choose another strategy.
This generates interesting new dynamics. Initially,
the clans that invest their resources into growth, tend to
dominate the landscape, and then engage in battle with
the aggressive clans. At mid to high levels of technology,
the aggressive clans usually win out and dominate in
the end. However, at lower levels, they mostly coexist
as they reach an equilibrium with their environment.
By applying the methods of analysis proposed in
this paper to the dynamics of the Rapa Nui model, we
shown (see Fig. 2) that while the total population and
resources curves do not intersect, the system is in a
steady state (dS/dt = 0) with virtually homogeneous
population growth for all clans. It seems that the clan
with the greatest initial growth will go thorough a more
drastic population drop and will face collapse earlier.
When the population and resources curves intersect, the
systems lose stationarity (dS/dt = 0). At this point
for the sustainability experiment (low levels of fragility)
where cooperation emerges and all clans coexists, neg-
ative entropy production takes place but the systems
reacts to it with a positive entropy flow, and after a
short oscillation in entropy production the system con-
verges (from positive entropy production values) to a
new stationary state. Initially, we observe a decrease
of complexity while population is growing and before
the curves intersect. Then, after intersection, the sys-
tem responds with soft complexity gain and subsequent
stabilization. On the other hand, when we have high
values of fragility (the collapse experiment) after the
loss of stationarity, the system enters negative entropy
production, as with the sustainability experiment. Then
the system also responds with flows of positive entropy.
However, in contrast with the previous case, the system
does not converge to stationarity but remains in a mode
of negative entropy production. Negative entropy pro-
duction grows in a step fashion with positive entropy
production deltas whenever a clan collapses. When only
one (or no) clan subsists, the system reaches a new
non-cooperative stationary state. From the complexity
perspective, every time a clan collapses there is a jump
in the complexity growing process and the final com-
plexity value in the collapse experiment is lower that
the one reached in the sustainability experiment.
V. Discussion and Conclusions
Our proposed new equation is very general and for the
first time (to our knowledge) takes into account the
contributions of both interactions and space, as well
as their time dependence. In the more restricted case
where the spatial component is not taken into account,
we have analytically shown that the emergence of co-
operation is a consequence of entropic principles and
that it may be induced by controlling the difference
between global and local fitness. This mathematical
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Fig 2. Examples of NetLogo Rapa Nui experiments
under different leves of fragility to induce
sustainability or collapse. The upper sub-figure is the
low fragility experiment where sustainability emerges
and higher values of complexity are reached. The
bottom sub-figure is the high fragility experiment
that leads to a civilization collapse in which only one
clan prevails and correspond to lowest values of
complexity
conclusion is supported by the results measured in the
Rapa Nui Model, in which collapse takes place only
when a negative entropy production gets established,
meaning that local fitness is greater than global fitness.
Further, when the system dynamics is dominated by
positive entropy production, cooperation emerges (clans
coexist) and greater values of complexity are reached
once the system returns to stationarity. Thus the hy-
pothesis that sustainability is related to positive entropy
production regimes, corresponding to greater values of
complexity, is confirmed at least for this model. This
seems to us very important, because it opens the door
to the construction of sustainability indicators based on
entropy and complexity measurements.
Acknowledgements
OLC thanks Fondo Capital Semilla at Universidad
Iberoamericana, former support of Catedras CONA-
CyT and to SNI program with number 62929.
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