id: 1161,7D
title: Augment self-organization to change how it evolves.
date: 2022-03-06

Augment self-organization to change how it evolves.

Self-organization allows a system to change its rules and feedback loops, among other lower-tier leverage points. New experiments and patterns will help evolve toward a better direction. Higher level control mechanisms can produce monoculture which harms evolvability; reducing those may help.rM3

  1. ↩

    Donella H. Meadows and Diana Wright, Thinking in Systems: A Primer (White River Junction, Vt: Chelsea Green Pub, 2008). (See notes.)