“A system will capture resources in as complex a fashion as local conditions allow. The drive is to increase counter entropic complexity of order when possible and motivated across as wide a range of conditions as may be conserved reliably.”
JMF
“The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy (a measure of disorder) of an isolated system—like our universe—will always increase over time.”
Wikipedia
There are two species characteristics that are essential in restricting egoism and developing modern human social existence.
We are social animals. We have a bit of an innate herd mentality that focuses on forming large groups and solving the problems of fulfilling their needs as large assemblies, one step up in complexity from individual needs as problem and much more powerful as solution, which leads us to the next characteristic.
We are problem solvers. We cast situations as problems and solutions, naturally and innately. If Kant had looked in the mirror he could possibly have seen the essential a priori, not as a cognitive category, but as a predisposition to cast situations as problem solving opportunities. His a priori structures may just be the human mind casting experience as problems and solutions.
These two conditions combine to inform the whole of human social existence. The essential shared interest in social existence, beyond innate predisposition, is allowing more efficient solutions to problems of material and social existence, efficiency being the mark of counter entropic existence, an arguable biological characteristic. We order our constructed reality efficiently and logically.
So we have two innate predispositions and an innate drive, the drive to an orderly, efficient counter entropic existence that maximizes the group repertoire of possible solutions, solving the problem of limited solution resources.
When this drive is neutralized, when social organization is well adapted to local conditions and a niche existence is effected, a specific form of social existence might endure for centuries without much change providing that the rest of the society is maximizing the repertoire of solutions to the problem of existence. It becomes the control condition on what is easily characterized as a social experiment. It falls into place logically.
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