Posted by Susanne Williams on January 14, 1998 at 06:27:41:

In Reply to: Re: Knowledge Ecology (Ecology of Knowledge)?? posted by Tom Sudman on January 12, 1998 at 20:33:37:

Here's a thought I'd like some views on:

If you take your basic bio-system...a pool with living creatures...

Seems to me you can build a little predictive model based on two factors

Water representing information

Factors:
In/out-flow of information
Critical mass of living beings

You can set out this table:

Flow Yes Flow No
Mass Yes Rich thriving Inbreeding
Mass No Transient Stagnation

Where there is sufficient information flow and the critical mass of creatures is there you get a rich and thriving bio-diverse ecology

Where there is flow but no critical mass you get the problem of being unable to evolve the creatures living in the pool. Each species only exists for one generation. In terms of corporate memory you have transient corporate knowledge because there is nothing to fix the learning. No way to evolve through generation.

Where not enough flow is occuring you either get an inbreeding or mutation of ideas and thought which will eventually lead to stagnation. This time this takes depends on the exitistant mass, and how long it takes to decay. If there is insufficient mass to start with the stagnation occurs within one generation.

Very early development of this idea...wondering if there is a build here somewhere...

Sue

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Follow Ups:

• Flow, diversity and connectedness Denham 07:32:47 1/14/98 (5)
  • Re: Flow, diversity and connectedness Susanne Williams 08:42:52 1/14/98 (4)
    • Life and water Tom Sudman 10:59:13 1/14/98 (3)
      • Life and water & CoPs Susanne Williams 20:51:54 1/20/98 (2)
        • Re: Life and water & CoPs Mezei 14:43:52 1/24/98 (0)
        • Re: Life and water & CoPs Tom Sudman 15:46:13 1/22/98 (0)

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