Session 14
Interlude (2)
- Life and knowledge at higher levels of organization
Thursday,
August 20, 2015 - 5:30 PM
Seminar Room
B309, Engineering Block B
The theory of life and knowledge presented here accounts for the emergence
of living systems at levels of organization above living cells. "Social"
interactions of cells eventually led to the emergence of multicellular entities
that have their own properties of life, cognition, knowledge and evolutionary
histories. Similarly, similarly, social interactions of multicellular organisms
like people eventually led to the emergence of knowledge-based social entities
like corporations, sports clubs, churches and a variety of other kinds of
discrete organizations.
- Dynamic structure, Herbert Simon's theory of hierarchical complexity and
the levels of biological organization
- The natures of living and explicit knowledge and cognition at different
levels of organization
- New levels of organization can emerge within or on the top of an existing
hierarchy
- Organizational autopoiesis, cognition and knowledge in human economic and
social organizations are not to be confused with these phenomena in single
individuals.
