Corporate organizations like businesses and governments, universities, etc... mimic the functions of an animal with various departments and people acting as organs. Words serve as a primitive very low data rate nervous system, and shekels serve as feeble imitation of blood and nutrients. It's sort of interesting and instructive that these imitation animals tend to inhabit buildings that exclude the natural world. The typical office park is a sterilized and controlled environment. The pattern of these organizations is relatively new (laid out in earlier posts), only 500 or so years old, and it only makes sense within the context of a nation that functions on the same terms.
In prior posts, I laid out how communication via symbolic language is predicated on a shared model of the natural world. The internal model is a low fidelity, distorted, cyclopean version of actual reality. Similarly, the information related to these models is distorted and low fidelity. The meta-mind that arises from these interactions is similarly primitive and distorted and insectoid.
Corporate organizations are not a model of efficiency; they're typically a fountain of waste. "Efficiency" really means that certain individuals get more shekels than they otherwise would. The goals and objectives of the corporate entity are totally arbitrary apart from the nonsense contest for shekels. The flows of information within them are governed by shekel transfers and are nonsensical apart from that.
Compare them with natural systems, which use every iota of available energy and where the full bandwidth of information flows without restriction in its raw forms. In a natural system, a million goals of a billion creatures get satisfied simultaneously and result in an emergent entity.
What would an "organization" look like based on that approach? Interesting question.
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