February 6th, 2023

as soon as I think I know, I trap myself

but freedom's right there if I can release it

> This excellent paper on “Self-Organization in Communicating Groups” by Francis Heylighen at the Free University of Brussels (which I’ll be borrowing from liberally) describes the four requirements for any group of independent “agents” to reach a goal. I want to use this framework to ask the question: What if we thought of our different selves as literally completely different people, with different priorities, skills, and attitudes? How could we use principles of self-organization to get them to work together toward common goals, assuming they are driven primarily by ephemeral states of mind?

The four requirements are:

Alignment: getting the selves to push in the same direction, so they’re not fighting against each other
Specialization: getting the selves to complement each others’ efforts by focusing on the activities they are best suited for
Workflow: getting the selves to hand off tasks to each other efficiently, so they can be completed in stages over time
Aggregation: the assembly of the results of the previous activities into a final product

the main thing I notice as I orient towards playing here is that when I think about trying to have something publishable soon I feel sad & stressed

okay, wait, that's not the point, that's part of the context of having a showtime in my beeminder but that's not the point of this pomo and maybe I'll say "fuckit" to the showtime

point of this pomo is just to explore elaborating on some ideas, not to ask "is this ready to go live?"

I'm feeling in touch with the "don't give people extra problems"

I'm reflecting on like...

anyway, I'm feeling weird and loopy

let me just relax for a minute

ooooh