miércoles, 20 de junio de 2012

Conflictos en la Contracultura peronista; un dibujo de la Warner.





There are two primary challenges faced by all complex, adaptive systems. 

One is an uncertain and noisy environment.

The other is conflict.

Conflict arises when the interests of system components – whether genes, cells, individuals, or states – are not fully aligned.

Some have gone so far as to argue that lack of alignment, or “frustration,” in many body systems is the defining feature of complex systems.

In the long 3.5 billion year history of life on earth organisms and aggregates have devised manifold strategies in order to survive and prosper in the face of conflict.

The solutions that organisms have built for managing conflict are thought to have played a central role in facilitating the major transitions from simple aggregates to more integrated, social organisms, and cultures.

Although these transitions suggest nature has been successful at predicting and managing conflict, the problem is not a simple one.

Controlling conflict is tricky because it is both a destabilizing force and an agent of innovation – thus nature has evolved mechanisms of good management, not suppression.

Conflict can have multiple, nonlinear causes and effects, and these often lie at different timescales (e.g. evolutionary, ontogenetic, societal).

Conflict can be the outcome of competitive processes and involve deception or be generated by differing priorities, communications failures, and error.

Despite this complexity, data indicate that similar conflicts with comparable mechanisms of control have evolved at different levels of biological and social organization.

This suggests that there might be a universal class of mechanisms that have arisen across very different levels to control co-evolutionary escalation.

This focus area brings together evolutionary theorists, immunologists, experts on behavioral conflict in human and animal societies, computer scientists, molecular biologists, economists, and complex systems theorists all seeking to understand how conflict has shaped their systems.

Areas of research include principles of immunity in social, computer and biological immune systems; inductive game theory and the extraction of conflict strategies from time series data; the causes, consequences, and detection of anomalous patterns of conflict; the timescales of conflict and the implications of multiple timescales for individual and system prediction and control of conflict, robustness, and adaptation; tradeoffs between conflict as a source of innovation and conflict as a destabilizing perturbation; and computing adaptive conflict decision-making strategies under uncertainty.




Robustness
Robustness may refer to:

In biology

- Robustness (evolution), the persistence of a system’s characteristic behavior under perturbations or conditions of uncertainty.
According to the kind of perturbation involved, it can be classified as mutational robustness, environmental robustness, etc

- Mutational robustness, the extent to which an organism's phenotype remains constant in spite of mutation


Robust control

Robust optimization

Robust decision, a decision that is as immune to uncertainty as is possible and looks good to all constituents long after it is made

Robust decision making

Robust statistics, a statistical technique that performs well even if its assumptions are somewhat violated by the true model from which the data were generated

Robustness (computer science)

Robustness (economics)


See also

- Fault-tolerant system and links thereof






4 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

Muy interesante, pero en general los organimos parasito de un organismo mas grande evolucionan para no matar al organismo que lo contiene.
Por lo que agradecería que me explique porque el peronismo siempre nos deja a la puerta de un desastre o en el desastre.
Saludos.

Mazingerkid dijo...

El artículo es interesante, la analogía obvia que ocurre con los mafiosos en la calle prepoteando al mafioso paquete, no tanto... ¿Gendarmería, multa y demás medidas represivas serían la innovación?. Yo pensé que eran la profundización del modelo ;)

Ah, esta linea en particular me parece una huevada:

This suggests that there might be a universal class of mechanisms that have arisen across very different levels to control co-evolutionary escalation.

Hace años me leí un libro de Roger Lewin muy bueno sobre el tema de la incertidumbre y la complejidad pero para mi sigue haciendo agua la teoría de sistemas aplicada a las ciencias sociales.

Daniel dijo...

Ese actor pasivo en "nosotros", en el comentario del anónimo de las 15:27 posiblemente sea el núcleo de cuestión de todos-nuestros-males. Como lo es el de todos-nuestros-bienes, claro.

"El peronismo nos deja..." ?
Adonde nos dejan (nos dejan ?) los demás "ismos" del mundo (mirá que amplitud)

Anónimo dijo...

El Peronismo es la lucha del Establishment (un cuadrilátero del establishment: el pueblo y la sociedad media se dedican a la compra-venta de hot dogs y bebidas caseras alrededor del ring). La misma se embandera según es eslogan de la justicia social y popular. Pero todos saben que básicamente es una lucha entre dos facciones del Establishment (lucha que los dirigentes respetan como un decálogo). De ahí que el Peronismo es una tecnocracia por antonomasia. Pero como toda tecnocracia agravada no puede durar mucho, de ahí que cada tantos años, el sistema se quiebra.