Pointing
out similarities between various forms of human society
and human bodies is nothing new. From John Hobbes
Leviathan of 1651 down to the still vague metaphor of the
global brain there have been more or less
serious minded attempts at establishing functional
similarities between highly individualized organisms such
as humans and large conglomerates of individuals like
human societies. This website will be in the same strain.
It will be argued that large enough organizations do already
resemble the information processing of human brains in
some salient aspects and that they will increasingly do
so as many groupware, organisational features and
workflow engines further emulate isolated aspects of
neural intelligence. |
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isolated man embededded in something larger than
himself (Joseph Conrad, 1896) |