On: Entropy in Social Networks [pdf]

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keeping in mind that certain forms of inflexibility are vital to the structure of an organism. Bones for example. Or in the case of the human super organism, ecological stewardship, which was the original subject of the religious sciences.

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Are you familiar with Jonathan Haidt's work on the psychology of morality and the formation of superorganisms?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt

Here is one of Haidt's TED talks that touches on the ideas of cooperation, group selection, and the free-rider problem:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_humanity_s_stairway_...

His Edge article on "Contingent Superorganism" https://www.edge.org/response-detail/10386

NB: Also see this recent post on "information theory and the foundations of life" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13496133