- Dec 2023
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sonec.org sonec.org
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ociocratic Neighbourhood Circles (SoNeC) ideally consist of between 20-40 households (with 1 adultrepresentative per household) in the same local neighbourhood. The neighbourhood should be mappedso that the total population of the neighbourhood will fall within “Dunbar’s number” of residents, or 150people, the number with whom most humans can easily maintain personal relations.
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for: SONEC - Dunbar number
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- SONECs are based on Dunbar number of 150 people to maintain group intimacy
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- Dec 2021
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luhmann.surge.sh luhmann.surge.sh
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Possibility of linking (Verweisungsmöglichkeiten). Since all papers have fixed numbers, you can add as many references to them as you may want. Central concepts can have many links which show on which other contexts we can find materials relevant for them.
Continuing on the analogy between addresses for zettels/index cards and for people, the differing contexts for cards and ideas is similar to the multiple different publics in which people operate (home, work, school, church, etc.)
Having these multiple publics creates a variety of cross links within various networks for people which makes their internal knowledge and relationships more valuable.
As societies grow the number of potential interconnections grows as well. Compounding things the society doesn't grow as a homogeneous whole but smaller sub-groups appear creating new and different publics for each member of the society. This is sure to create a much larger and much more complex system. Perhaps it's part of the beneficial piece of the human limit of memory of inter-personal connections (the Dunbar number) means that instead of spending time linearly with those physically closest to us, we travel further out into other spheres and by doing so, we dramatically increase the complexity of our societies.
Does this level of complexity change for oral societies in pre-agrarian contexts?
What would this look like mathematically and combinatorially? How does this effect the size and complexity of the system?
How can we connect this to Stuart Kauffman's ideas on complexity? (Picking up a single thread creates a network by itself...)
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