Re-patterning Civilization
21/10/2010 in Category M, Systems
Nested Self-organizing Water Systems
John Fox BE RPEQ
engineer, integral water systems
Unless a person believes that there is a Great Organizer out there, organizing everything in detail, it is rational to accept that the universe is a system of nested self-organizing systems.
At any point in physical reality there is a balance of influences, in many dimensions, at many scales, which determine events and conditions. An organism in an ecosystem, for example, uses its senses and capacities to respond to and operate within its surroundings as they exist from instant to instant, including influences which constrain its actions or even destroy it; its actions are influenced and resourced by, but not organised by, the systems within which it is nested.
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DannyBoy said on 04/11/2010
I have only read the beginning so far but I have a minor quibble with your definition of economies of scale.
I thought the idea was simply to allocate fixed overhead costs across as many transactions as possible, thus reducing the per-transaction cost.
The idea of “externalities” was a way of taking those overheads off your books and making them someone else’s problem, eliminating them from the transaction entirely. Does this come under the term economy of scale or should it be identified as a different strategy altogether?