I’m not sure if I understood correctly your idea. You state that "more something of the same kind" leads for "the quantity to increase the quality", and moreover this increase of quality again leads to the increase of quantity, and so on. This is, by definition, the positive feedback function. One must be careful with this kind of feedback because the system is likely to became unstable.
I think (correct me if I’m wrong) you forget that the environmental resources for any kind of system are fixed and limited (thanks God), constraining the unlimited evolution (in terms of number, quantity, of course) to systems of all kind (species). The system must, thus, evolve qualitatively (increase it’s knowledge, organisation) to survive in such limited and overcrowded environment. Quality is harder to find in large quantities. In contrary, lack of quantity usually produces quality. If this would not be true, we would have "coal-powered computers" nowadays.
I think it is more a question of "transition" between quality and quantity and vice versa. Quantity in a limited environment brings to the reduction (concentration) of quality, only the fittest survives, those systems capable to mutate and adapt themselves to the environmental changes made by the increase in quantity. In the other hand, quality usually brings to the increase of quantity, which inevitably results with a decrease (deconcentration) in quality due to the increased amount of variety from which the choice must be made.
As it can be seen, selection is the key word in these transitions between quality and quantity. Natural selection has it’s rules that may not be appropriate for making selections in other kind of systems we are involved in.
Management is nothing else, and nothing more, than the art of making selections of appropriate people, ideas, methods, and so on, for the fulfilment of imposed short- and long-terms goals. Nature can not be blamed for the selections it made. We actually are one of the results of it’s selection. Unlike it, we have generations in front of us (have we?) to qualify the choices we make today. All that we can do is increase our knowledge (individual and collective) to gain the competence for not making the wrong choices in what our goals are, and how to fulfil them.
I have more "anarchistic" ideas about cybernetics I would like to discuss with other people. I have not much time for "surfing" the Net so please send me your questions, suggestions, ideas, encountered practical problems, etc.
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Josip Pajk
