Features and Principles of Healthy Living Systems…and Blockchain

Blockchainers unite.

The below is of importance in relation to understanding what we can see unfold. A new infrastructure supporting these principles has emerged and that is a big thing.

“The torus as a flow process exhibits a set of characteristics that evolution biologist, Elisabet Sahtouris, has identified as features and principles of healthy living systems. Through her study of living systems (ecosystems, for example), she has observed that when these features are present, the system is balanced and whole. When these features become compromised or absent, the system goes out of balance and becomes dysfunctional and corrupted to the point that it will either collapse completely, transform into a new balanced state, or restore its balance again by restoring the appropriate presence and functioning of these features.”

The features of healthy living systems that Sahtouris identified are:

1. Self-creation (autopoiesis)

2. Complexity (diversity of parts)

3. Embeddedness in larger holons and dependence on them (holarchy)

4. Self-reflexivity (autognosis/self-knowledge)

5. Self-regulation/maintenance (autonomics)

6. Response-ability to internal and external stress or other change

7. Input/output exchange of matter/energy/information with other holons

8. Transformation of matter/energy/information

9. Empowerment/employment of all component parts

10. Communications among all parts

11. Coordination of parts and functions

12. Balance of Interests negotiated among parts, whole, and embedding holarchy

13. Reciprocity of parts in mutual contribution and assistance

14. Efficiency balanced by Resilience

15. Conservation of what works well

16. Creative change of what does not work well

The above is what you see if you look at “blockchain” as a phenomenon. Its something novel, something emergent — and definately something that is here to stay and thrive.