The funny thing is the more we think about it the more it looks like we are made of of many many different organisms and that ourselves are an emergent property of that complexity and integration the collective has evolved. In the wild alliances are formed on trust and an individual basis. The wild animal will test the boundaries and form alliances on the outcomes. On a cellular level this seems to also be true as many of the bacteria that exist in our microbiomes have their own agenda and DNA. It's as though we were a funny Frankenstein building mountains of individuals into an organisation of collective action and integrity to the objective point of personhood emerging.
Why be a collective why collect? In terms of radical decentralization and complete distribution systems that form collectives are a form of centralization and control of vulnerabilities when invulnerability is available through Trust. Agent Centric Networks Span the individual at the center of communications and radiates out words in each node the records of communication.
Is there safety in the collective? Is there safety in numbers is there safety in getting your own way is there safety anywhere in the universe? We are in a circle of Arroyo burro where the teo serpents are eating their own tail and can only amplify the predicament they are in. We can let go and see that we are both the same serpent family so to speak and in So Vain have no need for that kind of protection. Instead we can form alliances as agents of recognition, Mutual usefulness, and trusted friend. These are at the center of an agent centered Network.
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