Are wicked problems a lack of general collective intelligence?

Human-Centric Functional Modeling and Evolutionary Biology

“…As the number of behaviors outside the first system increases, some minimal set of those new behaviors might come to span a new functional state space. At the point where a set of new behaviors spans a new functional state space, the number of behaviors in the domain of that new functional state space is expected to increase exponentially [17]. As a result the entity might gain the ability to respond to an exponentially greater number of states of the external environment whenever new behaviors emerge into a system.…”

“…If the volume of lower energy states in the functional state space of a system is exponentially greater at the emergence of a new system as expected, that exponentially greater volume of lower energy states in the functional state space of a new system suggests that any such new system forms a stable potential energy well that entities might occupy. Furthermore, cyclic processes maximize the production of entropy [17], [18]. The fact that energy is continually being added to such systems combined with the requirement that the dynamics of adaptive problem-solving systems be globally stable in some fitness space suggests that those dynamics are cyclic.…”

“…Component designs that are reusable across entire industries are analogous to organic structures that are reused in different ways across an entire organism. This is one more example of how problems or even wicked problems [17] in human societies can potentially be generalized in some functional state space into problems that nature has already solved.…”

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“…The most important hole in this HCFM methodology is in confirming this hypothesized regarding how it might be used to help navigate mathematical complexity. The broader importance of HCFM suggested by some specific examples in other domains is that through enabling systems to be understood by looking inwards to the nature of human cognition, Human-Centric Functional Modeling is a form of biomimicry that can be used to represent biological systems like our own cognition in a way that enables it to be seen that nature has already solved problems that can be represented in these abstract functional state spaces as the same general problem that must be solved to address problems in a wide range of other systems, including existential challenges from poverty to climate change, where nature has demonstrated those solutions to have worked for hundreds of millions of years [6].…”

“…They also require answering the question of "what does the size of a truth mean"? Defining distances in awareness space or conceptual space is one of the remaining problems in representing conceptual space, since the understanding of distances in conceptual space is important to applying patterns of biomimicry that might be used to exponentially increase our collective capacity to solve the complexity of the wicked problems facing us today like poverty and climate change [6]. Resolving this question of distances in functional state space in turn might require an understanding of the relationship between truth and geometry.…”