I am beginning to think we could a learn a lot about organizational principles from complex minds. Our current organizational principles for companies, city-states, countries are very early in our exploration of these. Complex minds, on the other hands, are here after a multi-billion year journey. We are just learning more about them. One fundamental principle is that you have to be in touch with "reality". The more layers of computation you have, the harder it is without the right feedback. Even impossible. In companies you lose that feedback loop with the "hire good people, treat their divisions as black-boxes" approach. In countries you lose that with autocratic central command. Complex minds simply cannot afford to do that because the moment you start hallucinating (imagine a reality that is not grounded in the real) you become lunch. The feedback mechanisms ensure that top-down expectations (ideas) are always matched up with bottom-up data.

That is another profound truth that's just lost entirely. Data is not information. And information is not data (reality). We must have the ability to both "see" the real data and also recognize the translation of that data into information to make good choices. The more layers in your org, the harder it is without feedback mechanisms that allow the bottom, reality-facing side of your org to pass on critical stuff without the interpretation and loss of middle-layers. Remember, you are an org too, a 37-trillion cell org that coheres as one in such a beautiful way you think of yourself as one "I" Long way before we find principles that allow us to do the same with companies and countries.