P2P Society as an Autopoietic System

* PhD Thesis: The P2P Society as an autopoietic system: from centralized networks to distributed production of knowledge". By Diego Gonzales.

Description

"I started my research investigating about the relationship between Complex Adaptive Systems and social dynamics, following an evolutionary approach. My main axiom is that social systems evolve from centralized networks with homogeneous agents to distributed networks with hight levels of heterogeneity. Following adaptation and selection processes, through an incrementation of differentiation and connectivity, the groups of human agents define more complex and resilient societies. As a point of equilibrium, "P2P societies" will emerge, ending with the perturbations of "informations societies" and making possible a real autopoietic mankind. Nowadays, societies are passing through a transition state, in the middle of a confrontation among centralization defenders and promoters of distributed systems, but at the end distributed systems will be the most "optimal" from an evolutionary point of view. So current projects in this direction will lead to an acceleration of that evolutionary processes."