Love the callback to social niche construction! Division of labor and task specialization confer adaptive advantages by allowing certain members of the population to survive in changing environments and are often cited as important factors driving the emergence of multicellularity. It's also thought to be a possible reason why bacterial clones in identical environments sometimes often exhibit different behaviors.
Thanks! Once upon a time, I did some research into it in bacteria (didn't really go anywhere, sadly). Most of my 'hands-on' experience is - in this case - in individual behavior in animal groups, aka how different 'personalities' coexist and how diverse groups sometimes outperform others (possibly indeed through division of labor induced by behavioral differences).
I’m reading Emergent which describes bottom up vs. leader-like pace-makers. I am hoping to see our society take on the disparate roles required of society because it is an integral part of society and each individual will participate in their fulfillment without question nor judgement. This will exhibit the continuum of personalities that is obvious to introverts such as me. The many kinds of people whose purpose and roles are just now being accepted as part of society without question is still an idea that threatens the old world thinkers.
Introverts think, “ Why can’t we as humans change our way of thinking and improve our systems of society as fast as our creation and production of newer technology and war machines, computer speed and quantum processing, etc.?”
Extroverts enjoy talking about “ Look how we are going to send people to the moon again!”
Love the callback to social niche construction! Division of labor and task specialization confer adaptive advantages by allowing certain members of the population to survive in changing environments and are often cited as important factors driving the emergence of multicellularity. It's also thought to be a possible reason why bacterial clones in identical environments sometimes often exhibit different behaviors.
Thanks! Once upon a time, I did some research into it in bacteria (didn't really go anywhere, sadly). Most of my 'hands-on' experience is - in this case - in individual behavior in animal groups, aka how different 'personalities' coexist and how diverse groups sometimes outperform others (possibly indeed through division of labor induced by behavioral differences).
I’m reading Emergent which describes bottom up vs. leader-like pace-makers. I am hoping to see our society take on the disparate roles required of society because it is an integral part of society and each individual will participate in their fulfillment without question nor judgement. This will exhibit the continuum of personalities that is obvious to introverts such as me. The many kinds of people whose purpose and roles are just now being accepted as part of society without question is still an idea that threatens the old world thinkers.
Introverts think, “ Why can’t we as humans change our way of thinking and improve our systems of society as fast as our creation and production of newer technology and war machines, computer speed and quantum processing, etc.?”
Extroverts enjoy talking about “ Look how we are going to send people to the moon again!”
Hoo boy and sheez.
Hoo boy :).
Thanks for your thoughts, Ken. I haven't read Emergent yet, but it definitely sounds interesting.