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The evolution of society is presented as an ongoing process, without any other purpose that its own survival. This survival is threatened by fluctuations, analogous to temperature fluctuations in a physical system, but managed by the operation of the collective intelligence—the integrated operation of the individual processors, with the common part of their identities forming society’s belief system.
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Aslaksen, E.W. (2020). The Collective Intelligence. In: The Stability of Society. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40226-6_4
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