1. It should be possible to meaningully define entropy in a social group modeled as a graph (e.g. with net value transfers or something similar as edges).
2. High entropy would correspond to a completely egalitarian group, with no preferred "value sinks" (like large companies or powerful individuals).
3. Low entropy would correspond to a highly centralized, rigid structure.
4. Enter the concept of criticality - if we postulate that a healthy social group should behave in a way akin to a living organism, the healthiest groups would be those living on the "edge of chaos", sitting somewhere in the middle of the allowable entropy range.
quoting nevent1q…5fghThe Network Theory of Ethics
Here is the thesis I’ve been working on for some time. It deserves a treatise, and I am currently working on one. Still, I am posting it here on NOSTR because I know many of you will challenge it. And that is exactly what I need.
I’ve dubbed it "The Network Theory of Ethics". It claims the following:
1. Morality can be derived from physics.
2. More specifically, it is an emergent property of the social network structures that exist within a reality governed by the laws of thermodynamics.
3. Moral values arise when individuals (nodes within a social network) create and maintain the social fabric in a reality in which energy dissipates and in which the expenditure of energy is required to temporarily reduce entropy within the network.
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