@article{924983,
      recid = {924983},
      author = {Aslaksen, Erik W.},
      title = {The stability of society /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource (131 pages).},
      year = {2020},
      abstract = {In this book, Erik W. Aslaksen builds on the view and  model of society introduced in The Social Bond (Springer  2018), which portrays society as an information-processing  system, and as both the result of the information and of  the environment in which the information processing takes  place. The processing power is provided by the individual,  but is also greatly enhanced by the interaction between  individuals, forming the collective intelligence that  drives the evolution of society. In particular, this book  focuses on the stability of that evolution, an issue that  is of increasing concern given the current polarisation of  the world society, both politically and economically, and  the resultant interference in the operation of the  collective intelligence. When we approach society as a  genus and its evolution as a sequence of species, such as  the family, clan, fiefdom, kingdom, and nation-state, the  development of the next species - the world society - is  now being thwarted by the desire of a minority to maintain  a hegemonial position that resulted from a singularity in  the process.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/924983},
}