- My PhD case study is the Floating Island Project in French Polynesia; an attempt to build the world's first floating ... moreMy PhD case study is the Floating Island Project in French Polynesia; an attempt to build the world's first floating Special Economic Zone, in the middle of the Pacific ocean.
In 2016, the government of French Polynesia signed an agreement with The Seasteading Institute, a non-profit focused on the creation of politically autonomous human settlements in international waters, for creating a Special Economic Zones within its territorial waters.
My research looks at the creation of SeaZones, human settlements with special regulations within host nations, as a path towards seasteads, human settlements in international waters.
The Floating Island Project, SeaZones and Special Economic Zones are a manifestation of the contemporary phenomenon for building decentralized governance by means of political, economic and technological systems, generated via bottom-up and local interactions. These fors of experimental governance are part of the increasing trend for creating startup societies: small territories with experimental governance frameworks.
My research also looks at complexity in the Floating Island Project in French Polynesia by looking at dynamics of self-organization, nestedness and emergence; part of the core of complex systems theory.
My research allows to better understand polycentric and heterarchical governance in complex systems with interactive information processing in an adaptive environment. It aims at finding working principles for the creation of Floating Special Economic Zones.
I'm funded by Fundación CEIBA.edit
This paper draws a philosophical parallel between the characteristics of anarchism with the sciences of complexity. The absence—αν, an—of a ruling principle— arche, άρχή—is the conditio sine qua non, it is claimed, for a further search... more
This paper draws a philosophical parallel between the characteristics of anarchism with the sciences of complexity. The absence—αν, an—of a ruling principle— arche, άρχή—is the conditio sine qua non, it is claimed, for a further search for ground and fundament. The most basic features common to both anarchism and complexity are the absence or critique to control as well as the importance of self- organization. Embracing the theory of complexity inevitably leads towards the acceptance of anarchy. A spirit of anarchy pervades complexity science even if: a) it has not been explicitly thematized, or b) it has not been the explicit concern of researchers and scholars working in the field.
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This paper draws a philosophical parallel between the characteristics of anarchism with the sciences of complexity. The absence—αν, an— of a ruling principle—arche, άρχή—is the conditio sine qua non, it is claimed, for a further search... more
This paper draws a philosophical parallel between the characteristics of anarchism with the sciences of complexity. The absence—αν, an— of a ruling principle—arche, άρχή—is the conditio sine qua non, it is claimed, for a further search for ground and fundament. The most basic features common to both anarchism and complexity are the absence or critique to control as well as the importance of self-organization. Embracing the theory of complexity inevitably leads towards the acceptance of anarchy. A spirit of anarchy pervades complexity science even if: a) it has not been explicitly thematized, or b) it has not been the explicit concern of researchers and scholars working in the field.
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In this paper I consider the necessity and the possibilities of engineering bio-inspired political systems. Systems capable of harnessing the complexity of the human social systems and their increasingly growing and diversifying... more
In this paper I consider the necessity and the possibilities of engineering bio-inspired political systems. Systems capable of harnessing the complexity of the human social systems and their increasingly growing and diversifying interactions. Political science has merged complexity, until a certain degree, but there still is a long way to go. Although few authors have properly used tools, phenomena and concepts regarding complexity such as non-equilibrium thermodynamic [1], chaos theory [2], evolution [3], game theory [4], self-organization [5], entropy [6], ...
Resumen Los Sistemas Sociales Humanos (SSH) son sistemas complejos. Una de las mejores maneras de organizarlos es la auto-organización, la cual ha mostrado ser una óptima productora de orden en este tipo de sistemas, independientemente de... more
Resumen Los Sistemas Sociales Humanos (SSH) son sistemas complejos. Una de las mejores maneras de organizarlos es la auto-organización, la cual ha mostrado ser una óptima productora de orden en este tipo de sistemas, independientemente de si se trata de sis-temas físicos, biológicos o sociales. Esta idea surge a partir de los desarrollos recientes en ciencias de la complejidad, los cuales han enseñado que la vida es claramente el sistema más complejo que hay, emerge de mecanismos auto-organizados, es decir, no emplea ningún tipo de control central o externo para organizarse y, aun así, es uno de los sistemas más ordenados que existen. Ello es razón suficiente para cuestionar el uso de mecanismos de control centralizados al intentar organizar sistemas tan complejos como los SSH. A partir de este cuestionamiento, este artículo presenta una crítica a las estructuras piramidales con jerarquías de control de los regímenes políticos desde las ciencias de la complejidad. El artículo sostiene que dado que los SSH son com-plejos, la mejor manera de organizarlos es la auto-organización, en lugar de tratar de imponerles orden desde arriba o desde afuera por medio de regímenes políticos con
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All political systems have limitations in their information processing and action capacities to face large-scale crises and challenges, but especially if they happen to be too hierarchically and centrally controlled systems. In contrast,... more
All political systems have limitations in their information processing and action capacities to face large-scale crises and challenges, but especially if they happen to be too hierarchically and centrally controlled systems. In contrast, some other cultures whose political structure is heterarchically organized, such as the Zenú, the Muiscas, and the Tayronas in pre-Hispanic Colombia, presented adaptiveness even without advanced scientific knowledge and without powerful centralized top-down control. We therefore propose that creating and analyzing computer models of their decentralized processes of management could provide a broader perspective on the possibilities of self-organized political systems. Our hope is that this approach will eventually go beyond the scope of basic science. It seeks to promote more computer model-based research of social systems that exhibit an adaptive balance of flexibility and robustness, i.e., systems that do not rely on the current ideal of rule-based control of all systemic aspects, with the practical aim of improving current social and political processes.
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The dissertation extrapolates the theory of self-organization in biological organisms to sociopolitical self-organization, in human social systems. It is stated that the latter is the best way to organize human social systems, given their... more
The dissertation extrapolates the theory of self-organization in biological organisms to sociopolitical self-organization, in human social systems. It is stated that the latter is the best way to organize human social systems, given their complex nature and the impossibility of the computational dynamics that classical political regimes must perform in order to, unsuccesfully, try to organize human social systems by means of top-down control. Sociopolitical self-organization is presented as the optimal producer of order in human social systems, and it is claimed that anarchic complex networks are the resulting structures.