>Ultimately patterns (atoms, cells, people, societies, whatever) organize by efficiency, by how well they reduce energy gradients across time, not by what the individual actors wishes or feels.
I disagree. Look up game theory and tragedy of the commons.
>term used in social science to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action.
>Although common resource systems have been known to collapse due to overuse (such as in over-fishing)...
I am familiar with both; what's the connection in particular?
That patterns organize along least-energy principles and propagate by extracting resources from surrounding energy gradients is almost a tautology. I'm genuinely curious what you're disagreeing with.
I disagree that people and societies organize by efficiency and how well they reduce energy across time. In fact the two almost contradict each other. People organize based on individual/egotistical "efficiency", and not the efficiency of the system/society.
Thanks. Then we're in disagreement :-) For me, people are a part of the whole system, following the same rules as everything else in the universe. No special exceptions, no "get out of jail free" card.
(by the way, it's reducing energy gradients—differences between here and there, doing work—not energy itself)
I disagree. Look up game theory and tragedy of the commons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
>term used in social science to describe a situation in a shared-resource system where individual users acting independently according to their own self-interest behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling that resource through their collective action.
>Although common resource systems have been known to collapse due to overuse (such as in over-fishing)...
Especially check the "examples" section