The Human Scaffold by Josh Berson

Author:Josh Berson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press

Figure 5. The Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion model for two reactants, U and V. Feed rate (F), the rate at which reactant U is added to the environment, increases from the lower end of the figure to the upper; removal rate (k), the rate at which reactant V is drawn out of the environment, increases from left to right. (Variation in the concentration of U is represented by variation in gray saturation; concentration of V is not represented in the diagram.) Under certain combinations of F and k, moving figures emerge. Courtesy Robert Munafo.

An enactive approach to modeling the evolution of social complexity would pose new problems of formalization, but not, I suspect, insurmountable ones. Perhaps, as with inclusive fitness and group selection, there would be no difference in formal descriptive power between enactive and individual-first models. Perhaps, rather, there would be an epistemological difference, a difference in what felt salient—not to say what felt possible.

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