Complex system is a nice model to think about all this. Ordinary individual's effect can vary in different state of the system. Hence, their feelings are different.
Complex system is a nice model to think about all this. Ordinary individual's effect can vary in different state of the system. Hence, their feelings are different.
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and if we could some how define "can do/does with information" as Hamiltonian,
SH,
in nature and governed by some set of initial conditions,
IC,
(which will vary depending on the society), then I suppose every society has a ground state that could be calculated approximated (via the ritz method) from such:
E0 <= (<IC|SH|IC>)/(<IC|IC>),
and it could be proven that some societies have a higher or lower ground state as far is it comes to utilization of information.
However at the point we are, I wouldn't be surprised if on normalized spectrum of information utilization ground states across societies from 0 to 100 were all clustered together near 0. I know, pessimistic :P