“One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.”
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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.