Developing a social memory complex

[Anders]

A social memory complex functions very differently from the beast stream. In the beast stream coordination is mainly done through rigid hierarchies and centralized control. Rudolf Steiner gave an example of how distributing workers between different manufacturing facilities is necessary when there are too few workers at one place and too many at another location. If there then are two separate supervisors in charge of the different locations it can easily become a problem where the supervisors argue with each other about how, if and when to move workers. This can be solved by having a boss above the supervisors enforcing a decision. And in this way clunky and rigid hierarchies of control form.

A service-to-others social memory complex on the other hand has a distributed and decentralized form of control. Instead of separate minds we become a huge unified collective mind. Not like Borg hive mind in Star Trek which still is centralized control with a Borg queen as the boss. A service-to-self (STS) social memory complex may function like the Borg. The advantage with a service-to-others (STO) social memory complex is that it produces a leap into a whole new level of collective mind which the STS kind is unable to achieve.