Date: 2003/03/27 10:14
From: Francois PELLEGRINI <pelegrin@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>
To: discuss@ggpl.org
Just to complete my answer about "small worlds".
> If the larger community (surrounding?) is similarly organized, I can see
> the scope being very wide indeed, but more in terms of replicating (with
> variation) the 15 -> 150 units in physically seperated spheres.
This is a work on graph theory. Basically, the
idea is simple, as it is used by all these chains
that beg you for money, called "Ponzi schemes"
in the French literature.
Imagine a tree where you are at the root,
then the 15 neighbors below, and the
15 neighbors of your neighbors, etc.
It takes only 5 to 6 levels to have a
number of descendents equivalent to
more than the entire population on
Earth, which means that basically every
people on Earth is *at most* at distance
6 of any other people, just by means of the
"15" spheres.
This is like the "shake hands" distance.
Personnally, I am at distance 2 of President
Chirac (I shaked hands with someone who shake
hands with Chirac), and so at distance 3 of
G. W. Bush and Saddam Hussein, who both shake
hands with him (huh ? so close ? Hmm, this is
going too fast indeed !! 8^) ).
Thus there is no structural need for any other
hierarchical structure, apart for control
purposes, which is indeed not what Organis
aims at...
f.p.