Resilience

In Quest of Mnemonic Catalysts -- for comprehension of complex psychosocial dynamics (Part #6)

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Such structures point to interesting ways of representing the adaptive cycle, notably as promoted by the Resilience Alliance. The precautionary strategic importance of resilience has recently been stressed in the synthesis by Thomas Homer-Dixon (The Upside of Down: catastrophe, creativity, and the renewal of civilization, 2006). The development of the concept is summarized by Aura Reggiani, Thomas De Graaff and Peter Nijkamp (Resilience: an evolutionary approach to spatial economic systems, Networks and Spatial Economics, June 2002).

Also of interest are discusssions of the relationship between resilience (as "jumping back") and consilience (as "jumping together") raised by Mark Safranski and Stephen F. DeAngelis (see Discussion of Resilience and Consilience in Social Networks, 2005; SOA, Resiliency and Consiliency, 2006) which make the points:

• Survivability: Like resilience, a high degree of consilience in a network would be likely to improve the network's longitudinal prospects by adapting efficient non-zero sum Rule-sets.
• Influence: By adapting principles, practices and concepts that other networks find analogous to their own, the message of the network has more memetic appeal by virtue of being more readily comprehensible.
• Compatibility: As with communication and influence, common Rule-sets make potential cooperation, alliances and mergers with other networks more likely as well as more harmonious.
• Adaptability: Members of networks with a consciously consilient culture are more apt to themselves become better horizontal and creative thinkers. Their OODA cycle (Observe, Orient, Decide and Act) may be faster because they are all -- collectively and individually -- seeing farther and to wider horizon.

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