Social tinkering generates complexity, but also system-scale fragility and collective delusions.

IF 8.2 1区心理学 Q1 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Behavioral and Brain Sciences Pub Date : 2026-09-18 DOI:10.1017/S0140525X26106426

Don Ross

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Abstract

The hypothesis that human culture emerges through deliberate, decentralized social tinkering rather than random variation is persuasive. However, the hypothesis is ambiguous about the stability of the resulting structures. Expanding scale may increase fragility and normative conflict, and networks of socially constructed coordination spaces may amplify imaginative disconnection from reality. Consequently, system-scale risks arise that exceed the grasp of governable tinkering.

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社会修补产生了复杂性，但也产生了系统规模的脆弱性和集体错觉。

人类文化是通过深思熟虑的、分散的社会修补而不是随机变化产生的假设是有说服力的。然而，该假设对所得到的结构的稳定性模棱两可。扩大规模可能会增加脆弱性和规范性冲突，社会构建的协调空间网络可能会放大想象与现实的脱节。因此，系统规模的风险出现，超出了可治理的修补所能掌握的范围。

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences 医学-行为科学

CiteScore

1.40

自引率

1.70%

发文量

353

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