{"id":732,"date":"2014-03-30T17:17:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T17:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/?p=732"},"modified":"2022-08-09T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:15:22","slug":"more-on-requisite-inefficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"More on Requisite Inefficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;slides&#8221; supporting my talk on Requisite Inefficiency a couple of months ago have been on Slideshare since then, but I haven&#8217;t had the time to share them here. Which I do now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe src='https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/39070628' width='1008' height='826' sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">The various manifestations of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/?p=597\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Requisite Inefficiency<\/a> in both organisms and organisations can be understood by observing the maintenance of balances between homeostasis and heterostasis (as in the adaptive immune systems), exploration and exploitation (foraging of ants or curiosity-driven vs market-driver research) as well as various types of redundancy or shift of function. The latter can be elastic, as it is in degeneracy, or plastic, as it is in exaptation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\">Having an\u00a0underutilised structure\/function that is capable of providing the deficit of <a title=\"Variety - Part 1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/?p=634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">variety<\/a> to the utilised structures of a system in order to match the complexity of an external stimulus, or that can be adapted in a sufficiently short time to do so, is a prerequisite for survival.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;slides&#8221; supporting my talk on Requisite Inefficiency a couple of months ago have been on Slideshare since then, but I haven&#8217;t had the time to share them here. Which I do now. The various manifestations of Requisite Inefficiency in both organisms and organisations can be understood by observing the maintenance of balances between homeostasis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,37,45,74],"tags":[39,40,48,47],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complexity","category-cybernetics","category-management","category-talks","tag-complexity-2","tag-cybernetics-2","tag-redundancy","tag-requisiteinefficiency"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j0ev-bO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strategicstructures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}