Bio-Inspired Political Systems. Opening a Field

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential of engineering bio-inspired political systems that emulate natural life properties to manage complex human social interactions, especially as technology diminishes traditional political structures.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of bio-inspired political systems, discussing their design, potential implementation methods, and their role as future alternatives to classical political frameworks.

Findings

Bio-inspired systems operate with nature-based dynamics.

They can be developed through modeling, simulation, and metaheuristics.

These systems may weaken traditional top-down political structures.

Abstract

In this paper we highlight the scopes of engineering bio-inspired political systems, which are political systems based on the properties of life that self-organize the increasing complexity of human social systems. We describe bio-inspired political systems and conjecture about various ways to get to them, most notably, metaheuristics, modeling and simulation and complexified topologies. Bio-inspired political systems operate with nature-based dynamics, inspired on the knowledge that has been acquired about complexity from natural social systems and life. Bio-inspired political systems are presented as the best alternative for organizing human sociopolitical interactions as computation and microelectronics-based technology profoundly modify the ways in which humans decide. Therefore, weakening classical political systems. For instance, dwindling top-down power structures, modifying the notion of geographical spatiality and augmenting the political granularity. We also argue that, more than a new theoretical proposal, bio-inspired political systems are coming to be the political systems of the future.